So its never perfect but we work on it every day. I think we have a great team that strives to do the best thing. Weve encouraged a lot of new people to get involved in politics and government whether on the board of education or our city council which the majority of those people its the first elected office theyve ever held and i think you will see neem have a different view about Public Service as opposed to selfservice. Congratulations on election of mayor in jersey city. I taught at Jersey State College which is a different type of environment. Im a little concerned and a think history will bear this out. You have something in common with the governor of the state of new jersey action robert secretary of treasury under bill clinton and mayor bloomberg. All four of you came out of wall street. It doesnt make sense to me why a young aspiring wall Street Investment banker didnt list that he was an investment banker at Goldman Sacks Sanford Bernstein and its a very diversified city. T
And we should make highquality education a reality for all. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you very much. That concludes the debate for the evening. We ask you, as you leave, to take a look at the tables outside. They will be signing books. If you have an interest in speaking with them, please consider yourself invited. Thank you. We want to hear what you thought of the debate on our facebook page. The whole, i watched debate and questions from the audience. Not much new here. This debate should be about why uza hass free and dso been targeted. Cspan, Chris Christie answering questions at a town hall meeting on Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts. Also a lecturer at justins about new jersey ethics and the history of caution. Then democratic governors meetings with president obama and Vice President biden before the meeting in washington. Ther, another look at hat is so great about america . New jersey governor Chris Christie held a town hall meeting to answer questions and talk to
I think we get deemed in terms of the accjc because were not smooth, democracy is not smooth. You have arguments, you have debates, but at the end of the day you come out with an outcome that is justified. Were improving these accelerated skills courses so students who, yes, they did take three, four, five, six semesters to get out of basic skills. Now were going to hopefully see them get out of their basic skills courses a lot faster and that will lead to healthier outcomes. And so while were not perfect and i dont think any institution s we were at least trying to make an institution that is that has Educational Equity as well. But i also get back to the part that you cant have any student equity if you dont have access. There is no achievement to excel in the classroom. applause and, so, you know, the impact in terms of city college of San Francisco is you can demonstrate it. I would love to have an actual economic demonstration Economic Analysis of what that looks like. And id be v
Think that one service we might not need in terms of prioritization of resources is our real estate department. [laughter] i think we have a pretty good understanding of how valuable city college is in the altruistic part and the monetary part as well. And i dont think were for sale so i dont really need that applause i would just humbly request that we can, you know, shift the resources to other things other than our real estate. Thank you so much. I really appreciate this hearing and opportunity to speak. applause bravo. Thank you [speaker not understood]. Good afternoon, chair cohen, supervisors. Thank you for having us here and giving us space for this conversation. One of the sad things about losing our locally elected board is that there is now no formal public space for these kind of conversations to happen. It wont be happening at city college for the foreseeable future. And, so, the fact that you all have stepped up and provided the space i think is extremely important. I will
Their esl classes is just as important as a person thats getting their engineering degree or looking to transfer to u. C. Berkeley or to stanford. Those are our values. These Mission Statement might not have been to what they liked, but it was an expression of our values as san franciscans that we think everybody dunkelberg this should be a campus thats for everybody. And there were comments about our fiscal management that we have to say that city college is actually the First College [speaker not understood] to be the First College to return to prerecession revenues thanks to the parcel tax and prop 30, we were on track to get all the money that we lost back. So, i just wanted to clear some of that up first. The reason i believe that were partially here is this is a difference of our values. We believe that we love our Second Chance program. It is a program that helps ex offenders get out of the criminal Justice System return to city college, hopefully get their degree, and continue