[20:40] >> this meeting will come to order.
[20:44] meeting will come to order.
[20:47] is student trustee heather brandt
[20:49] logged in as a panelist?
[20:53] okay.
[20:54] ms. Esteban, will you please call the
[20:55] roll starting with student trustee
[20:57] heather brandt when she comes and with
[20:59] the other trustees who are here.
[21:04] >> student trustee brandt?
[21:15] president anita martinez?
[21:16] >> here.
[21:18] >> vice president luis zamora?
[21:21] >> here
[21:22] >> trustee chisti?
[21:23] >> present.
[21:24] >> trustee wong?
[21:25] >> trustee solomon?
[21:26] >> here.
[21:27] >> trustee chung?
[21:28] trustee mccarty?
[21:29] >> here.
[21:30] >> student trustee brandt?
[21:35] you have a quorum.
[21:37] >> thank you very much.
[21:40] we start with the land acknowledgment
[21:48] statement.
[22:07] >> [inaudible].
[22:08] >> thank you.
[22:10] is there a way to send a message or to
[22:13] put something on screen so they can
[22:14] can see that there's a technical issue
[22:17] and that we're fixing it and in a script
[22:22] rather than in announcement?
[22:57] >> [inaudible].
[22:58] >> thank you, in the meantime, let me
[23:00] acknowledge that we couldn't do
[23:02] anything, we couldn't have this
[23:03] meeting if it weren't for our
[23:06] classified professionals.
[23:07] we couldn't do much at this college
[23:10] without our classified professionals.
[23:12] so, we are truly grateful for them and
[23:14] appreciate all the work that they do.
[23:15] we're set.
[23:16] thank you.
[23:24] [applause].
[23:28] student trustee brandt has now joined
[23:29] and I would like to acknowledge her
[23:33] presence.
[23:34] today we have a special land
[23:38] acknowledgment statement.
[23:41] sarah moncada the instructor of
[23:43] our first native american indigenous
[23:49] studies course niis38, introduction to
[23:53] indigenous studies will assist in this
[23:55] part of our agenda.
[23:57] we celebrate this new course and thank
[24:00] its first teacher because with this
[24:03] course, city college fully honors
[24:05] first peoples and more completely
[24:07] fills our college's commitment to
[24:09] diversity, equity and inclusion.
[24:16] adolfo velasquez will therefore read
[24:18] the land acknowledgment statement and
[24:23] ms. Moncada will speak after.
[24:28] will you step up to the microphone,
[24:32] please.
[24:36] >> testing.
[24:49] "we acknowledge that we are on the
[24:50] unceded ancestral homeland of the
[24:51] ramaytush ohlone who are the original
[24:52] inhabitants of the san francisco
[24:53] peninsula, as the indigenous stewards
[24:54] of this land and in accordance with
[24:55] their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone
[24:56] have never ceded, lost nor forgotten
[24:57] their responsibilities as the
[24:58] caretakers of this place, as well as
[24:59] for all peoples who reside in their
[25:00] traditional territory, as guests, we
[25:01] recognize that we benefit from living
[25:02] and working on their traditional
[25:03] homeland, we wish to pay our respects
[25:04] by acknowledging the ancestors, elders
[25:05] and relatives of the ramaytush
[25:06] community and by affirming their
[25:07] sovereign rights as first peoples."
[25:22] >> thank you.
[25:23] ms. Moncada?
[25:28] >> [inaudible].
[25:44] thank you very much for having me, any
[25:47] name is sarah moncada, I carry apache
[25:53] ancestry and [inaudible] ancestry on
[25:55] my mother's side, I'm honored to dance
[25:58] with these circles with you all today.
[26:00] I come mere as a good guest so that
[26:03] should you have an opportunity to
[26:06] visit my territories, you will have an
[26:09] opportunity to be a good guest in
[26:10] return.
[26:11] I want to thank you all for the
[26:12] opportunity to stand on shoulders of
[26:15] many people who have come together to
[26:20] create an engaged action, the
[26:22] commitment beyond the words to open up
[26:25] to native american studies and enrich
[26:27] and deepen your commitment to ethnic
[26:29] studies and what it means to broaden
[26:33] our awareness, understanding and deep
[26:36] relationship and responsibility
[26:37] together as human beings.
[26:38] thank you for the opportunity to teach
[26:41] its first course, it was really,
[26:43] really wonderful.
[26:44] we had really, really good
[26:47] conversations with really good minds
[26:49] and hearts in the room.
[26:51] I look forward to the opportunity to
[26:54] continue that work should that
[26:55] continue and for the opportunity to
[26:57] share it all with you more.
[26:59] you're all welcome to come to the
[27:02] class.
[27:03] thank you very much in a time when we
[27:05] feel constriction and walls and
[27:07] barriers coming up around the
[27:08] potentials that we have in our
[27:12] continued education and higher
[27:13] education arenas, it's wouldn't to see
[27:15] the ongoing commitment to rather than
[27:17] seeing the barriers dancing through
[27:19] possibilities.
[27:20] so, thank you.
[27:22] >> thank you very much.
[27:26] [applause].
[27:30] we now turn to honors and recognition
[27:35] and the first honors and recognition
[27:38] item is letter a, recognition of
[27:42] engineering club 2025 solar regatta
[27:45] victory.
[27:48] could we have the teacher step up to
[27:51] the microphone.
[27:52] >> yeah, I think we have --
[27:56] >> thank you.
[27:57] >> good afternoon, my name is keith
[28:00] mueller, I'm the advisor of ccsf's
[28:03] engineering club.
[28:04] we're one of oldest clubs on campus.
[28:08] we started as an advisor, I was
[28:10] advisor back in 2006 and we've been
[28:17] continuing on basically ever since.
[28:19] we live in the basement of the
[28:20] engineering club -- I mean the science
[28:21] building, I forgot.
[28:23] the science building, occasionally we go
[28:26] out and play and we like to
[28:27] go out and build things and we do
[28:30] enjoy going to different events in
[28:32] order to show off engineering projects
[28:37] and also robo games, something we've
[28:42] been doing for the past 8, 9 years
[28:45] which is the california solar regatta
[28:47] as you can see on the screen up above.
[28:50] what the solar regatta is, is
[28:54] basically a race between solar powered
[28:58] boats on a lake up near sacramento
[29:02] which espouses solar power, promotes
[29:03] it and it is something for colleges to
[29:06] compete against and so there are a
[29:08] number of colleges that enter the
[29:09] event, there is a speed competition,
[29:12] there is a slalom xe ising, endurance
[29:17] competition and presentation and we
[29:18] have been competing in this event
[29:20] for many years.
[29:21] to explain a little bit more about how
[29:22] we did this year, what was our theme
[29:25] are year and how we did if the overall
[29:27] events and would we compete against,
[29:29] I'm going to present the current
[29:30] president of the engineering club,
[29:34] aiden, so aiden?
[29:38] [applause].
[29:39] >> thank you.
[29:42] so, as he said, we have a theme and
[29:45] we've been doing this for a long time
[29:46] so we have fun with our themes.
[29:48] this year we wanted something iconic
[29:50] so as most of you can tell, we did
[29:54] lego.
[29:55] it was fun to design our boat to make
[29:57] it look like a lego boat, but yeah, as
[30:02] for our performance this year, as you
[30:04] mentioned, the three are a sprint, a
[30:06] slalom and endurance, our sprin,
[30:08] with came in first place again, we did
[30:12] that last year as well.
[30:13] that got us one of our trophies,
[30:17] another thing that we got a
[30:22] trophy was for our drive train,
[30:27] e we did well enough where they gave
[30:29] us a trophy for that,
[30:34] another one slalom, we have a
[30:36] boat that excels at slalom, we got
[30:38] first place in that, we beat second
[30:42] place by a goaded 15 seconds.
[30:45] we did really well on that one.
[30:48] the endurance one, we did come in
[30:50] second, that is mostly not due to us,
[30:52] that's because our batteries decided
[30:54] to not work twice.
[30:57] so, we ended up accidentally burning a
[31:00] battery.
[31:01] so, we did not get one for that but
[31:06] other parts -- other non-racing items
[31:09] are scored and ranked.
[31:11] one of them we did well on this year
[31:14] was art theming, we made our boat look
[31:16] like a lego boat so we got yet another
[31:21] one.
[31:22] I can't even -- and another one that
[31:25] we always do pretty poorly on, this
[31:28] year we decided to do again, put a
[31:30] little bit of effort was
[31:32] sustainability, so we did a lifetime
[31:35] impact analysis of our boat to see
[31:38] what was -- how good it was and they
[31:41] appreciated the effort.
[31:42] so, we got these as well as -- because
[31:45] we got all of these, we ended up
[31:47] winning the total overall regatta so
[31:50] we got another one.
[31:56] [applause].
[32:00] as you can see, that's a photo of our
[32:02] boat, we're kind of standing in the
[32:04] way of it, but that is our boat we got
[32:08] all of these trophies and as you
[32:12] can see, we're running out of space
[32:15] out here.
[32:17] that leaded me to one issue, mueller
[32:19] will talk about it.
[32:20] yes.
[32:21] >> we did a new display case.
[32:23] we now have 36 trophies, we have won
[32:27] this event 6 out of 8 times now.
[32:31] we are maybe the best and it's kind of
[32:37] -- I guess it's good but it's also
[32:40] pretty brutal.
[32:41] so, we just wanted to thank you for
[32:45] entertaining us and bingeing with us
[32:46] today and we wanted to show these
[32:50] trophies with you, since we are so
[32:52] famous, you may take a picture with us.
[32:54] we hope you can join us in a photo
[32:57] with our trophies here, thank you.
[33:01] [applause].
[33:02] >> and I am referring the request for
[33:08] a bigger display case or another --
[33:10] acting chancellor cooper wilkins.
[33:13] >> come on, guys, let's get -- I think
[33:19] we've done it over there.
[33:23] yeah.
[33:24] ( taking photograph ).
[35:12] [applause].
[35:52] >> the meeting will come back to
[35:56] order.
[35:57] acting chancellor cooper wilkins, can
[35:58] you present the next honors and
[36:01] recognition?
[36:04] >> yes, so we do have a recognition of
[36:11] shella cervantes, she received the
[36:13] honor of the 2025 academic senate of
[36:17] california community colleges' regina
[36:20] stanback stroud diversity award and I
[36:21] know it was short notice.
[36:22] I'm not sure if current academic
[36:25] senate president katia fuchs would
[36:28] like to come forward and be a part of
[36:31] making that presentation.
[36:32] >> I would never pass up an
[36:38] opportunity to celebrate shella, thank
[36:40] you, dr. Cooper wilkins for the
[36:44] introduction, I'm katia fuchs and the
[36:47] freshly minted academic senate
[36:49] president.
[36:50] a little bit of the regina stanback
[36:55] stroud award, so as educators, our
[36:57] challenge is to help as many of our
[37:00] students as possible reach their
[37:01] personal and academic goals.
[37:05] the regina stanback stroud testy award
[37:08] gives public recognition to the value
[37:09] the community college places on equity
[37:12] and diversity.
[37:13] this award seeks to publicly
[37:15] acknowledge a member of the faculty
[37:17] who consistently demonstrates
[37:18] commitment to the equity and diversity
[37:21] goals of the college.
[37:23] it recognizes the individual who
[37:24] performs in an exceptional manner to
[37:28] advance intercultural harmony, equity
[37:30] and campus diversity by making
[37:32] exceptional contributions to the
[37:34] college beyond their usual obligations
[37:37] and you couldn't do any better than to
[37:40] give this award to the amazing shella
[37:43] cervantes who is here with us and
[37:46] shella, I hand it over to you.
[37:53] >> I have two faculty that really want
[37:55] o the say something.
[37:57] I'm going to put a pause on that.
[38:02] >> hi, alyssa messier, I am also in
[38:05] women's and genders study ask here
[38:08] with leslie simon from omens and
[38:11] gender studies ask we want to be here
[38:13] the celebrate shella and their amazing
[38:15] work for our students and the college
[38:17] and since katia so kindly gave a
[38:19] presentation about the award, I will
[38:21] leave it to that and pass it to leslie.
[38:24] >> just a few words.
[38:26] shella was a student of mine so I'm
[38:28] very happy today.
[38:31] brilliant, creative, compassionate and
[38:33] I want to stay with compassion and I'm
[38:35] going to be a little sentimental, it
[38:39] was khai who said revolutionary is
[38:42] guided by love, she opens many hearts
[38:46] the many spaces, she deserves it more
[38:48] than anyone that I know, she openers
[38:50] my heart and brings people together
[38:51] and we are so lucky to have her at
[38:53] this college.
[38:57] [applause].
[39:00] >> so, I'm very glad to that have
[39:03] really great introduction.
[39:04] I'm going share with you some
[39:07] reflections on the stanback stroud
[39:09] award, if you didn't watch the video,
[39:13] it happened on my birthday, that was
[39:15] cool, the regina stanback stroud award
[39:19] describes the award -- so, regina
[39:22] stanback stroud stories the award as
[39:24] call to action and that those who are
[39:26] honored by it embody excellence and
[39:28] equity as well as make rigor
[39:33] inseparable from justice, regina
[39:35] stanback stroud in honoring me
[39:37] launched the african american
[39:40] resource center as a supported
[39:42] resource center and championing that
[39:44] the african american resource sent and
[39:45] her the women's resource center both
[39:47] be housed in the new student success
[39:49] building.
[39:51] she highlighted the importance of
[39:54] advancing facilities justice for
[39:55] students of color across cam pus and
[39:58] that equity minded facilities planning
[40:01] understands that environments are one
[40:02] of the conditions that make a
[40:05] significant impact on student success.
[40:07] what that actually looked like was
[40:10] mentoring faculty and students alike
[40:12] as well as truly listening to students
[40:14] when they did not have someone to go
[40:16] to.
[40:17] or when no one else was listening.
[40:19] when I think of this, this gives me
[40:22] unease because what I thought was one
[40:25] for students is yet again unfinished,
[40:30] contentious business.
[40:31] I think the part that many may have
[40:33] not taken into consideration in all
[40:35] the accomplishments that are being
[40:37] celebrated right now for me is that
[40:39] I'm a part timer and the many things
[40:42] that I'm being celebrated for were not
[40:46] mine to carry.
[40:48] as a part timer, my role, my
[40:50] influence, my time is limited.
[40:52] I know there is little chance my
[40:54] position will ever change despite the
[40:56] need for it.
[40:57] and yet at this moment and for as long
[41:00] as I've been here, I choose to give
[41:02] more and be more.
[41:05] who I am here at the college is
[41:09] inspired by measuring love and the
[41:12] journey for justice, a brown paper by
[41:15] shelley tang and sammy nunez,
[41:19] they share transformative and
[41:22] catalytic love, self-love, love other,
[41:24] love as a community practice and
[41:27] lastly love infused with power.
[41:32] as city of college of san francisco
[41:36] transforms yet bargaining I transform
[41:40] of catalytic love and I now call on
[41:42] others to do so as well.
[41:43] thank you.
[41:47] [applause].
[41:58] >> congratulations, it was my
[42:00] privilege to serve on the academic at
[42:03] the same time as regina stanback
[42:06] stroud, the statewide senate and I got
[42:08] to know her there.
[42:10] then I had the opportunity to know her
[42:12] once again when she was vice-president
[42:15] of instruction at skyline college and
[42:18] she recommended my hire as the dean of
[42:24] language arts and it was a wonderful
[42:26] opportunity to work with her.
[42:27] so, I know who she is and I know that
[42:29] you justly deserve this award, so
[42:31] thank you very much for all of your
[42:33] work and your enthusiasm and your
[42:38] love.
[42:39] trustee chung?
[42:40] >> and I can't pass off the
[42:43] opportunity to talk about your impact
[42:47] on my life.
[42:48] when I was a project survive mentor, I
[42:55] have lived through what it's like to
[42:59] have you guide me through a really
[43:01] difficult time in my life and empower
[43:04] me and I've seen you in that space and
[43:08] I'm so -- you are so deserving of this
[43:10] award, so thank you, shella, for being
[43:12] at this college and continuing to give
[43:16] into it.
[43:18] >> comments from other trustees?
[43:22] well, thank you very, very much, and
[43:24] find a nice place to put that award.
[43:30] [applause].
[43:35] >> we move to item 4, closed session.
[43:38] first we need the approval of the
[43:41] closed session agenda.
[43:42] who moves to approve?
[43:47] >> so moved.
[43:48] >> trustee solomon moves to the
[43:49] approve.
[43:50] who seconds?
[43:51] >> second.
[43:53] >> second from vice-president zamora.
[43:55] could we have a roll call vote, please.
[43:57] >> student trustee brandt, your
[43:58] advisory vote?
[44:10] president martinez?
[44:11] >> yes.
[44:12] >> vice-president zamora?
[44:13] >> aye.
[44:15] >> trustee chisti?
[44:16] >> aye.
[44:17] >> trustee solomon?
[44:18] >> aye.
[44:19] >> trustee chung?
[44:20] >> aye.
[44:21] >> trustee mccarty?
[44:22] >> aye.
[44:23] >> the motion passes.
[44:24] >> thank you.
[44:25] we will recess to closed session and
[44:28] we will reconvene back here at 6:00
[44:32] p.m., thank you.
[44:38] ( meeting recesses to closed session ).
[44:48] ( meeting will reconvene at 6:00 ).
[2:19:15] >> we have taken a brief recess from
[2:19:17] closed session.
[2:19:20] no reportable actions have been taken.
[2:19:21] we would like to take public comment
[2:19:23] on the closed session agenda items now.
[2:19:26] is there any public comment on the
[2:19:29] closed session agendas?
[2:19:30] >> we don't have any.
[2:19:33] >> 6a.
[2:19:36] >> we have a lot.
[2:19:39] first is angelica campos.
[2:19:50] >> alright, I was not expected it to
[2:19:52] be that soon.
[2:19:55] hi, good evening, afternoon, board,
[2:19:56] sorry, I am on the east coast so
[2:19:59] it's a bit confusing.
[2:20:01] I'm here tonight to speak to you all
[2:20:03] in support of dr. Cortez, I as an
[2:20:09] incoming student leader, student
[2:20:13] trustee elect believe we do need to
[2:20:16] support our college by approving dr.
[2:20:18] cortez as the new chancellor.
[2:20:20] I think again it's really important we
[2:20:22] also support queer and latin voices
[2:20:29] in the current climate we live in where
[2:20:33] united states where queer latinx
[2:20:37] individuals are under attack and I'm
[2:20:39] disappointed in things I'm seeing in
[2:20:43] the media targeting this person, it is
[2:20:45] unfair and I believe dr. Cortez will
[2:20:47] be something that will help push our
[2:20:50] college forward into a better future.
[2:20:51] thank you.
[2:20:56] >> next is eddie escota.
[2:21:19] next is luis miranda.
[2:21:35] next is malinalli villalobos.
[2:21:47] >> can you all hear me?
[2:21:50] >> yes.
[2:21:51] >> okay.
[2:21:54] let me see, I'm trying to turn my
[2:21:57] camera on, there is no camera.
[2:21:59] alright.
[2:22:00] okay, here we go.
[2:22:03] saludos, good evening, my name is
[2:22:06] malinalli villalobos, I serve as
[2:22:07] student chancellor, I'm here tonight
[2:22:09] to speak in strong support of approving
[2:22:13] the chancellor employment contract
[2:22:15] with carlos cortez, as student, we
[2:22:18] know firsthand the importance of
[2:22:20] consistent visionary leadership,
[2:22:21] someone who understands the challenges
[2:22:22] we face and the potential of what ccsf
[2:22:25] can become.
[2:22:27] dr. Cortez brings leadership in the
[2:22:30] california community college system, a
[2:22:32] deep commitment to equity, a strong
[2:22:34] understanding of the unique needs of
[2:22:37] diverse student population like ours.
[2:22:39] he has spooned stabilize budgets while
[2:22:42] expanding access which is something
[2:22:44] ccsf critically needs.
[2:22:47] he's also someone who listens to
[2:22:49] student, faculty, to classified
[2:22:51] professionals including community
[2:22:52] overall.
[2:22:53] right now ccsf needs a steady hand and
[2:22:55] a bold vision, we cannot afford more
[2:22:57] turn over in leadership.
[2:22:59] every delay affects students.
[2:23:01] our classes, our services, our future.
[2:23:03] approving this crack is not just about
[2:23:06] filling a position, it's about giving
[2:23:08] cshs csf the stability and [inaudible]
[2:23:11] it needs to thrive.
[2:23:12] as student chancellor, I urge you to
[2:23:14] move forward with confidence and
[2:23:16] approve the employment contract with
[2:23:18] dr. Cortez, let's give him a chance to
[2:23:21] lead ccsf in a stronger, more
[2:23:23] sustainable future and one last thing
[2:23:25] that I want to add about dr. Cortez,
[2:23:29] when we had the pleasure of having to
[2:23:32] give him a tour of our campuses and a
[2:23:36] can couple of our centers, he was
[2:23:38] engaging with students and really
[2:23:39] wanted the student input.
[2:23:41] students at the forefront, that's what
[2:23:44] we need, leadership with students a
[2:23:45] the forefront.
[2:23:46] advocating for the
[2:23:48] approval of dr. Carlos cortez's
[2:23:51] contract, thank you very much.
[2:23:55] >> next is mary bravewoman.
[2:24:04] >> good wantoning, trustees, I've
[2:24:06] been at city college for 35 years and
[2:24:07] I have experienced every high and
[2:24:10] low ccsf has been through since 1990.
[2:24:12] and this is just one of the reasons
[2:24:14] that I was so thrilled to read the
[2:24:16] press release announcing the
[2:24:17] appointment of dr. Carlos cortez as
[2:24:19] our next chancellor.
[2:24:20] I had the honor of serving on the
[2:24:22] hiring committee and reviewed all the
[2:24:25] c vehicles of a broadly talented pool
[2:24:27] of am kant but for me, one candidate
[2:24:30] stood out among the others, dr.
[2:24:32] cortez, now I'm not naive enough to
[2:24:34] believe that one person holds all the
[2:24:36] answers to the struggles we face as a
[2:24:38] college community but the reality is
[2:24:40] that we're in better shape than we
[2:24:43] have been for some time despite the
[2:24:46] narratives currently circulating.
[2:24:47] but I am hopeful that with the
[2:24:49] appointment of an experienced
[2:24:51] permanent chancellor, one with a
[2:24:53] proven track record of putting into
[2:24:55] practice policies and practice that
[2:24:57] reflect the values of ccsf and their
[2:25:00] community, we can embark on positive
[2:25:02] change for our college.
[2:25:04] thank you, trustees, for making the
[2:25:06] right choice for our college and our
[2:25:08] community and for standing strong in
[2:25:10] your values and not giving into the
[2:25:14] trump dog whistles recently traded by
[2:25:22] the press of a talented queer
[2:25:24] educator, thank you.
[2:25:27] >> next is asia duncan.
[2:25:39] >> good evening, trustees.
[2:25:41] my name is asia and I'm one the harvey
[2:25:47] milk democratic clubbing I'm the v.p.
[2:25:49] of the political action committee and
[2:25:51] I'm here to voice my support for dr.
[2:25:54] cortez as your next chancellor.
[2:25:58] dr. Cortez is not only an accomplished
[2:26:01] educator with a record of strong
[2:26:03] leadership, he is a visionary who
[2:26:06] understands the power of community
[2:26:11] colleges as an engine of justice,
[2:26:13] access and upward mobility for working
[2:26:16] class students,
[2:26:18] immigrants and lgbtq folks.
[2:26:22] I believe city college deserves as
[2:26:25] bold leader rooted in justice and I
[2:26:28] believe dr. Cortez is that leader and
[2:26:29] I urge you to move forward with
[2:26:33] integrity and a vision of the future
[2:26:35] to appoint dr. Cortez as your next
[2:26:38] chancellor.
[2:26:39] thank you the.
[2:26:43] >> next is leslie simon.
[2:26:56] >> good evening, trustees, vice
[2:27:03] chancellors, I enthusiastically
[2:27:04] support hiring dr. Cortez, I want to
[2:27:07] address the chronicle's reapportioning
[2:27:10] of cortez's invitation to [inaudible]
[2:27:15] as a former ccsf omens and genders
[2:27:20] studies chair and women in literature,
[2:27:22] I'm familiar with the highly respected
[2:27:26] poetry fiction of alice walker, I had
[2:27:31] not learned that she had an affinity
[2:27:33] with a known anti-semite which shocked
[2:27:37] and disturbed me.
[2:27:39] that year an invitation with walker
[2:27:42] was withdrawn when the association
[2:27:44] became known.
[2:27:46] I am jewish and among my jewish
[2:27:48] friends, there were mixed feelings
[2:27:52] about the disinvitation, though even
[2:27:55] among those of us who thought she
[2:27:56] should be welcomed, there was the
[2:27:57] understanding her recommendation of
[2:27:58] the work of an anti-semite was
[2:28:00] disturbing.
[2:28:01] it is sad that so much is being made
[2:28:03] of dr. Cortez's invitation to walker
[2:28:06] also in 2022 which he subsequently
[2:28:11] withdrew, walker's ex-husband a jew,
[2:28:13] insists walker is not an anti-semite
[2:28:16] herself.
[2:28:17] even if she were, I ask you to think
[2:28:20] about how english departments teach
[2:28:21] the work of ts elliott, a known
[2:28:25] anti-semite and a nazi
[2:28:28] sympathizer, some of our greater
[2:28:31] artist, writers and thinkers are
[2:28:34] flawed, as we teach their work,
[2:28:35] we have a responsibility to
[2:28:37] share those flaws and allow our
[2:28:38] students to make their own assessments.
[2:28:43] censorship is ill advised, criticism
[2:28:44] is not.
[2:28:45] I look forward to welcoming carlos
[2:28:49] cortez, a respected academic who I
[2:28:53] believe will enrich the college and
[2:28:55] will enrich challenging conversations.
[2:28:59] >> next is robin pew.
[2:29:07] >> hello, I'm robin pew, I'm business
[2:29:11] faculty, the vice-president of aft 2121,
[2:29:15] the a member of the academic executive
[2:29:18] council, a voter in district 7, but
[2:29:21] I'm here speaking to you today as
[2:29:25] myself.
[2:29:26] this institution exists to serve
[2:29:27] students and this community.
[2:29:30] this institution does not exist to
[2:29:31] serve me as faculty, this institution
[2:29:34] does not exist to serve you as
[2:29:37] trustees.
[2:29:38] instead, we are all here to serve this
[2:29:41] institution and its mission.
[2:29:44] and this very large incredibly
[2:29:49] complex, beautiful, ugly falling down
[2:29:52] brand new charging ahead, limping
[2:29:54] along institutions that are still
[2:29:57] recovering from external attacks that
[2:29:59] were weaponized to
[2:30:05] accreditation to shut us down, this
[2:30:08] needs leadership and carlos has that
[2:30:10] experience, he has a proven track
[2:30:12] record of creating programs and
[2:30:14] serving students like ours.
[2:30:16] he has both the successful large
[2:30:19] institution leadership experience that
[2:30:21] we desperately need and he has also
[2:30:23] been in the classroom which is an
[2:30:26] important combination and something we
[2:30:28] have been missing in our recent
[2:30:30] leadership.
[2:30:31] we are in a very challenging place
[2:30:32] right now.
[2:30:33] I don't have to tell you that, you
[2:30:35] know.
[2:30:36] and we need a proven leader with the
[2:30:38] creativity to seek the path between
[2:30:40] the rock and the hard place where we
[2:30:44] are, so I urge you to approve dr.
[2:30:47] carlos cortez for chancellor.
[2:30:48] thank you.
[2:30:51] [applause].
[2:30:52] >> next is jen levinson.
[2:31:01] >> good evening, my name is jen, I'm
[2:31:04] english faculty.
[2:31:06] I'm guessing that you may have read
[2:31:08] the recent article by nanette
[2:31:14] criticizing the board for your choice
[2:31:16] to hire carlos cortez as our next ccsf
[2:31:18] chancellor.
[2:31:19] I think by now we're all familiar with
[2:31:23] disingenuous anti-semitism claims
[2:31:24] weaponized in an attempt to divide
[2:31:28] and left in a justified state of
[2:31:30] oppression of movements for human
[2:31:31] rights.
[2:31:32] as a jewish person, I have said more
[2:31:34] times I can count in the past 19
[2:31:36] months, not in my name.
[2:31:38] this article also deploys common
[2:31:46] tropes, let not let the inflammatory
[2:31:51] attempt of character assassination to
[2:31:55] [inaudible] he has strategic planning
[2:32:00] that reduces disproportionate impact
[2:32:01] on the most marginalized student and
[2:32:03] is has secured the fund to implement
[2:32:05] those plans.
[2:32:06] in his interview, he talked about how
[2:32:08] at san diego community college I
[2:32:09] believe it was, he identified 7
[2:32:13] obstacles to student success, gathered
[2:32:15] from students themselves, housing,
[2:32:18] child care, jobs, transportation, food
[2:32:21] security, textbook affordability,
[2:32:23] mental health supporters.
[2:32:24] he raised over 200 million dollars to
[2:32:26] address those needs including 85
[2:32:28] million for housing and 100 million
[2:32:31] for direct student support.
[2:32:33] I'm incredibly heartened this board
[2:32:35] has found us a chancellor who I
[2:32:36] believe can lead the college with
[2:32:39] integrity in these times of rising
[2:32:41] fascism and make a real difference for
[2:32:44] students and the community.
[2:32:46] so, please stand firm in your choice.
[2:32:47] thank you.
[2:32:52] [applause].
[2:32:53] >> next is eric christians.
[2:33:01] >> I want to congratulate your
[2:33:04] decision to hire the new chancellor,
[2:33:06] you made an excellent choice, you have
[2:33:09] picketed somebody student centered
[2:33:10] hastening a prover track record and
[2:33:12] I'm speaking to somebody that's a
[2:33:15] returning adult to city college who's
[2:33:17] also queer, city college is now why
[2:33:19] I'm called doctor by my student, the
[2:33:21] doctorate was an organization
[2:33:24] leadership, I've taught leadership
[2:33:25] development at a graduate level.
[2:33:26] what I see in dr. Cortez is a
[2:33:29] leadership that we need to move
[2:33:31] forward, I see inspired leadership, I
[2:33:33] see the type of leadership I would use
[2:33:35] an example in those courses to my
[2:33:37] students to say this is somebody who
[2:33:39] can make a change, this is something
[2:33:44] body who has vision, the vision comes
[2:33:45] from listening to the to the people
[2:33:46] they serve, we need him and I thank
[2:33:48] you again for your choice.
[2:33:53] >> next is marlan vasquez.
[2:34:08] >> okay, good evening, board of trustees,
[2:34:11] my name is dr. Marlan vasquez,
[2:34:16] I'm an english faculty member and a
[2:34:18] leader of the latino education
[2:34:20] association here at city college,
[2:34:22] while others today have spoken to the
[2:34:24] recent article by nanette, I don't
[2:34:27] want to spend time on it, I'm heart
[2:34:30] broken that somebody leaked dr.
[2:34:35] cortez's to provoke that.
[2:34:42] it offered none of the complexity or
[2:34:45] depth that our community heard
[2:34:47] debiting from dr. Cortez during his
[2:34:49] extensive interviews.
[2:34:52] what he spoke about was thoughtful and
[2:34:54] forward looking, he staged about
[2:34:57] building strong pipelines from k-12 to
[2:34:59] community college.
[2:35:01] he talked about using on the ground
[2:35:04] data of centering leadership, that's
[2:35:06] the kind of vision that should guide
[2:35:09] this college, complex, student
[2:35:11] centered and rooted in care.
[2:35:12] as a latino educator and researcher of
[2:35:16] latino student experiences at city
[2:35:18] college, a hispanic serving
[2:35:20] institution, I must emphasize that our
[2:35:23] latino students are struggling.
[2:35:24] they make up 28% of our credit
[2:35:27] enrollment and for every 100 students,
[2:35:31] only 11 are completing their vision
[2:35:33] goal.
[2:35:34] we know from research including my own
[2:35:37] that representation matters.
[2:35:38] dr. Cortez is a first generation
[2:35:41] latino college student.
[2:35:43] his presence as chancellor would send
[2:35:46] a powerful message to our latino
[2:35:48] students that they belong, that they
[2:35:49] can lead and that education can
[2:35:52] transform their lives.
[2:35:53] at a time when so many of our students
[2:35:56] are navigating uncertainty, his
[2:35:57] leadership offers the kind of
[2:36:00] stability, understanding and bold
[2:36:01] vision that we urgently need.
[2:36:04] I'm excited to be in the audience
[2:36:05] today when the board of trustees votes
[2:36:07] him in.
[2:36:09] our students deserve this kind of
[2:36:11] leadership.
[2:36:12] thank you so much.
[2:36:17] [applause].
[2:36:18] >> next is melissa hernandez.
[2:36:28] >> hi, good evening, honorable
[2:36:31] trustees, my name is melissa, the
[2:36:34] co-president of the harvey milk
[2:36:37] democratic club, I'm here to lend my
[2:36:39] voice in support of the appointment of
[2:36:41] dr. Cortez.
[2:36:42] dr. Cortez is a respected chicano
[2:36:46] scholar, former community college leader
[2:36:47] and a fierce advocate for equity,
[2:36:51] reinvestment and academic freedom all
[2:36:53] of which makes city college special.
[2:36:56] I won't spend too much time singing
[2:36:59] his praises eh as I'm sure you heard a
[2:37:03] lot here today.
[2:37:06] I believe city college will continue
[2:37:09] to serve the city of san francisco,
[2:37:14] and also on a personal level, I think
[2:37:17] dr. Cortez will serve people like my
[2:37:20] little sister who is a full time
[2:37:24] student here and who has been for a
[2:37:26] few years and I hope you will
[2:37:29] support him.
[2:37:30] thank you.
[2:37:34] >> next is michael rapay.
[2:37:42] >> hello, good evening, president
[2:37:44] martinez and trustees, my name is
[2:37:47] michael, the co-vice-president of
[2:37:48] police cal affairs for latino
[2:37:51] democratic club here in san francisco.
[2:37:53] and I have to say how incredibly proud
[2:37:56] I am right now to be standing in front
[2:37:59] of you speaking in support of dr.
[2:38:03] cortez.
[2:38:04] at a time our community is so under
[2:38:07] attack right now, recently just
[2:38:09] yesterday, there were reports of ice
[2:38:11] attacking people.
[2:38:12] our communities are under attack, we
[2:38:15] need this visibility right now,
[2:38:16] particularly in leadership positions.
[2:38:18] I've been so moved by so many of the
[2:38:21] speakers before me, some things I venn
[2:38:23] learned about dr. Cortez that solidify
[2:38:26] my belief that this would be an
[2:38:28] excellent choice for city college.
[2:38:31] as former student, I took the ethnic
[2:38:35] and cultural minority studies I took
[2:38:39] lgbtq studies and these studies
[2:38:40] support my belief this would be the
[2:38:42] right direction, not only just by
[2:38:46] person alone but remember the
[2:38:48] chancellor has to have a vision that
[2:38:49] aligns with all of you and I believe
[2:38:51] that this is really the critical issue
[2:38:53] here and I hope you take that into
[2:38:56] consideration with your support and
[2:38:58] hopefully a vote yes.
[2:38:59] thank you so much.
[2:39:05] >> next is rosa shields.
[2:39:10] >> good evening, my name is rosa
[2:39:12] shields, I'm the political director of
[2:39:14] the san francisco labor council.
[2:39:16] we represent 100 unions and 100
[2:39:19] union members in the city and county
[2:39:21] of san francisco.
[2:39:22] I was also born and raised here in the
[2:39:24] city and I'm the proud daughter of a
[2:39:28] professor and department chair,
[2:39:29] retired, I experienced first hand the
[2:39:31] stress of the accreditation fight and
[2:39:34] how that affected my family.
[2:39:36] I would not wish that upon anyone.
[2:39:39] the fight for free city college was my
[2:39:42] entry into local politics and I
[2:39:43] would hope this board would support
[2:39:45] the needs of the unions, the community
[2:39:48] and the students who have worked so
[2:39:50] hard for equity and justice at this
[2:39:54] institution.
[2:39:55] the chronicle article smearing carlos
[2:39:57] cortez was an attack on labor, this is
[2:39:59] part of a broader attack on labor
[2:40:03] where are being called all sorts of
[2:40:04] things.
[2:40:05] these are the peel that teach the
[2:40:08] class, clean the classes and respond
[2:40:10] to emergencies, we are vested
[2:40:12] stakeholders and we all support the
[2:40:14] approval of carlos cortez's contract.
[2:40:16] right now as I'm sure you know, labor
[2:40:18] is under attack federally.
[2:40:20] and unions are fighting back against
[2:40:23] cuts at all levels of government.
[2:40:24] the board of trustees of city college
[2:40:26] support the needs and wishes of the
[2:40:28] workers of city college and of the
[2:40:30] students and of the community who are
[2:40:32] all calling for approval of this
[2:40:34] contract.
[2:40:35] we have worked so hard to support the
[2:40:36] college and its programs and we will
[2:40:38] continue to do so.
[2:40:40] we will also be very disappointed if
[2:40:42] the elected officials who represent
[2:40:44] the college side with an austerity
[2:40:48] administration rather than with the
[2:40:49] workers, the students and the
[2:40:50] community.
[2:40:51] we did not forget the accreditation
[2:40:52] fight, I know I didn't, we did not
[2:40:55] forget the fight for free city college
[2:40:58] t the fight to keep free city college
[2:41:00] and we will not forget this vote.
[2:41:01] thank you.
[2:41:07] >> next is alex cough.
[2:41:18] >> good evening, san francisco city
[2:41:19] college, board of trustees, my
[2:41:22] name is alex, the president of san
[2:41:25] francisco firefighters local 798.
[2:41:27] I'm here to speak in support of your
[2:41:31] original choice, your first choice,
[2:41:32] the right choice, dr. Carlos cortez.
[2:41:36] hundreds of our members who are now
[2:41:40] firefighters, emt and paramedics
[2:41:42] attended san francisco city college
[2:41:46] obtain their emt, paramedic licenses
[2:41:49] and firefighter 1 certificates along
[2:41:52] with attend a multitude of other fire
[2:41:55] science classes.
[2:41:56] our members respond now to the
[2:41:58] communities all over the city, to
[2:42:01] medical emergencies and structure
[2:42:02] fires every single day.
[2:42:05] for the sake of the future
[2:42:08] firefighters, emt's and paramedics of
[2:42:10] san francisco, and for the sake of the
[2:42:11] communities that we serve, we support
[2:42:18] your original choice of chancellor for
[2:42:22] san francisco city college.
[2:42:24] the institution that educates more
[2:42:27] ssfd members than any other
[2:42:31] institution.
[2:42:32] dr. Carlos cortez has already proven
[2:42:35] his excellent ability to work with
[2:42:38] labor and across constituencies.
[2:42:43] he has experience in classrooms and
[2:42:46] board rooms, he's proven -- he's got a
[2:42:49] vision and track record of growing
[2:42:52] student enrollment and enhancing
[2:42:56] programs.
[2:42:59] he's proven his student centered
[2:43:02] leadership and he has active roots in
[2:43:03] social welfare and education policy.
[2:43:08] and he's already proven the ability
[2:43:10] and willingness to build partnership
[2:43:13] with community leaders.
[2:43:15] he's already proven his commitment to
[2:43:18] economic, racial and gender equality.
[2:43:21] you've all already as a board made the
[2:43:26] right choice and please we ask you to
[2:43:29] stand firm in your choice.
[2:43:30] our members along with the san
[2:43:33] francisco communities that we serve
[2:43:35] all deserve a high quality chancellor
[2:43:38] to lead and to continue to grow and
[2:43:43] improve san francisco -- or city
[2:43:45] college of san francisco, thank you
[2:43:47] very much.
[2:43:49] >> next is ronald gonzalez.
[2:44:01] >> hello.
[2:44:02] can you hear me?
[2:44:05] sorry, hello, can you confirm --
[2:44:06] >> we can hear you.
[2:44:08] >> awesome, thank you.
[2:44:15] welcome on behalf of the mission
[2:44:19] center, I'm the president of the
[2:44:22] association there and I have a
[2:44:23] question for the board of trustees,
[2:44:25] can I move to go ahead and start the
[2:44:28] voting in favor or no?
[2:44:31] but you can probably answer later, but
[2:44:36] I want to go ahead and get this voting
[2:44:39] started.
[2:44:40] go ahead and approve the process and
[2:44:43] dr. Cortez, just a reminder, we are the
[2:44:45] students are going to keep you
[2:44:47] accountable, hold you accountable and
[2:44:48] we're going to be in your office if
[2:44:50] you're not on the field or -- we read
[2:44:56] a lot about you, heard about you and I
[2:44:58] think we are fortunate to have you as
[2:45:01] our next chancellor and I would love
[2:45:04] to continue working with you in person
[2:45:06] now and here in san francisco but be
[2:45:11] sure that if things change and things
[2:45:14] are not coming out as expected, you're
[2:45:17] going hear from the students and with
[2:45:19] all the love and with all the respect
[2:45:21] and we want to learn from you, teach
[2:45:24] us you how to be better leaders, let
[2:45:27] us -- show us how you achieved all
[2:45:31] those goals and what else have you
[2:45:33] done to improve the lives of students
[2:45:36] from san diego.
[2:45:37] so, we want to see that here in san
[2:45:39] francisco and again welcome, I hope we
[2:45:42] can get started with the voting and
[2:45:46] remember, we look forward to working
[2:45:48] with you, however, we will keep you
[2:45:51] accountable.
[2:45:52] we will check and make sure that what
[2:45:55] was proposed and what was told in
[2:45:57] interviews do happen.
[2:45:59] this is our livelihood, it's
[2:46:03] important for us and we're happy
[2:46:04] you're here, so thank you so much,
[2:46:06] take care.
[2:46:08] >> next is harry bernstein.
[2:46:23] >> thank you.
[2:46:24] you've heard a number of things about
[2:46:29] dr. Cortez's scholarship, his
[2:46:33] leadership, his teaching and his
[2:46:36] advocacy for colleges.
[2:46:38] he's been at many different
[2:46:41] institutions.
[2:46:42] I was going to note that president
[2:46:45] martinez in referring to the -- well,
[2:46:50] incoming chancellor let's say noted
[2:46:52] his commitment to programs for new
[2:46:56] americans, non-credit workforce
[2:46:57] development and older adults.
[2:46:59] I just want to highlight one part of
[2:47:05] that.
[2:47:06] dr. Cortez led the execution of a
[2:47:08] statewide study and report which was
[2:47:11] called the past, present and future of
[2:47:15] adult non-credit education in
[2:47:17] california from 1856 to 2018.
[2:47:22] he was well situated for doing that
[2:47:23] because he was the head of one of the
[2:47:28] colleges in san diego, the san diego
[2:47:30] college of continuing education which
[2:47:32] has the most robust offerings of free
[2:47:40] non-credit education in california.
[2:47:41] I believe it's an entire college
[2:47:44] devoted -- the college of continuing
[2:47:49] education.
[2:47:50] and since the program that we've had
[2:47:54] in city college has been lagging since
[2:47:58] it was decimated a few years ago,
[2:48:00] I'm opining this is one of the many
[2:48:03] hicks that he can champion along with
[2:48:06] all the other demands we've been
[2:48:07] hearing.
[2:48:08] thank you very much for your selection.
[2:48:13] >> next is kathy burick.
[2:48:22] >> good evening, trustees, I can't
[2:48:24] believe we're having this conversation.
[2:48:27] for there to be any question about the
[2:48:29] qualifications of this man and who and
[2:48:31] what he represents at a time when
[2:48:36] lgbtq, latinx are being
[2:48:41] trivialized, annette, she has not had
[2:48:43] written I don't think one trustworthy
[2:48:47] article of city college from the
[2:48:48] beginning of the accreditation so how
[2:48:51] on earth -- everything she's written
[2:48:53] has been biased, a lot of it has been
[2:48:55] inaccurate, to have any doubt in your
[2:48:57] mind, there is too much integrity
[2:49:00] among you to base your decision on
[2:49:03] anything that annette azmof has to say
[2:49:07] in the chronicle.
[2:49:08] I don't know who her editor is, they
[2:49:10] have been unfriendly, unfair and
[2:49:12] untruthful since the beginning of the
[2:49:20] accreditation scandal, don't give into
[2:49:22] your -- I won't say bullshit.
[2:49:24] [applause].
[2:49:25] >> next is maria rodriguez.
[2:49:35] >> hello, good evening, my name is
[2:49:38] maria rodriguez ramirez, I'm here
[2:49:40] speak on behalf of the city dream
[2:49:43] program in support of carlos cortez
[2:49:46] and moving forward with the contract
[2:49:51] as our new chancellor.
[2:49:53] the work that we're doing at city
[2:49:55] dream is very critical in this time
[2:49:58] and even more than that, we are really
[2:50:01] in need of institutional support.
[2:50:03] when I speak of institutional support,
[2:50:05] I speak of action that is really
[2:50:07] needed at the leadership level.
[2:50:09] what this means in terms of the new
[2:50:12] chancellor coming in is hope.
[2:50:14] hope that we can really be an
[2:50:17] established center to widen the
[2:50:19] resources that we are really needing
[2:50:21] to us.
[2:50:22] when thinking about the leadership our
[2:50:24] students are in need of, they need
[2:50:26] someone who will listen to them, that
[2:50:28] will lead them and that will also
[2:50:29] learn with us and this is something
[2:50:31] that I really do believe carlos will
[2:50:33] be bringing to the table to really
[2:50:35] allow our students to flourish, have
[2:50:38] the resources they need to be
[2:50:40] successful in their steps and to be
[2:50:42] able to feel like they have a sense of
[2:50:45] belonging here on campus, that's
[2:50:47] something that's hard for us to do on
[2:50:48] behalf of the whole campus community
[2:50:50] if we're not receiving that backing
[2:50:52] from the chancellor themselves.
[2:50:53] and that's the vision that we really
[2:50:55] want to make sure that does come to
[2:50:58] fruition through this new chancellor
[2:51:00] and why we do urge the approval of the
[2:51:05] contract for carlos cortez to be our
[2:51:07] new chancellor, it's something our
[2:51:09] students have been advocating for is
[2:51:11] to simply be heard, to simply be seen,
[2:51:14] that is something they felt during the
[2:51:16] time of the interview process and
[2:51:18] things like that because they were one
[2:51:21] of very, very few candidates that
[2:51:24] mentioned undocumented students and
[2:51:25] what they had done in previous
[2:51:27] institutions to really have this
[2:51:29] support for students through the
[2:51:31] institution themselves and not just
[2:51:33] solely relying on people that do this
[2:51:36] labor but be able to equip them and be
[2:51:38] able to provide them with the
[2:51:42] resources needed to [inaudible]
[2:51:48] >> that concludes public comments.
[2:51:53] >> are any of the commenters that you
[2:51:56] called on before present?
[2:52:00] >> one more time, eddie escoto.
[2:52:09] >> yes, I'm eddie, I just wanted to
[2:52:14] say that I was as a student, I was
[2:52:17] present for all the interviews of all
[2:52:21] of the candidates for chancellor and
[2:52:24] cortez was the on the one who had in
[2:52:28] mind everybody's benefit.
[2:52:29] the student, the faculty,
[2:52:32] administration, everybody's benefit.
[2:52:33] he was the only one who had a clear
[2:52:36] picture going forward.
[2:52:38] it's very obvious he has already
[2:52:41] proven in many other places as
[2:52:43] everybody else has already said and I
[2:52:45] just want to say that students are not
[2:52:48] blind, we see, we can see, we see what
[2:52:50] the best choice is and yes, please,
[2:52:54] board, you've already taken it this
[2:52:56] far, bring it home and just vote
[2:52:59] carlos in already.
[2:53:00] thank you.
[2:53:01] >> next is tj miaki.
[2:53:08] >> hi, board, trustees, ironically
[2:53:11] I'm not going to be speaking about
[2:53:14] possible chancellor cortez, so you
[2:53:15] guys can breathe for a moment.
[2:53:17] I wanted to -- and I wish chancellor
[2:53:20] bailey was here because I wanted to
[2:53:21] say that he renewed my faith in what a
[2:53:24] chancellor could be as a student
[2:53:29] attending since 2019.
[2:53:31] the lack of student centered
[2:53:34] chancellor leadership on campus has
[2:53:36] been ridiculous.
[2:53:37] I've had them ignore me completely,
[2:53:41] not respond to my e-mail, not have
[2:53:44] assistants get back to me, mitchell
[2:53:47] who introduced himself to me the first
[2:53:49] time I met him did.
[2:53:51] I really appreciate it and I look
[2:53:52] forward to whatever happens with the
[2:53:54] new chancellor.
[2:53:55] I did want to say last year, august
[2:53:58] 29, 2004, I came and spoke to you guys
[2:54:02] about ada issues.
[2:54:03] I have come back several times over
[2:54:05] the last few months and bringing them
[2:54:08] up.
[2:54:09] right in this building on the front
[2:54:12] door, that door still does not work,
[2:54:15] okay.
[2:54:16] so, as of monday, I'm going to have to
[2:54:18] file with the u.s. Department of
[2:54:20] justice civil rights division an ada
[2:54:22] complaint because I have video going
[2:54:24] back five years of this door not
[2:54:26] working.
[2:54:27] as a student leader, tried to work
[2:54:29] with the facilities person to find out
[2:54:31] what the process was, could never get
[2:54:33] a response.
[2:54:34] why ada issues are not priority for
[2:54:37] facilities to fix is criminal on this
[2:54:41] campus.
[2:54:42] so, I'm going to be doing that and I
[2:54:45] can't believe I have to do that.
[2:54:47] I tried to work on this as a student
[2:54:51] leader, I tried to work on this as a
[2:54:54] student at large, this is ridiculous,
[2:54:55] there's no excuse why that door is not
[2:54:56] fixed and the other ada issues on
[2:54:59] campus are not taken care of and they
[2:55:01] should be prioritized, thank you.
[2:55:04] >> next is alyssa messier.
[2:55:08] >> I'll be very quick.
[2:55:09] I just wanted to say I was so hopeful
[2:55:15] when I saw the chronicle article which
[2:55:18] said that dr. Cortez was incoming as
[2:55:21] our new chancellor.
[2:55:22] I just -- my heart soared until I
[2:55:25] clicked on the article and saw what
[2:55:28] was inside.
[2:55:30] I particularly want to say as a jewish
[2:55:33] woman that the weaponization of
[2:55:37] anti-semitism in this case is
[2:55:40] despicable and want to also say in
[2:55:42] line with my sisters jen and leslie
[2:55:46] who have already spoken on this that
[2:55:50] as a omens and genders studies
[2:55:54] instructor, as someone who has taught
[2:55:56] these things for a long time, the fact
[2:55:58] that alice walker has some
[2:56:00] questionable views lately does not
[2:56:03] remove the many, many years she's had
[2:56:08] of her work for feminism and
[2:56:15] particularly for woman-ism which is
[2:56:19] something she create sod the idea that
[2:56:21] dr. Cortez would be attacked for not
[2:56:23] knowing this small thing that few
[2:56:24] people know about as opposed to all of
[2:56:26] the work that walker has done was just
[2:56:32] extremely upsetting to me to see that
[2:56:38] happen.
[2:56:39] I have been through a lot of leaders
[2:56:41] at city college and a lot of
[2:56:42] chancellors at this point, many, many
[2:56:48] years.
[2:56:49] I took notes at the forums and I just
[2:56:52] was looking back at the many notes
[2:56:53] that I took when dr. Cortez was here
[2:56:56] and if you could see it, there are
[2:56:58] little stars and things underlined and
[2:57:00] a lot of really wonderful things.
[2:57:02] he talked about enrollment growth in a
[2:57:04] way that seems serious and to have
[2:57:06] some ideas, he talked about non-credit
[2:57:08] in a way that valued non-credit, in a
[2:57:12] way I've never heard at this college
[2:57:14] for a dozen years.
[2:57:15] it was amazing.
[2:57:17] dr. Cortez is the right choice.
[2:57:18] thank you.
[2:57:22] >> next is luis miranda.
[2:57:32] next is brianna smith.
[2:57:46] >> I will just say as my name is brianna
[2:57:52] smith, the president of the black
[2:57:54] student union and we are in complete
[2:57:58] support of carlos cortez.
[2:58:00] >> thank you.
[2:58:01] any other speakers?
[2:58:20] >> that concludes public comment.
[2:58:22] >> the board will recess to closed
[2:58:26] session, we will return shortly to
[2:58:27] report on our vote.
[2:58:29] it shouldn't take very long, we have
[2:58:30] to go upstairs and down.
[2:58:31] okay, thank you.
[2:58:36] (meeting recesses into closed session).
[3:07:08] >> we are back in order.
[3:07:09] as president, I made a mistake and the
[3:07:13] mistake that I made is that I did not
[3:07:17] call for the student trustee's
[3:07:18] advisory vote before we recessed to
[3:07:19] closed session.
[3:07:20] so, we will now do that, we will call
[3:07:23] for trustee -- student trustee heather
[3:07:26] brandt's advisory vote and then we
[3:07:27] will go back to closed session.
[3:07:32] sorry.
[3:07:33] trustee, can you call for the vote,
[3:07:36] please.
[3:07:37] >> may I know the motion?
[3:07:39] >> 6a.
[3:07:46] >> it's 6a, number 6a.
[3:07:50] >> is it a--
[3:07:52] >> approval of the chancellor employment
[3:07:59] contract with carlos cortez, we're
[3:08:00] taking the student advisory vote,
[3:08:03] that's all we're doing.
[3:08:04] heather, are you online?
[3:08:18] >> student trustee brandt, your
[3:08:19] advisory vote?
[3:08:26] >> yes, can somebody text --
[3:08:29] >> I did.
[3:08:31] >> the mistake again is that before we
[3:08:34] recessed into closed session to take a
[3:08:38] vote of the trustees who are present
[3:08:41] here, we did not take the advisory
[3:08:43] vote of the student trustee.
[3:08:46] she cannot go to closed session to
[3:08:48] vote so we always take an advisory
[3:08:50] vote first, so that's why we all came
[3:08:53] back and then we'll go back up.
[3:08:55] we're getting our steps in.
[3:09:00] it's on 6a.
[3:09:08] >> I guess I have a question, maybe we
[3:09:11] can ask legal counsel to the clarify
[3:09:15] whether procedure-wise can we have --
[3:09:18] in terms of this voting for a closed
[3:09:21] session item publicly by a student
[3:09:26] trustee, what are the rules and
[3:09:27] processes around that.
[3:09:28] I don't think -- yeah, so I want to
[3:09:29] understand that.
[3:09:35] >> is counsel present?
[3:09:39] well, instead of taking a vote, is
[3:09:43] this a possibility, could we just ask
[3:09:48] student trustee heather brandt to
[3:09:52] express her opinion on 6a.
[3:09:59] that's what all the comment was on.
[3:10:04] then we're going to go back into
[3:10:06] closed session to vote on it.
[3:10:09] pardon?
[3:10:10] >> [inaudible].
[3:10:21] >> we're voting on 6a because that's
[3:10:25] what all the public comment was taken
[3:10:28] on.
[3:10:29] when the student trustee reminded us,
[3:10:31] she texted us and reminded us we had
[3:10:33] not taken her advisory vote, both
[3:10:36] because of my forgetfulness and
[3:10:39] because we owe it to student trustee
[3:10:41] heather brandt to take her vote on
[3:10:43] that.
[3:10:44] I see student trustee heather brandt's
[3:10:47] hand up.
[3:10:49] >> yes, sorry, let me know if you're
[3:10:51] ready too obtain my vote as I'm not
[3:10:53] able to participate in closed session.
[3:10:55] I just wanted to be clear that in the
[3:10:58] past when we've opened up the
[3:11:00] chancellor search, the student trustee
[3:11:01] has had an advisory vote and so I
[3:11:03] wasn't sure why this would be any
[3:11:06] different but I don't want to -- it
[3:11:09] sounds like there's some sort of
[3:11:11] discussion happening that I can't
[3:11:12] fully hear in the room.
[3:11:13] please let me know when you're ready
[3:11:16] for my vote.
[3:11:17] >> the chair has already ruled.
[3:11:19] ms. Esteban, can you take the student
[3:11:21] trustee's advisory vote? Student
[3:11:23] >> trustee brandt, your advisory vote?
[3:11:26] >> can you please state what exactly
[3:11:29] I'm voting for.
[3:11:30] I know we're on item 6a, but typically
[3:11:32] there's a motion and then -- so --
[3:11:35] >> can we pull up the motion on the
[3:11:38] screen and I will read it.
[3:11:43] >> the recommended action is that the
[3:11:44] board of trustees approve the
[3:11:47] appointment of dr. Carlos cortez
[3:11:49] effective july 1, 2025 to serve as
[3:11:52] chancellor of city college of san
[3:11:55] francisco.
[3:11:56] that's what you are voting on.
[3:11:57] >> thank you.
[3:11:58] I appreciate the clarity and my vote
[3:12:00] is yes or aye.
[3:12:01] >> thank you very much.
[3:12:03] we will now recess to closed session
[3:12:06] to take the vote we were up there to
[3:12:07] take originally.
[3:12:08] sorry for the inconvenience.
[3:12:14] (meeting resumes into closed session).
[4:54:39] >> we are reconvening from closed
[4:54:43] session.
[4:54:44] we shall be make a motion to extend
[4:54:46] the time of the meeting.
[4:54:49] >> so moved, I move that we extend
[4:54:53] the business meeting to 10:00 for now?
[4:55:03] 10:30?
[4:55:04] 11:00.
[4:55:05] >> thank you.
[4:55:06] >> is there a second to the motion?
[4:55:07] >> second.
[4:55:08] >> motion by vice-president zamora,
[4:55:11] second by trustee chisti to extend the
[4:55:15] meeting until 11:00.
[4:55:16] let's take a vote on, that starting
[4:55:20] with the student trustee.
[4:55:21] >> student trustee brandt, your
[4:55:24] advisory vote?
[4:55:25] >> aye.
[4:55:27] >> president martinez?
[4:55:28] >> yes.
[4:55:29] >> vice-president zamora?
[4:55:30] >> aye.
[4:55:31] >> trustee chisti?
[4:55:32] >> aye.
[4:55:33] >> trustee wong?
[4:55:34] >> yes.
[4:55:35] >> trustee solomon?
[4:55:36] >> yes.
[4:55:37] >> trustee chung?
[4:55:38] >> aye.
[4:55:39] >> trustee mccarty?
[4:55:40] >> aye.
[4:55:41] >> the motion passes.
[4:55:42] >> thank you, the meeting is extended
[4:55:45] until 11:00.
[4:55:46] no reportable action was taken during
[4:55:49] closed seg, therefore we will remove
[4:55:51] item 6a from the open session agenda
[4:55:54] and continue with the rest of the
[4:55:59] meeting.
[4:56:01] we now move to item 6b, approval of
[4:56:05] employment agreements with college
[4:56:07] executives.
[4:56:08] who will move the resolution?
[4:56:10] >> so moved.
[4:56:13] >> trustee zamora, vice-president
[4:56:15] zamora moves, who will second?
[4:56:16] >> second.
[4:56:19] >> was that trustee chisti will second.
[4:56:25] okay, we need to take a roll call vote.
[4:56:27] >> student trustee brandt, your
[4:56:29] advisory vote?
[4:56:30] >> aye.
[4:56:31] >> president martinez?
[4:56:32] >> yes.
[4:56:33] >> vice-president zamora?
[4:56:36] >> I just wanted to point out public
[4:56:39] comment.
[4:56:40] >> thank you very much.
[4:56:42] we will -- let not take the vote on
[4:56:44] that.
[4:56:45] let's take trustee questions or
[4:56:50] comments and then we'll take public
[4:56:53] comments.
[4:56:54] any trustee comments on item 6b?
[4:56:57] any public comments?
[4:57:00] >> we don't have any public comments
[4:57:03] on item 6b.
[4:57:04] >> okay, then let's go ahead with the
[4:57:14] motion.
[4:57:15] the vote on the motion.
[4:57:16] >> student trustee brandt, your
[4:57:21] advisory vote?
[4:57:22] >> aye.
[4:57:23] >> president martinez?
[4:57:24] >> yes.
[4:57:25] >> vice-president zamora?
[4:57:26] >> aye.
[4:57:27] >> trustee chisti?
[4:57:28] >> aye.
[4:57:29] >> trustee wong?
[4:57:30] >> yes.
[4:57:31] >> trustee solomon?
[4:57:32] >> yes.
[4:57:33] >> trustee chung?
[4:57:34] >> aye.
[4:57:35] >> trustee mccarty?
[4:57:36] >> aye.
[4:57:37] >> the motion passes.
[4:57:38] >> thank you, we move to item 6c,
[4:57:40] adoption of resolution number -- I'm
[4:57:44] sorry?
[4:57:47] >> [inaudible].
[4:58:02] >> we can take public comments
[4:58:05] under item 8, that's when we can take
[4:58:08] public comments.
[4:58:12] yeah, the item's been removed from the
[4:58:17] agenda.
[4:58:18] >> [inaudible].
[4:58:24] >> I apologize for that but there's
[4:58:26] not much I can do about it.
[4:58:32] >> it's disrespectful.
[4:58:37] >> let's move now to item 6c.
[4:58:40] >> president martinez, there is an
[4:58:42] item I need to read associated with
[4:58:45] item 6b.
[4:58:46] >> I'm sorry, thank you.
[4:58:54] >> chancellor -- acting chancery
[4:58:56] cooper wilkins?
[4:58:57] >> this is an oral summary for the
[4:59:02] executive contracts up for item 6b,
[4:59:04] with the agenda item 6b, the board is
[4:59:07] being asked to approve the two year
[4:59:10] contract for david yee in the position
[4:59:12] of vice chancellor for academic and
[4:59:14] institutional affairs.
[4:59:16] the two year contract would run from
[4:59:18] july 1, 2025 to june 30, 2027.
[4:59:21] the annual salary for the position of
[4:59:24] vice chancellor for academic and
[4:59:27] institutional affairs is 249 thousand
[4:59:31] 234 dollars with health and welfare
[4:59:34] benefits consistent with
[4:59:35] administrators of the district.
[4:59:40] with the second agenda item, 6b, the
[4:59:43] board is being asked to approve a two
[4:59:47] year contract for patrick acawa many
[4:59:51] the position of associate vice
[4:59:55] chancellor for it/chief technology
[4:59:59] officer.
[5:00:00] the two year contract would also run
[5:00:05] from july 1, 2025 to june 30, 2027.
[5:00:06] the annual salary for the position of
[5:00:08] associate vice chancellor for it/chief
[5:00:11] technology officer is 238 thousand 503
[5:00:14] dollars with health and welfare
[5:00:18] benefits consistent with
[5:00:19] administrators of the district.
[5:00:20] >> thank you.
[5:00:21] are we now ready to move to item 6c?
[5:00:26] >> president martinez, is there a way
[5:00:27] for us to just jump to 8a first, I
[5:00:30] think members of the public even
[5:00:31] though we can cannot share with
[5:00:33] things, perhaps they have something to
[5:00:35] say to us.
[5:00:36] >> for members of the public and the
[5:00:38] onuses that are outside, trustee chung
[5:00:41] has suggested that we move item 8,
[5:00:45] public comments, up to this point in
[5:00:46] the agenda.
[5:00:47] is there any objection?
[5:00:50] >> sorry, really quickly, chair, I had
[5:00:54] my hand up regarding the current item
[5:00:55] we're on.
[5:00:57] >> sorry, say it again.
[5:00:58] >> I had my hand up.
[5:00:59] >> yes, I see you.
[5:01:00] >> okay, thank you, my apologies, so I
[5:01:03] think before moving if I can speak, is
[5:01:05] that okay?
[5:01:06] >> what are you going to speak on?
[5:01:08] >> current item we're on, 6b.
[5:01:11] >> 6 become, -- 6b, we're going to
[5:01:16] move the order of the agenda to item
[5:01:20] 8, public comments at which time
[5:01:22] members of the audience can make
[5:01:24] public comment on tenses not on the
[5:01:26] agenda but at this point, student
[5:01:31] trustee brandt has comments she would
[5:01:33] like the make.
[5:01:37] is that correct?
[5:01:38] >> yeah, we just
[5:01:39] voted on 6b but then information was
[5:01:41] provided.
[5:01:42] I don't know if that changes anything
[5:01:43] or if we need to vote again, at least
[5:01:46] when I click on 6b, the contract only
[5:01:50] shows a template, it doesn't have the
[5:01:51] titles or the dollar figures has were
[5:01:54] mentioned by dr. Cooper wilkins, so I
[5:01:56] don't know if we need to revote on not.
[5:01:59] >> counsel, can you share an opinion.
[5:02:02] >> yes, thank you, student trustee
[5:02:03] brandt, I had my hand up for the same
[5:02:09] reason is the brown act does not
[5:02:12] require that oral summary to occur
[5:02:13] before the board vote, so
[5:02:17] now the acting chancellor has reported
[5:02:19] out, we should take an additional vote
[5:02:22] on item 6b.
[5:02:23] >> thank you, ms. Esteban, will you
[5:02:24] take that vote once again please.
[5:02:29] >> student trustee brandt, your
[5:02:30] advisory vote?
[5:02:31] >> aye.
[5:02:33] >> president martinez?
[5:02:34] >> yes.
[5:02:35] >> vice-president zamora?
[5:02:36] >> aye.
[5:02:37] >> trustee chisti?
[5:02:38] >> aye.
[5:02:39] >> trustee wong?
[5:02:40] >> yes.
[5:02:41] >> trustee solomon?
[5:02:42] >> aye.
[5:02:43] >> trustee chung?
[5:02:44] >> aye.
[5:02:45] >> trustee mccarty?
[5:02:46] >> aye.
[5:02:47] >> the motion passes.
[5:02:48] >> we are now moving to item 8, we
[5:02:52] will come back to item 6c.
[5:02:55] item 8 is public comments.
[5:02:57] we will take public comments on items
[5:03:00] not on the agenda
[5:03:05] received, we will listen to public
[5:03:07] comment but cannot respond or act on
[5:03:09] these items because they are not on
[5:03:10] the agenda.
[5:03:11] there's a two limit time limit, ms.
[5:03:14] esteban, are there any pub luck
[5:03:16] comment for items not on the agenda.
[5:03:18] >> yes, we do.
[5:03:19] the first one is ramona coltz.
[5:03:39] >> can you hear me?
[5:03:41] >> a little louder.
[5:03:43] >> I can be loud, let me turn my
[5:03:45] volume up.
[5:03:47] grand evening, my name is dr. Ramona
[5:03:52] coltz, a part time faculty member, on
[5:03:55] october 22, 2020, our strand stroud
[5:04:03] awardee and I came before the board of
[5:04:05] trustees asking that the women's
[5:04:07] resource center being located in the
[5:04:09] new student success center.
[5:04:10] you responded, you heard us and many
[5:04:13] students including from the black
[5:04:14] student union.
[5:04:15] we had several meetings with the
[5:04:18] company kitchell, they made changes to
[5:04:20] the floor plan and added square
[5:04:23] footage for the aarc, for the african
[5:04:26] american resource center and the wrc
[5:04:28] to have dedicated space in the new
[5:04:32] student success center, thank you.
[5:04:33] the new student success center is the
[5:04:35] new front and center face of the
[5:04:37] college.
[5:04:38] there are pansies not to put the aarc,
[5:04:41] african american resource center, in the
[5:04:44] new student success center.
[5:04:46] the african resource center is part of
[5:04:49] the associated students, not an
[5:04:51] academic program, counseling or
[5:04:52] retention center.
[5:04:53] there's a difference between retention
[5:04:54] sent and he iser resource centers.
[5:04:57] the aarc should not be merged with
[5:04:59] other programs or centers tucked away
[5:05:02] in mub with two other programs.
[5:05:04] it's not what students want.
[5:05:06] more support is needed to keep the
[5:05:08] faculty advisory position molded dell
[5:05:11] which provides supervisory support and
[5:05:13] allows students to have the autonomy
[5:05:16] in their student led space for student
[5:05:20] meet-ups.
[5:05:21] the african american resource
[5:05:22] center has not had a formal roll out
[5:05:24] for students to know about it nor has
[5:05:27] it been included in
[5:05:30] ccsf publications or print materials
[5:05:31] for students to find as other centers
[5:05:34] have.
[5:05:35] at a time when black history is being
[5:05:38] erased for revision history, dei and
[5:05:41] the critical race theory disked, we
[5:05:44] need to stand firm on our commitment
[5:05:46] to black students and all students.
[5:05:49] their educational safe haven is the
[5:05:51] city college of san francisco.
[5:05:54] listen to students, listen to student
[5:05:58] readers, please, let's wait for the
[5:05:59] [inaudible].
[5:06:00] thank you.
[5:06:03] >> next is jing shi.
[5:06:05] >> if I may take a moment, I want to
[5:06:07] read to those in person, if I may,
[5:06:11] president martinez, in person requests
[5:06:12] for public comment on this item here,
[5:06:14] please submit a written request to
[5:06:17] address the board using the form
[5:06:19] supplied by the board liaison, if you
[5:06:22] would like to make public comment.
[5:06:34] >> who is the next person.
[5:06:36] >> next is emily farson.
[5:06:46] >> who's next after that?
[5:06:48] >> next is charlie kooey.
[5:06:54] next is brianna smith.
[5:07:00] >> thank you so much.
[5:07:02] my name is brianna smith, I am the
[5:07:04] current president of the black student
[5:07:06] union here at ccsf I'm also a student
[5:07:09] worker with project survive.
[5:07:11] I'm also a student worker at the
[5:07:14] african american resource center, I'm
[5:07:16] a student leader here on campus, I'm
[5:07:18] here the request that the african
[5:07:20] american resource center still be put
[5:07:22] in the student success center as was
[5:07:25] promised and agreed to by the board
[5:07:27] back in 2020.
[5:07:28] I think it's important as though this
[5:07:31] idea of putting all of the things that
[5:07:34] are black things in one space is
[5:07:36] problematic because she should be
[5:07:39] expanding student faces especially
[5:07:41] from marginalized students.
[5:07:42] the board did also make a commitment
[5:07:43] back in the february to support
[5:07:46] marginalized students against the
[5:07:47] attacks that were coming in from the
[5:07:50] administration, the trump
[5:07:51] administration, I think this is
[5:07:52] inclusive of that support that was
[5:07:55] promised.
[5:07:56] and when we take away resources and
[5:07:57] spaces, we're not supporting students,
[5:08:00] so, as a black student, as a black
[5:08:03] leader here on campus, as a student
[5:08:05] parent, I think it's important we have
[5:08:07] more spaces spread out throughout
[5:08:10] campus, autonomy spaces that are
[5:08:12] student led that help promote student
[5:08:14] leadership.
[5:08:15] if you think about the history of
[5:08:17] ccsf, our student leaders come from
[5:08:20] the resource centers, these are people
[5:08:22] who come and become student trustees,
[5:08:23] these are people who come and be on
[5:08:25] the board, these are people who come
[5:08:26] back and teach at the college.
[5:08:28] and as we're talking about
[5:08:30] enrollment and we need to make our
[5:08:32] school look attractive to those who
[5:08:34] already feel like they are ousted from
[5:08:36] the city of san francisco.
[5:08:37] those are our black students, those
[5:08:40] are our marginalized students to
[5:08:42] putting us in spaces where we are in
[5:08:45] one would've is similar to the model
[5:08:47] happening in the city for us rather
[5:08:48] than a new model we're supposed to
[5:08:51] stand as an innovative college,
[5:08:54] promoting global leaders and citizens
[5:08:56] and having the next generation of
[5:08:58] board members that may be here.
[5:08:59] as we talk about that, I think it's
[5:09:02] important as we talk about expansion,
[5:09:04] it means spreading our wings, having
[5:09:07] voices in the student success center
[5:09:09] representing all of the diverse
[5:09:11] students on campus.
[5:09:12] thank you very much.
[5:09:13] >> next is abigail bornstein.
[5:09:20] >> so, I wanted to talk about opeb.
[5:09:24] this is a follow-up from a discussion
[5:09:28] back in september 12, so, in the
[5:09:36] budget, there was a request made on
[5:09:40] september 12th and there just hasn't
[5:09:42] been the follow-up which was basically
[5:09:46] that on page 18 of the budget after
[5:09:51] the 1% payroll notation of 2020, an
[5:09:55] additional sentence stating "in
[5:09:58] october 2023, the board of trustees
[5:10:00] were presented four scenarios and
[5:10:02] voted to pay the service cost from
[5:10:05] this point forward".
[5:10:07] so, that was requested in september, I
[5:10:10] believe trustee chisti asked about
[5:10:13] that as well because all we had was
[5:10:15] what happened in 2020 but the board
[5:10:17] had taken a different vote in 2023 and
[5:10:21] so that should be noted on page 18 and
[5:10:26] especially since we keep having
[5:10:28] different administrators come in and
[5:10:29] out, I think it's really important
[5:10:32] that we include that in the actual
[5:10:35] wording and it was supposed to come
[5:10:37] back in january and it just -- it
[5:10:40] didn't come back, that's what we were
[5:10:44] told, it's okay, we're bringing this
[5:10:46] back in january and it didn't come
[5:10:49] back.
[5:10:50] I'm reminding that language needs to
[5:10:52] go back in if we're going to talk
[5:10:54] about that.
[5:10:55] thank you.
[5:10:56] >> next is harry bernstein.
[5:11:08] >> good evening.
[5:11:12] I'm just reminding you that last year,
[5:11:14] I think it was I'm pretty sure
[5:11:17] it was april of 2024.
[5:11:21] you had an interesting presentation, I
[5:11:25] believe then vice-president martinez
[5:11:28] had asked for information to be
[5:11:32] parented about the older adults
[5:11:34] department.
[5:11:35] so, you had dean kedae, the department
[5:11:40] chair, calvin young and faculty member
[5:11:43] judy hubble were here and they made
[5:11:45] their presentation for 30-40 minutes
[5:11:48] and it went on for another 20 minutes
[5:11:51] of your questions and the public
[5:11:54] comments.
[5:11:55] the one thing that they made very
[5:11:58] clear was the program had been
[5:12:03] literally decimated losing 90% of its
[5:12:07] programs and faculty, which way
[5:12:11] forward.
[5:12:12] they needed a needs assessment to find
[5:12:13] out how many people in the general
[5:12:15] public do they serve, city college
[5:12:20] serves the entire adult population of
[5:12:22] san francisco.
[5:12:23] what do they need?
[5:12:26] so, in fact, there was even a
[5:12:28] follow-up question from a member of
[5:12:31] the board to see that that happened.
[5:12:34] now, I can't be here for that but
[5:12:37] later in program, 14c I think is --
[5:12:42] there's a needs assessment, a contract
[5:12:45] that was for almost 100 thousand
[5:12:47] dollars from west ed consulting
[5:12:49] research services for the adult
[5:12:51] education program needs assessment.
[5:12:52] I am just encouraging, I know that
[5:12:58] david yee is interested in something
[5:13:00] like this but it seems that there
[5:13:03] should be a possibility of doing a
[5:13:05] needs assessment for this tiny
[5:13:09] fraction of the programs that serve
[5:13:13] the older adult program and not just
[5:13:17] what survives for sacramento as adult
[5:13:21] education.
[5:13:22] thank you.
[5:13:23] >> next is mary bravewoman.
[5:13:31] >> thank you, trustee chung, for
[5:13:33] reminding us to put in our comment
[5:13:35] cards when you have already heard
[5:13:36] from us.
[5:13:38] this college community and the number
[5:13:39] of people that are standing back
[5:13:43] there, multiply them by tens, they
[5:13:46] represent the entire college community
[5:13:48] and we waiting for months, this is an
[5:13:51] embarrassment.
[5:13:52] I don't understand what the hold-up is.
[5:13:55] I know you're going to tell us you
[5:13:58] can't tell us anything and I'm not
[5:14:00] directing this at all of you, that
[5:14:02] you're not going to tell us anything
[5:14:03] that came out of closed session but
[5:14:06] this is a travesty and I don't
[5:14:09] understand why there is a lack of
[5:14:15] leadership and direction.
[5:14:16] we have a clear choice in front of us.
[5:14:22] I'm going to refrain from swearing
[5:14:25] right now, everybody right here, each
[5:14:26] one of those people back there
[5:14:28] represent the voters of the city.
[5:14:30] we voted to put you in this seat to
[5:14:33] help lead your college in a good
[5:14:36] direction.
[5:14:37] you heard from the community.
[5:14:38] you heard from students, you heard
[5:14:40] from faculty, what the actual fuck is
[5:14:44] the hold-up?
[5:14:45] this is an embarrassment, you guys can
[5:14:49] have the rest of your meeting, we're
[5:14:53] done.
[5:14:54] >> that concludes public comments.
[5:14:56] >> thank you.
[5:15:04] we now return to the regular order of
[5:15:06] the agenda.
[5:15:11] action items 6a, adoption of
[5:15:15] resolution number 2025-08 in
[5:15:16] recognition of asian american pacific
[5:15:19] islander month.
[5:15:20] who will move the resolution?
[5:15:23] >> I will move 6c.
[5:15:24] >> second.
[5:15:27] >> moved by vice-president zamora,
[5:15:30] seconded by trustee chung.
[5:15:33] acting chancellor, is there any
[5:15:35] comment from the chancellor's office
[5:15:36] on this one?
[5:15:43] >> I think just the importance of
[5:15:47] recognizing, you know, important
[5:15:49] members of our college community and
[5:15:51] this opportunity that we have to offer
[5:15:55] this celebration and support.
[5:15:56] >> thank you.
[5:15:57] are there any trustee questions or
[5:16:00] comments?
[5:16:01] trustee chung?
[5:16:02] >> I think I've mentioned this in
[5:16:04] previous resolutions and I appreciate
[5:16:07] that the same way that we make land
[5:16:10] acknowledgment statements every
[5:16:11] meeting, the same way that we take the
[5:16:13] time to pass a resolution during that
[5:16:16] time of month to celebrate, to be
[5:16:20] present, to remember the struggles of
[5:16:24] marginalized communities in the past,
[5:16:26] I think what I hope for is -- and we
[5:16:31] will see this in later resolutions
[5:16:34] where we improved on it, added more
[5:16:39] substantial information especially
[5:16:40] information that is local to our
[5:16:44] college, to our city as well as things
[5:16:47] that are substantive of the time.
[5:16:51] I know I didn't have a ton of capacity
[5:16:53] -- I know we talk about this concept
[5:16:55] about just because you're a member of
[5:16:57] the community doesn't mean the
[5:16:58] burden's on you to do the work.
[5:17:01] I hope there's allies, but I
[5:17:04] understand when allies feel the need
[5:17:06] that they're like, I can't -- I need
[5:17:08] to make space for the person in that
[5:17:13] community to speak but I'm hoping
[5:17:16] because we're going to have a whole
[5:17:18] year between now and the next time we
[5:17:25] pass this resolution if we can give
[5:17:26] ample time to our asian american
[5:17:27] studies faculty who are experts in
[5:17:28] this topic and the history especially
[5:17:31] local to city college to write a
[5:17:34] resolution that is even more
[5:17:36] meaningful.
[5:17:37] thank you.
[5:17:41] >> are there any other trustee
[5:17:45] comments?
[5:17:46] student trustee brandt?
[5:17:48] >> thank you so much.
[5:17:50] as is often the case when resolutions
[5:17:53] are drafted, I was just curious
[5:17:56] who was spoken with or how this
[5:18:01] resolution was drafted.
[5:18:02] there's particular individuals that
[5:18:04] come to mind for me when I think about
[5:18:06] the asian american pacific islander
[5:18:10] community, particularly dr. Palita,
[5:18:12] and I know the college has previously
[5:18:18] had vasa conferences which did not
[5:18:21] take place for the first time this
[5:18:25] year in I don't know how long.
[5:18:26] I hope the resolved would include
[5:18:29] while we're recognizing our asian and
[5:18:35] pacific islander students and
[5:18:36] community intentionality about putting
[5:18:38] funds towards supporting a vasa
[5:18:41] conference.
[5:18:42] >> thank you the.
[5:18:43] any other trustee comments?
[5:18:48] is there any public comment?
[5:18:49] >> we don't have.
[5:18:52] >> vice-president zamora?
[5:18:58] >> yeah, just, I think this has been
[5:19:00] mentioned before in prior meetings,
[5:19:01] but -- and I know it's difficult with
[5:19:06] the administration's bandwidth but
[5:19:08] having these types of resolutions at
[5:19:11] the beginning of the actual month as
[5:19:13] opposed to the end of the month would
[5:19:16] be helpful and frankly would allow us
[5:19:20] to celebrate it much earlier and be
[5:19:22] intentional around that.
[5:19:24] >> thank you.
[5:19:25] I've made this request before that
[5:19:29] they not come at the end of the month
[5:19:30] which means they have to come at the
[5:19:32] end of the prior month in order for us
[5:19:35] to celebrate them.
[5:19:36] trustee solomon?
[5:19:40] >> right, and as trustees, we can
[5:19:42] request that, it's also our
[5:19:43] responsible to do it, it's really not
[5:19:44] the administrator's responsibility
[5:19:54] only, they are a month ahead.
[5:19:56] >> are there any public comments on
[5:19:59] this?
[5:20:00] okay, ms. Esteban, roll call vote,
[5:20:02] please.
[5:20:03] >> student trustee brandt, your
[5:20:05] advisory vote?
[5:20:06] >> aye.
[5:20:07] >> president martinez?
[5:20:08] >> yes.
[5:20:09] >> vice-president zamora?
[5:20:10] >> aye.
[5:20:11] >> trustee chisti?
[5:20:12] >> aye.
[5:20:13] >> trustee wong?
[5:20:14] >> yes.
[5:20:15] >> trustee solomon?
[5:20:16] >> aye.
[5:20:17] >> trustee chung?
[5:20:18] >> aye.
[5:20:19] >> trustee mccarty?
[5:20:20] >> aye.
[5:20:21] >> the motion passes.
[5:20:22] >> thank you, we move to action item
[5:20:24] 6d, adoption of resolution 2025-09,
[5:20:31] supporting the recommendations of the
[5:20:33] free city college oversight committee.
[5:20:36] who will move the resolution?
[5:20:39] moved by trustee wong, seconded by
[5:20:41] trustee solomon, any trustee comments
[5:20:42] or questions?
[5:20:45] >> trustee chung?
[5:20:49] >> sure, I'll present, so student
[5:20:51] trustee brandt and I are on the free
[5:20:56] city college overside committee and so
[5:21:01] I think folks know about my history of
[5:21:04] working on the legislation in 2019 at
[5:21:06] city hall for free city, so last year,
[5:21:09] there was the change in the city
[5:21:13] budget that reduced funding for free
[5:21:16] city college from I think it was about
[5:21:18] 16.9 million dollars to 9.3 and then
[5:21:21] this coming fiscal year as was
[5:21:26] budgeted in the previous budget, 7.2
[5:21:29] million dollars.
[5:21:30] and that proposal would undermine the
[5:21:34] principal of free city college in
[5:21:36] providing tuition, free enrollment
[5:21:39] regardless of their background, income
[5:21:43] or basically having education as a
[5:21:45] fundamental right.
[5:21:48] and during that time when we had a
[5:21:51] meeting with then mayor's office, we
[5:21:54] were informed that their intent was to
[5:21:57] take any surplus money that we had and
[5:22:00] also further reduce the program in
[5:22:03] future years, so that only some
[5:22:05] classes would be covered by tuition
[5:22:09] free enrollment, so this is a meeting
[5:22:11] between interim chancellor bailey and
[5:22:12] I and the chief of staff for the
[5:22:15] mayor's office.
[5:22:17] so, since then, the budget cuts kind
[5:22:20] of caught us off guard and we weren't
[5:22:23] able to advocate on that this coming
[5:22:27] year, the budget for the mayor's
[5:22:29] office is combining out either friday
[5:22:34] or monday and we want to see a budget
[5:22:40] that restores the free city college
[5:22:43] program.
[5:22:44] and so our oversight committee, this
[5:22:46] is a little bit behind, I wish we got
[5:22:48] this earlier and we're working to
[5:22:50] establish processes where we're on a
[5:22:53] regular basis providing
[5:22:54] recommendations and reviewing what's
[5:22:57] -- yeah, reviewing and providing
[5:23:00] recommendations sooner, so this was a
[5:23:03] proposal offered by supervisor chan
[5:23:06] who's also the budget committee at the
[5:23:09] board of supervisors, so she offered
[5:23:10] most of the language from this motion
[5:23:14] that was adopted by our free city
[5:23:17] college oversight committee.
[5:23:19] and so she mentioned that we needed to
[5:23:25] consider after the audits for previous
[5:23:30] fiscal years, then they would be
[5:23:31] willing to consider the addition of
[5:23:38] indirect expenses from prior 2025-2026
[5:23:40] fiscal year and then one of the most
[5:23:44] important ones for me, number 2, was
[5:23:47] bringing back our funding to
[5:23:51] approximately 16 million dollars and
[5:23:53] then compounded by cpi and future
[5:23:56] years as opposed to 9.3 this year and
[5:24:00] 7.2 as originally budgeted and then to
[5:24:05] consider students also made a
[5:24:09] proposal, there were folks from smack
[5:24:15] and other groups that came and
[5:24:17] presented us a proposal on how to
[5:24:20] potentially spend some of the surplus
[5:24:22] dollars that had been provided by --
[5:24:25] that had been there until it was taken
[5:24:28] out from the free city college program.
[5:24:31] so, we support that in years where the
[5:24:33] city doesn't have budget deficit and
[5:24:38] also to -- for point number 4, a
[5:24:41] desire to change the language so that
[5:24:43] there's a deficit trigger, so right
[5:24:46] now there's flexibility for the city
[5:24:49] when they want to reduce funding for
[5:24:51] the free city college program, kind of
[5:24:55] at their whim.
[5:24:56] in a lot of the set asides we have at
[5:24:59] the city level, there's a deficit
[5:25:01] trigger where if the city's budget
[5:25:04] goes below a certain amount, then that
[5:25:08] the's when they may pause increases or
[5:25:13] something to that effect and so
[5:25:16] supervisor chan mentioned including
[5:25:17] something like that instead of giving
[5:25:20] more discretion to the city to have
[5:25:22] that in there, and then for the city
[5:25:24] to consider to reimburse student fees
[5:25:27] and tuition both retroactively and
[5:25:30] moving forward but not limited to
[5:25:32] ongoing student debt fee, covering
[5:25:37] health care, existing session in mou
[5:25:40] appendix a, students who withdraw from
[5:25:42] courses because students that have
[5:25:44] withdrawn in past, they've ended up
[5:25:46] having money that they owe to the
[5:25:49] college.
[5:25:50] so, if we get rid of that, we don't
[5:25:51] have to do this retroactive
[5:25:54] reimbursement of I guess unpaid fees
[5:25:57] if they withdraw from their classes
[5:26:00] and for number 6, for the city and all
[5:26:03] entities involved in the
[5:26:05] implementation for mou evaluation and
[5:26:08] amend the language of use of punds and
[5:26:10] adjustments in mou's, so going
[5:26:12] forward, having an open conversation
[5:26:13] how we want to do this, and I just
[5:26:17] want to note, kind of throw the ball
[5:26:22] at our -- dr. Lisa cooper wilkins was
[5:26:26] there along with student trustee
[5:26:27] brandt, so I want to if possible, if
[5:26:30] trustee chung wouldn't mind allowing
[5:26:32] more context to be added in case I
[5:26:34] missed some stuff and I'm sure I did.
[5:26:35] >> okay.
[5:26:38] no, I think you were very thorough.
[5:26:41] there's a smaller group, a subgroup
[5:26:44] from the oversight committee that had
[5:26:46] been meeting as a small equity I guess
[5:26:48] group to look at equity -- potential
[5:26:53] equity goals for the program to expand
[5:26:57] its impact for other citizens in the
[5:27:01] city and so there were also
[5:27:03] recommendations that sort of aligned
[5:27:05] with item 5 around other ways that
[5:27:09] student support could be extended
[5:27:12] through basic needs, addressing basic
[5:27:15] needs.
[5:27:16] also thinking about ways to offer
[5:27:20] maybe more structures that with
[5:27:23] programmatic elements to free city
[5:27:25] similar to other promise programs at
[5:27:27] other institutions but essentially the
[5:27:29] item said -- trustee wong covered 1-6
[5:27:33] are things that were discussed in
[5:27:35] those subcommittees and brought
[5:27:36] forward and discussed holistically as
[5:27:38] an oversight committee so those are
[5:27:40] the recommendations that are being
[5:27:43] brought forward to this board to
[5:27:44] support as well.
[5:27:46] >> are there any trustee comments or
[5:27:49] questions?
[5:27:50] okay, trustee chung?
[5:27:51] >> yes.
[5:27:52] I wanted to take the time and again
[5:27:55] echo the gratitude -- the underlying
[5:27:58] gratitude to trustees historically and
[5:28:01] as well as administrators working on
[5:28:03] this, I want to thank supervisor chan
[5:28:06] for her leadership in this.
[5:28:08] I mean, as far as allies who
[5:28:11] understand the importance of city
[5:28:12] college, thank you so much, supervisor
[5:28:16] chan.
[5:28:17] I also want to thank the grass root
[5:28:22] non-profit coalition that has also
[5:28:24] advocated for this, particularly the
[5:28:26] students.
[5:28:27] I think trustee wong had touched on
[5:28:29] this but the students, the historical
[5:28:34] courage of coleman advocates and
[5:28:35] the fellows that they recently brought on.
[5:28:40] I mean, I only heard second hand how
[5:28:45] incredible and how moving they were
[5:28:47] and how effective they were, so thank
[5:28:49] you so much, please, if there's anyone
[5:28:51] else to also relay that to them.
[5:28:56] and I want to take the time to
[5:29:01] thank vito mendes who was the mentor
[5:29:04] for those students and supported
[5:29:05] them and the overarching idea of
[5:29:09] empowering but holistically caring for
[5:29:13] them and seeing over them, thank you,
[5:29:16] vito, for doing that.
[5:29:17] >> trustee chisti?
[5:29:18] >> I want to echo some of those
[5:29:20] statements, thank you, trustee wong,
[5:29:26] and I'm grateful to supervisor chan
[5:29:30] for bringing us to where we are.
[5:29:32] I am specifically interested in number
[5:29:35] 6 and I guess I had a follow-up
[5:29:37] question for the deficit trigger too.
[5:29:40] what is the amount where that trigger
[5:29:45] happens in general?
[5:29:46] because think -- they're projecting
[5:29:51] a deficit right now.
[5:29:52] >> I think the intent was to keep the
[5:29:55] motion broad so that there's space to
[5:29:57] have the conversation between dcyf and
[5:30:01] our administrators so have that
[5:30:04] operational discussion and bring it
[5:30:05] back to the larger bodies for final
[5:30:08] say or recommendation or feedback.
[5:30:11] >> and I think the other thing and you
[5:30:14] started to allude to this, trustee
[5:30:17] wong, is that already plans have been
[5:30:21] made to have meetings align better
[5:30:25] with the city's budget process because
[5:30:29] we're obviously well behind the curve
[5:30:30] this year in making some of these
[5:30:33] recommendations but recognizing that
[5:30:35] they're going to be critical periods
[5:30:37] in the year where they'll have to be
[5:30:40] oversight meetings to, one, monitor
[5:30:41] where the budget is and then to be
[5:30:43] able to make recommendations that will
[5:30:46] have impact before the budget is
[5:30:48] formulated.
[5:30:49] >> and then for number 6, is there a
[5:30:53] timeline that was identified for this?
[5:30:56] because I think it alludes to
[5:30:58] modifications around changes to the
[5:30:59] use of funds, so is that within a
[5:31:03] year, is that -- was there a proposed
[5:31:05] timeline for has?
[5:31:06] >> so, there is a new timeline for
[5:31:09] dates for this upcoming year that
[5:31:13] better align with the budget
[5:31:15] formulation process.
[5:31:16] also there is a set of recommendations
[5:31:21] that are sort of scaled I guess is the
[5:31:26] word I want to use so -- I don't know
[5:31:29] that it matches whatever the city's
[5:31:31] trigger point is but there are sort of
[5:31:35] baseline budgetary needs that have
[5:31:37] been outlined plus some additional
[5:31:39] considerations for some of these other
[5:31:43] recommended uses of the funds that are
[5:31:50] based -- aligned also with our
[5:31:52] enrollment growth projections, both
[5:31:55] our most I guess ambitious growth foes
[5:32:00] versus what we think will be baseline
[5:32:01] that also help to think about how
[5:32:04] funding at various levels could be
[5:32:06] utilized.
[5:32:07] so, I think it is meant to offer some
[5:32:11] flexibility with what the city's
[5:32:15] budgetary challenges are as well, so
[5:32:17] washes we can think about skillfully
[5:32:20] funding our students but also offering
[5:32:22] additional support.
[5:32:23] >> and then what about the money in
[5:32:25] the reserve, was there any discussion
[5:32:28] about that, has that been clawed back?
[5:32:30] >> that is a very still unclear
[5:32:35] discussion until I think the final
[5:32:37] audits are finished.
[5:32:39] there still isn't a lot of clarity yet
[5:32:42] around both unspent funds and what if
[5:32:45] any is left in the reserve.
[5:32:47] >> okay, thank you for that.
[5:32:48] I wanted to again offer the more we
[5:32:52] can be in loop with some of these
[5:32:54] discussions that -- and just from my
[5:32:56] own experience of previously working
[5:32:59] at dcyf and overseeing the free city
[5:33:01] program, if I can help with this
[5:33:03] process in any way, I wanted to
[5:33:05] reiterate that.
[5:33:08] >> any further trustee comments or
[5:33:11] questions?
[5:33:12] any public comments?
[5:33:13] >> yes, we do.
[5:33:14] first is alyssa messier.
[5:33:20] >> next is mary lee hearn.
[5:33:30] >> good evening, earlier today, I was
[5:33:35] with our students, a good number of
[5:33:37] them in front of city hall protesting
[5:33:44] against the fact that this program,
[5:33:48] free city, has not been fully funded.
[5:33:51] the students are very aware and feel
[5:33:53] that they've been ripped off which
[5:33:56] they have been with greater than 50%
[5:34:00] of what had been promised being
[5:34:06] withdrawn.
[5:34:07] now, most of the stories today had to
[5:34:11] do with students coming into an
[5:34:15] academic situation who thought that
[5:34:20] they never would have had that
[5:34:23] experience had it not been for free
[5:34:25] city.
[5:34:26] other students talking about the fact
[5:34:27] that they couldn't afford to take, you
[5:34:31] know, more than x amount of classes
[5:34:34] because of the cost.
[5:34:36] so, I would like to thank all those
[5:34:39] who have been working on this.
[5:34:41] I appreciate that.
[5:34:42] they appreciate it I'm sure, but what
[5:34:47] I would like to see happen is that you
[5:34:51] keep students informed as you go
[5:34:55] along, that what is being done and
[5:34:58] that you are definitely working on it
[5:35:01] because they are very concerned right
[5:35:04] now and we need to shore up our
[5:35:07] students, we need to the say we're
[5:35:10] right there behind you and we're
[5:35:11] trying to get this done, so
[5:35:12] anything that can be done to expedite
[5:35:15] it would I'm sure be very -- students
[5:35:20] would be very grateful, but please be
[5:35:23] aware that there are many students who
[5:35:25] are very concerned right now.
[5:35:26] thank you.
[5:35:29] >> next is michael adams.
[5:35:41] >> hello, everyone, thank you for your
[5:35:42] patience.
[5:35:43] I too was at city hall with students
[5:35:46] and some of you passed through I'm
[5:35:50] sure.
[5:35:51] I won't repeat everything you've heard
[5:35:54] about the anxiety, the uncertainty,
[5:36:00] the questioning projecting the worst
[5:36:05] case scenario so folks are preparing
[5:36:07] themselves for not being able to come
[5:36:10] to school.
[5:36:12] and they're wise enough to anticipate
[5:36:15] potential in the process that it will
[5:36:18] fail.
[5:36:19] we just sat through you all going to a
[5:36:21] closed meeting and coming back with
[5:36:25] for us nothing but questions and not
[5:36:28] an answer to what we thouk you were
[5:36:30] going -- so, things happen
[5:36:35] and we appreciate your perseverance and
[5:36:38] your courage to sticking together when
[5:36:40] stuff happens.
[5:36:44] it's sometimes unexpected.
[5:36:49] the thing that keeps coming to mind to
[5:36:51] me is and what else.
[5:36:53] free city is one source of potential
[5:36:57] support but I think I've mentioned
[5:36:59] before, I come from midwest colleges
[5:37:02] and I get mail every month from the
[5:37:05] foundations asking for money.
[5:37:06] I don't hear anything about the city
[5:37:10] college of san francisco foundation as
[5:37:14] a potential source along with free
[5:37:16] city.
[5:37:17] if we put all of our hopes in one
[5:37:20] basket and there's another one kind of
[5:37:23] waiting out there by the curb that
[5:37:26] hasn't been stimulated to participate
[5:37:30] and the last time I looked online, the
[5:37:33] last two years of reports of the
[5:37:36] foundation are missing.
[5:37:38] the information is old, so I would
[5:37:42] plead with you all to use free city as
[5:37:48] a core but think about other pathways
[5:37:54] to raising money for this institution.
[5:37:57] it just makes sense and we're all
[5:38:00] subject to those mailers that go out
[5:38:04] very friendly, hi, alumni, send us
[5:38:06] some money, you know.
[5:38:07] and the stories that we hear about at
[5:38:11] city hall from the stories are
[5:38:15] powerful stories to deliver a message,
[5:38:17] not just to free city, but to the
[5:38:19] foundation and any other sources that
[5:38:22] we can think about, so thank you for
[5:38:26] what you're doing and we're here to
[5:38:30] help.
[5:38:31] >> that concludes public comment.
[5:38:32] >> thank you very much.
[5:38:39] okay.
[5:38:40] ms. Esteban, roll call vote, please.
[5:38:41] >> student trustee brandt, your
[5:38:42] advisory vote?
[5:38:43] >> aye.
[5:38:44] >> president martinez?
[5:38:45] >> yes.
[5:38:46] >> vice-president zamora?
[5:38:47] >> aye.
[5:38:48] >> trustee chisti?
[5:38:49] >> aye.
[5:38:50] >> trustee wong?
[5:38:51] >> yes.
[5:38:52] >> trustee solomon?
[5:38:53] >> yes.
[5:38:54] >> trustee chung?
[5:38:55] >> aye.
[5:38:56] >> trustee mccarty?
[5:38:57] >> aye.
[5:38:58] >> the motion passes.
[5:38:59] >> thank you.
[5:39:00] we now move to the adoption of 6e, the
[5:39:03] adoption of resolution 2025-10 in
[5:39:06] recognition of pride month.
[5:39:08] I believe the resolution is being
[5:39:11] moved by trustee chung and seconded by
[5:39:16] trustee solomon.
[5:39:17] would you like to address this
[5:39:20] resolution before we take questions or
[5:39:24] comments?
[5:39:26] >> yes, do you want to move in and
[5:39:30] then I'll reverse.
[5:39:36] >> I wanted to move it but with some
[5:39:41] amendments that supplement and take
[5:39:43] nothing away with what's very good and
[5:39:45] what's there.
[5:39:46] so, if I could proceed, hopefully what
[5:39:48] I sent to ms. Esteban was easy enough
[5:39:52] to follow but I can walk through it as
[5:39:56] well.
[5:39:57] so, the first -- just in order from
[5:39:59] the top of the resolution to the bottom
[5:40:04] of the resolution, in the -- okay.
[5:40:14] in the 7th whereas, in whereas that
[5:40:17] starts with whereas city college a hah
[5:40:20] a proud tradition of combining culture
[5:40:24] and education and I think there's an
[5:40:26] extra in there, and sorry, in 1989, the
[5:40:34] addition is lgbt, studies faculty jack
[5:40:37] collins created the first freestanding
[5:40:41] lgbt studies department in the nature,
[5:40:44] it's in addition of those five words,
[5:40:47] lgbt studies faculty jack
[5:40:51] collins, everything else stays the
[5:40:54] same.
[5:40:56] the next amendment is to add a
[5:41:00] whereas, after the whereas that's
[5:41:01] about -- that starts with the whereas
[5:41:04] the college's queer resource centers
[5:41:06] empowers and unites lgtqia+
[5:41:11] students, an additional whereas
[5:41:14] that is taken from the resolution that
[5:41:22] we passed on june 22, 2023, and I
[5:41:27] thought it was important to put that
[5:41:31] in there because what we said back
[5:41:33] then is we're going to do this every
[5:41:36] year, just as a reminder to us of what
[5:41:39] we did make a commitment to two years
[5:41:46] ago.
[5:41:47] the next amendment is to delete the
[5:41:48] next whereas and just to replace it
[5:41:51] with whereas the first annual flag
[5:41:56] raising -- pride flag raising ceremony
[5:41:58] was held in 2024, the new whereas
[5:42:04] includes that we voted on that.
[5:42:08] so, just to cut out a little
[5:42:11] repetition.
[5:42:12] and then the final one which came from
[5:42:16] trustee chung is -- sorry, trustee
[5:42:18] chung gave us the jack collins
[5:42:21] language.
[5:42:22] then a final resolved, finally
[5:42:25] the board of
[5:42:27] trustees of city college of san
[5:42:29] francisco strongly reaffirms its
[5:42:30] commitments as resolved in its june
[5:42:33] 22, 2023 resolution, honorees the city
[5:42:35] college of san francisco's lgbtqia+
[5:42:42] community for their ongoing courage
[5:42:43] and compassion and offers its
[5:42:44] profound thanks for to them for making
[5:42:45] our world a better place.
[5:42:49] >> trustee chung, do you have anything
[5:42:50] to add?
[5:42:51] >> I just want to thank trustee
[5:42:55] solomon for being a wonderful ally to
[5:42:59] our community and dinging all these
[5:43:03] amendments and letting me second it.
[5:43:05] >> vice-president zamora?
[5:43:06] >> I would like to thank both trustee
[5:43:08] chung and trustee solomon for bringing
[5:43:11] this forward.
[5:43:17] >> trustee mccarty?
[5:43:20] >> and I would like the thank them for
[5:43:21] bringing it forward the month before
[5:43:22] so we can have this for the full month.
[5:43:25] >> any other trustee comments?
[5:43:26] trustee chisti?
[5:43:29] >> I think we worked on it together
[5:43:31] in 2023, so thank you so much for
[5:43:33] bringing this forward and I'm excited
[5:43:35] for our flagging raising ceremony
[5:43:38] which was beautiful last year and I'm
[5:43:41] excited for it for this year.
[5:43:44] >> any other trustee comments?
[5:43:47] I would like to thank you for adding
[5:43:49] the name of jack collins who
[5:43:54] originated the lgbtq studies.
[5:43:56] I had the privilege of also working
[5:43:58] with him as did many of us at that
[5:44:00] time and so it's good to see him
[5:44:03] finally acknowledged, a lot of hard
[5:44:05] work, thank you very much.
[5:44:06] are there any public comments?
[5:44:09] ms. Esteban, can you take the vote
[5:44:11] please.
[5:44:12] >> student trustee brandt, your
[5:44:13] advisory vote?
[5:44:14] >> aye.
[5:44:15] >> president martinez?
[5:44:16] >> yes.
[5:44:17] >> vice-president zamora?
[5:44:18] >> aye.
[5:44:19] >> trustee chisti?
[5:44:20] >> aye.
[5:44:21] >> trustee wong?
[5:44:22] >> yes.
[5:44:23] >> trustee solomon?
[5:44:24] >> aye.
[5:44:25] >> trustee chung?
[5:44:26] >> aye.
[5:44:27] >> trustee mccarty?
[5:44:28] >> aye.
[5:44:29] >> the motion passes.
[5:44:31] >> we now move to the approval of the
[5:44:33] minutes, are there any corrections to
[5:44:34] any of the minutes, if so, please
[5:44:38] specify the meeting date and
[5:44:43] corrections.
[5:44:44] seeing none, is there a motion to
[5:44:45] approve the minutes of april 24, 2025.
[5:44:51] >> we have one public comment,
[5:44:54] abigail bornstein.
[5:44:55] >> thank you, sorry.
[5:44:59] >> so, for the umpteenth time, one of
[5:45:04] my written public comments was left
[5:45:06] off, which one this time, it was the
[5:45:11] april 24th 10a budget update, at this
[5:45:15] point, this leaving off of my written
[5:45:18] comment feels intentional and I will
[5:45:21] read it back into the record and ask
[5:45:23] the board to approve the april 24th
[5:45:26] minute with the addition of my written
[5:45:28] comment which was left off.
[5:45:30] so, item 10a budget update, 137 words,
[5:45:34] when did the board receive the slides
[5:45:36] with the draft budget assumptions, this
[5:45:38] was not posted for the
[5:45:40] public until sometime today.
[5:45:42] on occasion, this last minute upload
[5:45:44] may happen but it has now become
[5:45:46] common place.
[5:45:48] as either madeline or harry states a
[5:45:51] place holder agenda is released on
[5:45:54] monday but only shortly before the
[5:45:56] actual meeting on thursday do the
[5:45:58] attachments appear.
[5:45:59] if these assumptions were shown at the
[5:46:02] pgc budget committee on tuesday, why
[5:46:05] weren't they posted on tuesday instead
[5:46:08] of last minute today.
[5:46:09] you state that you receive bead
[5:46:11] feedback from the pgc budget committee
[5:46:13] but provide no insight into that
[5:46:15] feedback.
[5:46:16] were they supportive of the
[5:46:17] assumptions, asked for change, we never
[5:46:19] share the actual feedback with the
[5:46:21] board which would be educational.
[5:46:23] what was the position of the pgc budget
[5:46:26] committee on the assumptions?
[5:46:28] again, I ask that the minutes be seconded
[5:46:30] and my written comment included in the
[5:46:35] minutes, thank you.
[5:46:36] >> that concludes public comments.
[5:46:39] >> with that amendments, is there a
[5:46:41] motion to approve all three of the
[5:46:43] sets of minutes?
[5:46:45] >> so moved.
[5:46:46] >> is there a second?
[5:46:49] >> second, but if I may add to the
[5:46:52] discussion.
[5:46:53] >> yes.
[5:46:54] >> I wonder, and again, I completely
[5:46:57] understand, all our staff are so
[5:47:00] overworked, they're so overworked, we
[5:47:03] don't have enough staffing.
[5:47:04] I can relate, I'm in workers comp,
[5:47:07] we're two secretaries short and I'm so
[5:47:10] tired, but I hope perhaps maybe we can
[5:47:14] just double check to make sure if
[5:47:15] there are any other written public
[5:47:19] comment tobies make sure they're added
[5:47:20] if we can conditionally approve these
[5:47:22] minutes, that would be wonderful,
[5:47:24] thank you.
[5:47:25] >> and if with that, that would be
[5:47:30] delegated to interim chancellor
[5:47:32] bailey, thank you.
[5:47:36] alright.
[5:47:37] are we ready for the roll call vote?
[5:47:41] >> student trustee brandt, your
[5:47:42] advisory vote?
[5:47:43] >> aye.
[5:47:45] >> president martinez?
[5:47:46] >> yes.
[5:47:48] >> vice-president zamora?
[5:47:49] >> aye.
[5:47:50] >> trustee chisti?
[5:47:51] >> aye.
[5:47:52] >> trustee wong?
[5:47:53] >> yes.
[5:47:54] >> trustee solomon?
[5:47:55] >> yes.
[5:47:56] >> trustee chung?
[5:47:57] >> aye.
[5:47:58] >> trustee mccarty?
[5:47:59] >> aye.
[5:48:00] >> the motion passes.
[5:48:01] >> we're now at the constituent group
[5:48:03] report, the first one is the student
[5:48:08] chancellor's report, malinalli
[5:48:11] villalobos.
[5:48:17] I know that -- is he here?
[5:48:18] thank you.
[5:48:43] mr. Villalobos is also an the encore
[5:48:45] convention so it's understandable.
[5:48:51] >> can you hear me?
[5:48:52] >> there you are, thank you.
[5:48:53] >> yes, thank you.
[5:48:57] saludos, good evening, ccsf community,
[5:49:00] especially our amazing ccsf students,
[5:49:03] I hope you're doing well this evening.
[5:49:09] as student chancellor, I would like to
[5:49:10] report on behalf of the associated
[5:49:12] students this evening, I do want to
[5:49:14] let you know that it's very
[5:49:20] troublesome, it's very troublesome
[5:49:22] wherein when we have student voices
[5:49:24] not being heard.
[5:49:27] it has been a very upsetting and
[5:49:33] emotional night as far as with our
[5:49:39] contract with the incoming chancellor,
[5:49:45] dr. Cortez.
[5:49:48] as stated earlier in public comment,
[5:49:51] students overwhelmingly have shown
[5:49:57] their support for dr. Cortez, and dr.
[5:50:00] cortez, if you can hear us, be patient
[5:50:02] with us as we're trying to figure
[5:50:04] this out.
[5:50:05] when you come in, there's a lot of
[5:50:07] work to be done and students, don't
[5:50:11] lose any hope.
[5:50:13] our voices are strong and we will be
[5:50:17] heard.
[5:50:18] when we're not heard, we're going
[5:50:21] to go ahead and take action.
[5:50:23] every board member there was elected,
[5:50:25] was elected with the support of
[5:50:28] students during campaigns and we have
[5:50:32] to restructure that and go back to the
[5:50:34] drawing board and question board
[5:50:38] members, if they deserve to be in
[5:50:40] their elected positions, we'll go
[5:50:42] ahead and do that.
[5:50:45] as stated earlier in the public comment
[5:50:52] , the advocacy for the african
[5:50:56] american resource center needs to be
[5:50:59] present by action and the action is
[5:51:02] having the african american resource
[5:51:05] center be moved to the new student
[5:51:10] success center, there are no ands, ifs
[5:51:14] or buts about it, the students have
[5:51:16] spoken, the workers within those
[5:51:18] spaces have spoken.
[5:51:19] this has been years in the making.
[5:51:24] we have to make sure we have the space
[5:51:26] for the african american resource
[5:51:28] center.
[5:51:29] we have to make sure we have the space
[5:51:31] for city dream
[5:51:34] to be able to conduct the amazing they
[5:51:38] do in their those spaces, we have to
[5:51:40] make sure the resource center have
[5:51:42] ample spaces to serve student/parent
[5:51:46] needs and children as well.
[5:51:50] as I'm finishing up my last few days
[5:51:53] as student chancellor, I want to
[5:51:55] congratulate the incoming executive
[5:52:00] student council for this new academic
[5:52:03] year, congratulations to angelica pam
[5:52:07] poes for becoming our new student
[5:52:10] trustee, heather brandt for becoming
[5:52:11] our student chancellor and myself as
[5:52:14] student vice chancellor.
[5:52:15] I do want to finish up, I know I'm out
[5:52:18] of time, I want to finish up with a
[5:52:20] few seconds to share.
[5:52:23] on behalf of the students of the san
[5:52:26] francisco community college district,
[5:52:27] I want to extend a heartfelt
[5:52:30] appreciation to heather brandt, your
[5:52:33] leadership, advocacy and unwavering
[5:52:34] commitment to representing the student
[5:52:36] voice have made a lasting impact.
[5:52:38] these last few years, you brought
[5:52:41] thoughtfulness, energy and integrity
[5:52:43] to every discussion in your
[5:52:46] contributions will continue to inspire
[5:52:47] students throughout the many years to
[5:52:50] come.
[5:52:51] gracias, thank you for your dedicated
[5:52:53] service, you truly made a difference in
[5:52:55] students' lives, that is the work that
[5:52:58] the students have been putting forward
[5:53:00] for the last two years, thank you, I
[5:53:02] appreciate you, even when the board
[5:53:04] does not get it together, you have
[5:53:06] been one of the only people there that
[5:53:08] students can count on, so I appreciate
[5:53:11] you and with that, I leave my hat to
[5:53:14] the next student chancellor, heather
[5:53:16] brandt, thank you, everybody, thank
[5:53:17] you, all the students for being able
[5:53:19] to support me these last two years as
[5:53:22] student chancellor and as
[5:53:30] student trustee previously.
[5:53:31] thank you.
[5:53:32] >> very good.
[5:53:33] we now turn to the student trustee's
[5:53:37] report.
[5:53:42] student trustee brandt, you're muted.
[5:53:44] >> I'm trying to unmute, are you able
[5:53:48] to hear me?
[5:53:49] >> yes.
[5:53:50] >> I'm going to try to keep it within
[5:53:51] time, this is my last and
[5:53:54] final report.
[5:53:56] I was trying not to get emotional.
[5:54:05] well, I apologize for
[5:54:09] coming in late tonight, I was
[5:54:11] experiencing audio challenges earlier
[5:54:13] and hopefully those have since been
[5:54:15] involved, I too am in new york and
[5:54:18] encore and I wish I could be in person
[5:54:19] with you all.
[5:54:21] I sit here tonight having recently
[5:54:23] wrapped up the 2024-25 academic year
[5:54:26] and my second and final term as your
[5:54:30] student trustee and want to express my
[5:54:33] deepest gratitude for the honor of
[5:54:36] serving students at the city college
[5:54:38] of san francisco representing a
[5:54:40] vibrant, diverse and resilient student
[5:54:41] body has been one of the humbling and
[5:54:45] transformative experiences of my life.
[5:54:47] over the paster two years, I have
[5:54:49] advocated for student needs on a
[5:54:51] number of issues and make no mistake,
[5:54:54] there's so much more to be done as we
[5:54:56] have heard from city dream, the family
[5:54:58] resource center and the african
[5:55:01] american resource center with regard
[5:55:02] to the use of space.
[5:55:03] I did not, have not and will not ever
[5:55:05] shy away from speaking truth to power
[5:55:09] including calling out
[5:55:11] atrocities that continue to take
[5:55:13] place in palestine, I thank this board
[5:55:15] for their support which came in the
[5:55:17] form of a cease fire resolution.
[5:55:19] my voice at this table has come from a
[5:55:21] place of lived experience, a deep love
[5:55:24] for ccsf and our community college
[5:55:30] system as well as a recognition that
[5:55:31] equity and access are not abstract
[5:55:32] ideals but urgent necessities.
[5:55:35] this journey has not been without lots
[5:55:37] of struggle and personal hardship.
[5:55:39] I want to share in the hopes of
[5:55:42] building understanding of what life is
[5:55:43] and can be like for our students, over
[5:55:46] the course of the last two years, my
[5:55:49] mother was placed on hospice as her
[5:55:52] alzheimer's advanced, my siblings and
[5:55:56] spouse were diagnosed with different
[5:55:58] stages and forms of cancer and have
[5:55:59] has had to go radiation, chemotherapy
[5:56:04] and various procedures, I lost two of
[5:56:06] my first cousins who were in their
[5:56:09] 30's, the one to brain kans and her
[5:56:11] the other to khakis, if you know
[5:56:13] anything about coming from latino
[5:56:16] family, our cousins is like our
[5:56:20] siblings too.
[5:56:21] I mourn the ongoing loss of palestine
[5:56:25] where many of my loved onuses continue
[5:56:27] the fight for survival.
[5:56:28] all of this while navigating
[5:56:30] the demands of life while I work to
[5:56:33] raise my three children holding down
[5:56:35] two part time job, attending school
[5:56:37] full time to help ot with our ftes
[5:56:40] numbers, there were times the weight
[5:56:44] felt unbearable and I questioned
[5:56:46] whether I could carry the
[5:56:47] responsibilities of this role and
[5:56:49] still show up fully for my family and
[5:56:51] community but with the support of my
[5:56:53] peers and the ccsf family, I kept
[5:56:56] showing up, I leave this role
[5:57:01] proud, not just of accomplished but
[5:57:07] the persistence and heart that it took
[5:57:09] the get here and to carry me through
[5:57:11] through.
[5:57:12] as I prepare to step away from the
[5:57:17] seat, I await what lays ahead for me,
[5:57:21] it is a great pleasure the introduce
[5:57:24] your incoming student trustee for the
[5:57:27] 25-26 academic year angel koe campos,
[5:57:31] she brings a wealth of knowledge and
[5:57:34] experience in community advocacy,
[5:57:37] coalition bid, having previously
[5:57:39] served as associated student council
[5:57:41] of ocean president, student
[5:57:43] chancellor, a current representative
[5:57:46] within participatory governance, a
[5:57:47] former member of the free city
[5:57:49] oversight committee as well as having
[5:57:51] held various roles other the years
[5:57:53] within the student senate for
[5:57:56] community colleges, ultimately
[5:57:57] concludes her time in the organization
[5:57:58] as president.
[5:57:59] she currently serves on the boards of
[5:58:02] san francisco young dams and the
[5:58:06] harvey milk club, her background is
[5:58:12] deeply engaged in justice and
[5:58:14] inclusion.
[5:58:15] I have full confidence she will lead
[5:58:17] with integrity, compassion and advice,
[5:58:19] please welcome her with the same
[5:58:22] encouragement and collaboration that I
[5:58:24] have been so fortunate to receive.
[5:58:26] to student, I hope you never forget
[5:58:28] your voice matters, you belong in
[5:58:31] every room where decisions are made.
[5:58:33] to those who continue this work, thank
[5:58:35] you, thank you for believing in
[5:58:37] student leadership and for your
[5:58:39] commitment to keeping ccsf a place
[5:58:42] where opportunity begins and futures
[5:58:44] are transformed.
[5:58:45] thank you.
[5:58:47] >> thank you very much.
[5:58:49] and now we come to the academic senate
[5:58:52] president's report.
[5:59:02] >> good evening, everyone, exactly one
[5:59:04] week ago today, we came together to
[5:59:07] celebrate the achievement of our
[5:59:09] students at our annual commencement
[5:59:11] ceremony, this year our student peek
[5:59:14] speaker was especially moving,
[5:59:16] commencement reminds us why we have
[5:59:17] been here for 90 years and why it is
[5:59:20] critical we continue to be here for
[5:59:22] decades to come.
[5:59:24] also last week as happens every year,
[5:59:27] the academic senate seated a new
[5:59:29] council.
[5:59:30] we were glad to see some new faces and
[5:59:32] welcome back some familiar ones and
[5:59:34] grateful to those who cycled off the
[5:59:36] council this year.
[5:59:38] the academic senate represents faculty
[5:59:40] voice in all matters concerning the 10
[5:59:45] plus 1 and I would like to underscore
[5:59:47] the value of the campus that would
[5:59:49] like to step up to run for executive
[5:59:53] council.
[5:59:56] as we continue to navigate a series of
[5:59:57] complex realities in the coming year,
[5:59:58] the work of the academic senate will
[5:59:59] remain as important as ever.
[6:00:00] my name is katia fuchs, a math faculty
[6:00:02] and I stand before you today again as
[6:00:05] the newly elected academic senate
[6:00:09] president.
[6:00:10] during my time serving in the academic
[6:00:12] senate and now as senate president, I
[6:00:15] am very conscious of the purpose and
[6:00:17] value of open and inclusive processes.
[6:00:21] when we honor the process, we create a
[6:00:24] culture of accountability and trust.
[6:00:27] this is crucial to the work of any
[6:00:30] successful team and that's what we are
[6:00:33] here, a team.
[6:00:34] tonight you could have closed the loop
[6:00:36] on a crucial process, one that would
[6:00:39] have put us on a path to credible and
[6:00:42] stable leadership, a key facet of
[6:00:44] providing an excellent learning
[6:00:45] environment for each and every one of
[6:00:48] our students and maintaining our
[6:00:53] accreditation.
[6:00:54] I thought I would fill you in on some
[6:00:56] important business that the executive
[6:00:58] council has done since our last
[6:01:00] meeting.
[6:01:01] we endorsed an enrollment philosophy
[6:01:05] we are proud of.
[6:01:07] it prioritizes a holistic student
[6:01:11] centered approach towards enrollment
[6:01:12] management and program support.
[6:01:14] the adult education program through
[6:01:16] your plan and an updated two year
[6:01:19] comprehensive program review process
[6:01:21] which will provide tools and support
[6:01:22] to reflect on the way we currently
[6:01:24] serve our students and collectively
[6:01:25] plan for a future centering student
[6:01:28] success.
[6:01:29] as a body, we feel these tenses move
[6:01:31] our institution forward in servicing
[6:01:33] our students and our broader community.
[6:01:36] our meeting also featured a budget
[6:01:39] update from bc dr. Ligoso which came
[6:01:42] directly on the heels of a budget
[6:01:45] flavored report from robin pew from
[6:01:50] aft, it highlighted the importance of
[6:01:53] ongoing dialogue and constructive
[6:01:55] engagement to get to a place of mutual
[6:01:57] understanding and consensus.
[6:02:00] and thus I conclude my first ever
[6:02:03] report before you, though summer is a
[6:02:06] relatively quiet time on our campus,
[6:02:08] there is work to be done as we're
[6:02:11] recharging getting ready for the full
[6:02:13] steam of the academic year.
[6:02:14] I will continue to come before you to
[6:02:18] speak to and celebrate the faculty in
[6:02:24] my role as senate president this year.
[6:02:28] >> will michael snider be making a
[6:02:31] report?
[6:02:32] thank you.
[6:02:33] >> michael asked me to deliver his
[6:02:35] report for him.
[6:02:37] I would like to thank -- I would like
[6:02:39] to begin by thanking interim chancellor
[6:02:41] bailey for his leadership and support
[6:02:43] over the past year.
[6:02:45] his presence at classified senate
[6:02:48] meetings, his encouragement of
[6:02:50] classified voices in governance and
[6:02:51] his participation in events like the
[6:02:55] holiday breakfast, toy drive and
[6:02:57] graduation ceremonies have been
[6:02:58] greatly appreciated.
[6:02:59] and most of all, we thank him for
[6:03:02] leading the college through difficult
[6:03:04] times.
[6:03:05] we wish him all the best in his next
[6:03:08] chapter.
[6:03:09] I'll skip over michael's next comments
[6:03:13] which were welcoming dr. Cortez.
[6:03:16] at our may meeting, our final session
[6:03:17] before the fall, we certified the
[6:03:18] results of the classified senate
[6:03:21] elections, a heartfelt thank you to the
[6:03:23] election committee for their time and
[6:03:25] effort.
[6:03:26] I also want to acknowledge and thank
[6:03:28] all our outgoing senators, your
[6:03:30] commitment over the past two years
[6:03:31] made a real and lasting impact and we
[6:03:35] sincerely hope to welcome you back in
[6:03:36] the future.
[6:03:38] congratulations to our newly elected
[6:03:40] senators for the 25-27 term, blane
[6:03:46] augustine and jeffrey kelley and
[6:03:50] congratulations to suzanne, maria and
[6:03:53] tanya who will continue her role for a
[6:03:55] second term.
[6:03:56] finally thank you to all classified
[6:03:58] professionals if for your continued
[6:04:01] support and confidence in re-electing
[6:04:03] me as classified senate president for
[6:04:05] a second term.
[6:04:06] it is an honor to serve and advocate
[6:04:08] for our community.
[6:04:10] as we head into summer, here's a
[6:04:13] reminder ore seize candy fundraiser
[6:04:16] will continue through december supporting
[6:04:20] the classified senate development
[6:04:21] and the toy drive.
[6:04:23] this month's classified governance
[6:04:28] spotlight award goes to cecilia,
[6:04:31] educational credential training in
[6:04:32] human resources, an active member of
[6:04:39] the pgc member, it contributes
[6:04:42] manfully to the work of the college,
[6:04:44] we thank her for her dedication and
[6:04:46] service.
[6:04:47] thank you, michael snider, classified
[6:04:49] senate president.
[6:04:50] >> thank you.
[6:04:52] we now move to the service employees
[6:04:56] international union local 1021
[6:04:57] president's report.
[6:04:59] >> hi, can you hear me?
[6:05:01] >> yes.
[6:05:02] >> okay, good.
[6:05:04] evening, board of trustees, seiu is
[6:05:06] pleased to see we have finally got our
[6:05:10] tentative agreement regarding our wage
[6:05:12] for the fiscal year 24-25 on the
[6:05:15] agenda for your approval.
[6:05:17] however, it is concerning that the
[6:05:19] process has taken this long.
[6:05:20] >> it doesn't make sense to me that so
[6:05:23] much excessive money is being spent on
[6:05:25] the law firm and we still are not
[6:05:28] completely done with negotiations on
[6:05:30] our full reopener.
[6:05:33] so that's that.
[6:05:34] now with the stuff that went on
[6:05:38] tonight which is don't understand
[6:05:41] what's going on, a what on earth is
[6:05:42] happening here.
[6:05:43] you've published your choice for
[6:05:44] a permanent chancellor, seiu has been
[6:05:48] trusting your process, hasn't had
[6:05:49] conversations with you all, letting
[6:05:51] you go ahead and do your thing for
[6:05:54] once, right, and not interfering.
[6:05:57] but now we have some doubt.
[6:06:00] after you went into closed session
[6:06:02] tonight for the third time, we
[6:06:05] expected a brief discussion but it
[6:06:08] lasted much longer without any
[6:06:11] explanation.
[6:06:12] it's clear you could have sought some
[6:06:13] of that expensive legal advice to
[6:06:15] provide us with information that is
[6:06:18] sharable.
[6:06:19] labor is not a mood for your bullshit
[6:06:21] and you are pissing us all off in a
[6:06:23] bad way.
[6:06:24] this does not look good, you guys, it
[6:06:27] doesn't.
[6:06:28] so, figure out from the law firm what
[6:06:30] you can share and get a message out
[6:06:36] there.
[6:06:38] good night.
[6:06:39] >> thank you.
[6:06:41] american federation of teachers local
[6:06:44] 2121 president's report.
[6:06:51] administrator's association co-chair's
[6:06:55] report?
[6:06:57] the department chair council
[6:06:58] president's report and I understand
[6:07:00] that madeline mueller will be
[6:07:04] reporting.
[6:07:20] >> [inaudible].
[6:07:27] you didn't want to hear that anyway.
[6:07:32] darlene at the last minute said she
[6:07:34] couldn't make it, she had a speech but
[6:07:36] she wanted to give her speech next
[6:07:39] time, she said improvise, okay.
[6:07:42] but to keep a few issues as we started
[6:07:45] the meeting a year ago, grades were
[6:07:49] due and I don't know if you noticed
[6:07:51] out here, a lot of us were getting --
[6:07:54] making sure that all those thousands
[6:07:57] of grades went in today absolutely no
[6:08:01] later than 5:00 because wilbur said
[6:08:04] so, this has taken a lot of energy
[6:08:06] from a lot of faculty and grades are
[6:08:09] very difficult because students as we
[6:08:12] know tonight, life happens, things
[6:08:16] happen and they want extensions and
[6:08:18] it's just very hard to make these kind
[6:08:21] of judgments.
[6:08:22] it's a crucial time for all the
[6:08:25] faculty.
[6:08:26] but we got them, I think we got
[6:08:27] everything in by 5:00.
[6:08:30] also will
[6:08:35] wilbur had another way of looking
[6:08:39] at ghost students, but our real
[6:08:41] student would are online and then stop
[6:08:44] coming and we have to be careful in
[6:08:46] the future not to confuse the bots and
[6:08:49] the fakes and the cabals that are out
[6:08:54] with students who really start and
[6:08:56] want to conclude, then as you get
[6:09:00] closer, then life happens and people
[6:09:01] stress and so forth so we have to make
[6:09:04] sure we don't intermingle our real
[6:09:07] students have a hard time and need to
[6:09:11] get fresh starts with the absolute
[6:09:14] fake folk.
[6:09:15] but I'm glad we're having that
[6:09:16] conversation and we are, the chaises
[6:09:17] are all having that conversation right
[6:09:20] now.
[6:09:21] then I wanted to thank whoever really
[6:09:24] put this wonderful booklet together
[6:09:26] for the graduation ceremony.
[6:09:28] I've been on the committee for many
[6:09:30] years and I designed the process in
[6:09:33] the 70's, but it's -- this is
[6:09:36] spectacular and especially about the
[6:09:39] 90th anniversary.
[6:09:40] you maybe all were there and, yeah,
[6:09:43] you were, but try to get people that
[6:09:45] you know to look over this booklet
[6:09:48] because it has some really wonderful
[6:09:50] history in it going back the to 90
[6:09:55] years, before my time barely.
[6:09:58] and then I wanted to share with you
[6:10:04] this evening a booklet, raise your
[6:10:05] hands, how many of you have this?
[6:10:06] nobody?
[6:10:07] good.
[6:10:08] then I'm going to give you one
[6:10:11] if we ever have another break, I have
[6:10:14] one with you and you'll have to look
[6:10:17] at page 90, I won't tell you why, it
[6:10:21] is an normative book that was written
[6:10:27] for our 70's anniversary, very
[6:10:28] complete, lots of pictures.
[6:10:29] you know, any time we have these tense
[6:10:30] meetings, I think we have to recollect
[6:10:31] the school has a long history and
[6:10:36] there's been interesting moments, so I
[6:10:40] want to have a chance maybe now or a
[6:10:44] little later that you all get a copy
[6:10:45] of this.
[6:10:49] >> chair mueller, if you can stay here
[6:10:51] for a moment, does it have anything in
[6:10:54] that book about charter day?
[6:10:57] >> [inaudible].
[6:11:00] >> but is it included in the history so
[6:11:05] when we have it, we can remember
[6:11:07] that it's a commemoration we need to
[6:11:11] celebrate?
[6:11:12] >> [inaudible]
[6:11:13] >> thank you.
[6:11:16] >> [inaudible].
[6:11:34] >> thank you.
[6:11:35] >> pardon my ignorance, what is
[6:11:37] charter day?
[6:11:44] >> can you come to the microphone.
[6:11:48] >> we have -- I have to go back into
[6:11:50] my boxes and we're reading some
[6:11:53] materials about it but we still don't
[6:11:55] have the exact charter language.
[6:12:01] uc berkeley was the first charter
[6:12:03] school way back and subsequently when
[6:12:05] the schools became real, they had a
[6:12:07] charter and we used to have charter
[6:12:11] days, april 17th which we haven't had
[6:12:12] for a while.
[6:12:13] so, maybe we can resurrect that for
[6:12:17] the 90th, I don't know.
[6:12:18] >> it's kind of like a birthday.
[6:12:20] >> yes, but anyway, as I say, I don't
[6:12:22] want the interrupt the meeting but
[6:12:24] I'll let you one of these, these are
[6:12:28] very informative.
[6:12:29] >> and now we turn to item 10,
[6:12:31] chancellor's report.
[6:12:32] do you have a report?
[6:12:37] >> I know it's late, I wanted to take
[6:12:39] a moment to again thank everyone who
[6:12:41] was a part of last week's commencement.
[6:12:45] there was an incredible commencement
[6:12:48] committee working really hard behind
[6:12:49] the scenes, more than 65 volunteers
[6:12:53] and I was just reminded after
[6:12:55] madeline's comments that we even
[6:12:57] engaged one of our librarians to help
[6:13:02] with the archival information and
[6:13:03] photostats that appear in the
[6:13:05] commencement booklet.
[6:13:06] there were a number of fobs who were a
[6:13:08] a part of the platform party and
[6:13:11] everyone has an interesting role and a
[6:13:13] very diverse real to play, but all of
[6:13:15] that came together to celebrate an
[6:13:18] incredible milestone for our students,
[6:13:20] many of whom it can take many years
[6:13:24] for them to reach that incredible
[6:13:29] achievement, we awarded almost 3
[6:13:30] thousand certificates at this time and
[6:13:33] graduated a little over 500 students
[6:13:36] on thursday and so many thanks again
[6:13:38] to all the folks who played a really
[6:13:41] pivotal role in that.
[6:13:42] it's not just an achievement for the
[6:13:45] students but many of us walk alongside
[6:13:49] those students a long time before
[6:13:51] they're students and until they reach
[6:13:53] this milestone, so it's an achievement
[6:13:55] for the community as well as the
[6:13:56] students, I want to thank everyone for
[6:13:58] that and I also just want to -- I
[6:14:02] don't know if reassure is the right
[6:14:05] word, I'm definitely hearing the
[6:14:07] voices that are speaking about student
[6:14:10] spaces and trying to engage as many
[6:14:12] folks in conversation to address those
[6:14:16] concerns, the thoughts, the ideas that
[6:14:18] are coming forward, so I just wanted
[6:14:20] to again reassure folks that their
[6:14:22] voices are being heard and doing our
[6:14:25] very best to incorporate everyone's
[6:14:28] perspectives as we make
[6:14:30] decisions about moving forward.
[6:14:31] thank you.
[6:14:33] >> thank you.
[6:14:37] >> we're now at presentations and
[6:14:40] discussions, accreditation update a,
[6:14:44] would you lead us off please.
[6:14:47] >> we have avc charles here to prepare
[6:14:51] some details but I know she is not
[6:14:53] feeling well so I have a few
[6:14:56] comments from her if she is not still
[6:14:59] online.
[6:15:00] she wanted to -- is she?
[6:15:01] >> I am.
[6:15:02] >> thank you, avc charles.
[6:15:08] >> you do have my written report but I
[6:15:11] would like to highlight that the
[6:15:13] commission is meeting next wednesday
[6:15:14] and thursday, the time has come, it
[6:15:16] felt like forever and now it is almost
[6:15:19] here.
[6:15:20] we are receive their determination
[6:15:23] regarding our sanction within 30 days
[6:15:25] of that meeting, so we will know soon.
[6:15:29] and then I would also like to
[6:15:31] highlight that whatever the commission
[6:15:33] decides as we all know, we need to
[6:15:36] base our budget decisions on realistic
[6:15:40] assumptions about enrollment, revenue
[6:15:43] and expenditures to ensure that we
[6:15:45] have solid financial footing from here
[6:15:47] on out and I know -- we all know that
[6:15:51] but it's worth saying again and again.
[6:15:53] happy to answer any questions,
[6:15:55] otherwise, also happy to have you move
[6:15:57] on so you can finish your meeting soon.
[6:15:59] >> thank you, trustees, any questions?
[6:16:04] I don't see any questions.
[6:16:06] thank you for signing on when you're
[6:16:08] not feeling well.
[6:16:09] we all wish you good health.
[6:16:11] >> thank you so much.
[6:16:13] I really appreciate that.
[6:16:16] >> and let's move now to the budget
[6:16:19] update.
[6:16:20] item 12.
[6:16:26] >> thank you, president martinez,
[6:16:31] trustees, colleagues, here and online,
[6:16:33] the first item is our 311q which is
[6:16:37] the third quarter report that we file
[6:16:39] with the state and it's really an
[6:16:42] alignment of what you previously saw
[6:16:44] in our monthly financials.
[6:16:48] the revenues are tracking as expected.
[6:16:51] a little bit low because this is for
[6:16:54] the month ended march so we don't see
[6:16:56] all of our property taxes as well as
[6:16:58] parcel taxes in there which you will
[6:17:00] see in the next report which is the
[6:17:04] april monthly.
[6:17:06] the expenditures and we're trying
[6:17:07] to align that, the current process as
[6:17:10] it's employed here at city college is
[6:17:13] that we don't do the adjustments for
[6:17:16] the parcel tax until the end of the
[6:17:17] year, so hence the quarterly reports
[6:17:19] we send to the chancellor's office
[6:17:22] include the parcel tax expense which
[6:17:24] at the end of the year, we transfer to
[6:17:27] the parcel tax.
[6:17:29] in the future, we're going to set it
[6:17:31] up right from the beginning of the
[6:17:33] fiscal year so that the 311 will align
[6:17:36] with the monthly reports.
[6:17:40] everything is tracking as you will see
[6:17:47] will also occur in the april monthly
[6:17:49] financials.
[6:17:50] >> shall we take all the reports and
[6:17:52] then --
[6:17:53] >> yes, that would be good.
[6:17:55] the next item is the monthly
[6:18:00] financials, so the end of april, and
[6:18:03] here we do include and have received
[6:18:07] the second portion of our property
[6:18:10] taxes, so generally we receive about
[6:18:16] 50 plus percent in december, another
[6:18:19] 45% in april and then about 5% in
[6:18:24] close-outs in june timeframe.
[6:18:26] so, you see that our revenues are up,
[6:18:32] you'll see that we also received the
[6:18:34] second half of our parcel tax and so
[6:18:37] when you then compare the revenues to
[6:18:43] our expenditures, we see a sizable
[6:18:47] difference between what we brought in
[6:18:49] versus what we're paying out.
[6:18:53] that of course -- the bulk of our
[6:18:55] property taxes of the local monies
[6:18:57] just came in and, you know, we'll now
[6:19:02] just be seining revenues from the
[6:19:04] apportionment so that we'll now just
[6:19:06] be seining revenues from the
[6:19:07] apportionment so that will slow down
[6:19:09] we expect to receive our revenues
[6:19:10] because in the may revise, the
[6:19:13] governor noted he will fully fund the
[6:19:16] scff and then our expenditures will
[6:19:18] continue at the same pace so we still
[6:19:21] expect to be at a surplus which you'll
[6:19:24] see in the following report.
[6:19:29] and so then I'll transition to the
[6:19:36] budget update.
[6:19:38] thank you, shawn.
[6:19:41] or the second slide first, please,
[6:19:43] number 2.
[6:19:44] and this is just to provide some
[6:19:47] context.
[6:19:48] we are presenting to you as per board
[6:19:51] policy what the shape of the tentative
[6:19:53] budge will look like, so this will be
[6:19:56] a very, very preliminary draft report
[6:19:59] just to kind of show where we expect
[6:20:02] to be.
[6:20:07] we will bring a more in-depth
[6:20:08] analysis and discussion and reports to
[6:20:10] you at the june committee of the whole
[6:20:14] meeting and then of course at the
[6:20:18] end of june present to you the
[6:20:21] tentative budget for
[6:20:23] acceptance which will allow them to
[6:20:30] begin spending july 1, what I'll be
[6:20:33] presenting is various scenarios for us
[6:20:34] as an institution to really understand
[6:20:37] the types of decisions we will have to
[6:20:39] make and the potential impact those
[6:20:42] decisions will have in the out years.
[6:20:47] slide number 12 please.
[6:20:49] I'm going to start from the back with
[6:20:51] the assumptions and then walk you
[6:20:57] through the scenarios.
[6:21:00] and so I listed the major assumptions
[6:21:03] here and tried to compile it into one
[6:21:06] sheet rather than listing assumptions
[6:21:10] for each scenario because some of the
[6:21:13] varian -- variance is in those yellow
[6:21:19] line items, we're assuming cola, 2.3%
[6:21:21] of course for upcoming year as per the
[6:21:27] governor's may revise, the following
[6:21:28] numbers are really the statutory
[6:21:31] increases for the department of finance
[6:21:34] which also was adopted by school
[6:21:37] services and employed by the
[6:21:39] chancellor's office.
[6:21:40] so, I put those in there and they'll
[6:21:44] affect the calculations in the out
[6:21:48] years.
[6:21:49] hold harmless funding will remain at
[6:21:51] the 166.7 million over the next four
[6:21:54] years.
[6:21:55] we will also continue to have to pay
[6:21:57] back that 1.8 million, so we have I
[6:22:01] think five more years, it's going to
[6:22:05] take us 13 years to repay the
[6:22:08] overpayment from
[6:22:15] 8 years ago.
[6:22:16] for 25-26, we did not include the
[6:22:19] deficit factor because that's also was
[6:22:21] outlined in the governor's may revise
[6:22:29] he will fully fund the scff.
[6:22:31] the state of the state, the state of
[6:22:34] the nation and of course we'll have a
[6:22:37] new governor in the next 18 months, so
[6:22:41] it's unclear -- I guess there's quite
[6:22:43] a bit of uncertainty so I built a 1.6%
[6:22:48] deficit factor in 26-27 and then the
[6:22:51] following two years as well.
[6:22:54] on the enrollment growth, I examined
[6:22:58] various factors from 3% to 3% year
[6:23:03] over year, to 6% and then 9% and the
[6:23:06] intention really was to see how we
[6:23:09] might be able to optimize the
[6:23:12] restoration authority that ends in
[6:23:15] 25-26 and then of course in the
[6:23:18] following year of 26-27 is when the
[6:23:22] growth authority kicks in that limits
[6:23:24] really the amount of ftes that will be
[6:23:29] counted towards the scff for us and
[6:23:32] anything over and above that would be
[6:23:38] unfunded ftes.
[6:23:40] based on the scenarios, I estimated on
[6:23:45] a productivity ratio of 15 which is
[6:23:48] very high for this institution, the
[6:23:53] number of faculty positions required
[6:23:56] to achieve the ftes goals at those
[6:24:01] varying ranges and then I used an
[6:24:05] average adjunct faculty or
[6:24:08] compensation base of 20 thousand, I
[6:24:11] previously talked about 150 thousand
[6:24:12] for full timers but I ratcheted that
[6:24:17] down and to calculate what the
[6:24:19] increased cost might be to really
[6:24:24] achieve the ftes target, additional
[6:24:27] ftes targets.
[6:24:29] 15 is probably pretty high and I say
[6:24:33] that because historically our
[6:24:34] institution at least this the last few
[6:24:37] years has only achieved about 13.3.
[6:24:41] so, if I were to bring that down to
[6:24:45] 13.5 for example from 15, that would
[6:24:48] add an additional 11% ftef and/or
[6:24:54] result in cost so this is an
[6:24:57] optimistic picture, even with the
[6:24:59] optimistic picture, you can see in the
[6:25:01] scenarios we have a lot of work to do.
[6:25:03] we need to engage in a lot of
[6:25:06] discussions with colleagues in the
[6:25:08] college community to see how we might
[6:25:12] be able to not only optimize
[6:25:14] restoration but of course ultimately
[6:25:16] get us back to more solid financial
[6:25:22] footing.
[6:25:24] I listed for 26-27 the -- at least
[6:25:30] calculated loss incentive funding,
[6:25:33] about 7.3 million, and that will of
[6:25:35] course factor into the minimum funding
[6:25:38] that the state provides us,
[6:25:41] essentially that gap, the hold
[6:25:43] harmless gap.
[6:25:48] the adult education program committed
[6:25:52] 1.2 million in additional funding for
[6:25:54] us to put on non-credit courses and
[6:25:58] the 400 thousand is the unrestricted
[6:26:01] match required for us to be able to
[6:26:05] take advantage of categorical funds
[6:26:08] and ftes.
[6:26:10] at this point in time, I have a tbd
[6:26:16] there for seiu non-represented and
[6:26:19] administrative salary increases for
[6:26:25] 25-26.
[6:26:26] aft and dcc have settled, this is the
[6:26:28] year of the contract, that's 2% for
[6:26:32] 25-26.
[6:26:33] in the out years, I didn't put any
[6:26:38] salary increases to again highlight
[6:26:40] the impact of certain decisions we're
[6:26:46] going to make, obviously we'll be
[6:26:47] working on that in the out years,
[6:26:48] particularly since we know the
[6:26:49] contracts are going to renew next year.
[6:26:53] I listed again some of the major
[6:26:58] increases, health and welfare, we have
[6:27:03] a rate of about 5.8% and that's sort
[6:27:06] of like a combo rate because our
[6:27:09] health plans renew calendar year
[6:27:11] based, so half the rate is associated
[6:27:14] with the previous year and then the
[6:27:16] second half is with the new year or
[6:27:19] new rate increase.
[6:27:28] the biggest item was the increases in
[6:27:31] the utility, it's stepping down to
[6:27:33] just under 16 to get back to 11, I
[6:27:35] think that was the attempt of sfpuc to
[6:27:39] get us in alignment institutional
[6:27:40] rates back in alignment with
[6:27:42] commercial rates.
[6:27:43] last year for example, we benefited
[6:27:44] from about a 5.8% rate increase.
[6:27:48] it's still high but -- I listed
[6:27:54] elections every other cycle here and
[6:27:56] the next cycle, you know, there's
[6:27:59] three trustees, three of you going up
[6:28:02] for re-election and two years later,
[6:28:06] four.
[6:28:07] all other operating expenses, we
[6:28:09] pegged at about 2%.
[6:28:11] we did build in contingency for
[6:28:15] retirement incentive and you'll see
[6:28:17] that in some of the scenarios.
[6:28:22] slide number 10 please.
[6:28:26] so, this scenario here, so I'm
[6:28:31] starting really sort of like worst
[6:28:34] case if you will in terms of
[6:28:39] financial picture but perhaps the
[6:28:40] highest case in terms of increasing
[6:28:43] ftes, so this scenario assumes a 9%
[6:28:51] increase for 25-26 to be able to take
[6:28:53] advantage of the restoration.
[6:28:58] we have approximately as of the last
[6:29:00] report from the chancellor's office,
[6:29:03] we had about almost 6 thousand ftes in
[6:29:08] restoration of which about 4300 is in
[6:29:13] the credit side, about 1100 in cdcp
[6:29:20] and about 500 in non-credit and about
[6:29:25] 100 in the special admin, so 6
[6:29:32] thousand, the value is about 35 million.
[6:29:35] so, meaning that even if we could do
[6:29:39] 9%, that's still a far cry from
[6:29:43] taking advantage of the
[6:29:46] restoration of 6 thousand.
[6:29:47] so, you can see if we were to do that
[6:29:51] in 25-26.
[6:29:53] while that might increase the 01:47:09
[6:29:54] base,
[6:29:59] depending on where the ftes falsest,
[6:30:03] if it's credit, if it's non-credit, we
[6:30:05] will get the full value, but you can
[6:30:07] see that because of the cost, it would
[6:30:11] drive us into a deficit in 25-26 and
[6:30:17] that's at the 15% -- at the 15
[6:30:22] productivity level.
[6:30:23] you know, again, if I were to ratchet
[6:30:26] it down to 13.5 which is more in
[6:30:29] alignment with how we have achieved
[6:30:37] efficiencies, that would add another
[6:30:42] 11% to the cost.
[6:30:43] it would be 12 million in additional
[6:30:47] adjunct salary costs.
[6:30:48] and then you can see that by 28-29, we
[6:30:53] will have totally wiped out the
[6:30:58] reserves.
[6:30:59] understand that at this point in time,
[6:31:06] the surplus for 24-25 and the result
[6:31:11] in reserve levels are the best they've
[6:31:13] ever been in the last ten years.
[6:31:15] the flip side of that of course is
[6:31:18] that means that it took us ten years
[6:31:21] to re-establish that.
[6:31:23] so, it wasn't just a few years ago
[6:31:27] that the reserves were so low that the
[6:31:31] district had to take back some of the
[6:31:35] opeb contributions, 21 million, to
[6:31:36] even get above the state chancellor's
[6:31:41] required reserve balance revenue or
[6:31:45] reserves.
[6:31:46] and I mention that because we want to
[6:31:48] be very careful as we step through
[6:31:53] this.
[6:31:54] frankly I think 9% additional growth
[6:31:56] might be very difficult to attain for
[6:32:00] a host of reasons including what's
[6:32:04] happening at sfusd.
[6:32:06] of course besides the additional costs
[6:32:09] and then there may be facilities needs
[6:32:13] that we may not be able to have.
[6:32:16] when I look at our schedule, we are
[6:32:21] completely full between the hours of
[6:32:25] 8-1, so, that's the highest demands
[6:32:28] for both faculty and students.
[6:32:30] we have white space if you will after
[6:32:33] 1:00 until we begin evening classes,
[6:32:37] but -- so we need the carefully
[6:32:40] examine our schedule to see how we
[6:32:42] might be able to take advantage of the
[6:32:45] time slots and then besides that, are
[6:32:48] we able to attract enough faculty or
[6:32:54] maybe even increase the load for
[6:32:57] adjunct, carefully monitoring that so
[6:33:01] we don't go over 67% and/or maybe
[6:33:05] overload to be able to achieve that.
[6:33:09] this 9% is a very optimistic target
[6:33:14] that has some very serious cost
[6:33:19] consequences.
[6:33:20] slide number 8, please.
[6:33:23] and this one I'm looking at a 6%
[6:33:29] increase in ftes and so that would
[6:33:34] mean about -- on the 15 thousand,
[6:33:41] about 900 ftes.
[6:33:43] the associated cost with that is about
[6:33:46] 7.2 million on the adjunct.
[6:33:49] and you could see again that by year
[6:33:53] 4, 28-29, if everything else stays the
[6:33:58] same, that again the fund balance will
[6:34:01] be wiped out.
[6:34:06] one of the discussion items at the
[6:34:09] budget committee was, well, perhaps we
[6:34:11] can bump it one time in 25-26 to take
[6:34:16] advantage of the restoration meaning
[6:34:19] that you're going to put on classes
[6:34:22] in 25-26, but then reduce them in
[6:34:26] 26-27 just to be able to take
[6:34:28] advantage of the restoration, 01:51:48
[6:34:29] but
[6:34:34] there are serious consequences for
[6:34:44] that, there are ped gsh pedagogical
[6:34:50] impact, if we have to hire people that
[6:34:52] we only hire them basically for one
[6:34:55] fiscal year and then they have to go
[6:34:58] away.
[6:34:59] then you're looking at what is the
[6:35:01] impact on students, so if I have
[6:35:04] additional let's say 900 ftes, let's
[6:35:07] say that translates to 30 section, it
[6:35:15] will be more than that, that's quite
[6:35:23] a number of sessions, if we bump them
[6:35:26] up like that and take them away the
[6:35:28] next year, what's that going to do to
[6:35:33] student completions, to the success
[6:35:35] and for them to be able to attain
[6:35:40] their goal.
[6:35:42] we have to have discussions and
[6:35:46] collaborative kind of discussions and
[6:35:48] be thoughtful on how we're going to
[6:35:50] deploy our resorts so we don't find
[6:35:54] ourselves in three, four years having
[6:35:56] to tap the opeb funds if we can even
[6:36:01] do that at this point in time because
[6:36:03] the opeb funds have grown again but I
[6:36:05] think the trust may not allow us to do
[6:36:07] that in the future.
[6:36:08] I think that was a one-time event last
[6:36:12] time.
[6:36:13] slide 6, please.
[6:36:17] this one just displays what a year
[6:36:22] over year increase -- how that might
[6:36:25] impact our finance system.
[6:36:26] this is 3%, so that's roughly 350 to
[6:36:32] 500 every year over the next five
[6:36:38] years and you can see that too
[6:36:40] will wipe out the reserves in four
[6:36:44] years, so again I know that through
[6:36:48] enrollment management, they're working
[6:36:49] up on what the future targets might
[6:36:53] be, ftes goals.
[6:36:54] they're looking at how productivity
[6:36:57] might be increased by assigning
[6:37:02] classes with students to larger
[6:37:04] classrooms rather than putting them
[6:37:06] into classrooms that limit the seats.
[6:37:07] there's also -- we're looking at for
[6:37:15] example as I mentioned using
[6:37:19] categorical funds.
[6:37:20] the chancellor's office is beginning
[6:37:23] -- yeah, they have begun to mandate
[6:37:26] the change in the methodology as to
[6:37:29] how we account for our ftes and it is
[6:37:31] going to be required by next year.
[6:37:33] my estimate is just by us changing
[6:37:36] that, that we might be able increase
[6:37:39] our ftes by maybe 1 to maybe 1.5
[6:37:47] percent, when you look at a whole
[6:37:49] host of these things, we might be able
[6:37:51] to -- at least in this coming year,
[6:37:53] 25-26, not only meet the 3% but
[6:37:56] perhaps meet the stretch goal of 5%.
[6:37:59] certainly as we go into the out years,
[6:38:01] you want to seriously consider how we
[6:38:03] continue that, it can't be just ftes
[6:38:07] growth, it has to be a combination of
[6:38:09] things but also a lot of focus on
[6:38:11] expenditure reductions to be able to
[6:38:15] maintain that fiscal stability.
[6:38:18] slide 4, please.
[6:38:23] and this slide 4 is the 3% growth
[6:38:26] that we built into the budget for
[6:38:30] 25-26, that's also in alignment with
[6:38:33] enrollment management targets for
[6:38:38] 25-26.
[6:38:39] when implemented and this is really
[6:38:41] the one that we propose to move
[6:38:44] forward with, with this particular
[6:38:45] one, at least in the preliminary draft
[6:38:52] is a small surplus but even with this,
[6:38:53] you know, we project that if
[6:38:56] everything else stays even, because
[6:38:58] our top line revenues will stay the
[6:39:01] same, we're going to see column
[6:39:04] movement, we're going to see increases
[6:39:07] in major accounts like health and
[6:39:10] welfare, increases in utilities, that
[6:39:14] by next year, it's going to drive us
[6:39:20] negative, 2.2 million deficit and then
[6:39:22] of course the number gets larger in
[6:39:25] the out years.
[6:39:26] so, we have a lot of work to do and
[6:39:31] that factors in that contingency for a
[6:39:35] retirement incentive where we budgeted
[6:39:37] approximately 25 thousand dollars for
[6:39:40] about 50 positions, we're going to be
[6:39:44] able to attract 50 retirees, it's
[6:39:50] really not certain at this point.
[6:39:53] I think traditionally we've seen about
[6:39:58] 20-25 positions or so retire from the
[6:40:00] college on an annual basis.
[6:40:02] if that's the case, we might be able
[6:40:04] to take advantage of that and then
[6:40:09] hopefully take that contingent forward
[6:40:11] into the out years to then again try
[6:40:15] to attract additional retirements.
[6:40:19] if we can lower the head counts
[6:40:21] through attrition like that, I think
[6:40:24] that would certainly help us in terms
[6:40:27] of someone made a comment earlier that
[6:40:30] I think -- was it early, maybe it was
[6:40:32] the budget committee that we have fo
[6:40:34] structural deficit.
[6:40:35] that's far from it.
[6:40:37] when you look for example and I define
[6:40:40] the structural imbalance or really as
[6:40:44] our percentage of compensation to
[6:40:46] either expenditure or revenues, and I
[6:40:50] think I shared these statistics
[6:40:52] before, the chancellor's office did a
[6:40:54] study just for us where they compared
[6:40:59] our compensation on the unrestricted
[6:41:01] general fund to the general fund in
[6:41:05] comparison to statewide averages, so
[6:41:07] in the unrestricted, we're running
[6:41:12] about 88-89%, statewide average is about
[6:41:15] 87%.
[6:41:16] when it comes to the general fund,
[6:41:17] we're running about 90 and the
[6:41:23] statewide average is about in the low
[6:41:24] 80's, like 80 -- I think it was 82-83,
[6:41:28] so that's not sustainable.
[6:41:29] we need to be able to shift from
[6:41:32] really the compensation area into the
[6:41:36] non-personnel area to effect a lower
[6:41:39] percentage of compensation to total
[6:41:41] expense and/or total revenues.
[6:41:44] so, this scenario here is what we
[6:41:49] would likely come back with in more
[6:41:53] details at the june committee of the
[6:41:56] whole meeting and go over this in
[6:41:59] depth and I would like to at that time
[6:42:03] discuss in further detail the
[6:42:06] restoration versus growth authority
[6:42:08] and the impact on our budgets and then
[6:42:16] of course then bring to you a
[6:42:20] tentative budget for acceptance at the
[6:42:23] end of the june meeting.
[6:42:27] so, really this is sort of the next
[6:42:32] steps placed in the context early on,
[6:42:36] right, that's meet with not only --
[6:42:39] well, begin the meeting with our budge
[6:42:41] committee, we have a special meeting
[6:42:44] set for tuesday the 10th, so two days
[6:42:46] prior to the meeting -- the committee
[6:42:49] meeting of the whole, so that they
[6:42:51] will have additional input.
[6:42:55] we scheduled two additional meetings
[6:42:57] so they could continue to participate
[6:42:59] in the budget development.
[6:43:00] I know last year the meetings were
[6:43:03] cancelled.
[6:43:04] I don't think that served us well as
[6:43:06] an institution, we want to highly
[6:43:08] encourage our budget committee members
[6:43:09] to meet during the summer.
[6:43:13] during the committee of the whole
[6:43:16] meeting, we'll hopefully be able to
[6:43:18] flush out in much greater detail this
[6:43:21] framework of going towards fiscal
[6:43:25] stability and it will be closely tied
[6:43:28] to our program review including
[6:43:33] vitalization or revitalization
[6:43:39] criteria.
[6:43:40] and then as I said, we'll hopefully be
[6:43:44] able to finalize that and bring to you
[6:43:45] at the end of june the tentative
[6:43:51] budget.
[6:43:52] with that, I'm certainly open to your
[6:43:55] questions.
[6:43:56] >> it's 11:00, we need a motion to
[6:43:57] extend the meeting.
[6:43:58] I move we extend the meeting until
[6:44:01] midnight.
[6:44:02] >> thank you, is there a second?
[6:44:03] >> second.
[6:44:04] >> moved by trustee -- vice-president
[6:44:07] zamora, seconded by trustee chung.
[6:44:12] >> student trustee brandt, your
[6:44:13] advisory vote?
[6:44:14] >> aye.
[6:44:15] >> president martinez?
[6:44:16] >> yes.
[6:44:17] >> vice-president zamora?
[6:44:18] >> aye.
[6:44:22] >> trustee chisti?
[6:44:23] >> aye.
[6:44:24] >> trustee wong?
[6:44:25] >> yes.
[6:44:26] >> trustee solomon?
[6:44:27] >> sure.
[6:44:28] >> trustee chung?
[6:44:29] >> aye.
[6:44:30] >> trustee mccarty?
[6:44:31] >> aye.
[6:44:32] >> the motion passes.
[6:44:33] >> thank you.
[6:44:35] >> so, we are now at the point where
[6:44:38] we can have trustee questions or
[6:44:41] comments.
[6:44:42] trustee, any questions or comments?
[6:44:43] trustee chung?
[6:44:47] >> I want to thank vc ligoso for
[6:44:52] taking on our input and also the work
[6:44:57] that obviously got us to the plan
[6:44:59] of the collective vision of growing
[6:45:02] and thank you for hearing us out on
[6:45:04] the idea of taking advantage the
[6:45:07] restoration authority.
[6:45:08] I think the piece that I imagine all
[6:45:12] our trustees are agreeing to is we
[6:45:14] want a balanced budge so the matter
[6:45:17] is, you know, and I think this was
[6:45:20] somewhat flushed out in a little bit
[6:45:23] more detail in the enrollment packet,
[6:45:30] the strategic enrollment management
[6:45:31] scenario for how to do this but I
[6:45:38] think there is -- you know, -- there
[6:45:44] has to be a way for us, we've been
[6:45:47] doing it for a long time, there has to
[6:45:48] be a way for us still to be
[6:45:52] innovative, for example, when you
[6:45:55] joined our college, you corrected
[6:45:58] something that we've been banging our
[6:46:00] heads on the wall about, about how so
[6:46:02] much of the funding -- so much of the
[6:46:07] expenditures that came out of
[6:46:10] unexpended fund didn't need to come
[6:46:12] out of there, they come out of
[6:46:20] uncategorical funds, we have to bolster
[6:46:22] revenue for the college, we have
[6:46:24] to do it through free city, through
[6:46:28] fundraising because it's not okay to
[6:46:31] balance our budget on the backs of our
[6:46:38] workers.
[6:46:39] I understand the rationale behind
[6:46:41] using the percentage to -- as one
[6:46:47] method of seining whether or not we
[6:46:49] are sustainable, but it is very -- it
[6:46:55] is a lens has doesn't lend to, one,
[6:46:59] the cost of living here in the city,
[6:47:02] it doesn't lend to what other
[6:47:05] expenditures other districts are
[6:47:07] spending on.
[6:47:09] you know, are they spending it on
[6:47:11] rent, I don't know, I don't know how
[6:47:13] they're getting the percentage they're
[6:47:15] getting to average out to around 80%
[6:47:19] of their expenditures going to
[6:47:24] personnel.
[6:47:25] but I'm hoping
[6:47:31] the plan -- I hope the pgc
[6:47:34] budget committee can meet and
[6:47:36] recommend a plan that is a little bit
[6:47:38] more detailed and bridges that
[6:47:42] strategic enrollment plan and helping
[6:47:44] us understand how we're going to
[6:47:47] balance the budget and as you had
[6:47:50] mentioned where we're relying on the
[6:47:53] academic senate to understand we're
[6:47:59] not compromising on the able for the
[6:48:00] students to complete or to interrupt
[6:48:04] their educational plan but rather in
[6:48:09] the vision of what is -- what are
[6:48:12] those few sections that will help them
[6:48:14] that we can add for that one year,
[6:48:17] which specific strategic sections that
[6:48:19] will have high productivity but will
[6:48:22] also help students finally fulfill the
[6:48:24] rimers they need to continue along
[6:48:27] their educational plan.
[6:48:30] so, thank you for providing these
[6:48:34] scenarios and I look forward to the
[6:48:37] balanced budget we're going to vote on.
[6:48:42] >> vice-president zamora?
[6:48:44] >> thank you.
[6:48:47] just some feedback, thank you, I
[6:48:50] really appreciated seeing the
[6:48:51] different scenarios,
[6:48:55] that was helpful to
[6:48:57] envision some options.
[6:49:00] kind of to trustee chung's point, and
[6:49:06] it just came to me, but the
[6:49:11] restoration authority, I've heard in
[6:49:14] the past that sometimes we plan for a
[6:49:17] particular course for students and
[6:49:19] this is just me repeating what I heard.
[6:49:23] but we don't think out the next class
[6:49:27] so they can't complete whatever it is
[6:49:29] they're trying to do and I'm almost
[6:49:33] wondering if there is a possibility in
[6:49:38] this restoration authority option to
[6:49:40] see if there are particular classes
[6:49:46] that need, maybe not need, but that
[6:49:48] students need to
[6:49:51] complete a certain track and whether
[6:49:53] maybe that's a narrowing of that
[6:49:55] particular option.
[6:49:56] I don't know, I'm just kind of spit
[6:49:58] balling here but it kind of came to
[6:50:01] you as you were mentioning that.
[6:50:09] maybe something that you could look
[6:50:11] into.
[6:50:12] >> other trustees?
[6:50:14] and we'll go to public comments in
[6:50:16] just a moment.
[6:50:17] you mentioned that the pgc budget
[6:50:20] committee will meet in the summer.
[6:50:21] >> yes.
[6:50:23] >> is it possible -- the board usually
[6:50:27] does not meet in the summer in the month
[6:50:30] of july.
[6:50:31] would you let us know as you go
[6:50:36] through this with the pgc committee if
[6:50:39] there are times that it might be
[6:50:41] helpful for the board to meet so we
[6:50:43] can plan our time away efficiently and
[6:50:47] effectively, just in case we need --
[6:50:50] or even in june if we need another
[6:50:52] meeting or two in june, I'm recalling
[6:50:58] how important the budget workshops
[6:51:02] were in our understanding and the
[6:51:03] community's understanding about the
[6:51:04] budget but this is a different
[6:51:06] dimension, this is a dimension about
[6:51:08] how do you do educational planning,
[6:51:14] classes, student support services, so
[6:51:16] that they meet with the budget, so
[6:51:18] that there's an integration of those
[6:51:22] two and I like this because this is a
[6:51:24] first start but that may be something
[6:51:27] that really needs to be flushed out
[6:51:31] so we know that when you're talking
[6:51:35] about ftef, what the strategies are
[6:51:41] that are being talked about in terms
[6:51:44] of the assignment of those
[6:51:46] to certain places because perhaps they
[6:51:50] present more opportunities for growth
[6:51:53] with a lower cost for example, so I'm
[6:51:57] glad this is beginning to happen.
[6:52:00] one of the things that was presented
[6:52:03] to us in a prior presentation was the
[6:52:08] possibility of the district
[6:52:10] reorganization as a cost saving -- to
[6:52:13] find some efficiencies.
[6:52:17] if that is something that is being
[6:52:20] worked on, it would be helpful if as
[6:52:27] the conversations are proceeding, that
[6:52:28] we are kept informed so that we have a
[6:52:31] better understanding and are more
[6:52:36] prepared when things come to us for a
[6:52:38] final recommendation if you would.
[6:52:39] anyone else?
[6:52:42] is there any public comment?
[6:52:44] >> yes, we do, the first one is
[6:52:48] abigail bornstein.
[6:52:55] >> so, when I look at the multiyear
[6:53:03] budget assumptions, I find them
[6:53:09] offensive, I can't describe the
[6:53:10] feeling I have when I look at them, we
[6:53:13] have 380 full time faculty when you
[6:53:16] count this year's resignations and
[6:53:18] retirements, the assumption here will
[6:53:20] bring that count down on to roughly
[6:53:25] 300 full time faculty.
[6:53:27] well, at the same bringing the head
[6:53:31] count from roughly 600 to possibly
[6:53:34] over 800 or more, the committee
[6:53:37] work does not decrease, the curriculum
[6:53:39] work does not decrease for full time
[6:53:42] faculty, the workload increases in
[6:53:44] the remaining full time faculty,
[6:53:46] pretending that you can change out a
[6:53:48] full time faculty for two or three
[6:53:50] part time faculty is so very offensive.
[6:53:53] the lack of recognition of the work
[6:53:55] that full time faculty do is out right
[6:53:58] offensive.
[6:53:59] on top of that, full time faculty are
[6:54:02] currently working ot a non-except tif
[6:54:05] wages which are 1500 to 2 thousand
[6:54:07] dollars each mother non-competitive,
[6:54:10] right now, no other employees at this
[6:54:11] school are asked to work at such a
[6:54:14] non-competitive wages.
[6:54:16] then, then we put assumptions down
[6:54:20] showing zero percent for salary
[6:54:24] increases.
[6:54:25] again, offensive.
[6:54:26] if we cannot have all employees
[6:54:27] working with competitive wages and
[6:54:31] within 10-15% of a competitive range
[6:54:33] with everyone, then we have a
[6:54:35] structural problem.
[6:54:40] as long as the spendable reserve
[6:54:41] percentage above 5%, is that going
[6:54:42] to be a passable multiyear budget?
[6:54:44] is that all you're considering?
[6:54:48] accjc is watching this, the state
[6:54:50] financial office is watching this,
[6:54:54] these assumptions cannot stand, we
[6:54:56] cannot continue to treat the full time
[6:54:57] faculty in this offensive,
[6:55:00] disrespectful and a discounted labor
[6:55:04] manner.
[6:55:06] these assumptions are offensive.
[6:55:07] thank you.
[6:55:09] >> next is susana atwood.
[6:55:19] >> susana atwood, there's going to be
[6:55:28] lots of ongoing discussions on all
[6:55:31] these scenarios I think, I think there
[6:55:33] might be missing revenue at the top
[6:55:35] two that's going to make these figures
[6:55:37] look a little bit better, the part
[6:55:41] time faculty, reimbursements and the
[6:55:43] moving other of indirect cost from the
[6:55:47] categorical, there are places that we
[6:55:49] can make this look a little better
[6:55:51] than it is, overall, what I tried to
[6:55:53] do is look at which of the -- the
[6:55:58] fifth scenario is the one that dr.
[6:56:00] ligoso spoke to which is that you just
[6:56:03] go up next year and then down after
[6:56:07] that, back to where you were before,
[6:56:08] there is an inverse relationship
[6:56:12] between which scenario helps narrow
[6:56:14] that gap we're trying to narrow and
[6:56:17] which scenario looks better
[6:56:20] financially.
[6:56:24] that scenario at the back
[6:56:27] of the napkin is the worst ones with
[6:56:34] narrowing the gap but it is similar or
[6:56:36] a bit better in making us look
[6:56:38] financially well.
[6:56:41] I would recommend if you have the time
[6:56:42] and I know you folks have lots of
[6:56:44] things to look at, when the recording
[6:56:48] is up from the pgc budget that
[6:56:51] happened on tuesday, there were
[6:56:55] detailed assumptions for each of these
[6:56:57] four scenarios and I found that more
[6:56:59] helpful to be able to look at what
[6:57:02] each one was but nonetheless, we're
[6:57:05] going to have to have further
[6:57:08] discussions and figure out if there's
[6:57:11] places where we can't find more
[6:57:13] revenue that would apply to all of the
[6:57:18] scenarios.
[6:57:19] after we close the year, we always
[6:57:20] find a little bit, a couple of million
[6:57:23] more, so it will be ongoing and pgc
[6:57:28] budget will be talking about it.
[6:57:32] >> that concludes public comment.
[6:57:33] >> thank you very much.
[6:57:38] are there any -- we went past that,
[6:57:41] the consent items are next.
[6:57:43] are there any public comments on the
[6:57:46] consent items?
[6:57:48] >> yes, we do.
[6:57:50] first one is abigail bornstein.
[6:58:01] >> so, I'm speaking on 15a.
[6:58:02] and I wanted to say that I am
[6:58:11] absolutely all for reopeners.
[6:58:14] I think it's important to have
[6:58:18] reopeners on contracts to maintain
[6:58:20] competitive wages.
[6:58:21] and to keep all the employees within a
[6:58:27] 10-15% competitive range of one
[6:58:28] another.
[6:58:29] I think that's important.
[6:58:30] but if we're having reopeners, we're
[6:58:35] making wage decisions based on well
[6:58:37] they got this so we should get that,
[6:58:40] this one got this so I should get
[6:58:42] that, that is not how you handle
[6:58:45] budgets.
[6:58:46] that is not good -- financing, when I
[6:58:49] looked at the chancellor's contract,
[6:58:51] it was like if they get this, I get
[6:58:54] that.
[6:58:55] if they get that, I get this.
[6:58:56] that is not how we should be budgeting.
[6:58:59] we should be looking at competitive
[6:59:04] wages.
[6:59:05] we need tok to be looking at not just
[6:59:07] competitive wages but also within the
[6:59:10] whole school structure that everyone
[6:59:11] has the competitive wages, whatever
[6:59:13] that may be within a 10-15% range and
[6:59:17] that is how we peg these wages.
[6:59:21] I'm also concerned that we're going to
[6:59:22] go into contract negotiations for
[6:59:24] multiple years and we do not have a
[6:59:26] multiyear plan.
[6:59:30] I wanted to point this out is we
[6:59:33] literally did a reopener to say they
[6:59:35] got this so we should get that.
[6:59:39] and we had some pretty big blinders
[6:59:43] because the two years before, we had
[6:59:45] 0%, 0% so, the years we chose, but I'm
[6:59:47] just saying in either way, I'm okay
[6:59:50] with the reopener if it has to do with
[6:59:52] competitive wages and also keeping
[6:59:54] everyone within that same range.
[6:59:55] we need to stop doing the this for
[6:59:58] that, I got this, you got that.
[7:00:00] we have to look at competitive wages
[7:00:03] and within the same range.
[7:00:04] thank you.
[7:00:07] >> next is andre spear man.
[7:00:15] >> can you hear me?
[7:00:16] >> yes.
[7:00:17] >> great.
[7:00:18] my name is andre and I'm the field
[7:00:22] representative with seiu, 1021
[7:00:25] working closely with the employees urn
[7:00:27] the leadership of maria salazar-colon.
[7:00:34] we are very excited about the
[7:00:36] possibility that you will follow
[7:00:37] through on the hire og the chancellor
[7:00:39] that everyone seem to be excited
[7:00:42] about, chancellor cortez, I'm sure
[7:00:44] there's things that happened many
[7:00:46] closed session we're not privy too, we
[7:00:48] hope that you will continue on the
[7:00:52] path towards finding a conclusion of
[7:00:53] that contract.
[7:00:55] we are encouraging you to approve our
[7:00:59] contract that's item 15a that's gone
[7:01:00] through the process of negotiations,
[7:01:03] the back and forth and the give and
[7:01:09] take.
[7:01:10] we also encourage the district to take
[7:01:11] a closer look at who they may be using
[7:01:15] as their lead negotiator, we spent
[7:01:17] quite a bit of time explaining things
[7:01:21] that were simple to understand bah the
[7:01:25] lead negotiator seemed to not
[7:01:26] understand it or drag us backwards, so
[7:01:30] we're hoping you'll reconsider who may
[7:01:33] lead you in your negotiations with
[7:01:36] seiu 1021.
[7:01:37] I'm not sure about the other labor
[7:01:41] groups and who they had as their lead
[7:01:44] negotiator.
[7:01:45] we also encourage you to take a look
[7:01:47] at -- as you look at your scenarios,
[7:01:50] also remember that workers have costs
[7:01:53] that are not simply static but are
[7:01:59] subject to scenarios outside their
[7:02:00] control and so we hope that you remain
[7:02:03] competitive as we look at our 25-26
[7:02:07] reopener in terms of the fiscal year
[7:02:09] coming up, so we encourage you to
[7:02:13] engage the classified employees also
[7:02:15] in your scenarios and how best to
[7:02:17] balance the budget and remain fiscally
[7:02:21] responsible and you remain competitive.
[7:02:22] thank you so much.
[7:02:24] >> next is maria salazar colon.
[7:02:36] >> can you guys hear me again?
[7:02:37] >> yes.
[7:02:39] >> so, I'm going to tell you guys
[7:02:42] something, well, for that big mouth
[7:02:45] that's always in there, I really wish
[7:02:49] that colonizer, abigail dumbstein
[7:02:52] will shut her damn mouth and not speak
[7:02:55] on seiu items, we don't need her
[7:02:57] permission when it comes to our
[7:02:59] negotiations but as usual she doesn't
[7:03:01] have a clue and is dumber than a bag
[7:03:03] of rocks and has no place whatsoever
[7:03:07] in our damn business.
[7:03:10] but she continues to have a fixation
[7:03:12] on stirring up her bullshit when it
[7:03:16] comes to seiu, maybe she should go do
[7:03:19] math or maybe shut the fuck up.
[7:03:23] she needs to go focus on
[7:03:27] [inaudible], I'm sick of her
[7:03:31] shit.
[7:03:33] shut the fuck up.
[7:03:36] >> president martinez, we have to be
[7:03:40] mindful of whatever comments are being
[7:03:42] made.
[7:03:43] >> you guys constantly let her and
[7:03:44] other people go up there and attack
[7:03:47] seiu all day every day when it comes
[7:03:49] to these board meetings and nobody
[7:03:52] stops her from saying anything, nobody
[7:03:55] corrects her, I've had enough of it,
[7:03:59] enough.
[7:04:00] I'm serious.
[7:04:01] so, until you guys put her in her
[7:04:04] place or someone has a conversation
[7:04:06] with her, don't tell me how to speak.
[7:04:16] good-bye.
[7:04:17] >> that concludes public comments.
[7:04:20] >> thank you.
[7:04:28] >> does any trustee wish to pull an
[7:04:30] item for discussion and a separate
[7:04:32] vote in the consent items.
[7:04:34] >> president item, there is a an
[7:04:36] item, 14d, that I believe trustee
[7:04:40] wong wants to address.
[7:04:42] >> for 14d, I need that for a
[7:04:45] separate vote so that way I can
[7:04:47] abstain on it, I'm not able to vote
[7:04:49] for that one for obvious reasons.
[7:04:51] >> is that 14d?
[7:04:53] >> 14d.
[7:04:55] >> approval of no contract extension
[7:04:58] with west ed?
[7:05:01] >> no, children's council.
[7:05:07] 14e?
[7:05:09] >> 14d.
[7:05:12] >> maybe it got updated because
[7:05:16] sometimes there's a slight change.
[7:05:19] I can move fast so I didn't get to
[7:05:23] thank our finance staff for the
[7:05:25] different scenarios that were
[7:05:26] provided so that way we can see some
[7:05:29] of the potential opportunities and
[7:05:31] challenges that we may face going
[7:05:33] forward and just give us a perspective
[7:05:36] view on what may be forthcoming and
[7:05:41] how we can potentially overcome some
[7:05:43] of those things and I want to comment
[7:05:45] a little bit about the sexier iu
[7:05:49] reopener too, just glad as somebody
[7:05:51] who used to be a field representative,
[7:05:54] I'm glad we're able to have that give
[7:05:58] and take and too bad the process
[7:06:01] didn't move sooner.
[7:06:02] I think a lot of times service sector
[7:06:07] employees do get -- are not fully as
[7:06:11] fully appreciated, when I worked at
[7:06:13] hospitals in san francisco, a lot of
[7:06:19] times the disparity between the
[7:06:21] service sector workers and the other
[7:06:23] staff at the hospital, so I think it
[7:06:24] is important to recognize the
[7:06:26] importance of getting cola increases
[7:06:29] and appropriate cola increases and
[7:06:31] adjustments to them especially as we
[7:06:33] have rising costs of living in the
[7:06:39] city.
[7:06:42] I'll leave it at that.
[7:06:43] >> does anyone wish to push any item
[7:06:44] for a separate discussion and vote?
[7:06:48] trustee chung?
[7:06:50] >> I don't know if it's -- I'm going
[7:06:52] to go in order to make it easier on me
[7:06:55] if that's okay.
[7:06:57] I think 14b, I want to make a comment
[7:06:59] on it, so not a separate vote.
[7:07:04] >> 14 -- say it again.
[7:07:07] >>itis the approval of course and
[7:07:08] program actions recommended by the
[7:07:10] curriculum committee.
[7:07:11] >> can you make that -- we agreed if
[7:07:13] we just want to comment, it might be
[7:07:15] good the put it in a report.
[7:07:16] >> at the end of the meeting?
[7:07:18] >> yeah.
[7:07:19] >> okay, we can absolutely do that.
[7:07:20] >> thank you.
[7:07:21] >> I do want to point -- or I have
[7:07:27] questions about -- sorry, just quickly
[7:07:30] again I'm just scrolling in order, the
[7:07:32] thing that we usually do for employees
[7:07:38] that are retiring and are we also
[7:07:40] doing that in reports?
[7:07:42] we're going to do that in reports,
[7:07:43] okay.
[7:07:44] >> yes.
[7:07:47] >> as usual, I have questions about
[7:07:55] 16a, I know you're so excited.
[7:08:02] I also have questions about 17b.
[7:08:09] that's the terracon consultants inc.
[7:08:14] and I have -- 17e, I'm sorry I didn't
[7:08:15] catch this earlier and again thank you
[7:08:20] for avc vasquez for bringing this to
[7:08:22] the committee as a whole by I didn't
[7:08:24] catch it until now, the attachment
[7:08:28] that's attached, the exhibits are
[7:08:32] blank.
[7:08:38] >> okay, are you asking to have these
[7:08:41] pulled or just discussion?
[7:08:42] >> well, I mean, unless we can see the
[7:08:46] contract -- unless that can be pulled
[7:08:47] up on to 17e, I imagine that would
[7:08:50] have to be tabled.
[7:08:51] >> okay.
[7:08:54] well, then let's -- 17e, why don't we
[7:08:58] pull that for discussion.
[7:08:59] >> okay.
[7:09:00] >> and separate vote.
[7:09:01] >> okay.
[7:09:04] >> and 17b, the terracon consultants,
[7:09:08] is that just for --
[7:09:09] >> I have questions, but yes, I'm
[7:09:13] willing to pass it.
[7:09:14] >> that's just for discussion?
[7:09:15] >> yes.
[7:09:16] >> I'm sorry, president martinez,
[7:09:21] anything that -- the consent calendar,
[7:09:24] anything that anyone has discussion or
[7:09:27] questions about should be pulled from
[7:09:29] the consent calendar.
[7:09:30] >> okay, thank you.
[7:09:31] >> the calendar approval is just a
[7:09:34] pro forma approval of the items that
[7:09:35] are there, but if a board member has
[7:09:38] questions about any of those items,
[7:09:40] they really should pull that off the
[7:09:42] consent calendar.
[7:09:43] >> thank you for that correction.
[7:09:45] at one point when we were talking
[7:09:49] about meeting efficiencies, perhaps
[7:09:53] we were guided in the wrong direction
[7:09:55] and being told this is one way of
[7:09:58] doing a meeting efficiency, so we will
[7:10:01] pull these tenses for discussion.
[7:10:02] >> I think that when I hear trustee
[7:10:05] chung saying is a couple of them she
[7:10:09] has comments about which she can make
[7:10:10] in the board report, but --
[7:10:13] >> my pronouns are they/them.
[7:10:15] >> I am so sorry, that was -- it's
[7:10:18] just late and I made a mistake on that.
[7:10:21] but what I heard trustee chung talk
[7:10:26] about is if trustee chung has comments
[7:10:29] about something but not questions, she
[7:10:31] could -- I'm sorry, I'm going to stop
[7:10:35] talking at this point.
[7:10:36] comments could be made in the board
[7:10:39] report but questions about a particular
[7:10:41] item on consent calendar should be
[7:10:44] taken off consent calendar to be
[7:10:45] discussed separately.
[7:10:47] >> so, for 14b, you have questions?
[7:10:57] but you do not want to pull it for a
[7:11:00] separate vote, is that accurate?
[7:11:02] >> yes, that is correct.
[7:11:05] well, no, 14b, I can hold to my report.
[7:11:07] >> okay.
[7:11:08] >> but 16a, 17b and 17e.
[7:11:09] >> okay.
[7:11:22] >> for discussion and I guess also a
[7:11:23] separate vote is what I'm hearing from
[7:11:29] counsel.
[7:11:30] >> 16b for discussion and separate
[7:11:35] vote.
[7:11:37] >> 16a, 17b, 17e.
[7:11:40] >> yeah, you're going a little fast,
[7:11:44] sorry, 16a, discussion.
[7:11:45] >> yes.
[7:11:46] >> okay.
[7:11:49] 17b, you have questions.
[7:11:50] >> yes.
[7:11:51] >> okay.
[7:11:55] and 16a -- let's go back, discussion
[7:11:58] and separate vote or just discussion?
[7:12:04] >> just discussion.
[7:12:05] >> okay.
[7:12:08] 16b, you have just questions.
[7:12:12] so we'll pull that --
[7:12:13] >> no, I heard 16, so just -- so, 16a,
[7:12:23] 17b, 17e.
[7:12:26] >> 16a, 17b and --
[7:12:27] >> 17.
[7:12:32] >> I know, 16a, 17b, then you listed
[7:12:36] another one.
[7:12:37] >> and then 17e.
[7:12:38] >> okay.
[7:12:40] so, on each one, let's go through
[7:12:44] slowly, 16a, you want -- you don't
[7:12:47] want a separate vote?
[7:12:48] >> no, I just have questions.
[7:12:53] counsel mentioned if we're discussing
[7:12:55] it, we should pull it out separately
[7:12:57] and vote on it as well.
[7:12:59] >> so it's a discussion and separate vote
[7:13:01] so we'll pull it.
[7:13:03] 17b.
[7:13:04] >> correct.
[7:13:05] >> same thing?
[7:13:06] >> yes, let's just do that for all of
[7:13:09] them to follow counsel.
[7:13:10] >> anyone else have anything they want
[7:13:13] to pull for discussion and separate
[7:13:17] vote?
[7:13:21] alright.
[7:13:22] >> madam president, if I make a motion
[7:13:26] that we approve the consent items that
[7:13:28] have not been pulled for discussion, I
[7:13:32] also would like to point out that
[7:13:36] student trustee heather brandt has her
[7:13:38] hand up.
[7:13:39] >> thank you.
[7:13:41] >> my apologies, I don't want to derail
[7:13:43] what we're doing, I'm hoping at some
[7:13:45] point we can take a bile break.
[7:13:48] >> we have a half hour to go but let's
[7:13:52] take a 10 minute bile break and then
[7:13:54] we're going to have to extend.
[7:13:58] is that okay with everybody?
[7:14:01] alright.
[7:14:02] ten minutes.
[7:14:04] ( meeting in recess ).
[7:22:30] >> we are back in order.
[7:22:33] hearing no other requests to either
[7:22:35] pull for discussion and separate vote
[7:22:39] or just report in your regular
[7:22:44] reports, let's go ahead and move the
[7:22:46] resolutions, is there a motion to
[7:22:47] approve the resolutions we have not --
[7:22:50] that we have not pulled?
[7:22:51] >> so moved.
[7:22:52] >> second.
[7:22:53] >> thank you.
[7:22:54] roll call vote.
[7:22:57] >> student trustee brandt, your
[7:22:59] advisory vote?
[7:23:00] >> aye.
[7:23:01] >> president martinez?
[7:23:02] >> yes.
[7:23:03] >> vice-president zamora?
[7:23:04] >> aye.
[7:23:05] >> trustee chisti?
[7:23:06] >> aye.
[7:23:07] >> trustee wong?
[7:23:08] >> yes.
[7:23:09] >> trustee solomon?
[7:23:10] >> aye.
[7:23:11] >> trustee chung?
[7:23:12] >> aye.
[7:23:13] >> trustee mccarty?
[7:23:14] >> aye.
[7:23:15] >> the motion passes.
[7:23:16] >> now we'll discuss item 16a,
[7:23:23] trustee chung?
[7:23:25] >> we're going to have a callback to the
[7:23:29] tennis ballets conversation.
[7:23:32] no, and maybe we might not have to
[7:23:35] bother, I don't know if vc ligoso can
[7:23:40] answer this.
[7:23:44] for badminton, the shuttle cox, why
[7:23:48] are they categorical?
[7:23:53] aren't they included with tennis balls?
[7:23:57] the equivalent to -- the shuttle cox
[7:24:01] that badminton team uses or it's on
[7:24:04] here, we can find this, one second.
[7:24:10] yes, in line 54, why is it -- or line
[7:24:19] 55, I'm sorry, this is the trouble with --
[7:24:23] it's one of those lines but it
[7:24:25] says, yes, the shuttle cox are for
[7:24:29] badminton team is a categorical, I
[7:24:31] thought that was the whole point about
[7:24:37] the tennis balls that had to be
[7:24:40] unrestricted, the tennis nets were
[7:24:41] categorical but the tennis balls were
[7:24:44] not.
[7:24:45] >> I think one was a supply item
[7:24:49] whereas another one was the equipment
[7:24:51] item, the one was an equipment item
[7:24:56] where the tennis balls was a supply
[7:24:58] item and these badminton items are
[7:25:01] also supply items so they qualify as
[7:25:05] restricted lottery funds and
[7:25:07] instructional supply.
[7:25:08] >> got it.
[7:25:10] okay.
[7:25:11] and then in the unrestricted funds for
[7:25:13] the -- so, I noted a couple of these
[7:25:19] hicks, I'm glad we get catering and we
[7:25:24] feed employees, but there's one item
[7:25:27] that was unrestricted but came
[7:25:29] specifically for -- the catering for
[7:25:31] the summer food program for the
[7:25:33] financial aid office.
[7:25:34] why was that unrestricted instead of
[7:25:37] -- like, is it because the financial
[7:25:40] aid office, nothing funded through the
[7:25:43] financial aid office can be funded
[7:25:45] through anything categorical?
[7:25:49] >> I don't believe the financial aid
[7:25:52] office has any categorical.
[7:25:59] that's really sort of like indirect.
[7:26:02] >> I see.
[7:26:03] >> so, that's presumably why that was
[7:26:07] funded like that.
[7:26:08] >> I see, thank you for that.
[7:26:13] >> I had one more, I should have
[7:26:15] written this down but it will probably
[7:26:17] come to me at the next purchase order,
[7:26:19] thank you so much for answering my
[7:26:23] questions.
[7:26:24] >> yes, vice-president zamora?
[7:26:26] >> I just want to take note that I did
[7:26:30] notice the numbered line items and I
[7:26:33] very much appreciate it, thank you.
[7:26:37] >> yes, trustee chung?
[7:26:38] >> sorry, president martinez, I
[7:26:40] remember it now, it was -- I noticed,
[7:26:42] so when it comes to copies, copying
[7:26:46] paper, when it's a specific
[7:26:48] department, it is able to fund through
[7:26:50] categorical funding but when it's the
[7:26:53] duplicating department, I assume all
[7:26:55] duplications by the department are in
[7:26:57] service to a specific department or
[7:27:02] program, would it not be beneficial to
[7:27:04] be specific and that way we can pay
[7:27:06] for it through categorical funding?
[7:27:14] >> so, generally the institutional
[7:27:16] copying that comes to our copying
[7:27:17] department is funded through u funds,
[7:27:20] some of the categorical may have
[7:27:23] special needs, so hence they purchase
[7:27:26] their own plus there may be available
[7:27:29] funds for them.
[7:27:30] they want to ensure they spend down
[7:27:32] the entire restricted allocation, so
[7:27:34] we don't have any unspent that we have
[7:27:37] to return.
[7:27:38] sometimes they may be special kind of
[7:27:42] paper needs, you know, that we don't
[7:27:44] normally accommodate.
[7:27:46] our general paper that we purchase for
[7:27:49] copying is the 20 pound probably stark
[7:27:52] white kind of paper and that's our
[7:27:56] standard here just for straight
[7:27:59] copying and that's what we supply to
[7:28:02] our user departments but if there is
[7:28:05] special needs and there's categorical
[7:28:07] funds available, then likely they'll
[7:28:10] use that to be able to purchase that.
[7:28:13] >> so, are you ready to move the item?
[7:28:19] >> yes, I'll move item 16a.
[7:28:27] >> I second.
[7:28:28] >> okay.
[7:28:31] let's take the roll call vote on
[7:28:35] that.
[7:28:36] >> student trustee brandt, your
[7:28:39] advisory vote, please.
[7:28:41] >> aye.
[7:28:42] >> president martinez?
[7:28:43] >> yes.
[7:28:44] >> vice-president zamora?
[7:28:45] >> aye.
[7:28:46] >> trustee chisti?
[7:28:47] >> aye.
[7:28:48] >> trustee wong?
[7:28:49] >> yes.
[7:28:52] >> trustee chung?
[7:28:53] >> aye.
[7:28:54] >> trustee mccarty?
[7:28:55] >> aye.
[7:28:56] >> the motion passes.
[7:29:00] item 17b, trustee chung?
[7:29:01] >> yes, and excuse me if I missed any
[7:29:05] detail on this, but there isn't quite
[7:29:09] an explanation for why it's going to
[7:29:15] take longer, why it was originally 22
[7:29:19] months and then -- did I pull the
[7:29:23] right agenda item?
[7:29:25] >> I think the 22 month to additional
[7:29:29] duration is for 17e.
[7:29:36] that is completely correct.
[7:29:37] I did not need to pull this item, I'm
[7:29:40] sorry for that, trustees, my
[7:29:42] colleagues.
[7:29:43] can I move 17b.
[7:29:46] >> is there a second.
[7:29:47] >> second.
[7:29:48] >> okay.
[7:29:49] let's take the vote.
[7:29:51] >> student trustee brandt, your
[7:29:53] advisory vote?
[7:29:54] >> aye.
[7:29:57] >> president martinez?
[7:29:58] >> yes.
[7:29:59] >> vice-president zamora?
[7:30:00] >> aye.
[7:30:01] >> trustee chisti?
[7:30:02] >> aye.
[7:30:03] >> trustee wong?
[7:30:04] >> aye.
[7:30:05] >> trustee solomon?
[7:30:06] >> yes.
[7:30:07] >> trustee chung?
[7:30:08] >> aye.
[7:30:09] >> trustee mccarty?
[7:30:10] >> aye.
[7:30:11] >> the motion passes.
[7:30:12] >> 17e.
[7:30:13] >> returning to you, avc vasquez, so
[7:30:17] --
[7:30:18] >> go ahead, please ask your question.
[7:30:19] >> yes, so I was wondering why the
[7:30:26] construction -- the second piece of the
[7:30:29] project is taking -- or I guess in
[7:30:33] totally, the original contract was 22
[7:30:35] months and now it's 30 months and
[7:30:39] could you provide a little bit more of
[7:30:41] an explanation for that.
[7:30:43] >> yes, so, on the first part under
[7:30:47] the bold authorization, there's a one
[7:30:50] and a two, when we made the
[7:30:53] selection rudolph and sletten, there
[7:30:55] were two contracts we were going to
[7:30:58] go into is, one was going to be a
[7:31:01] preconstruction service agreement that
[7:31:02] they were able to start soon
[7:31:09] afterwards and give other
[7:31:13] additional support to streamline the
[7:31:14] design a little bit and that was just
[7:31:19] 997 thousand, they've been under that
[7:31:20] contract and working with us and
[7:31:24] getting pricing and estimates for that.
[7:31:27] as part of that process, they were
[7:31:31] given the item 2 which is -- what was
[7:31:34] going to be the future construction
[7:31:36] services agreement which is the
[7:31:37] contract for them to build a project,
[7:31:41] some of these parameters we
[7:31:43] established because we wanted a fair
[7:31:45] playing field and at the time, the
[7:31:47] project was not designed in its
[7:31:55] totality, so we made the item 2a, a
[7:31:58] construction fee, we had the different
[7:32:02] firms what 2a would be as a percentage
[7:32:03] of a fee which is a cost of the
[7:32:08] construction, item 2b which was base
[7:32:10] on a consistent 22 month schedule that
[7:32:12] all of them had so it would be about an
[7:32:15] even playing field for everybody submitting
[7:32:16] submitting on the 22 month schedule.
[7:32:19] as part of -- and also item c which
[7:32:22] was a rate of insurance would be
[7:32:25] 1.51% and item d, those will all be
[7:32:30] consistent as they submitted as part
[7:32:32] of this initial submittal for the
[7:32:34] construction manager at risk.
[7:32:36] what's changed from the 22 month to
[7:32:40] the now revised 30 month is the
[7:32:43] drawings, details, all that
[7:32:45] information is now complete and in
[7:32:48] their analysis of the construction
[7:32:53] timeframe, they've shared with us that
[7:32:58] the initial construction schedule that
[7:33:00] was prepared was not adequate, so we
[7:33:03] did a lot of review research
[7:33:06] confirming of that schedule and
[7:33:07] understanding how they were going to
[7:33:09] build it.
[7:33:11] the concrete walls as part the project
[7:33:15] and we acknowledged that the
[7:33:17] construction schedule that we
[7:33:18] initially had without a complete set
[7:33:20] of documents for fair, equal pricing
[7:33:22] across the board for anybody
[7:33:25] submitting the proposals was short 8
[7:33:27] months and that's where we're coming
[7:33:29] to the board to acknowledge that the
[7:33:34] actual duration should have been 30
[7:33:35] months at the time if we had a more
[7:33:40] complete project pansies completed and
[7:33:42] be able to have had our estimate give
[7:33:45] us that analysis, so that's why we're
[7:33:49] -- they prorated it at the same 22
[7:33:52] month schedule for 30 months, a little
[7:33:55] bit less, but we did acknowledge our
[7:33:58] construction duration was short 8
[7:34:03] months.
[7:34:04] >> it does -- and I did do the
[7:34:06] calculation, it is right, it should
[7:34:08] have came out to 19 million 900
[7:34:12] thousand or so, a little bit about
[7:34:15] that number, it's a little bit
[7:34:16] discounted in a way but it seems like
[7:34:20] -- I'm just trying to understand
[7:34:24] because if what they had designed is
[7:34:28] leading to them having a contract that
[7:34:31] now costs 4 million dollars more, I'm
[7:34:35] trying to --
[7:34:36] >> yeah, no, I can clarify.
[7:34:38] they have not designed this project,
[7:34:39] this is a different model
[7:34:43] than our design build projects.
[7:34:45] the steam and the student success
[7:34:48] center was a different model where we
[7:34:51] had procured a design build team that
[7:34:55] they -- the builder and the designer,
[7:34:58] and this example, our architect tef is
[7:35:02] under our -- under a contract with us,
[7:35:04] and at the time of this contract,
[7:35:09] there were drawings but not complete
[7:35:11] enough where we could get a full
[7:35:17] contractibility and we have made some
[7:35:19] sunsets through our internal team to
[7:35:21] review and develop a 22 month
[7:35:23] schedule but after the documents were
[7:35:25] completed enough to get a more
[7:35:27] complete estimate and construction
[7:35:31] timeline, the rudolph and sletten came
[7:35:33] back with a longer schedule, we then
[7:35:36] had to review and confirm that and we
[7:35:37] were able to confirm that it was a 30
[7:35:43] month schedule, they did not design
[7:35:46] the buildings they took a design we
[7:35:48] did independently of them.
[7:35:50] >> I see.
[7:35:53] is there -- was there any manner in
[7:35:55] which we would have had a better
[7:35:56] estimate that it was 30 -- it would
[7:36:00] have taken a 30 month duration to construct
[7:36:04] so it was factored in, in the bidding
[7:36:07] process?
[7:36:08] >> so, the bidding process was just as
[7:36:13] in the document, the 2a, b, c and d
[7:36:17] items , those were all fixed numberers
[7:36:21] early on.
[7:36:22] we did not have a complete
[7:36:24] architectural set to be able to bid
[7:36:26] all the details we have now and this
[7:36:28] information comes back from us from
[7:36:30] earlier this year where they
[7:36:33] acknowledged that the duration of the
[7:36:36] all the details if building
[7:36:41] infrastructure would be a 30 month
[7:36:42] schedule.
[7:36:43] at the time we put the original
[7:36:46] request for cmr, we did not have the
[7:36:48] level of detail needed to establish a
[7:36:53] more accurate 30 month schedule we
[7:36:55] have now, that's about two years
[7:37:00] later.
[7:37:01] >> and so I think I'll have to think
[7:37:02] about this a little bit more to figure
[7:37:04] out the if there is additional
[7:37:08] questions I can throw at you for
[7:37:10] another agenda item in the future, avc
[7:37:14] vasquez, as far as the attachment, the
[7:37:17] exhibits that are blank.
[7:37:21] >> yeah, so I was looking at that
[7:37:23] when I heard during the break time and
[7:37:26] I'm not sure, this was kind of a
[7:37:28] document that was put together.
[7:37:31] I think the initial amendment too but
[7:37:37] the main substance of it was that
[7:37:42] duration cost and the contract will
[7:37:45] obviously come to the board once we
[7:37:47] get the plan approval from dsa and
[7:37:53] we're able submit a full contract, all
[7:37:54] of the items will be included at that
[7:37:57] time.
[7:38:00] >> I mean, I think since it's
[7:38:05] substantively within the summary of
[7:38:09] the board agenda, it will make it to
[7:38:11] the contract, so I'm --
[7:38:14] >> yes, salute.
[7:38:17] >> I'm going to move the item.
[7:38:19] >> is there a second?
[7:38:20] >> second.
[7:38:24] >> student roust brandt, your advisory
[7:38:26] vote?
[7:38:27] >> aye.
[7:38:28] >> president martinez?
[7:38:29] >> yes.
[7:38:30] >> vice-president zamora?
[7:38:31] >> aye.
[7:38:32] >> trustee chisti?
[7:38:33] >> aye.
[7:38:34] >> trustee wong?
[7:38:35] >> yes.
[7:38:36] >> trustee solomon?
[7:38:37] >> aye.
[7:38:38] >> trustee chung?
[7:38:39] >> aye.
[7:38:40] >> trustee mccarty?
[7:38:41] >> aye.
[7:38:42] >> the motion passes.
[7:38:43] >> thank you, we're now
[7:38:45] at the item committee reports.
[7:38:50] >> I'm sorry, president martinez, item
[7:38:55] 14d.
[7:38:57] >> item 14d, I appreciate the heads-up.
[7:39:01] >> I have a procedural question.
[7:39:02] >> yes.
[7:39:06] >> thank you, trustee wong, for
[7:39:09] identifying your abstention.
[7:39:10] but I'm curious, does trustee wong
[7:39:12] have to leave the room if there's
[7:39:14] discussion or -- I just don't know
[7:39:17] what that -- yeah.
[7:39:19] >> that part might be addressed by
[7:39:22] kathy.
[7:39:23] I know that he can't participate in
[7:39:24] the discussion but does he need to
[7:39:27] also leave the room?
[7:39:28] >> the proper -- I don't know whether
[7:39:30] the source of the abstention or --
[7:39:34] >> I can share, it's obvious, it is my
[7:39:39] employer.
[7:39:41] >> so, then you likely have a
[7:39:44] financial interest in this particular
[7:39:45] item and so, yes, the proper procedure
[7:39:49] under the fppc is the recuse yourself
[7:39:52] which is announce the financial
[7:39:54] interest and leave the room while the
[7:39:56] item is being voted upon and discussed.
[7:39:58] >> I will leave the room right now,
[7:40:00] somebody tell me when to come back in.
[7:40:02] >> thank you.
[7:40:05] >> before we move forward, I think it
[7:40:07] would be appropriate for a motion to
[7:40:10] extend the time of this meeting.
[7:40:11] >> yes, I was going to ask for that
[7:40:13] motion.
[7:40:14] >> to I'm hoping 12:15.
[7:40:16] >> second.
[7:40:17] >> let's just put it to 12:30, we can
[7:40:20] adjourn earlier.
[7:40:21] >> I agree.
[7:40:22] >> moved and seconded to adjourn the
[7:40:25] meeting at 12:30, vice-president
[7:40:28] zamora moved, seconded by trustee
[7:40:31] chung.
[7:40:32] >> student trustee brandt, your
[7:40:33] advisory vote?
[7:40:34] >> aye.
[7:40:35] >> president martinez?
[7:40:36] >> yes.
[7:40:37] >> vice-president zamora?
[7:40:38] >> aye.
[7:40:39] >> trustee chung?
[7:40:40] >> aye.
[7:40:41] >> trustee chisti?
[7:40:42] >> aye.
[7:40:43] >> trustee solomon?
[7:40:44] >> yes.
[7:40:45] >> trustee mccarty?
[7:40:46] >> aye.
[7:40:47] >> the motion passes.
[7:40:49] >> we will now -- is there any
[7:40:51] discussion on this item?
[7:40:55] will somebody move the item?
[7:40:59] >> so moved.
[7:41:00] >> second.
[7:41:01] >> thank you.
[7:41:02] will you call the roll, please.
[7:41:03] >> sorry, please, we were extending
[7:41:05] time, so not yet.
[7:41:10] >> student trustee brandt, your
[7:41:12] advisory vote?
[7:41:13] >> aye.
[7:41:15] >> president martinez?
[7:41:16] >> yes.
[7:41:17] >> vice-president zamora?
[7:41:18] >> aye.
[7:41:19] >> trustee chisti?
[7:41:20] >> aye
[7:41:24] >> trustee solomon?
[7:41:25] >> yes.
[7:41:26] >> trustee chung?
[7:41:27] >> aye.
[7:41:28] >> trustee mccarty?
[7:41:29] >> aye.
[7:41:30] >> the motion passes.
[7:41:31] >> thank you.
[7:41:32] we are now at committee reports and
[7:41:36] can you pull it up.
[7:41:37] item 20.
[7:41:42] >> I think we're at 19.
[7:41:49] >> informational items.
[7:41:50] that's 19.
[7:42:03] >> number 19a.
[7:42:04] >> yeah, so trustees, these are all
[7:42:07] items that have been brought before
[7:42:09] you previously for a first read I
[7:42:13] believe at the most recent committee
[7:42:18] of all meeting, so we can start with
[7:42:21] item 19a if there are any additional
[7:42:26] questions about ap6.36, the course
[7:42:29] auditing and auditing fees.
[7:42:31] >> trustees, are there any comments or
[7:42:35] questions?
[7:42:36] any public comments?
[7:42:40] okay.
[7:42:41] since this is an informational items,
[7:42:42] I'm assuming we do not have to take a
[7:42:46] vote.
[7:42:48] okay, item 19b?
[7:42:49] >> this one is regarding student
[7:42:54] activities and including a name change
[7:42:55] to the associated students
[7:43:00] organization ap5.01.
[7:43:04] >> trustee, any questions or comments?
[7:43:07] thank you, number 19c?
[7:43:11] >> ap5.08 regarding credit card
[7:43:14] solicitation on campus.
[7:43:16] >> trustees, any questions or comments?
[7:43:22] thank you.
[7:43:23] now we go to number 20, I was trying
[7:43:25] to get the to this one because it
[7:43:27] notes that there's supposed to be a
[7:43:31] report today.
[7:43:32] number 20.
[7:43:39] vice-president zamora, do you have a
[7:43:40] report today?
[7:43:43] >> unless folks would like me to add
[7:43:49] additional context, I feel like we
[7:43:51] covered this at the committee of the
[7:43:54] whole and nothing has changed since
[7:43:56] then, so just for expediency.
[7:43:59] >> okay, thank you.
[7:44:04] I will ask interim chancellor bailey to
[7:44:11] in the next consultation about the
[7:44:16] agenda that we remove this item unless
[7:44:20] we inform him there's a need to have
[7:44:22] it on the agenda, thank you.
[7:44:28] okay.
[7:44:29] trustee reports.
[7:44:31] trustees, any reports?
[7:44:35] I'll defer and go last.
[7:44:39] anybody have a report, yes?
[7:44:42] >> public comments on?
[7:44:45] >> reports.
[7:44:47] >> on reports?
[7:44:49] okay.
[7:44:50] could we go ahead and take public
[7:44:52] comments on reports.
[7:44:54] >> abigail bornstein.
[7:45:03] >> so, I wanted to take a moment to
[7:45:07] address the board.
[7:45:08] I wanted to remind the board about
[7:45:16] board policy 1.12.
[7:45:19] board policy 1.12 and let me read this
[7:45:21] to you, it is the standards of
[7:45:24] decorum, the following may be ruled
[7:45:26] out of order by the president's offer,
[7:45:30] by the presiding officer, profanity,
[7:45:38] obscenity and other offensive
[7:45:39] language, I think we very clearly
[7:45:42] witnessed that and yet I didn't hear
[7:45:43] -- I want to say thank you to trustee
[7:45:46] chisti but I didn't hear an out of
[7:45:48] order and this was something the
[7:45:50] president should have jumped on.
[7:45:51] it is not acceptable, it is disgusting
[7:45:56] language and I want you to know
[7:46:00] immediately after that was spoken, I
[7:46:05] received another vial, nasty, bullying
[7:46:09] and threatening e-mail.
[7:46:10] that is going to be going to hr but
[7:46:12] someone at this school, this school
[7:46:14] has got to address it, you are now on
[7:46:17] notice we have a problem here.
[7:46:19] we have a big problem here.
[7:46:21] I should not be bullied, I
[7:46:25] should not be threatened or have
[7:46:29] disgusting language directed at me or
[7:46:30] anyone at the school.
[7:46:33] this is not the first time we've heard
[7:46:36] things like this.
[7:46:37] we have it almost after every single
[7:46:41] board meeting, the type of language
[7:46:44] that is inappropriate, the bullying
[7:46:46] behavior that we witness, when I say
[7:46:49] we, I mean every single one of you
[7:46:52] board members have witnessed it and I
[7:46:53] want you to think for a moment what
[7:46:59] did you witness and what did you do.
[7:47:02] what action did you take while that
[7:47:06] was happening?
[7:47:09] you heard it, I have another e-mail,
[7:47:14] the school has got a problem and it
[7:47:15] has to be addressed and this isn't
[7:47:18] just towards me, it's towards many but
[7:47:20] I have very specific language in here
[7:47:25] which is disgusting, vial.
[7:47:29] and saying, oh, I'm sorry, having
[7:47:31] people say, oh, I'm sorry you had to
[7:47:34] hear, that is not enough, the school has
[7:47:35] to do something about this.
[7:47:38] >> thank you for your comment, I wish
[7:47:41] to offer my personal apology and
[7:47:43] acknowledge that I was wrong in not
[7:47:46] stopping it and it won't happen again.
[7:47:51] yes, student trustee brandt?
[7:47:53] >> yeah, thank you, sorry.
[7:47:55] I was just trying to better understand
[7:47:59] process and procedure and what that
[7:48:00] has to do with board member reports.
[7:48:06] >> I think we needed to take that
[7:48:10] public comment because it was
[7:48:11] necessary given the situation and it
[7:48:13] may have been slightly out of order
[7:48:16] but I think it was a comment that we
[7:48:18] had to hear.
[7:48:20] >> understood.
[7:48:21] >> and acknowledged.
[7:48:22] >> I was just curious, thank you.
[7:48:24] >> thank you, okay.
[7:48:25] board reports?
[7:48:29] okay, I see vice-president zamora?
[7:48:31] >> I just wanted to take a brief
[7:48:35] moment to congratulate katia fuchs on
[7:48:39] her election and all the new and
[7:48:42] returning academic senate leadership.
[7:48:44] I also wanted to congratulate michael
[7:48:48] snider and all the and rushing senate
[7:48:50] leadership on their elections.
[7:48:52] I wanted to take a moment to thank
[7:48:57] student chancellor malinalli
[7:48:59] villalobos for all of his work, his
[7:49:03] blood, sweat, tear, his passion and
[7:49:08] always bringing that everywhere he
[7:49:10] goes including here to the board.
[7:49:13] I wish him luck in his next role.
[7:49:16] I also want to welcome and
[7:49:21] congratulate an jael ka campos, I have
[7:49:25] berated with angelica on a number of
[7:49:27] occasions and every single time
[7:49:29] angelica has been a ray of sunshine and
[7:49:35] open to hearing every point of view,
[7:49:37] so I look forward to working with
[7:49:41] angelica but finally I wanted to
[7:49:45] personally thank and appreciate
[7:49:48] student trustee heather brandt for a
[7:49:51] number of reasons, not just because of
[7:49:53] your role as student trustee but
[7:49:57] because whether or not you know this or
[7:50:01] have been told this, there's very few
[7:50:03] people I have met in my life that have
[7:50:08] exhibited the strength that you have,
[7:50:11] like, you're tougher than nails, not
[7:50:15] as tough as nails, you're
[7:50:17] tougher than nails and frankly you had
[7:50:19] confided in me a lot of what you
[7:50:23] shared publicly today and
[7:50:29] juggling any of the challenges
[7:50:33] that most students at ccsf have is very
[7:50:40] common but I feel like you're kind of
[7:50:45] forged in the fire and I feel like
[7:50:50] you've gone above and beyond and I
[7:50:52] just would like you to know that, so I
[7:50:55] wish you were here.
[7:50:57] you're being amazing over an encore
[7:51:00] along with our other students and
[7:51:03] faculty and administration but I just
[7:51:05] personally wanted to say it's been
[7:51:07] such a pleasure getting to know you
[7:51:12] and working with you and I look
[7:51:13] forward to your new role as student
[7:51:15] chancellor which I believe either
[7:51:17] begins at the beginning of next month
[7:51:19] or at the adjournment of this meeting
[7:51:21] so I wish you luck.
[7:51:25] >> I saw trustee solomon.
[7:51:29] >> thank you, and I would like to
[7:51:32] thank you, dr. Lisa cooper wilkins for
[7:51:34] all the work you did so we could have
[7:51:37] a beautiful commencement ceremony, it
[7:51:39] was the highlight of the week, not
[7:51:41] just the day, so thank you.
[7:51:46] just wanted to remind people that
[7:51:48] we've received an e-mail on may 27
[7:51:51] about pride events, city college will
[7:51:53] be participating in the pride parade
[7:51:54] which is on sunday june 29 and
[7:51:58] reporting time will be announced soon.
[7:52:01] also something new, city college will
[7:52:02] be tabling at the pride celebration at
[7:52:08] civic center plaza on saturday
[7:52:09] june 28 and sunday june 29.
[7:52:12] if you can look up that e-mail,
[7:52:17] there's somewhere where you can sign
[7:52:18] up to the table or the parade
[7:52:21] contingent.
[7:52:22] there also is going to be the annual
[7:52:24] flag raising on a date to be decided.
[7:52:28] I think it might be as early as the
[7:52:30] first week of june, so stay tuned.
[7:52:31] thank you.
[7:52:33] >> thank you.
[7:52:36] and any other trustee reports?
[7:52:37] trustee chisti?
[7:52:40] >> thank you, president martinez.
[7:52:43] I think everything has been said but I
[7:52:45] want to take a few moments and really
[7:52:49] center student trustee brandt and just
[7:52:51] really thank you for all of your work
[7:52:52] and your advocacy.
[7:52:56] I've especially enjoyed working on our
[7:53:01] annual iftars that are going on right
[7:53:03] now and you're a force to be wrecked
[7:53:05] with and everyone that I have talked
[7:53:07] to has also mentioned like the
[7:53:10] magnitude of your support, your
[7:53:13] compassion and I personally have
[7:53:15] always really appreciated when there's
[7:53:16] a student that's reached out to me and
[7:53:19] they're looking for connections that I
[7:53:21] could connect them with you, so thank
[7:53:24] you for -- I know that you have a lot
[7:53:26] that you've dealt with on a personal
[7:53:28] level but you still show up, you're
[7:53:32] present, super articulate and just
[7:53:35] really, really appreciate you and want
[7:53:37] to thank you for your service.
[7:53:40] >> other board reports?
[7:53:41] trustee chung?
[7:53:46] >> well, student trustee brandt and
[7:53:51] vice chancellor -- sorry, chancellor
[7:53:55] elect, student chancellor elect, you
[7:54:00] know that I have always felt like you
[7:54:03] were more deserving of
[7:54:05] being a student trustee than I was.
[7:54:07] before I took a run for it, I thought
[7:54:11] you should have run and I am so
[7:54:18] honored that you have been a member of
[7:54:21] this board for two years.
[7:54:26] you have been -- are -- you have
[7:54:31] spoken out on things when so many of
[7:54:35] us across this nation have been silent
[7:54:37] about it.
[7:54:40] and I really wish you had a vote on
[7:54:42] this board.
[7:54:43] I think you would have -- I think you
[7:54:47] really would have changed the
[7:54:48] trajectory and the work we do on this
[7:54:51] board if you had a vote.
[7:54:52] and with that said, I also want to
[7:54:55] still take the time and highlight some
[7:54:57] hinges on our board agenda because I
[7:54:59] just want to state that I'm really
[7:55:03] excited about -- I know it took
[7:55:06] a minute for me to be excited about
[7:55:08] this but there's no course work on ai
[7:55:10] and cloud and cyber security that's
[7:55:12] really exciting because when we talk
[7:55:14] about the future and it's still
[7:55:16] balanced with the wholistic view of
[7:55:19] social work and health care and dental
[7:55:22] assisting, so it's so exciting, thank
[7:55:23] you so much for the academic senate
[7:55:26] for doing that work.
[7:55:27] we also have a new credit program in
[7:55:30] climate change and response, that's a
[7:55:32] new certificate of achievement, that's
[7:55:35] really exciting to know that we're
[7:55:37] going to be training those who are
[7:55:40] going to be trying to keep this earth
[7:55:43] alive for many generations.
[7:55:49] and trustee chisti, you usually do
[7:55:52] this honor of reading out those who
[7:55:54] are going to be retired but I don't
[7:55:59] know if any other trustee would like
[7:56:00] to do that honor tonight.
[7:56:04] >> you're up.
[7:56:05] >> okay.
[7:56:06] thank you.
[7:56:09] let's see if we can expand this.
[7:56:18] to dominique valerie would is a
[7:56:19] faculty member at esl who has worked
[7:56:22] here for 31 years, I know we're having
[7:56:26] harold brown iii come back from
[7:56:28] retirement, thank you for already
[7:56:30] servicing our college for 38 year and
[7:56:32] is still coming back from
[7:56:34] retirement to help out our athletics
[7:56:41] department, bruce ingram, part time
[7:56:47] faculty if mathematics, 20 years and
[7:56:52] six months, jimel, full time faculty
[7:56:55] in business, 34 years and five months,
[7:56:59] loft house, full time faculty esl, 27
[7:57:02] years and 4 months, a -- michelle,
[7:57:10] full time faculty and nursing, 40
[7:57:20] years.
[7:57:22] steven robertson, apprenticeship, 24
[7:57:25] years.
[7:57:26] john, visual media design, 29 years
[7:57:28] and 4 months.
[7:57:33] and andreas, buildings and grounds, 17
[7:57:37] years.
[7:57:38] and him potter, student affairs
[7:57:40] division, two years and 8 months.
[7:57:41] thank you so much for your service.
[7:57:44] >> any other trustee reports?
[7:57:50] I have a brief one.
[7:57:53] I want to add my thanks to you, acting
[7:57:59] chancellor cooper wilkins for a
[7:58:01] wonderful commencement.
[7:58:02] I really appreciated the innovation
[7:58:04] and I'm going to the give them the
[7:58:06] wrong name of the two honor lines,
[7:58:10] next year, maybe after we've had this
[7:58:13] practice, we'll do them a little bit
[7:58:16] better.
[7:58:17] and just appreciate your patience with
[7:58:18] those of us on the platform, thank
[7:58:21] you, and learning our ways.
[7:58:24] and then I will report -- I will
[7:58:28] comment on 13a.
[7:58:29] as noted in the commencement booklet,
[7:58:32] I appreciate we're celebrating the
[7:58:35] 90th anniversary of city college from
[7:58:36] the date it was founded in 1935.
[7:58:39] it was still part of the k14 district.
[7:58:45] and I appreciate the change language
[7:58:47] in the fourth button on the mission
[7:58:49] statements, our programs and services
[7:58:52] lead to the attainment of other
[7:58:55] educational goals including learning
[7:58:56] english as a second language and high
[7:58:59] school completion both part of our
[7:59:01] commitment to adult education which
[7:59:04] acknowledges that some of our roots
[7:59:07] are older, leslie smith, a retired
[7:59:12] administrator researched origins
[7:59:15] sharing that bishop alemany
[7:59:23] initiated san francisco's first post
[7:59:27] secondary instruction for newcomers
[7:59:29] arriving in san francisco during the
[7:59:31] 1849 gold rush.
[7:59:33] john sweat officially inaugurated
[7:59:36] public adult education in 1856 and was
[7:59:40] its first principal.
[7:59:41] adult ed was part of the k-12 district,
[7:59:46] it was k-14 district when city college
[7:59:49] was founded.
[7:59:52] when san francisco's split into two
[7:59:59] districts in 1970, the san francisco
[8:00:01] community college was established and
[8:00:04] included adult education forming city
[8:00:06] college.
[8:00:07] so, in 2026, we have a potential 170th
[8:00:12] anniversary to celebrate.
[8:00:14] fitting because the biggest pool of
[8:00:16] student who is matriculate to credit
[8:00:21] instruction are non-credit, santa
[8:00:22] clara university known as california's
[8:00:26] molest post secondary institution was
[8:00:29] founded in 1851, just five years
[8:00:32] before.
[8:00:33] uc berkeley, in 1868, stanford, 1885
[8:00:39] and lowell high school was established
[8:00:42] in 1956, the same year as adult education,
[8:00:45] so let's know about that.
[8:00:47] I think the mission statement really
[8:00:51] in acknowledging that we have two
[8:00:53] parts of our college that are really
[8:00:55] important and also notice that there
[8:00:58] were two presidents because we had two
[8:01:03] divisions for a long time and that's
[8:01:05] why we have a title of chancellor and
[8:01:10] I noted it's accurate missing just the
[8:01:12] last few years.
[8:01:14] graduate students interviewed me in
[8:01:16] late april as part of san francisco's
[8:01:19] state university's ethnic studies oral
[8:01:21] histories project to collect mel ris
[8:01:24] of the dwindling numbers of the
[8:01:26] veterans of the five month long
[8:01:28] student strike led by the bsu and the
[8:01:34] twlf.
[8:01:35] bsu, black student's union, twlf,
[8:01:39] third world liberation front, those
[8:01:40] were the rest of our students who are
[8:01:43] not african american, it was
[8:01:48] latinos, chinese, all
[8:01:49] of the rest of us, the student strike,
[8:01:52] the longest in u.s. History as well as
[8:01:55] the most inclusive led to the
[8:01:57] establishment of the school now
[8:02:00] college of ethnic studies.
[8:02:01] the first of its kind in the u.s..
[8:02:05] that was the origin of all of our
[8:02:09] ethnic studies and we at city college
[8:02:12] accomplished our ethnic studies pretty
[8:02:15] much shortly after that.
[8:02:19] this was also and continues to be a
[8:02:21] keystone event in bringing diversity,
[8:02:23] equity and inclusion into public
[8:02:25] higher education.
[8:02:27] and my experience in learning as much
[8:02:30] outside the classroom as inside has
[8:02:32] informed my opinion about the critical
[8:02:35] role that student life plays in
[8:02:37] student achievement.
[8:02:40] finally I learned recently city
[8:02:42] college is officially an hsi, hispanic
[8:02:46] serving institution.
[8:02:49] faculty acquired because they wanted
[8:02:50] to attend a haku conference at a
[8:02:57] reduced registration rate for hsi
[8:02:59] colleges.
[8:03:00] we should remember this when a new
[8:03:02] federal administration is elected in
[8:03:03] case we can qualify and apply for
[8:03:07] federal funding allocated to hsi's and
[8:03:09] it's in the millions, it's quite
[8:03:13] substantial but I didn't know we were
[8:03:15] an hsi until a faculty member inquired
[8:03:18] so I want to appreciate that faculty
[8:03:20] member for checking it out.
[8:03:21] that's all I have for my report.
[8:03:23] is there a motion to adjourn?
[8:03:26] >> moved.
[8:03:27] >> moved by trustee chung.
[8:03:28] >> second.
[8:03:31] >> second by vice-president zamora.
[8:03:33] roll call vote, please.
[8:03:35] >> student trustee brandt, your
[8:03:37] advisory vote?
[8:03:38] >> aye.
[8:03:39] >> president martinez?
[8:03:40] >> yes.
[8:03:41] >> vice-president zamora?
[8:03:42] >> aye.
[8:03:43] >> trustee chisti?
[8:03:44] >> aye.
[8:03:45] >> trustee wong?
[8:03:46] >> yes.
[8:03:47] >> trustee solomon?
[8:03:48] >> yes.
[8:03:49] >> trustee chung?
[8:03:50] >> aye.
[8:03:51] >> trustee mccarty?
[8:03:52] >> aye.
[8:03:53] >> motion passes
[8:03:54] >> meeting is adjourned.
[8:03:57] ( meeting adjourned ).