Thank you. My name is pam [speaker not understood]. Im the president , board chair of the Chinese Progressive Association and i want to be able to speak in support of campos supervisor campos legislation. I want to be able to speak in terms of the Community Perspective and as community, people always have access to expressing their views when we have our elected board of trustees. And now we dont have that kind of access any more. And we have a lot to say. And some of the things that we really care about in preserving, not only in terms of the credit classes ill go back to that in just a moment. But the value of city college to be able to provide education and services that fall under the category of noncredit classes. And im very concerned that our ability to be able to communicate, the richness and importance of these kinds of courses will be denied us and we will lose them. The second party want to as a Community Representative to speak of is of the access, Affordable Access and acc
Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is james tracy. Im a city college alumni, proud, went there for many years. City college allowed me to work full time while i put myself through college and allowed know figure out the course of my education because in the early 20s should be no surprise, i like many other people didnt know exactly what i wanted to do. And it gave me high quality top notch education in every single way. Every single last program that is shaved from city college is picked up will be eventually picked up by the private sector. The only difference, the private sector is going to produce education with a profit note i have in mind, meaning that people like myself, young people young people that are taking advantage of these different programs will leave with much, much more debt and that is something that everybody left, right and center on this board in the state of california should oppose. We should [speaker not understood] agenda.
The continued limiting of the access and finally, city college made a difference in my life. And i want to be able to maintain that and to be able to have access for everybody to the kind of courses that changed my life in areas of humanity, et cetera. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is james tracy. Im a city college alumni, proud, went there for many years. City college allowed me to work full time while i put myself through college and allowed know figure out the course of my education because in the early 20s should be no surprise, i like many other people didnt know exactly what i wanted to do. And it gave me high quality top notch education in every single way. Every single last program that is shaved from city college is picked up will be eventually picked up by the private sector. The only difference, the private sector is going to produce education with a profit note i have in mind, meaning that people like myself, young people young peo
And they teach you at balboa high that you should go to Community College for the first two years of your college experience. And the reason they teach you that is that you save a lot of money and they give you a time to figure out where youre going next. So, i have a deep stake in whether this Community College lives or does not live. So, for me its really, really important that, a, we have a democracy and that we have the people back, restore the duly elected board of trustees, and b, im very, very happy and applaud mayor lee and senator leno for suggesting legislation Going Forward to make sure that there is enough money for city college. City college is a vital, vital part of our Public Education system. Its for all of the kids of San Francisco. Its for seniors, its for veterans, its for everybody else, but literally middle class or lowincome person in San Francisco today cannot afford a fouryear college. So, city college is absolutely vital as a piece of the puzzle so make sure pe
The continued limiting of the access and finally, city college made a difference in my life. And i want to be able to maintain that and to be able to have access for everybody to the kind of courses that changed my life in areas of humanity, et cetera. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is james tracy. Im a city college alumni, proud, went there for many years. City college allowed me to work full time while i put myself through college and allowed know figure out the course of my education because in the early 20s should be no surprise, i like many other people didnt know exactly what i wanted to do. And it gave me high quality top notch education in every single way. Every single last program that is shaved from city college is picked up will be eventually picked up by the private sector. The only difference, the private sector is going to produce education with a profit note i have in mind, meaning that people like myself, young people young peo