Im a long time resident of district 5, i to california in 1947, and i watched all the things that have happened over the years. Met anyone who cared so much to pick up the garbage, to pick up the people, try to find places for people to live, try to help all of us to develop new relationships and understanding here in our district. And i would like, again, to thank you so very much for what you have done. I want to say, im with you all on the city college. But i came here to talk about the Reparations Initiative. And i also came here to not necessarily talk about racism and those type of things, but to talk about acknowledgement and being overlooked. Most of the time when black people are hired, you know, except for franklin, most of the time when black people are its about us struggling against something and fighting some oppression, but you never acknowledge this, and i understand the city, you never acknowledge this for our contribution. We actually contributed to the fabric of this city. Alexander leesburg helped start the first school district, the first hotel, the first africanamerican bank in San Francisco in the United States. Mary ellen, first interfaith church. Cecil williams Opening Doors for the lgbtq community. And our contribution is never acknowledged. So why would we he know want you to stay . We had a whole history here. So yeah, we need reparations. And what i also want to say is i would like to congratulate vallie brown, because shes been my first advocate at city hall, ever. Right . And you know what that means to a young black male . Somebody i can bring my ideas to and she tell me what works and what doesnt work. Thats what i need. I dont need the racism talk. Show me what can work and what i can do. So shes more like a mentor, educating me on things and proper perspective. So i just came here to be solutionoriented. I see the seconds ticking and i want to say unite the city. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi, my name is liba. I wear many hats. I am a parent, first and foremost. And resident of San Francisco for decades. Thank you all for being here and doing the fabulous job that you are doing. I am today to speak on behalf of the reparations. And that is being put into place. It really hurts me in my heart to even have to come and speak on this. I think its a hands down when we look at the history of the black people who have been in this country and the trauma and the atrocities that they have suffered as a people. I think that it is also really says something to the fact that when so many others have received reparations and these people, im speaking of the black, commonly called africanamerican people here, are still being overlooked. I think that it is time that we stop overlooking these the africanamerican people. I think that it is time that we take these reparations and put them into place. And that we do justice, and that we give justice where justice is due. I think that it is time that we stop dividing the city and providing for some and deleting out others. This community has suffered so many murderings and killings and pushingout and homelessness. Its time that reparation is given to these people for the hundreds of thousands. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello, supras. Thank you for having us here. I want to let the ccfs people know, i am a former student as well as i know people there now and its sad what they were doing, especially to the older generation. Also thank you for the affordable housing. Please keep in mind that many people need more than a three to four bedroom due to Health Conditions so they have reasonable accommodations, especially that people that have asthma and need companion pets so try to have four bedrooms. Im here to speak on reparations because its about time we get paid. Im tired of sitting back watching our people being stepped on. Everybody else gets rights from the shes to hers to hims the pronouns, animals, everybody gets rights, rosa parks didnt give up her seat so we could have a front row view. Malcolm x would roll over in his grave if he knew kids were going to a school with his namesake on toxic land. Martin luther king junior dreamt of ending segregation but we are still segregated. You are selling our kids in school, its totally sad. We have no sense of belonging. We dont even have a foreign language. What are we taking . We sit back and watch you guys build and build. And im not just saying you guys but i mean all around the world. We are humans too. And we deserve reparations. I dont care what you tax, get it tomorrow, take it from the chase center. Im trying to get up out of here because the Human Rights Commission has a meeting at the opera house at 5 00 that Everybody Needs to be there. Because it is a human rights violation what they are doing to us. And its sad. Why are we being left behind . Everybody else getting rights. And i appreciate you mr. Walton, for speaking on behalf of city college and everything. And i appreciate everybody that [off mic] thank you. Next speaker. Thank you, supervisors. I wanted to join others in taking a moment to thank supervisor vallie brown. It has been a privilege to work with her for quite some time now in getting the Fillmore Heritage Center to the point where its at. And she believed in a team with heart when nobody else did. And she has a lot of heart too. And so this friday, there will be an event i need to adjust that at the Fillmore Heritage Center as one way to say thank you to supervisor brown. Its not nearly what she deserves. Its not nearly the thank you that we want to give her. But its what we are able to give her. So, again, thank you supervisor brown, and thank you to the board. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi. My name is quinton sandburg. Im a resident of district 5. In a world where who you know and what you do rules, i hope thats enough. Im here to support a true leader of community in vallie brown. Theres not much i can say that no one has heard or witnessed themselves as colleagues here at city hall. But i believe its important to express my disgust for the results of the recent district 5 supervisor election. Its an injustice, plain and simple. How you may ask i get into a level of comfort to say injustice . I received a wide range of threats on a regular basis that included death threats. I heard people affiliated with the campaign, including the candidate making insinuations that im being watched and followed and i met a guy named fig. That guy stalked me into a bar and introduced himself as the local neighborhood nazi leader. Giving some explanation of his involvement in the election and threatened me if i didnt stop talking about politics. That right there assures me im on the side thats right, thats just. And yes, i said nazi. A group thats recognized as a terrorist group, that clearly liked the results of the election. I do hope that dean preston will be able to explain his income tense incompetence or lying. I know hes not here. One of the things we try to do is not name individuals as you are making your remarks and if you could respect that, i would really appreciate it. Thank you. I do want to say one thing in closing. Sig, and to all those that support or are white supremacists, in my world and im not alone in this, your time is done. I clearly havent stopped talking and will not, because i believe in being fearless, fighting and standing next to those that do the name. Vallie, i stand with you now and will always, because i trust and believe in you based on your repeated actions of kindness and Community Activism and from the overwhelming outpouring of support from the district 5 and the city in general. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Behind every great woman is another great woman. And thats how we got to know vallie brown, working in our event supervisor, london breed. I want to thank you. I come here representing the merchants associations of Many Community members in our sunset for showing up for all those meetings before when you were an aid and then as a supervisor to the commons and golden gate park, you were always there. We thank you so much for your support and your leadership. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next speaker. I want to thank the supervisors that are in support of the 2. 7 million to support t city college San Francisco classes to be restored. And i want to encourage the rest to join in your support. Youve been hearing a lot of reasons for the downsizing of city college. Many of them are under the guys of fiscal responsibility or with the best intentions in mind for the San Francisco residents. Thats not true. One of the reasons you are hearing is about the classes that are being cut are underenrolled and that is causing a budgetary crisis to city college of San Francisco. But many of these classes are fully enrolled, many are overenrolled, and many have extensive wait lists, some up to 100 students waiting to get into the classes that they need. Our chancellor is saying its not because of financial necessity and we dont need the money. He is saying its about restructuring to focus on those trying to transfer or graduate, but thats not true either. Many San Francisco residents are being forced to get the classes they need to transfer at Community Colleges outside of San Francisco because of the same cuts. Residents are unable to utilize the programs that they pay taxes for like free city. These cuts have no rime or reason. All they do is add insult to injury to those already being disenfranchised. Please support 2. 7 million in emergency funding to help stabilize the college while we wait for coming legislation and policies to be implemented that will restore city college to its intended purpose of education for all. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello. My name is eva. Im a student at ccfs. Mayor breed opened this meeting discussing funding for Mental Health and protecting San Francisco. I believe that part of that should include city college as well and the need to include the emergency bridge funding through our Spring Semester classes. At city college, programs like arts, culinary arts and hospitality are the first twoyear hospitality program, culinary arts has been cut which means that consequently only morning classes are offered. So what does that mean for students who are unable to attend afternoon classes . What would happen to their schedule . Theres also the older Adult Learning program too. And i want to say over the weekend i celebrated my grandfathers 91st birthday and we celebrated at my aunts house because she she wanted my grandparents to leave the house. For this program, a lot of older people are able to leave the house to attend city college because its a way to help their Mental Health as well. As Mental Health is important to all, i have to say that city College Classes have helped students not just learn but to cope as well. I know that for me, i struggled with severe social anxiety. I couldnt leave the house to get mail. I didnt talk to my High School Friends for four years. My voice deteriorated and now im trying to talk to you all. It was hard for me to be around others and to be honest i still struggle with that to this day. But city college has helped me rebuild myself. Its my asianamerican studies helped me be more in touch with my community and be connected to my professor who got me involved in an art show. The womens and gender studies department helped me [off mic] thank you. Next speaker. Hello. My name is marco. Im a student at city college. I want to thank the other students that have already spoken. I think that we really need this bridge funding to save the classes, because like many of you have already heard from the comments, city college is an institution that really helps with the physical, mental and Emotional Wellbeing of the residents in the city in every district. City College Campuses are all over the city. Its relevant to every district. So i appreciate the support from the supervisors that see this very clearly. To the other supervisors that have not signed on, i credible you to do so as well i encourage you to do so as well. The more we disenfranchise people from city college, the harder it will be to rebuild that trust and connection to our community. City college has that already and we should protect it. We should make city college thrive instead of cutting down and just allowing the state to dictate the type of education that the city should provide. San francisco has always fought to be a unique city that has its own values and follow its own path regardless of what the state wants to see. We all recognize San Francisco as a city of trailblazing, a city that the entire nation looks at. And when we fail, the entire nation and the entire people that are trying to push the values that we have in San Francisco fail as well. City college of San Francisco is an incredibly important institution, not just to San Francisco but to the movement of education as a human right as something that we all deserve every day of our lives for the entire time we are alive. Education is not about degrees. It is not about transfers. While those things are important, it is not the goal of education. And it shouldnt be on a human level. And i appreciate the supervisors who see that. I encourage you all to sign onto this so we can save our spring 2020 enrollment. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi. My name is rick. I teach part time at city college. Im speaking as a member of the Higher Education action team. And also as a powerless faculty member at a college of powerless students. At city college, the power rests with our rogue administration, led by chancellor, i believe supervisor mandelman voted against hiring him. I said rogue because thats what recently happened and theres been other incidents where he sends a letter rejecting the emergency fund. What kind of leader would reject this funding to save the classes . Less than a month ago, out of the blue, the administration announced all of a sudden a 13 million deficit that would require them to cut 300 classes. That resulted in utter chaos at the college and fewer Educational Opportunities for students. The printed schedules that finally came out in a timely manner for a change lists these 300 classes that have been cut. Who are the students being harmed . They are working class students of color predominantly. They have generally suffered fewer opportunities throughout the history of this country but most egregious are the cuts to the Older Adult Program. Some of the classes are classes in balancing. That is where older adults learn to prevent falls. When older adults fall they break bones and they harm their bodies. And so we are requesting the 3 million roughly to reverse these cuts. The question for all of you is are you in favor of denying Educational Opportunities and shortening the lives of older adults that will happen because they cant take these classes . Or will you support the emergency funding for those of you who have not yet decided to support this funding . We are also calling on you to do an independent audit of the college to make sure the taxpayers money is being properly spent. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. Im marla night. Im a retired city college teacher. I taught in both the credit and noncredit divisions. My daughter attended city college before transferring to a fouryear university. And i have taken classes while i was teaching. And im also taking classes in the Older Adult Program, which as you heard, was cut 90 percent. And these are extremely vulnerable people. I have always been so proud of the mission of city college. And this has been a travesty what happened. It happened summarily. I really hope you support. And im happy to hear that so many of you are supporting emergency bridge funding to reinstated the spring classes. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. Its a pleasure to be here and thank you for all your support for city college. My name is diane wallis. Ive been an efl teacher since 1992 at city college. From the article in yesterdays chronicle, i saw the links that our chancellor had written you a letter and said the situation is not an emergency and he and husband trustees will handle this difficult situation directly at the college. Unfortunately many of us have lost confidence in this chancellor and in our board of trustees, and we are grateful to you for overseeing whats going on with these cuts. He said in the letter that the cuts were part of a long planned restructuring of the Academic Program but all the cuts came as a surprise. And he also said that the cuts were made to prioritize the highdemand students who need to graduate. But one of the classes being cut, which i found out from a colleague at john adams, is the Healthcare InformationTechnology Class 74, which is necessary for students to graduate and is only offered in the Spring Semester. That class has been cut, which means that students will not be able to graduate in spring 2020. Another class thats being cut is welding 144a which will prevent one of our students from continuing with his vocational needs. We would like to restore the full spectrum of classes to enrich the community, music art, older adult classes. We should be expanding our vision of San FranciscoCommunity College.