they are also coming from distant countries where they have experienced hardships. they are older adult students. many of my child development students work full-time and full time and they also have spent years to get their degree so they can provide -- >> my name is janet. i teach ceramics. i think it's time we took a magnifying glass to the way this administration spends money because we share your concerns about the money. we had -- and i think we need to go to the highest levels to look at this. so we are told students of color will be helped by these cuts, but we have been hearing that is not the case. when i look across my classroom, which is always full, i have 25 students in a small ceramics studio, and i turned away at least that many that wanted to take the class. i see a lot of black hair. i mostly see black hair when i look out across my classroom, and some grey hair. we are an ethnically diverse college and we know it. nobody needs to even prove that. we know that is true, and yet these very classes are the ones getting cut. ceramics lost a third of its program. a third of our program. these classes are always full and we always have a waiting list. we always have to turn people away and people love these classes. we have to look at what is what shout what really is going on. i appreciated your question about, you know, what is the real motive? what is the real thing going on here? faculty who are cut were mostly part-timers who had health benefits. so that was one big cost savings it had nothing to do with certificates or the programs or what is good for the students. how about the real estate? it's a real estate grab here. we have southeast campus completely emptied out. great, let's sell it. we will tear down the art bill -- arts building so we can build a new building. we just heard there will be another new building built. what is this? what is really going on? let's look at the highest levels of administration here. we want your help. >> hello. i'm a student at city college. just to go off with janet was saying just now, we do want your help. i just wanted to, to the trustees in the room, students and faculty spent the last two months fighting really, really hard to restore the classes we lost and i'm glad that now you are supporting this supplemental , but you were not there for the legislative visits , you are not there advocating for the funding, and i think that, you know, supporting the supplemental a day before it was voted on is not enough. we all did the legwork to get the votes and if you heard why some people didn't vote for the supplemental, it is because the administration and the college were not asking for it. that is true. you were not asking for it. so i want you to reflect on that and why you were not asking for it until the very last moment when the vote was upcoming and we already knew what the vote would be like. i really would like you to reflect on that and to think why is it that the students and the faculty have had to put in all the work to save these classes that are obviously extremely important to the community. i don't want to be redundant and say, you know, how i have been affected, because i think there are more compelling stories here from students who are mower disadvantaged than i am and we need your help. we do need your help, but we need your full help, not just when it's convenient and when it will look bad if you don't help us. i wish we had more data as well and i'm disappointed the administration did not provide all the data that supposedly supports all these cuts, but i am most disappointed by the lack of support from our trustees. we really need you to advocate for the college the way that we are advocating for it. i really, really think that needs to be said here because all the students that are behind me, we spend a lot of our time trying to get this to $.7 million that we probably won't get if the mayor vetoes. thank you. >> this student even offered half of her pastel drawing supplies because she knew how expensive materials could be. i did not accept her generous offer say but -- offered but she exemplifies to a city college student is. some who is generous, kind, and resourceful. these are the students who are affected when you cut classes. what makes city college special is is a free open campus available for students at any skill level. to get some perspective, san francisco has three private art schools. one is the renowned san francisco art institute which charges, intuition alone, nearly $46,000 each school year and requires a well-developed art portfolio of work for admission. san francisco state, the only other school with a public our program charges $7,200 in tuition for the year. city college is the only place where you can receive a high quality education. i want to share with you all testimonials from city college art department students describing the impact and many of these students participated in the protest art show that is currently on at fort mason on the first floor. i hope you will be able to attend before it closes on february 5th. thank you. >> hello. i am a student. i'm here to talk about the filipino language classes. as of spring of 2020, the filipino language class was cancelled because and because of that, i was devastated because i want to learn and understand the filipino language. also, the filipino community is one of the biggest communities in san francisco, and because of that, the language is the third most spoken language in san francisco. cancelling filipino language class limits people like myself who are willing to take and learn the filipino language. the filipino language also fulfils humanity in ccsf which is required to graduate. when he to restore the classes so students like myself who want to learn to speak the language, to munich it with family, friends, and the community and are able to get the certificate of accomplishment for taking the filipino language community. >> hello. i come to you today as someone who was born in san francisco, raised in san francisco, attended lowell high school, eventually got into u.c. davis, and experienced sexual abuse as a child, and in college. so i need to understand that between intergenerational trauma as a child of refugees, as someone with women in my family who have experienced sexual trauma, and is is a right -- and as a survivor myself, you know, the way that the state measures achievement, they would have went right past me. they didn't know that i needed help and i performed perfectly fine in their system. at the end of it, i felt empty. i didn't know who i was, i didn't know what i wanted to do, and i have had suicidal ideations. you have to understand that in city college, the type of support that we provide is something that is about providing community. it's about teaching people the history of those who are marginalized. it is about empowering those with a sense of identity so they know, they understand their impression and they can fight it in their own lives, they can fight it in their communities, and they can excel because only because of city college do i have the strength to apply to medical school, that i want to go into public health, and i want to be someone who helps the community, who helps the asian-american community, who helps a latino excommunity where my partner is from, who will help the undocumented community, to provide them extraordinary health outcomes. we don't want to survive, we want to thrive. protecting and bringing these classes back is about being able to bridge and prevent these programs from being cut at all. >> my name is aris. i want to say that there are systemic issues that this administration must address. one thing is getting a forensic audit to address the budget crisis and another thing is supporting emergency bridge funding to get a remaining cosponsor. also, we have our own marketing firm or marketing program, but then they are unable to support the under enrolled classes that are in danger of getting cancelled. students have been doing that. students have been doing outreach despite being exhausted for me i am tired to the point where i have to convince myself that i am not drained at this moment. it has enabled students who live -- to live their lives. we do this because we care. we do this because this community has taught us how to be empathetic. we are taught how to also live our lives. i know that one night, a family member of mine told me that they wanted to disappear and i know when they said that to me, it felt like all the lights turned off. i wanted to be able to help them and i think city college enables me to have the skill set to talk to someone and help them and pulled him upwards because, again, there is upward mobility that city college provides. i want you to, in this room, it is one room, good it could be one of the 300 historic classrooms i could be provided. thank you. >> hello, everyone. i am a social justice and feminist and trans study major at city college of san francisco i am low income and i have a not very visible disability. i came to san francisco -- to city college after an incredibly demoralizing experience at a private for-profit art school here in san francisco where i faced institutional homophobia and trans phobia. so when i came in i enrolled in my first lgbt studies class, it put me on a path where i was then able to regain my confidence, not only that, but i was able to see myself living beyond the age of 30. i was able to do that because in the classroom, we had a beautiful and diverse community. it wasn't intergenerational experience with people from all walks of life coming to learn about the lgbt community and about the issues we face and about our history and sharing how we experience that. and now the lgbt studies department does not have the budget to offer much of any in person classes and that experience is being taken away. it is so important we have that. the community has suffered a genocide. the aids crisis is a genocide. so for me to understand my history, my community's history, i have to be able to have those conversations with community elders and the lgbt classes at city college gave me that space and gave me that understanding and drove me to have the will to serve my community, to understand my community's scrubbed the struggles and be able to put myself forward for all of those aspects and that is what drives me now. and to see that stripped from future generations is a tragedy. >> these safe places have helped me to proclaim my own self worth and reclaim my body and, yeah, so many of our teachers in the dance department are part-time and almost all of them lost all classes except for one. they weren't fired because it just looks better if you cut all of our classes except for one and they lose their health insurance. i really feel like all of this is just masquerading as downsizing the college and making it into a junior college and not providing support for marginalized people in our community. city college has been so important for me to be able to grow as a person and move on. also, part of the lgbt studies students and so many of our classes have been moved online. having those classes in person is so important for us to find community and to feel safe. thank you so much. >> hello. my name is jess and i am a student a city at college. i'm a recipient of free city and i'm completely grateful for this opportunity to transition to a new career. i came to city college specifically for welding, machine shop, and metal arts, which is casting and fabrication all of which have been slashed from the school. i am indebted to these teachers, mike campbell, suzanne pugh, jack da silva for opening the door for me. as a woman in trades, there is not a lot of opportunity. unfortunately, we are sexually harassed at some workplaces or training centers or we are not opened the door for because they assume because of our gender we are not able to do the same things that most men can do. i am just shocked at the way that the school has demolished the training program. we went to the labor council to tell them what is happening to our city's college and there is manufacturing in our history, in our bloodstream, in san francisco and we can't even fill the jobs that are being advertised. it is crushing. we have students that are homeless. we have students that are food unstable and education is not secure for them. they need to be able to learn skills and traits in order to produce items so they can sell. we have so many students that rely on these classes that can teach you a lot of these physical labor skills. students like myself are organizing and we are inviting the rest of former students and we are working with our community in order to support past and current students. we are suffering and students should not be suffering because of certain administration, the culture, the lack of financial transparency. we need the governance that we deserve. we should not be whistleblowing. it should be -- >> i am in a movie that deals with gentrification. i have been hearing stories for the past 30 minutes or so. it seems city college is being gentrified. it seems as opportunity is being taken. i know money is in this city the city. we need to preserve the opportunities that are in the city. this has always been a safe haven for people to migrate from all over the world. my parents met at city college. my father is an immigrant. had city college not been here, no telling where i would be. this is a story of empathy. it's not about feeling sorry or anything like that. it's about being empathetic and understanding that people need opportunities. if not, they lose hope. if people lose hope, there's no telling what will happen. they don't want san francisco to be completely erased. what i mean by that is it is culture. it's diversity. it is inclusion and when i listen to these people, it hurts because those are the stories that they are telling me. they do not have a huge social media following and maybe not financially affluent, but that doesn't mean that they don't deserve to have a voice for future students. we don't deserve a chance to do what they are doing. >> i brought my own timer because i don't like those little things. they throw me off. happy friday. i just want to shout out to all the niners gear i see here. shout out to everybody. it is nice to see this type of energy and the congregation. a lot of times we don't see that and a fun fact is the last time the niners won the super bowl was the year i was born. i feel like we are due for another one. seeing that type of stuff, it brings hope. we hope that the niners will win and that type of hope is the same thing that san francisco ccsf did for me on my pursuit of education. i was born in the city, raised in the city and i was highly educated in the city. i was fortunate enough to be one of the first people not only in my family to go to college, but as well as in my whole neighborhood. it wasn't a lot of people trying to pursue higher education. we were confined in a certain type of mindset within our neighborhood to think that graduating college wasn't something that was possible. so you might -- imagine how i felt when being one of the first people to drop of college went to college. i had no hope. i do not have the happiness i felt right now seeing the niners going to the super bowl and knowing i am a a, -- college graduate. i was in a basement with some creative people cooking up one of the biggest independent films in the world right now, but also , i was at a place where i didn't know where i wanted to go fortunately, enough in my pursuit of a degree and graduating from st. mary's college in california, city college provided a crucial psychological class that st. mary's wanted $10,000 for. i couldn't afford that. i am saying all of that to say that it is imperative to have city college here because the same week that i graduated college is the same week that the last blackmail in san francisco -- [indiscernible] >> thank you. >> i am san francisco city college. my father was a custodian at city. as a student i came here to get basic courses before going to graduate school. i choose to teach at city and to be there as a role model for students of color and poor students. throughout my time at city, i have taught incarcerated students, dual enrolment high schoolers, returning students, veterans, immigrants, refugees, differently abled, career changers, nonbinary, students like y'all, and the teachers of young children. young children are the future. i teach to the future. do not let present adelson in -- destroy the future. >> we have to take a quick recess because we don't have a >> and creating a cut-rate, run-down college in one of the most wealthiest and progressive cities in the united states. instead of improving the school, rocha tried to double the wages of his administrators and cut class classes across the board. he wants to increase class sizes to 40 students and have more online classes. he says he's doing this to create a school for minority students. minority students are often low income and need to work. studies show online classes are more difficult for minorities and immigrants. these classes make it difficult to take classes. he is creating a cut-rate, run-down college and saying he's doing it for the students. he is creating a ghetto in one of the wealth eest cities in america. he is making our city college into a joke. >> thank you to the alonite people, whose land we are on. thank you to the board of supervisors and the board of trustees and the students , the faculty, the administration of the community. i am here as a student of the older adults program, which i credit making me a survivor with the body dynamics class which has been cut and the reason i'm standing here right now. i'm also here as an ally to myself and the larger bay area communities who desire to learn about black history, culture, and whose department chair has not been hired due to a hiring freeze at our school. i ask that you restore classes and support a lifting of the hiring freeze so that our school's role in helping all students is realized. [speaki [speaking indigenous language] and i pray that this will happen. >> [speaking foreign language] -- i have first worked at the city college in the early 1990s, 1993 to 1995. and then i started again in 2005 as a classified staff member. i've been a faculty member for the last three years. i do not know if i have a class from one semester to the other right now. in the english department, i'm one of the very few faculty of color. i don't have any classes from last semester. my students are asking me, are you going to teach the next class? and i had to tell them i don't know, i don't know, i don't know. and now no. and these are english classes and every student needs english classes. i had students saying they couldn't get classes. they were on long wait lists. because the online registration system is so wonky, they were not able to get in at all. some of them are just not taking english this semester. some of them got into a late start class and i'm glad they are. i am teaching a poetry for the people class. some of the students that will eventually tell -- come to city college and i don't know what to tell them. i am also an adviser to the muslim students association. i don't know if i will be there from one semester to the end. one of our students has been waiting to take the politics of the middle east class since she started at city college and now it's been cut. this is where we are and i'm asking you to give us the funds to restore our spring schedule and put us back on track and support our students of color. thank you. >> i teach in the mathematics department at city college, but my history with city college is 30 years old. i started there as a student in 1990. i'm here to say that contrary to the comments of the administration, these cuts are not helping our students of color. our students of color are being funnelled into particular pathways and they're not given a chance to explore their passions, they're not given an opportunity to take classes when they have time in their busy schedules from working. i think that the fact that the administration did not send a representative today speaks volumes over the number of students and faculty who are here today to ask for your support in keeping the community in our college. city college of san francisco is san francisco. look around the room. listen to the people who have been here and speaking to you. even our students -- when the opportunities to earn job experience or to earn a certificate as opposed to transferring to a four-year school and going on a very narrow path is taken away, we are robbing our students of color and all of our students from opportunities to explore their passion. if i had not had that opportunity, i would not have the three degrees i have now. yes, i did transfer to a four-year school. i got my graduate degree. i'm back teaching at city college. that's not what every student needs to do. our culinary arts supplies so many workers to the city in the restaurant and hospitality industry. we're cutting those classes and our students have nowhere to go. they're going to be forced to look at for-profit colleges -- >> thank you, all. i'm faculty from city college. the museum studies classes was cut. out of that came the freedom way initiative, which is what changed the name from a disgraced official to someone who represents those with real minority struggles. out of the museum studies has come the land acknowledgement initiative. the initiative would institute a purposeful initiative. the city college sits on indigenous land and owes its success to the struggles of the indigenous people. between the museum studies and s.f. monument will be established for the first time. but museum studies will be canceled unless the bridge funding goes forward. in the curriculum pipeline is the museum studies and social adjustment certificate, responding the need to diversify staff. with the population of low-income students and students of color, city college is in a unique position to make this happen. many students are losing an opportunity to enter a field, crying out for their participation. the $2.7 million bridge funding will help, not hurt, fiduciary responsibilities at the college. >> i taught at civic center at city college for 37 years. i'm speaking today for dan hayes, the chair of the p.e. department. he has the flu. over 90% of city college's student athletes transfer to four-year schools. they earn scholarship. they need to finish their academic work for transfer in two years. losing classes this semester, summer and fall, will jeopardize their ability to finish on time. it will push these students to take online class or physically attend classes at nearby community colleges. at least 75% of our student athletes at city college are of color, mostly of low-income families. these students strive to be recruited by ncaa schools. in some cases, this is the only way they can afford to attend four-year universities, on athletic scholarships. schools will not offer athletic scholarships to students who do not graduate in two years. it's as simple as that. so cuts in classes make it difficult. it's n -- if not impossible for students to reach their goals. please fund city college now. >> good afternoon. i especially wanted to thank the school board members for bearing witness to what is being said today. of course i also speak to the board of trustees and to the board of supervisors. my name is sue inglander. i am a woman of many hats and buttons, and today i represent a.f.t. 2121 and also the harvey mill fund that supports the funding of the supplemental fund, but also chemical consciencondemns the cuts at city college. look at the parking lots. the main lot is full, but the supplementary lots are empty. you can see the kind of impact the cuts have had. you ask about what's going on here and now in the budget, i also ask what about the vision of the future. what are we doing going forward to correct city college as an institution? cuts before classes can properly enroll is not fair to students or faculty. sometimes it takes a week and a half for my classes to meet their error enrolment and go forward. and sometimes we are being cut before that time. the chancellor and mayor express what i think is disrespect for our good-faith efforts to fix the college. we have not reached out until now for money because we were trying to fix things internally. the notion of student success at city college is a joke, a mess, a diversion. the chancellor uses these well-intentioned people to hide behind and he does not speak to us any longer. i am prepared, i have been prepared, and in class i'm -- >> my name is linda coughman. i've been an engineering instructor at city college for 36 years. i'm incurred the vice president of a.f.t. 2121. i am the faculty chair of the enrolment management committee. at the board meeting where it was announced that there would be huge class cuts, this was before november 19, the meeting before that, i called the administrative chair of the management committee, and i said, the board directed you to get consultation from the faculty and chairs. when is that going to happen? she said, don't worry, it will happen. the next thing i know, the eve of registration, over 300 classes were cut. yes, i get that we have budgetary problems, but the problem is much deeper than that. we have to ask, what is going on at city college? if it really were about the budget and just making sure we keep the classes where students of color graduate, why is it in my engineering classes i have students that can't get their a.f. degree they were going to get before transferring and the class they were going to take is going to severely diminish their chances of getting into the school of their chance, which is u.c. berkeley. i'm going to read out what one of my students wrote to me. i won't be able to complete my associate degree in engineering. engineering 10b, one of the courses canceled, is one of the classes i need to obtain my degree. under the circumstances, i can't obtain that degree that i've worked so hard for. this semester is the last semester before my transfer. without that course, my chances of getting accepted to u.c. berkeley have been lowered. what is happening at city college? >> my name is stephanie mckaller. i'm speaking to you from the english department. a former student myself and as a queer identified woman in faculty. if we care about student completion, we need to care about all of these classes that were cut. these are the classes that offer reflections of the stories and histories of our student body. visual arts, creative writing, and dance classes offer spaces for these students to tell and celebrate their own stories. nurturing the cells that often get ignored and marginalized in other spaces. they also allow people who are marginalized every day to tap into their resilience. my students have expressed similar experiences. i had a student who shared with me that they identified as trans. they were struggling and considering suicide. they said seeing me who identified as queer that they were able to do some important healing. they were not the first student to share a story like this and i doubt they will be the last. i'm also one of the faculty members who lost her employment this semester as a result the cuts. when our department chairs received the information about the class cuts in november, they lacked specific information about how this would affect faculty load. i had previously been offered a class to teach. i rearranged my schedule. it was on anti-racism. it was very exciting for me. but because of the confusion, i found out two weeks later that i was losing my class. so i found out in the first week of december that i wouldn't have employment in january. when you cut these classes, it does affect the students, but it also affects the faculty who are there who care about the students who help represent their interests. thank you. >> i worked for city college for many years and before that i was an electrician. thanks to city college i completed my degree at state. i got enough math to get through the apprenticeship, which is a very technical trade. speaking of math, shall we just stop pretending this is the first shocking cut. we've had departments worse than decimated for years now. look at us, we're a beautiful crazy quilt of all backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, persuasions. this is city college. this is shocking and rude, but i ask, who needs genocide when you have gentrification? there is an attack on our campus. my parents came from nothing. they were soldiers. my mother was a food insecure immigrant who grew up here. i am proudly working class. please, don't disrespect these teachers who went through graduate school, who are paying off student loans, who can't work and get their health insurance. thank you so much. >> i'd like to thank the city council members who are still in the chamber. thank you very much for waiting for us. sometimes this goes for a reason. the world looks up to us for freedom for our strength. dear city college, you were founded as a junior college in 1935. today you are a multi-generation al. you include the low income, the seniors, as well as language and the arts. you are for the youth, yes, for the credits and for the long run, for materialistic diplomas and degrees. you are ours. you are way more than that. for thousands of years, peaceful generations of i understand indians have enjoyed their land. they remember for us to respect. history is also culture. for our education to thrive. and as much as our education is the future, this is also the past. our community comes in many forms. historically, the hippies, and also the great innovators of our time. if free thinkers is what we are, that should go beyond money, beyond budget, more than credits, and about materialistic goals. we are about culture or at least that which we should be. it has been said for our education. does that ring a bell? education should be without budgets. california is the sixth wealthiest economy in the world. [ please stand by ] >> unfortunately we have a board and a chancellor now who says there is no money. there's nothing we can do. just as the board and chancellors initially said, in 2012 when the accreditors attacked us and said that we could not resist, successfully resist. we have proven that that was wrong and that the accreditors, in fact, had to change. >> thank you so much. next speaker, please. thank you. >> my name is joyce and i have been a student in the older adult classes at fort mason, and especially my class which is the figure drawing class. i'm here to ask the board of supervisors to give support for the older adult program at fort mason and also at the other venues here in the city. it's these classes that are very important -- a very important part of the health of the older adult community, the disabled community, and also the students who are able to attend these classes as well. especially at fort mason, there has been a wonderful, and international, multiethnic community of artists from all over the world that have a place to work. they are -- there are live models and it is a wonderful place for creative people to continue with creative activities and these are so healthy for our community. i ask that you please support the older adults program at fort mason and the other venues in san francisco. thank you very much for your time and your help with this. thank you. >> i grew up on seventh and folsom street at a time in the 1940s when there was 400 french hotels along the embarcadero. these were all run by french women. they helped the longshoreman and aided other people along the embarcadero. at this type of ambience today existed, would be a much better city. half of my family is french and the other half is mexican. i remember growing up on green street when my cousin was not allowed to speak spanish. mr. mendoza said no spanish in this house ever. and the same thing happened in my house. what happened is i have my two grandmothers grandmother his and my italian grandfather only speaking french to me and refusing to have me speak back. this is just my story. i have been going to city college for 40 years. i was our director of the tribune and worked for the new york times. thank you. >> i am from the gray panthers. i taught physiology to city college nursing students for a number of years. some of hume treated me later at kaiser hospital. we are furious about the older adult cuts, but we are also furious at the racist cuts to the younger students' classes that disrupt and wreck their lives. they are racist because so many of the students at city college are people of color and they are racist because so many of the cut classes are people of color oriented. i was research lab technician for 15 years, but the research grants started drying up so i needed to change careers. i entered a thriving biomedical technician program at foothill college that sent technicians to hospitals all over the bay area and it was the only one in the bay area. many of the students were women construction workers who had had terrible endeavor it -- injuries on the job and had to change careers. this enabled me to work 15 years at the san francisco general hospital neonatal nursery fixing life-giving equipment. the semester after i graduated at foothill college i checked the catalogue to see what classes were going to be offered for the following semester. none were listed. i called the leader of the program to ask him why. he said, i don't know why. it turns out his whole program had been cut and he hadn't even been informed of it. this is the kind of thing that is going on on this program that the state is going forward. restore all the classes and pass the fund. give this city college funding for long-term fiscal stability. >> thank you so much. >> hello. as with other seniors, i have enjoyed taking classes even music appreciation, computer literacy, and tai chi. these classes keep my mind active and enable me to pursue lifelong learning. i also enjoy the social aspect of these classes by sharing common interests and discussing various ideas with my classmates by taking computer classes, i have been able to navigate the internet and find information i need. taking tai chi classes has greatly improved my balance with falling as a concern for me. with the cancellation of these classes, i feel a deep void in my life. art, music, literature and theatre with ethnic studies interweaving in all these areas play major part in our society. yet the chancellor has cancelled all the city college classes in these areas. these courses play an important role in the development and growth of the whole person. they help students develop skills and critical thinking, ethical reasoning and cultural, social, and environmental and personal awareness and responsibility. these very values are stated in the mission statement of city college of san francisco. thank you. pardon my speech making, i am better at writing than talking in public. >> my name is paula. i am a part-time faculty member in the p.e. and dance department i have been teaching five classes for 13 years and i was cut down to one class. i do receive benefits there city college of san francisco for my family and three children. i want you for a moment to picture this. i would like you to visualize a dance studio that is half the size of this room and a nice, open space. in one corner you have my student, monique. she is an african-american student who is legally blind in a dance class. i placed next to her sash, a student from belarus who is working towards her a.a. degree in dance. i also have liz, who by day is a high-powered tech executive and sorrow, a homeschooled freshman and first time college student working on her g.e. on the other side of the room, a cal berkeley student returning to city for dance classes. next to them, lgbtq students, international students completing their ged and in the back, i have a retired s.f. -- sfpd ex-cop. and esl student and faculty from neighboring departments. we are all travelling together, different destinations, different paces, but we are interacting with one another. racial, cultural, socioeconomic and gender barriers do not exist in this shared space. we are in the work -- where in the world can find this happening? we are learning and working together and it is successful. the classes that were cut were in high demand and over enrolled these classes are necessary. please support us and restore our communities, restore our shared learning spaces. we are a reflection of our city. stand up for your people and for your community. >> hello. my name is christopher. i am a native of san francisco. i have taught film and film editing at city college. currently i have been taking sculpture classes at fort mason and i was absolutely devastated to find out just a couple days before thanksgiving that our classes were cut and he would not be reinstated. i also found out then that 90% of older adult classes had been cut. so then i also heard that there was this policy that is coming down, this policy of eliminating classes only if you are going to matriculate and graduate. and human improvement classes were being shortened. so i went on to this state chancellor's website to look up the vision statement for community colleges. i got this little tidbit there. it says the colleges are a source of lifelong learning, offering recreation and enrichment and exercise to california's diverse communities his opportunities for learning, training, and civic engagement together make this a rich source of opportunity for all californians. that doesn't sound like it's exclusively for a one track or another track. it sounds like it's for all californians for enrichment and for general betterment, not only for academically focused materials. this is a community college. san francisco is a community and it should remain a community. please vote for to put $7 million to fund this program. we really appreciated. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> hello, my name is stephen. i am a faculty at the evans campus and i waited till the end because i wanted to give my students a chance to speak, but to the two city college board members, i want to let you know we have been working hard to get these classes put on the 300 classes that were cut, and two the people that would have voted for this specifically said, and marcus already said this to you, they would have voted for this, but they were not asked by the board. the board and the chancellor. so i just wanted, you know, there is a saying, ask and you shall receive, knock on the door and it will be opened to you. that is where our students to try to do. if they can't do something or they need -- they are struggling , they ask for help. you guys never asked for help. you said an opportunity for do this. stand up and say you will accept this money. we not only have had cuts, we have been halved. our office has been halved in the last few years. you know, we need a change of management there. we have an automotive class and i am a product of city college. a lot of the classes i took got me to where i am. they were classes that i took at night. at times my work and schedule in family life allowed me to take these classes. a lot of our students come and take my classes. our introductory automotive class is now -- has been cut. the students want to better themselves and move on, they need my class and they need a class on a saturday. our part-time instructor who taught that class, his job has been cut. he has been teaching in our caught -- college for 25 years. his class needs to be restored. he needs to be teaching at least two or three classes. thank you. >> i'm a part-time instructor. i am not here just for myself. with the older adults department , which has been decimated, or the music department which has lost 50% of its classes since 2012. a few points. city college is a great opportunity for a large and diverse populace, as you have been hearing today. a few issues. city college serves the many and that is part of why it has been targeted. in 2013, the state chancellor's office, in league with the accrediting commission, improperly engineered a state takeover which is never had anything to do with the quality of the instruction at the college, but just a few years, city college lost a third of its students. i think it's 20 to 25,000 maybe. it has never really recovered. that is part of why we're here today. here's another example of downsizing. the state academic senate reinstituted restrictions on course repeatability 10 years ago or so. these are in effect across the state. especially affects the arts, physical education and downs. such restrictions were imposed and were overcome, but that is not happening at all. that affects enrolment. bridge funding a loanable solve the budget woes at city college, but that is no reason to reject it. please ask for the classes and talk to the mayor and say that you want her to sign the measure when it is passed next week. this is not just about money either. there are extension classes that are fully funded that had to be refunded because they were blocked by the administration. that is tens of thousands of dollars. something his wrong here. >> thank you so much. do we have anymore public comment? seen none, public comment is closed for this hearing. i definitely want to thank everyone for coming out this morning. obviously we have a lot more information that we need to have a full discussion about what the path forward looks like. it is my hope that the supplemental is moved forward and received by the college so we can preserve as many classes as possible for this 2020 spring semester, but i do just want to say that we are going to be coming back to the table here at this committee to have a further discussion when we have more information to provide to the public so we can figure out a way to work together to move forward. so with that said, i will pass this back over to the chair of the committee, which in this case, a supervisor fewer. thank you also much for being here today. -- thank you all so much for being here today. >> i forgot that i am the chair. i am so sorry. trustee williams? >> thank you. i want to thank supervisor walton for your attention to this issue and for your love for city college and for everyone's love for city college. all the testimony and everything that was spoken here today. we have heard it loud and clear. i want to, again, reiterate how much we want to work with the city and county of san francisco to apply solutions and solutions now. folks' lives have been deeply impacted. it is very concerning. as a former city college student and s.f. native, to hear some of the testimony, you know, you could not not feel when people came up to the podium and spoke. i just appreciate everyone for coming out and for your tireless advocacy for our college. it has been many years that we have been in this fight together and we will continue to fight that keep it as a community college. thank you. >> trustee randolph? >> thank you. i want to thank everybody who came out today to speak and provide public comment. i also want to thank our administrators and deans for entering the line's done and being in the trenches every single day. i know how hard you work and i know you have to represent the college here today in a very difficult topic and subject. so i know you are the ones that were sent into the battle. i know all of you and the work that you do. thank you for sitting through this entire hearing and to listen to the public and to us here up front and for persevering every single day at city college. i know you are in the trenches, you are not necessarily the top that makes those decisions. thank you. >> any other comments or questions? seen none, i also want to say thank you for everyone coming out and also to city college administrators and trustees for educating us on the situation at city college. i look forward to working together toward a solution. thank you very much. do we have any other business before us today? >> is there a motion on this matter? >> i think we would like to continue this to the call of the chair, please. >> is there a second? >> i will second that. >> on that motion says. [roll call] the motion passes. this motion is continue to the call of the chair. >> is there any other business before us today? >> that completes the agenda for today. >> we are adjourned. thank you. >> thank you so much for joining us here today at 888 post, the site of a new transitional age use navigation center, right in the heart of your district, supervisor peskin, congratulations. i know you've had to endure a lot of challenging community meetings along with the teams from our group and others but thank you so much for your leadership and your work to make this possible. many of you know that in october of 2018, i set an ambitious goal to build 1,000 new shelter beds by 2020, which was one of the most ambitious goals of building shelter beds in our city's history. this is the largest expansion of shelter beds since 1989. we know that we have a real challenge with homelessness. and along with building more housing, it's important that we have more places for people to go to get the services and the support that they need. and i got to tell you, i set this goal, and i didn't realize how challenging it would be to meet it. you know, we talk about what we want to see in san francisco. but i don't think sometimes we realize how much work goes into making this possible. and i want to just take this opportunity to really express my gratitude to so many folks who are standing here behind me, because it really does take a village. as a result of the work of so many folks which i definitely want to highlight and mention today, we are going to not only meet our goal of 1,000 new shelter beds this year, we are going to exceed it, and we are expected to at least open 1,065 shelter beds this year, and we already have a number of those shelter beds underway. since i made this commitment, we've opened 566 new beds. we have 299 beds in the pipeline. the bayview, safe navigation center right here at 888 post street. and today, i'm announcing a new opportunity which i'm super excited about. 33goff street where we will provide 200 new navigation center beds which will take us over our goal. this is absolutely incredible. [applause] and let me tell you, i would like to say we could wave a magic wand and this could happen, but it can't. it takes a village. the village of the people who are standing behind me today. there's work that goes into constructing these places. there's the people who have to manage the facilities 24/7. there are so many people to thank for helping us to not only maintain the shelters that we have but to also raise their hand and say we are with you, we are here to help, we are here to do whatever it takes to support this effort, and they have stepped up. our amazing, amazing shelter partners, many of our community-based organizations, including five keys, the episcopal community services, st. vincent depaul society of san francisco, community housing partnership, p.r.c., the lower street community services, providence foundation, hospitality house, larken street youth services, hamilton families, homeless prenatal programs, dish, compass family services and catholic charities. all of these organizations do not only tremendous work of working with us on our shelter system but they also work with us on our wrap around supportive housing system here in the city. they do amazing work, and we are so grateful, because we couldn't do this work without them. so thank you to our nonprofit providers. and also thank you to many departments in the city who work together to make this possible, including the department of homelessness and supportive services, the department of public health and dr. grant colfax is with us here today. the san francisco public works department, the real estate division, the san francisco police department, the human services agency and the port of san francisco. many of our department heads are here today. and we are grateful for their leadership and working with us to identify locations to negotiate the lease and the terms to staff, to provide assistance and especially the department of public works, because they oversee all of the buildout. as you can see, many of you are probably tired from that three-flight stairs that you climbed to get here. did he tell you a commitment. i got my steps in so i'm excited about that. but part of their role is to put in the elevators necessary because standing on this space will be where people will reside. the second floor will provide the services and support the people need to wash their clothes and to eat and to come together as a community and to get the services and support that they need. so right now, you see an open, empty space, but it's going to be an incredible space for the people that we plan to serve. i want to thank the neighbors and advocates who have championed these navigation centers in various communities. i know it hasn't been easy, and oftentimes, there have been a number of challenges. everyone is into thed to into t- entitled to their opinion, and we understand there is a lot of uncertainty and people are concerned, but i'm hoping that we fulfill our promise to make sure we provide the support that the folks who are homeless need while maintaining the safety and other issues that people were concerned about in the communities. i want to thank members of the board of supervisors who work with us to open navigation centers and more specifically, i want to thank our state partners. the legislation that state senator scott wiener helped to lead in sacramento is why we were able to open the navigation center on the embarcadero as quickly as we were able to open it. so it's give up us a tool that has just really made this goal a reality. so thanks to senator scott wiener, assemblymember david chiu and hill ting who has been necessary to providing the funding necessary. so it really is a village that has come together to make this possible. so we are meeting the goal that we set. and we are hoping that we see a difference and we feel a difference. and ultimately shelters are helpful. but we also have to get more housing built in this city so that we can get folks into a safe, affordable place to call home. nothing is more important than ensuring that there is housing opportunities for all people, for all levels of income. that is really ultimately where i'd like to see our city go and what i will be striving to make happen. what are the next steps after meeting this goal? well, it doesn't stop because we met a goal. it's time to set a new goal. it's time to do more work. so i know the folks who have worked on this including power who really is my policy director but has led this effort and worked with his team and others to make this a reality, i know a lot of them are saying oh, my god, mayor, what else can we do? we are working hard every single day to get this done. and we have more to do. people are counting on us to do more. and doing more means that we have a place for people to go. yesterday when i was out at the embarcadero and the hot team, they were out there talking to people, they were able to fortunately get three people to commit to a shelter bed at the embarcadero navigation center, but that was three people. there were a lot of other folks that refused service. and some of those people were having a number of challenges. and as a result, we needed, of course, to do more. and doing more means that we meet people where they are, whether there is a mental health challenge, whether there is a substance use challenge, we need to make sure that we have a place for everyone to go when we're offering assistance. so part of my goal is to provide 2,000 additional placements. and when i say placements, i don't mean navigation center beds, i just mean placements. meth sobering centers, safe injection sites, places where people can go to get a hot meal or wash their clothes or take a shower. meeting people where they are. so for example the woman that we ran into who clearly was struggling, clearly needed help and support, was hungry, probably needed a shower, had a lot of things and refused to accept the service that we provide. what do you do for that person? she said she was hungry but did not want to go to the navigation center. so having an alternative, having a place that meets people where they are is also important. so when we talk about the next steps, the next step is to provide 2,000 additional placements for people, whether that is navigation center beds or sobering centers or safe injection sites or mental health stabilization beds, whatever that is, we need to expand those opportunities so that we can really make sure that we make an impact of what you see on the street. drop-in shelters a number of other issues, and i want to make sure that we are prepared to make the investments to do just that. we are already looking at locations throughout san francisco that could hopefully be, even if they are temporary pop-up locations like restaurants do pop-ups, so why not in this particular case, take something innovative and for the moment, provide an opportunity to support people in need and meeting them where they are. i'm really excited about the next step that we are going to take, because ultimately, along with these shelter beds, along with the investments that we are making, along with building more housing and opening up more places for people to live, we are going to see a difference. and, again, thanks to the support from members of the board of supervisors, we have identified locations, we have been able to open up more locations. but also we have been able to make investments in master leasing a number of buildings that have provided much-needed housing. last week we broke ground on the abigail over 60 units of wrap-around supportive house. you all know about the bristol and others. we are talking about over 300 new units of supportive housing in our system that we did not have before, which means transitioning people out of shelters into permanently-supported housing. that is so key to the success of what we are trying to do here today with adding more shelter beds to our system. and so i want to, again, thank supervisor peskin for being here today and continuing to work with us and to be an advocate for supporting navigation centers, including the one right here in his district. and at this time, ladies and gentlemen, the supervisor for district 3, supervisor aaron peskin. [applause] >> thank you, mayor breed. i think mayor breed has said just about everything, but i will add a few things. as somebody who has been on and off the board of supervisors for 20 years, i remember the battle days when san san francisco's government denied the fact that we did not have enough shelter beds. there has been a change in recent times under mayor lee followed by mayor breed, and i am dried to be a part of that solution. i also want to say to the folks who live in this neighborhood, that we will hold ourselves accountable, and you have to hold us accountable. i want to say to chief scott and to the folks from there that we make sure this is the best-run facility that does not adversely impact the folks who live here and call this home. we have done that in the case of other navigation centers, and we have to make that be true here. i also really want to thank a community that wants to be a part of the solution. we have had a number of meetings here in the neighborhood, and i will be quite candid, they are not without controversy. people are concerned and rightfully so. and it is my job and the mayor's job and our department of homelessness' job and our police department's job to make sure that we do it right. i am committed to that. and we will make that come true. and i really want to thank the lower polk neighbors, lower polk community benefit district for their support and their trust in the city and county of san francisco. and now let's get this done, 75 beds here. we are going to have more community meetings including next week, and i want to hear from folks in this community. and like i said, we are going to get this thing right. thank you, mayor breed. [applause] >> thank you, supervisor peskin. and jess could not be with us today because he is in school right now along with a number of other department heads who are working on ways to improve what we do in san francisco so that we can make sure that we are working together to produce the results that our city deserves. but whittle, the deputy director of the department of homelessness and supportive services is here today. [applause] >> thank you, mayor breed and thank you supervisor peskin. i'm horned to be -- i'm honorede today. when the department of homelessness was born three years ago, we identified a gap in our city's housing and shelter system. we were able 1,000 beds short of the demand for emergency shelter. today thanks to the vision and leadership of mayor breed, the commitment of our hsh team and all of our city departments in our fantastic community-based providers, we are closing that gap. [applause] whoo! the 1,000 bed initiative represents the largest shelter expansion over the last 30 years. the built upon the work to shelter 3,000 individuals every night. temporary shelter is a core component of the city's homelessness response system, but it is only one component. we recognize that housing is the solution to homelessness, and we must create more permanent exits from homelessness through all creative means possible. with that in mind, we begin 2020 having fully deployed coordinated entry, allowing us to match resources to the individual needs of our clients. we begin 2020 with the stronger partnership across city departments to reach the hardest to serve individuals on our streets. we begin 2020 with new permanent supportive housing units opening up this year. and we begin 2020 by expanding problem-solving interventions that empower people to resolve their own homelessness. yet we recognize that our unsheltered neighbors are suffering on our streets and all of our residents, our businesses and our visitors demand more us. today marks the milestone in that direction. it is an honor to be here today with justin vazquez, who you will hear from shortly. [applause] and whose inspiring journey to exit homelessness. a special thanks to each and every one of you across our city who volunteered our time to serve food and bring dignity to your neighbors who operate and work in these valuable programs who everyday advocate for bettes into your community like this one, who work tirelessly for the city and county of san francisco and to all of you who commit yourself to our shared vision of ending homelessness in san francisco. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. now someone who has been an amazing partner with working with our transitional population has been five keys and they are executive director steve goode, is here to provide remarks. steve. [applause] >> thank you, mayor breed. it's truly an honor to be able to be here to speak to everybody about the work we are doing at both the embarcadero navigation center and at 125 bayshore. our work at five keys and i'm sure the work of the other providers is informed by the fact that homelessness, in fact everybody affects everybody in san francisco whether it's a child having to walk past a homeless encampment or myself having to work to my office and seeing a body and wondering if they are alive. most of us at one point in our life have been one paycheck away from being homeless. unfortunately for so many of -- and fortunately for so many of us we had a family member we could lean on. but when you face substance abuse, a woman escaping a violent partner, those options become fewer and far between. that's why five keys came truly applauds mayor breed and supervisor's efforts to get homeless as the number one priority in san francisco about 1,000 beds and now the initiative for 2,000 more places. we strive at five keys to provide a safe and welcoming and dignified place where we can help stabilize guests with their work. we work with them to get them off the streets and address the core issues of homelessness. we are working with h.s.a. and our city partners to navigate through the complex matrix of city services to truly help our clients and guests get the services they need, the essential services, including housing, permanent housing and healthcare. this is accomplished by a coordinated system of city departments including the hot teams and shelter guests are assigned a care manager that works with each guest on their core issues that led hem them to homelessness, where we work to address the problems in their lyes, in particular, mental illness with our partner bayview foundation and their great work in dealing with mental health issues. the goal is to help our clients get the services they need, whether it be access to medical care or needed medication. our number one goal of operates is to provide a safe and dignified community for the resident of san francisco that are without shelter, provide a respite from the streets for a place to live until housing becomes available. in our view, there is no greater urgency than getting people off the streets and providing a safe, stable place where they want to be as an alternative for living on the streets. this helps to restore dignity and helps those without shelter. if our guests do not feel safe with us, then we are not doing our jobs, and that's our number one priority. thank you. [applause] >> and now someone who can speak to their experience and how the navigation center and the bayview has supported and helped them, justin vazquez. [applause] >> hi, what's up, everybody? so basically i was incarcerated for about nine months. in incarceration, just getting there, i had no sense of direction. not a very good attitude, you know? and immediately my head turned to education to do something different with my life to stop living paycheck to paycheck, to stop the inconsistent lifestyle and hurting those around me and myself. and as soon as i fully invested in five keys, everything changed. community, it's like a huge word right now, like what's happening with the people surrounded that want a change that want something different that isn't being homeless, isn't involved in drugs or, you know, several of the issues that just cause a lot of problems. so upon getting released, captain was my case managers patrick in custody, helped me set up everything with the navigation center. and wanting to move forward, staying out of the streets, staying out of trouble and attending school and prioritizing. so with that, i was at the center for about six months. great, everybody's super extremely supportive, very positive, willing to help with whatever. and if you really want it, it's there for you. and i truly believe that five keys implements that to the people. yeah, so moving forward, i did get the support with school, got my g.e.d., enrolled into city college. so currently attending that. and i live right up the street. got a place and staying out of trouble. it's great. [laughs] [applause] and i just want to verbally thank everybody that's on my support team, donna, patrick, aisha, meg, jeff from the navigation center and the department of homelessness and mayor london breed. the whole community that's putting this together. thank you. i really appreciate it. best of luck to everybody else too. [applause] >> justin, thank you so much. it's so great when you can actually hear from someone who had the experience and to see all of the amazing people who are part of justin's village and what they did to support him and now it's really amazing. so i'm really happy for you. and we are looking for good things to come. so thank you so much for sharing your story. [applause] now at this time i would like a community member who is a general manager of music city s.f., peter jacobson, to say a few words. [applause] >> first i would like to say thank you to mayor breed, to supervisor peskin and really to everyone else who has been just so welcoming to us throughout this process. my name is peter jacobson, i'm the general manager of music city. we are located at bush and polk. we are committed to supporting local developing musicians in san francisco. growing up, to me san was a place of creativity, of community and of empathy. our neighborhood here is rich in community and creativity but for an empathetic person, it can be a disspiritting place to be. homelessness is the defining issue that our city faces today. and in many areas like this one, it's one that's impossible to ignore. my heart is broken every day working here. the proposed navigation center in this building represents critical resources for 18 to 24 years old. these are young people who have already been failed by our system. the question i would like to ask is what happens to an 18-year-old who is experiencing homelessness who is denied the help that they need? denied possessions, hygiene, denied the guarantee of a safe place to sleep. realistically, the best case scenario is a 30-year-old experiencing homelessness. we live in a city with a $12 billion annual budget. navigation centers like this one alone will not solve the problem, but they are a massive step in the right direction. i know there are hundreds of people who would like to have their opinions heard. our organization has been blessed with being in communication with supervisor peskin's office on this project for over a year. as a member of the board of lower polk neighbors, we have been doing everything to make sure the feedback reaches the right places. every department involved whether the mayor's office, the department of homeless, sfpd, every department is committed to making sure this project is a success. my plea is this, for all who involve themselves that we may approach this crisis, not with appear apathy but with hope. the moment we accept the suffering of others is the moment it becomes inevitable. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, peter, for that perspective, especially just really calling out the importance of why this particular navigation center is important to young people who if provided this sort of opportunity, anything could be possible. and i don't take for granted that everyone is fortunate enough to have a network of people that they could rely on for support or to just get them over that hump. and we are grateful that we have opportunities like this and incredible service providers that work with young people every single day. and i'm excited about this navigation center and what it's going to do. it not only will house transitional-age youth to help them transition to hopefully permanent housing opportunity with our uprising campaign, is that what it's called? rising up. thank you. our rising up campaign where we are on a mission to make sure that we raise enough money to provide support to transitional-age youth in this city so they can get permanently housed. and larken street has been really at the forefront of that particular program. and i'm excited about what that's going to do. i'm also excited about our partner in this effort, good will, who down stairs along with i think is it google? google and goodwill? anybody remember? no? oh, just goodwill. oh, sorry. they will probably be using the search engine of google to find jobs. [laughter] but downstairs, good will who provides incredible services, provides opportunities for people to get a second chance at life, will provide a employment and training program for those young people. so the way this building is about to be used and what it's going to do to support young people to help them not only succeed but to thrive is going to be incredible. so i'm looking forward to it. we are going to work hard to get it open sooner rather than later. and in addition to the places that you all know, we are opening up as navigation centers, we also have supervisor safai who is here today who was instrumental in opening one of our first navigation centers for parking for people who were living in their vehicles. he worked really hard to get that location open in this community against fierce opposition. so we want to thank supervisor safai for joining us here today in his work in his community as well. so a lot has been done but a lot more to do. so, again, thank you to all the department heads, the service providers, the people of this community, the lower polk merchant association and so many incredible folks who really support these efforts. i want to lastly say that as much as i wish we could wave a magic wand and make great things happen for the city and improve the quality of life and the condition of people's lives, there is no quick fix. there is no one thing that's going to solve one of the most significant challenges that we face as a city. but this, along with other efforts that we put forth together, are going to really improve the city for the better. and i'm looking forward to doing many more things like this throughout our city. and i want to thank all of you for being here today. thank you. [applause] -- >> the new friday farmer his market is in the u.n. plaza. it features the best of san francisco. grab fresh foods and veggies from the heart of the farmers' market. shop from marker -- local vendors. engage in free diy craft sessions and grab lunch representing cuisine from around the world. [♪] >> we offer 60 varieties of organic fruit and 30 varieties of conventional. one of our best sellers so sellers is our manager in. it is super sweet. we sell 600 pounds a week. one of the things they like about the market as i get to see my regulars on a weekly basis. i get to meet their families and kids and it is really good to be here. san francisco won my heart. >> one of our vegetables that is very popular is kale. a lot of people go for dino kale our mission is to make sure we have access for everybody to get organic foods, no matter your financial status. >> we make greeting cards, invitations, enamel pins, and we do workshops. i am participating in this market because it is a great opportunity for local makers to sell to a really diverse community of people in san francisco. >> they partnered with the market here and invited us to come out and reach out to the public. we are going to do a full event of workshops where you get to arrange your own bouquet. we will teach you all the tricks and techniques and you will be able to take home a bouquet of your own. you. [♪] >> we really are wanting to bring opportunities to the community to introduce these local makers to a larger audience. >> this is my own pakistani recipe. it goes with rice, chicken, lamb we have a very delicious drink. we have a lots of variety of foods. [♪] >> we do lots of different curries. we do three different types of wontons. >> spring rolls, too. that's right. >> it is really great they are bringing out local artists from around the city to participate and really help us making our business more successful. (clapping). >> when you cast our vote in an election in san francisco you might kaflt your vote at city hall or choose to vote by mail ever wonder what happens after you cast our vote what's the process for tal vote in san francisco and how is your vote counted let's follow our ballot when you tall a certified by the department of elections first, we'll look at what happens to our vote another a polling place when you cast your vote it is set into a system called on in sight it read our ballot and the data is soared on a memory cartridge it is based in denver, colorado provides san francisco with high sail balance scared and software to count the votes when the poll is closed the memory card is removed by the inspector cartridge is sponsored are stored in a anti static bag and a san francisco parking control officer takes official custody to deliver to city hall the custody of the actual completed ballot is transferred to deputy sheriff it verifies delivers them to pier 48 managed i the election on election night pier 48 is a hub of activity bringing the ballots to poll line up audits to delivery to the team it's a long night for those election employees staffer unpack and sort of all the ballot bags and i account for the ballots and dropped off at polling places and from the machines the inside ballots a counted to verify the total ballet for the polling places more to do with the ballots and we'll get back to them a little bit later meanwhile at systematically city hall the department of elections sets up a gone night only uploading center staffed by the employees and to transfer the memory cards by the parking 0 offices. >> on election night that he set up austin at city hall to process the votes and completely and accurately as possible in the bag it was placed on a reader that records the summary next the carriages are unpacked and checked in by our staff then the carriages with a vote so for etch print are fed to into the right sideers by the memory software is he see the vote by a line that is in the department rooms tabulations back at the polling place on election day you might cast our veto using the edge voting machine a bilingual that allows the voters with limited vision or other disabilities to have access to the ballot their recorded on a paper printout and stored in the edge machine. >> i also need the edge printer. >> at the end of the election day a deputy sheriff take custody of the field container from each edge machine. >> you on have one edge printer; right? >> those deputies transfer the container with the plastic bottles and the departments warehouse on pier 48. >> the department of election staff opens the sealed container into every edge machine and reviews the printed record. >> here at the department warehouse teams of two people roach the edge printer material and check and recheck if the votes are recorded a team have to people puts it onto a blank perspective and two different people confirm the votes and correct any errors all the edge printer are hyphenated their transferred to the deputy sheriff and the department employees transfer those ballots to city hall and feed into the machine for counting that way all the votes cast on the edge machine are included in the election tally. >> voters are encouraged to vote at they're assigned voting place people that cast in other marathon their ballet place their plaid in a special envelope to be verified verification is checking to see if the voter is registered in san francisco if they are their votes are count for where their registered more than 60 percent of san franciscans cast their vote by mail ballets cast at city hall have also process as vote by mail process brother you receive our ballot in the mail it has to be received and sort of by the u.s. post office the largest may progressing facility in san francisco though it is get i quite a large operation about 5 hundred employees throughout 3 shifts that runs 24/7365 today what we have all the day when the city of chicago have arrived and they'll be processed for delivery so over here a truck that has come in we're expecting about 2 hundred and 48 thousand ballots to come into the plant on 6 different trucks so for we've received 3 of the trucks as you can see there's a lot of mail here right now, we're getting ready to run the mail on a bar code softer and we but u put it into a sequence it is good for the ballot constituents. >> voters drop off 25 percent of the ballets at poll places at the end of the day custody is transferred to 0 deputy sheriff that transfers them to pier 48 at the pier battles are a collected the number of rushes is needed and quickly transported by two deputy sheriff's to city hall for process before any counting of any vote by mail can happen the voters signatures must be verified so first, the unopened vote by mail is run through scanner that takes a picture of the bar code and signatures the bar code identifies the voter and this information along with the voters signature is sent electronically to the voters place for verification while here in voter services we check the signature on the ballet envelope with the signature on the voters fill the name predict and name is entered into 9 election system the staff reviews the information on file and visually compares the signature and we challenge the valid of the ballot if it is severed they've voted in this election and the official stamping of the ballots sent electronically back through the scanner envelopes radio run introduce the scanner again to sort of out any unverified ballets on the second scanner their sort of by predict voter services staff we proclaims every ballot to make sure that the voters are contract and their vote is counted. >> though accepted vote by mail used to be opened by hand now opened by a rapid extract machine it helped on the envelope on two sides and the machine that opens the flaps are recorded you can reach in and pick up the ballot it is probably twice as fast as a manual process and the wlalts is then scanned by a 4 hundred high-speed scanner that counts the votes on each ballot sadder at the same time employees schek the dominion sheet and compare it the scanner sometimes cannot read a ballot due to damage or light parking garages by vote their transferred by hand by a go person team those new ballets is run through the ascertain sea the votes are add to the final tabulation wonders where your ballet is you can consortium our battle ballot was received and check the constitutes and conform our vote better to be safe than sorry was ultimate counted using the tool at sfgov ballot.org. >> then we transfer the data from the skarnlz into this laptop and tabulate using the do night time software. >> on the severe those are transferred into the memory cartridges once the data is loaded on the laptop the service tabulates the vote we generate the veto and put 12 on the website and the report also includes a predict by predict breakdown of the polling places and by mail a one neighborhood district of votes and the neighborhood turn out report. >> we can take a lot of information about the election including one of the most popular broke down by party and continue to look forward to improvements. >> you'd think that is the ends of the story but still more work at pier 48 that needs to be done california election code requires one percent of the predicts that are chosen added random by an elected official the one percent manual tallied it their counted by hand here to the department of the warehouse 4 employees count them there are 3 steps first in each team won person called the vote and two people tall the votes that are called second to the tall people have the same results and finally the tallest are compared with the electronic vote. >> this one percent manual tall is one of the last steps in declaring the official result of the election from your home or neighborhood polling place to city hall by memory cartridge high speed up scanner or manually our vote is tab laid and the results end up printed and posted and declared certified by the department of election services monday, february 10, 2020. 2 the meeting is being called to order at 5:30 p.m. we thank media services and sfgov tv, it can be watched live. members of the public, please take this opportunity to silence your phones. public comment is limited to three minutes per speaker unless otherwise established by the presenting officer of the meeting. speakers are requested to state their names. speaker cards will help ensure proper spelling of the speak names. please place cards in the basket. additionally, there is a sign-in sheet on the table. please show the office of small business slide. >> welcome. it is our can you custody to me to begin and end -- it is our cuom

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