the county is urging citizens to eat only at restaurants for an orange check. if you see any violations anywhere about anything, report them to scc covid concerns website. i know we are talking a lot but this is not anything we can do alone but we are asking everybody in the community to get a little more, digging a little longer and get us across the finish line. connor watson is okay with dialing back thanksgiving. they are going to be more safe and it will be better for us. they have levied $600,000 worth of fines against violators. trustee dr. cody has an elderly mother, she says she s going to bring her outside , wrap her up in blankets and i m going to eat thanksgiving together feet apart. we brought to the santa clara county update live here are the latest headlines for you, the state reported within 7200 new cases, which is higher than the seven day average of 5800. the positivity rate now nearly 4%, hospitalization icu rates also up nearly 30% over the last 14 da
you ve heard and some of it is true and some is the perspective. unfortunately, the real truth from my perspective, we just don t have enough money and some of the reason we don t have enough money suspect the fault of anyone in this room. it s an personal tragedy. american tragedy because we do not fund our schools properly. and i m going to go out in the reservation and say being a black woman, that s america. education wasn t for everybody. so when you get to there, it becomes an in-here thing. what am i going to do about it? because i m not blaming a lot of these people that are here. what am i going to do about it, because i do believe in a very inclusive city college. i need my day classings. classe. i need my evening classes. i need my online classes because i went to peralto. i went at night because i spent my early adulthood working in the family business. there wasn t a certificate that you couldn t get in three semesters and you had your little form and it s like y
i did not know that was a possibility. thank you so much. thank you. please support us, thank you. thank you. next speaker, please. hi, thank you for being here and taking the time to hear us speak. my name is mona. i live in a vehicle in order to live in sf in the i want as an musician and artist. chancellor roca said chances ae being cut but not courses but this is an untrue statement. music harmony classes 3a and 3b, the classes that directly follow musicianship a were offered. i verified this by looking at historical class offerings. in the new fall 20 2019 schedule neither are offered and 5a is offered. that was last offered in the fall of 2017 in addition to music 3a, not in place of it. asking students like me who took music 1a if the spring of 2019 to all of a sudden jump to music 5a is like asking a student who completed elementary algebra to take calculous. it s unreasonable and unacceptable. one of my fellow 1a students think it may have been a mistake to t
college the bridge. if you were k-12, that was the bridge you would walk across to get to state or uc. if you were not a native, city college was the bridge you would walk across to be able to have your esl and become an entrepreneur or do whatever your american dream was. if you were already an employee of the city and county, and i think sometimes that s how come sciu has a little bit different perspective, because we represent so many people, so if you were just a worker in the city and county, city college was going to be the bridge that you maintained your certificate, you got retrained, go got the training you told your boss you had when you really didn t. [ laughter ] you know, all of the that. it was a very wide scope of who we served and who we desired to serve. that was the city this is a city college i m standing here for. that has not changed for me. certain people s desires and agendas, i don t care about that. i care about city college because when i was out
little san francisco, especially values music and the arts. classes are being cut, not just sections and students are being permanently affected. these cuts won t heal. thank you. thank you, next speaker, please. hello. i m connor watson and at sfsu, i fell in love by organizing. i want to impact my community and build a career and empowering franchise. but when i was junior in 2017, a year away from a bachelors in political science, i lost my financial aid and i had no recourse but to drop out. i started working full-time to make ends meet, balancing two or three part-time job because in my experience no one offers a salary to a 22-year-old college drop-out. my rent consumes well over my income and consistently food insecure. i m unable to make student loan payments and watch my credit score drop. free city college gave me a first glimpse of help towards regaining my financial stability. despite the workweek, i enrolled to finish my two ge classes to finish an social s d