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With a potential vote on faculty layoffs looming, tensions are mounting among City College of San Francisco students, with a group accusing a gay trustee of calling the cops as they chanted outside his home Thursday a charge he strongly denied. Protesters who went to the residence of trustee Tom Temprano May 6 sent out a statement saying he called cops on students peacefully protesting. Not true, Temprano told the B.A.R. I wasn t even home, the trustee said May 7. I wouldn t call the police on peaceful protesters. Period. Temprano said he was working late at City Hall, where he serves as an aide to gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, when students protesting proposed layoffs showed up outside his Castro home. ....
Members of City College of San Francisco s extended community are speaking out about proposed layoffs that would lead to cuts in classes and programming. It is anticipated that the college s board of trustees will vote at its May 10 meeting to go forward with the plan. It already approved the sending of layoff notices to 163 faculty members and 34 administrators across 39 departments as a way of dealing with a projected deficit of $33 million. Now, the faculty union, the American Federation of Teachers Local 2121, and members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors are advocating the city provide emergency funding to the institution, which has struggled with budgetary problems for years. ....