good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to a special meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors neighborhood services and safety committee. my name is david campos. i am chair of the committee. we are joined today by supervisor norman yee and the supervisor eric mar is in route and will be here shortly. the clerk of the committee is derek evans and we also want to thank the following members of sfgov-tv staff who are covering the meeting today. bill dylan and mark bunch. mr. clerk, do we have any announcements? thank you, mr. chair. please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and copies of documents to be included in the legislative file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the march 25th, 2014 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. thank you very much. if you can please call the one item that we have on the agenda today. the item is the resolution urging state comm
populations. we ve been doing that by, you know, producing courses that engage at-risk students, students that are at-risk before they even start school by attracting immigrants to take our courses. and we ve been doing a really, really good job. we serve latin american latino studies serves around 20,000 students at city college. the diversity departments probably serve the students of color which probably represent 60 to 70% of the entire population of city college. so, this attack is forgetting the fact that the majority of the small departments are base their curriculum on grass root connectionses with the students. none of the small departments have received anything over the last 30 years for free. we fought for every single class that we teach. and it s not a fight where we receive money from the district to allow us to teach. it s fights that come from the bottom up. the department chair structure is exactly well suited for that kind of environment where we have a l
here. the elected representatives are removed, a manager makes decisions in the dark. and what we see in michigan isn t leading to better management, it is leading to worse management. we are seeing the signs of that here. some really poor management decisions have been made. the board of trustees left the district with the budget surplus of several million dollars in june. just a few weeks before they were removed last july. management has taken that budget surplus and squandered it and we are looking at a $23 million deficit, $23 million, because they have not done their job of student recruitment. this is a job that every publicly managed community college and school district does, universities do it, recruitment. they are not doing it. they are failing. they are also making bad management decisions in pay as student fees, supervisor campos mentioned. but pay raises. these pay raises have been given, double digit pay raises in the time of budget deficit, were made in viola
supervisor norman yee and the supervisor eric mar is in route and will be here shortly. the clerk of the committee is derek evans and we also want to thank the following members of sfgov-tv staff who are covering the meeting today. bill dylan and mark bunch. mr. clerk, do we have any announcements? thank you, mr. chair. please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and copies of documents to be included in the legislative file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the march 25th, 2014 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. thank you very much. if you can please call the one item that we have on the agenda today. the item is the resolution urging state community college chancellor brice harris to restore the voice of san francisco voters and bring democratic decision-making, transparency, and public accountability back to city college of san francisco by restoring the duly elect
that the value of city college are included in that, diversity, lifelong learning and education as a human right. so, the administration is trying to release a draft plan in mid april. at the hearing yesterday, at the meeting, they did not say there would be holding any more meetings. at the very last minute the chancellor said that they would start holding more in-public sessions. but i think we he need to continue to push the administration to do what s right and actually hear more input from the community that has not been included in this plan. thank you. thank you very much. next speaker. (applause) and the next speaker who can speak in chinese can get a little more extra time so i can translate. you get to have a little more time. [speaking through interpreter] my name is vincent why you. i m originally from china and i m a city college student and i currently take classes in the esl department and also taking a beginner tai chi class. ~ so, i m learning english