SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT MONTHLY MEETING OF THE HONORABLE BOARD OF TRUSTEES THURSDAY, FEBRUARY, 23, 2012 CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO GOUGH STREET CAMPUS 33 GOUGH STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA REPORTED BY: MICHELE M. SHEA, CSR NO. 11345 2 1 A P P E A R A N C E S 2 3 4 THE HONORABLE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 5 6 DR. NATATLIE BERG 7 DR. ANITA GRIER 8 CHRIS JACKSON 9 MILTON MARKS III 10 STEVE NGO 11 JOHN RIZZO 12 LAWRENCE WONG 13 14 15 DR. DON Q. GRIFFIN, CHANCELLOR 16 SCOTT DICKEY, GENERAL COUNSEL 17 JEFFREY FANG, STUDENT TRUSTEE 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 FEBRUARY 23, 2012 3 1 BE IT REMEMBERED THAT ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2 2012, COMMENCING AT THE HOUR OF 6:45 P.M. THEREOF, AT CITY 3 COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO, 33 GOUGH STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, 4 CALIFORNIA, BEFORE ME, MICHELE M. SHEA, A CERTIFIED 5 SHORTHAND REPORTER FOR THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, THE 6 FOLLOWING PROCEEDINGS WERE HELD: 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 FEBRUARY 23, 2012 4 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THIS IS THE REGULAR MEETING OF 2 THE CITY COLLEGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, AND I THINK WE TAKE 3 ATTENDANCE FIRST. 4 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: JOHN RIZZO. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: HERE. 6 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: DR. ANITA GRIER. 7 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: HERE. 8 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: DR. NATALIE BERG. 9 TRUSTEE BERG: HERE. 10 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: CHRIS JACKSON. 11 TRUSTEE JACKSON: HERE. 12 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: STEVE NGO. 13 TRUSTEE NGO: HERE. 14 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: MILTON MARKS. 15 TRUSTEE MARKS: HERE. 16 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: LAWRENCE WONG. 17 TRUSTEE WONG: HERE. 18 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: STUDENT TRUSTEE JEFFREY 19 FANG. 20 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: HERE. 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IF WE COULD PLEASE RISE FOR 22 THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. 23 (PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE RECITED.) 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, THE FIRST ITEM IS PUBLIC 25 COMMENT ON ITEMS THAT ARE NOT ON THE AGENDA. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 5 1 THE BUDGET IS ON THE AGENDA. SO IF YOU HAVE A 2 COMMENT THAT IS NOT ABOUT THE BUDGET, ABOUT SOMETHING 3 COMPLETELY DIFFERENT OR NOT ON THE AGENDA, COME FORWARD OR 4 WRITE A CARD. IT LOOKS LIKE THERE ARE NONE. 5 WE WILL MOVE TO THE APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES. 6 IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES? 7 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: SO MOVED. 8 TRUSTEE JACKSON: I WILL MOVE THE MINUTES. 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG 10 AND SECONDED BY TRUSTEE JACKSON. 11 IS THERE A DISCUSSION? 12 TRUSTEE WONG: I AM GOING TO RECUSE MYSELF FROM 13 VOTING. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 15 TRUSTEE WONG: BECAUSE I WASN'T HERE LAST MONTH. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THERE PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE 17 MINUTES? 18 ALL RIGHT, STUDENT TRUSTEE, YOUR VOTE. 19 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLAY SAY 21 "AYE." 22 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 23 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: AYE. 24 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 25 TRUSTEE MARKS: AYE. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 6 1 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 3 TRUSTEE WONG: (RECUSED.) 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 5 MINUTES ARE APPROVED. 6 THE ADOPTION OF THE RESOLUTIONS AGENDA. 7 COUNSEL, ARE THERE -- 8 TRUSTEE BERG: I WILL MOVE THE RESOLUTIONS 9 AGENDA. 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 11 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: SECOND. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE BERG; 13 SECONDED BY TRUSTEE GRIER. 14 COUNSEL, ARE THERE ANY CHANGES TO THE 15 RESOLUTIONS AGENDA? 16 COUNSEL DICKEY: YES, MR. PRESIDENT, THERE ARE 17 TWO CHANGES. 18 THE FIRST IS ON ITEM B2, WHICH IS A 19 "AUTHORIZATION FOR ONE CONTRACT MODIFICATION TOTALING 20 $0.00 FOR SPECIAL SERVICES CONTRACTS AND CONSTRUCTION 21 CONTRACTS." 22 THAT ITEM IS NOT LISTED AS BEING ON CONSENT, BUT 23 WAS INTENDED TO BE ON CONSENT SO THAT SHOULD GO ON THE 24 CONSENT CALENDAR. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 7 1 COUNSEL DICKEY: AND THE OTHER MODIFICATION 2 RELATES TO ITEM B3, WHICH IS THE "APPROVAL TO SOLICIT AND 3 RECEIVE BIDS FOR SERVICES OF A PRIVATE HIGHER EDUCATION 4 MARKETING AND PUBLICITY FIRM FOR UP TO $50,000 DURING THE 5 PERIOD OF APRIL 1ST, 2012 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2012. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH. 7 COUNSEL DICKEY: TRUSTEE GRIER -- EXCUSE ME, 8 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER IS ALSO AN ORIGINATOR AND LISTED IN 9 THAT RESOLUTION. 10 THOSE ARE THE ONLY MODIFICATIONS WE HAVE 11 TONIGHT. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. THANK YOU. 13 SO IT'S BEEN MOVED. 14 IS THERE A DISCUSSION? 15 IS THERE PUBLIC COMMENT? 16 OKAY, STUDENT TRUSTEE, YOUR VOTE, PLEASE. 17 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY 19 "AYE." 20 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 21 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: AYE. 22 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 23 TRUSTEE MARKS: AYE. 24 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 8 1 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 3 THE RESOLUTIONS AGENDA IS ADOPTED. 4 OKAY, WE WILL NOW TAKE ITEM ROMAN NUMERAL IX OUT 5 OF ORDER, THE MONTHLY FINANCIAL REPORT. AND THEN WITH THE 6 BOARD'S INDULGENCE, I WILL TAKE TWO RELATED RESOLUTIONS, 7 S7 AND S8, RELATED TO THAT AFTERWARDS. 8 SO I GUESS WE WILL HAVE A PRESENTATION FROM VICE 9 CHANCELLOR GOLDSTEIN. 10 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: WE ARE LOOKING FOR 11 GOLDSTEIN. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, WHILE WE ARE WAITING FOR 13 HIM. 14 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: IS PETER IN THE BACK? 15 OH, THERE HE IS. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THERE HE IS. 17 LET ME JUST INTRODUCE THIS. YOU MAY HAVE -- I 18 AM SURE EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM IS AWARE THAT THE STATE JUST 19 GAVE THE COMMUNITY COLLEGES THE THIRD ROUND OF CUTS FOR 20 THIS YEAR $149 MILLION IS THE STORY IN THE LA TIMES ABOUT 21 IT. 22 AND THE THING THAT IS SO WRONG ABOUT THIS ROUND 23 OF CUTS IS THAT GRADUATION IS THREE MONTHS AWAY. SO THE 24 STATE IS SAYING TO THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM, NOT JUST 25 CITY COLLEGE, BUT THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM IS WE WANT FEBRUARY 23, 2012 9 1 YOU TO CUT THE REST OF YOUR SEMESTER THAT HAS ALREADY 2 STARTED. THIS IS -- WE SHOULD THINK OF THIS AS AN 3 OUTRAGE. 4 HOW DOES THE STATE EXPECT THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE 5 SYSTEM TO PROVIDE AN EDUCATION IF THEY ARE CHANGING THE 6 BUDGET THIS LATE IN THE GAME? 7 WHEN THEY -- THIS YEAR WE'VE HAD $17 MILLION OF 8 CUTS. THIS IS A FEW MORE MILLION DOLLARS NOW. WHEN THEY 9 TOLD US THEY WERE CUTTING IN JUNE, WE PREPARED FOR IT. 10 NOW EVERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT IS IN PANIC 11 MODE, EMERGENCY MODE. WHERE DO WE FIND CUTS IN THE LAST 12 THREE MONTHS OF OUR SCHOOL YEAR? 13 IT'S RESULTING ALL OVER THE STATE IN CLASSES 14 THAT HAVE ALREADY STARTED BEING CANCELED, STUDENTS WHO 15 HAVE ALREADY BOUGHT THEIR BOOKS BEING TOLD, SORRY, THIS 16 CLASS YOU HAVE BEEN COMING TO IS GONE. 17 COMMUNITY COLLEGES ARE CANCELING THEIR SUMMER 18 SCHOOLS. IT LOOKS LIKE WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO PARE BACK 19 OUR SUMMER SCHOOL SIGNIFICANTLY. THIS IS JUST AN 20 UNREASONABLE HARDSHIP THAT THE STATE IS PUTTING ON THE 21 COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT. 22 AND TO ME, THIS IS THE LAST STRAW. IF PEOPLE 23 WERE NOT PLANNING ON GOING TO SACRAMENTO ON MARCH 5TH OR 24 PARTICIPATING IN THE MARCH 1ST MARCHES LOCALLY IN 25 EDUCATION, I HOPE THAT THIS WILL CONVINCE YOU THAT WE NEED FEBRUARY 23, 2012 10 1 TO PARTICIPATE. 2 SO, VICE CHANCELLOR, IF YOU WOULD TAKE IT AWAY. 3 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: WELL, THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. 4 YOU'VE STATED MUCH OF IT EXACTLY AS I WOULD. 5 THIS IS NOW THE THIRD ROUND OF CUTS. I BELIEVE 6 THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE LEAGUE PUT OUT A RELEASE SAYING, THE 7 FEBRUARY SURPRISE. IN A NUTSHELL, THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF 8 FINANCE OVERESTIMATED THE AMOUNT OF STUDENT FEES THAT 9 WOULD BE COLLECTED STATEWIDE THIS YEAR. AND THE STATE 10 DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE OVERESTIMATED THE AMOUNT OF PROPERTY 11 TAX THAT WOULD BE COLLECTED STATEWIDE THIS YEAR. AND 12 THERE IS NO PENALTY TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE 13 WHEN THAT HAPPENS. 14 INSTEAD, THE COMMUNITY COLLEGES ARE SIMPLY TOLD 15 VIA AN E-MAIL THAT THEY'VE LOST MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF 16 DOLLARS VERY LATE IN THE YEAR WITH VERY LITTLE TIME TO DO 17 ANYTHING TO PLAN FOR IT. REALLY NO TIME TO PLAN FOR IT. 18 AND VERY LITTLE TIME TO REACT TO IT. 19 IN THE CASE OF OUR COLLEGE, CITY COLLEGE OF SAN 20 FRANCISCO, WE WERE TOLD THAT WE WOULD LOSE $3.67 MILLION 21 WITH VIRTUALLY NO NOTICE. IT CAME IN TWO PIECES, LATE 22 JANUARY AND MID-FEBRUARY. AND THERE ARE TWO OFFSETTING 23 PIECES OF INFORMATION WE GOT WHERE THE STATE IS CORRECTING 24 FOR THE AMOUNT THEY GAVE US LAST YEAR AND GIVING US A 25 LITTLE MORE BASIC SKILLS MONEY THIS YEAR, WHICH IS GREAT FEBRUARY 23, 2012 11 1 BECAUSE WE ARE SPENDING A LOT MORE ON BASIC SKILLS THEN 2 THE STATE IS ACTUALLY PAYING US FOR. BUT THE BOTTOM LINE 3 IS STILL, MINUS $2.88 MILLION. 4 AND THE HANDOUT I JUST DISTRIBUTED SHOWS YOU ON 5 THE TOP, THE IMPACT OF JANUARY AND FEBRUARY CUTS, 6 3,668,000. THERE ARE THE TWO ADJUSTMENTS I JUST REFERRED 7 TO THAT WERE IN OUR FAVOR. A PRIOR YEAR ADJUSTMENT FOR 8 LAST YEAR, 2010-2011, AND SOME ADDITIONAL BASIC SKILLS 9 MONEY FOR THIS YEAR, BUT STILL A NET LOSS TO OUR COLLEGE 10 OF $2.88 MILLION. AGAIN, WITH VIRTUALLY NO NOTICE AND 11 VERY LITTLE TIME TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. 12 OUR COLLEGE IS NOW, AS YOU SAID, DEALING WITH A 13 TOTAL REDUCTION IN FUNDING FOR ENROLLMENT OF NEARLY 14 $17 MILLION IN ONE YEAR. WE COULDN'T BELIEVE IT WHEN THE 15 NUMBERS WERE PROPOSED FOR THE JULY BUDGET THAT WE COULD 16 POSSIBLY BE CUT MORE THAN $9 MILLION IN ONE STRIKE OF THE 17 PEN. AND THEN WE COULDN'T BELIEVE IT IN JANUARY WHEN THEY 18 TOOK AWAY ANOTHER $4 MILLION, THREE AND A HALF SOMETHING 19 TO THAT TUNE. YET, BOTH OF THOSE HAPPENED. AND NOW ON 20 TOP OF THAT ALL, HERE'S ANOTHER CUT THAT WE WEREN'T TOLD 21 ABOUT IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER. 22 I HAVE TO SAY IN THE WAY OF DISCLOSURE, THERE IS 23 A LONG-SHOT CHANCE WE COULD GET SOME OF THIS MONEY BACK 24 FROM THE STATE. BUT IF THAT HAPPENS, WE MIGHT NOT KNOW 25 ABOUT IT UNTIL AFTER THE FISCAL YEAR IS EVEN OVER. SO HOW FEBRUARY 23, 2012 12 1 DO YOU PLAN FOR THAT? 2 INSTEAD, WITH THE MODEST RESERVE THAT WE HAVE 3 AND ALL THE MONEY THAT WE'VE LOST SO FAR FROM THE STATE, 4 WE REALLY HAVE NO CHOICE. 5 AND I HAVE NO CHOICE OTHER THAN TO RECOMMEND TO 6 YOU, AS A BOARD AND TO THE CHANCELLOR, THAT THE COLLEGE 7 HAS TO FIND WAYS TO SAVE THAT AMOUNT OF MONEY WITH THIS 8 LITTLE TIME LEFT IN THE YEAR. THERE REALLY IS NO OTHER 9 WAY AT THIS POINT. 10 AND AS EVERYONE KNOWS, WE ARE GETTING READY FOR 11 AN ACCREDITING TEAM THAT WILL COME DOWN HERE AND WILL WANT 12 TO KNOW RIGHT OFF THE BAT HOW ARE WE DEALING WITH THIS 13 LAST MINUTE CUT FROM THE STATE, AND WE NEED TO BE READY 14 WITH AN ANSWER. 15 SO WHAT YOU ALSO SEE ON THAT CHART IS THE 16 PHILOSOPHY THAT THE CHANCELLOR HAS ENDORSED AND EXPLAINED 17 TO THE COLLEGE'S PLANNING AND BUDGET COUNCIL THAT EACH OF 18 THE MAJOR GROUPS IN THE COLLEGE SHOULD SHARE 19 PROPORTIONATELY BASED ON WHAT PROPORTION OF THE MONEY IS 20 SPENT ON THAT GROUP. THEY SHOULD SHARE PROPORTIONATELY ON 21 RESOLVING THE PROBLEM. 22 AND SO YOU SEE THE DIFFERENT PERCENTAGES LAID 23 OUT THERE. 59.3085, A LOT OF DECIMAL PLACES FOR THE 24 FACULTY RANGING DOWN TO 0.627, THAT'S 62 -- 627 25 HUNDREDTHS -- 627 THOUSANDTHS OF A PERCENT, SIX-TENTHS OF FEBRUARY 23, 2012 13 1 A PERCENT ON THE DCC PART. 2 I'D POINT OUT THAT THAT'S NOT THE SHARE OF ALL 3 OF OUR SPENDING THAT GOES TO THE DCC. THEIR SALARIES ARE 4 INCLUDED UNDER THE FACULTY. THESE ARE JUST OTHER PAYMENTS 5 THAT THE DCC RECEIVES. 6 THE ADMINISTRATORS ARE THERE, OF COURSE, AT 7 3.68 PERCENT. AND THEN WHAT THOSE PERCENTAGES ARE USED TO 8 DO IS TO MULTIPLY TIMES THE 2.88 MILLION TO COME TO AN 9 AMOUNT THAT IF EACH GROUP SHARED PROPORTIONATELY, A FAIR 10 SHARE OF THE PROBLEM, THAT'S HOW MUCH EACH GROUP SHOULD 11 CONTRIBUTE IN A SOLUTION TOWARD CLOSING THIS LAST MINUTE 12 CUT FROM THE STATE. AND, OF COURSE, IT WOULD TOTAL 13 2.88 MILLION. 14 AND THEN THERE'S TWO IMPORTANT NOTES. ONE, OF 15 COURSE, ALL CONCESSIONS MUST BE NEGOTIATED WITH THE 16 RESPECT OF LABOR UNIONS. WHEN ANY OF OUR EMPLOYEES ARE 17 REPRESENTED BY A UNION, THE COLLEGE DOES NOT HAVE A 18 UNILATERAL RIGHT TO MAKE THIS KIND OF A CHANGE AND TAKE 19 MONEY AWAY. THESE HAVE TO BE NEGOTIATED. 20 AND ALSO THE AMOUNT NEEDED FROM THE CLASSIFIED 21 AND ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS, THE ADMINISTRATORS, FOR THESE 22 SHARES IS EQUAL TO A LOSS OF 32 HOURS WORTH OF PAY. 23 AND THERE'S ANOTHER NOTE THAT PEOPLE SHOULD 24 KNOW. THE CHANCELLOR HAS BEEN VERY OUT-FRONT INDICATING 25 THAT HE WOULD PAY MORE OF HIS FAIR SHARE OF THIS, AND THAT FEBRUARY 23, 2012 14 1 HIS TOTAL CONTRIBUTION TO SOLVING THE PROBLEM WOULD BE 2 $20,000. 3 THAT IS THE PRESENTATION. I'D BE HAPPY TO 4 ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE. 5 BUT IN A NUTSHELL, 2011-2012, WE HAVE BEEN CUT 6 AND CUT AND NOW WE ARE CUT AGAIN. AND WE HAVE RELATIVELY 7 LITTLE LEFT IN OUR SAVINGS ACCOUNT. NOT ENOUGH TO COVER 8 OURSELVES THROUGH THE YEAR IF THAT'S ALL WE RELIED ON. WE 9 NEED TO FIND A NEW WAY TO SAVE MONEY AT THIS LATE DATE. 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU, VICE CHANCELLOR. 11 ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS, TRUSTEES? 12 OKAY, WE WILL GO TO PUBLIC COMMENT THEN. I HAVE 13 CARDS. 14 IF THERE'S ANYONE ELSE WHO HAS NOT FILLED OUT A 15 CARD WHO WISHES TO SPEAK, PLEASE FILL OUT A YELLOW CARD. 16 ANGELA THOMAS. 17 MS. THOMAS: HOW IS EVERYBODY? 18 CHANCELLOR, WE ARE GLAD TO SEE YOU. 19 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: GOOD TO SEE YOU. 20 MS. THOMAS: WE WERE HOPING THAT YOU DID MAKE IT 21 BACK. 22 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: THANK YOU. 23 MS. THOMAS: YES. HE HASN'T BEEN FEELING WELL. 24 SO, YOU KNOW, WE ARE CONCERNED. 25 I AM SPEAKING, NOT FOR MYSELF. I AM SPEAKING ON FEBRUARY 23, 2012 15 1 BEHALF OF ALL OF THESE PEOPLE THAT IS SITTING AND STANDING 2 BACK HERE AND -- 3 (APPLAUSE INTERRUPTION.) 4 MS. THOMAS: AND WHAT I WANT TO SPEAK TO 5 SPECIFICALLY IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SEIU AND THE 6 DISTRICT BECAUSE OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS, THIS GROUP 7 HAS BEEN VERY LOYAL. THEY HAVE BEEN VERY FAITHFUL. AND 8 THEY HAVE BEEN VERY ACCOMMODATING TO THE DISTRICT'S 9 BUDGETARY WOES IF I COULD SAY IT LIKE THAT. 10 BUT BECAUSE OF THAT, THERE IS A GROWING CONCERN. 11 THERE ARE THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED IN THE PAST SEVERAL 12 YEARS THAT WE HAVE NOT AGREED WITH HOW THEY'VE HAPPENED. 13 YES, WE HAVE BALANCED OUR BUDGET. YES, WE HAVE. 14 YEAR AFTER YEAR, WE'VE BALANCED THE BUDGET. BUT SOMETIMES 15 HOW THAT CAME ABOUT WE THINK SOME THINGS WERE UNNECESSARY. 16 WE FEEL THAT BASED ON SOME THINGS THAT HAPPENED IN THE 17 FIRST SEMESTER, IF THOSE THINGS DID NOT HAPPEN, THIS 18 $2.88 MILLION COULD HAVE BEEN FIXED WITH THE ONE-TIME 19 MONIES THAT THE DISTRICT FOUND IN THE FIRST SEMESTER TO 20 DEAL WITH SOME OF THE PROBLEMS THAT THEY HAD. 21 WE ALSO FEEL THAT IF SOME OF IN THE PAST THE -- 22 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 23 MS. THOMAS: IS IT ONE MINUTE? 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TWO MINUTES. 25 MS. THOMAS: OH, I WAS UNAWARE OF THAT. OKAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2012 16 1 SO I CAN WRAP IT UP. 2 THE ISSUE IS THAT THEY ARE OUT HERE TO SAY THAT 3 THEY ARE WATCHING YOU BECAUSE THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT 4 EVERY DECISION THAT YOU MAKE GOING FORWARD BECAUSE THEY 5 DON'T FEEL THAT SOME OF THE DECISIONS IN THE PAST HAVE 6 BEEN GOOD ONES. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 8 ATHENA STEFF. 9 MS. STEFF: BOARD OF TRUSTEES, CHANCELLOR 10 GRIFFIN, WE ARE GLAD TO SEE YOU. 11 I HAVE TWO THINGS. AND I HOPE I CAN DO IT IN A 12 MINUTE. MY NAME IS ATHENA STEFF. I REPRESENT THE SAN 13 FRANCISCO COMMUNITY DISTRICT CHAPTER AS THEIR PRESIDENT OF 14 SEIU LOCAL 1021. 15 AND MOST PEOPLE THAT KNOW ME, I WOULD RATHER 16 TAKE A BEATING THEN HAVE TO STAND HERE AND TALK TO YOU ALL 17 RIGHT NOW, OKAY, THAT'S HOW MUCH I LOVE DOING THIS. 18 THIS IS JUST A SMALL SNAPSHOT OF OUR UNION THAT 19 YOU SEE HERE TONIGHT. WE THOUGHT WE WOULD LET YOU KNOW 20 WHO WE ARE, AND WHAT WE LOOK LIKE. AND MOST OF ALL TO LET 21 YOU KNOW THAT WE ARE WATCHING -- 22 MEMBER OF THE AUDIENCE: LIKE A HAWK. 23 MS. STEFF: -- WHAT'S GOING ON. 24 SEIU HAS ALWAYS STEPPED UP AND DONE THEIR PART 25 AS THINGS RELATE TO THE COLLEGE BUDGET. AS A MATTER OF FEBRUARY 23, 2012 17 1 FACT, SEIU HAS OFTEN HAD TO REMIND THE DISTRICT TO 2 IMPLEMENT THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN NEGOTIATED. SEIU HAS NOT 3 AND HAS NEVER BEEN PART OF THE IMPLEMENTATION PROBLEM 4 AROUND HERE. 5 SO THIS SNAPSHOT, LIKE I SAID, IS HERE. AS WE 6 MET JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO, NOT EVEN A FEW WEEKS AGO IN LESS 7 THAN 24 HOURS, I SAID, FOLKS, WE'VE GOT AN EMERGENCY 8 MEETING. JUST UNDER 300 PEOPLE CAME TO THE MEETING AT 9 LUNCH IN LESS THAN A 24-HOUR NOTICE. 10 AND ONE THING THAT OUR MEMBERS SAID TO ME TO 11 MAKE SURE THAT I CONTINUE TO SHARE THE MESSAGE WITH THE 12 DISTRICT IS WE UNDERSTAND WE HAVE TO GIVE AND DO OUR PART 13 AS WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST. 14 BUT HOW ARE YOU SPENDING THAT MONEY THAT WE'RE 15 GIVING? 16 TO BE SPENDING MONEY -- AND I APOLOGIZE, I DON'T 17 WANT ANYBODY TO TAKE THIS TOO PERSONAL. IF WE ARE 18 SPENDING OUR MONEY WORRYING ABOUT THE CLASSES, WHENEVER -- 19 WAIT A MINUTE, WE ARE GOING TO STAND UP HERE AND CONTINUE 20 TO ARGUE ABOUT THREE STUDENTS IN A CLASSROOM, SEIU HAS A 21 PROBLEM WITH THAT. SO HOW IS IT WE ARE SPENDING OUR 22 MONEY. 23 SO LIKE I SAID, WE ARE HERE AS THE SNAPSHOT TO 24 LET YOU KNOW -- 25 (TIMER SOUNDS.) FEBRUARY 23, 2012 18 1 MS. STEFF: -- THAT WE ARE WATCHING. 2 AND THE SECOND PART OF WHAT I HAVE HERE THAT I 3 WANT TO GIVE TO YOU. 4 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: OKAY. 5 MS. STEFF: THERE'S 500 SIGNATURES HERE, WHICH 6 IS ANOTHER SNAPSHOT, RIGHT? 7 THIS IS AN SEIU PETITION OF A VOTE OF "NO 8 CONFIDENCE" FOR THE CTO THAT'S WORKING AT THIS COLLEGE. 9 SO I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE THAT TO YOU. 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALISA MESSER. 11 MS. MESSER: SO HARD ACT TO FOLLOW, BUT I 12 APPRECIATE THAT. 13 ALISA MESSER, AFT 2121. 14 YOU KNOW, THE WHOLE COLLEGE IS REELING AT THE 15 MOMENT IN A VARIETY OF WAYS. AND THERE'S A LOT OF 16 UNCERTAINTY. AND THERE IS ALSO A LOT OF CLARITY THAT WE 17 NEED TO GET THIS RIGHT, AND WE NEED TO FIX THE SITUATION. 18 WE ASKED -- IN PARTICULAR, WE ASKED FACULTY TO 19 COME TONIGHT TO TALK ABOUT THE VERY REAL AND THE VARIETY 20 OF SITUATIONS THAT THEY ARE FACING RIGHT NOW AND TO GIVE 21 VOICE TO SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WERE HAPPENING BOTH IN 22 THEIR CLASSROOMS AND IN THEIR DAILY LIVES. AND SO WE 23 ASKED PEOPLE TO COME. AND I KNOW THERE ARE A LOT OF 24 FACULTY HERE. AND THERE ARE STUDENTS HERE. AND IT'S ALSO 25 GREAT BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF PURPLE HERE. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 19 1 SO WE JUST WANTED TO DO THAT THIS EVENING AND 2 MAKE SURE THAT WE HAD A SENSE OF -- 3 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 4 MS. MESSER: -- THE VERY REAL IMPACTS OF WHAT'S 5 GOING ON RIGHT NOW AND HAD A SENSE OF HOW REAL IT FELT TO 6 THE INDIVIDUALS IN THE ROOM. SO WITH THAT, I'LL -- 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 8 EMILY WILSON. 9 MS. WILSON: HI, I'M EMILY WILSON. I TEACH IN 10 TRANSITIONAL STUDIES. 11 THE OTHER WEEK, EIGHT CLASSES WERE CUT FROM OUR 12 DEPARTMENT. THEY WERE CLASSES IN GED PREP AND IN THE HIGH 13 SCHOOL DIPLOMA PROGRAM. AND SO THERE'S A LITERATURE 14 CLASS, A WRITING CLASS, AN ART CLASS AND MY CLASS, WHICH 15 IS WORLD HISTORY. 16 SEVERAL OF THE STUDENTS IN THAT CLASS, THIS IS 17 ALL THEY NEED TO GRADUATE. THE STUDENTS, A LOT OF THEM 18 I'VE KNOWN A FEW YEARS. THEY ARE VERY HARD WORKING. 19 MOST -- A LOT OF THEM HAVE FAMILIES. THEY HAVE JOBS. 20 THEY MAKE REALLY LONG COMMUTES TO COME TO SCHOOL. 21 IN THE LAST YEAR OR SO STEPHEN COLBERT, THE 22 COMEDIAN, TESTIFIED BEFORE CONGRESS ABOUT THE PLIGHT OF 23 MIGRANT WORKERS. AND WHEN THEY ASKED HIM WHY THAT WAS AN 24 ISSUE THAT WAS IMPORTANT TO HIM, HE SAID, WELL, IT SEEMS 25 TO ME THAT WE NEED TO CARE ABOUT THE LEAST OF OUR FEBRUARY 23, 2012 20 1 BROTHERS. AND THEY ARE THE LEAST OF OUR BROTHERS BECAUSE 2 WE ARE ASKING THEM TO COME AND AT THE SAME TIME WE ARE 3 TELLING THEM TO LEAVE. 4 AND I FEEL THAT'S SORT OF PARALLEL TO OUR 5 STUDENTS, ESPECIALLY IN TRANSITIONAL STUDIES. THEY DON'T 6 HAVE ANY KIND OF POLITICAL OR FINANCIAL POWER. AND WE ARE 7 TELLING THEM EDUCATION IS THE KEY TO THEIR FUTURE AND THEN 8 WE ARE SHUTTING THAT DOOR ON THEIR FACES. 9 AND AS A TEACHER, WORKING AT A PLACE THAT FEELS 10 LIKE IT'S BEING DISMANTLED, THAT IS DISHEARTENING TO SAY 11 THE LEAST. 12 AND I REALIZE THAT NOBODY IN THIS ROOM HAS THE 13 RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE STATE BUDGET CUTS. BUT I AM 14 CURIOUS ABOUT WHO DOES HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY IN MY 15 DEPARTMENT TO SCHEDULE HIGH SCHOOL CLASSES THAT DON'T HAVE 16 ENOUGH STUDENTS SO WE COME INTO A CLASS WITHOUT ENOUGH 17 PEOPLE THERE. AND IT SEEMS TO ME THAT BECAUSE OF POOR 18 PLANNING AND LACK OF FORESIGHT, THESE CUTS ARE HURTING THE 19 PEOPLE WHO HAVE THE LEAST. 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 21 RON BIXLER. 22 MR. BIXLER: GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS RON 23 BIXLER. I HAVE BEEN HERE SINCE FALL OF 1977. AND I HAVE 24 BEEN A MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE UNION SINCE 25 THE MID-80'S. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 21 1 IF I CAN MOVE PEOPLE BACK TO 2002. IN 2002 THE 2 FACULTY WERE ASKED TO FREEZE THEIR SALARIES FOR ONE 3 SEMESTER AND WE DID THAT. AT THE END OF THE SEMESTER, 4 THERE WAS A MEETING OF ALL THE DIFFERENT GROUPS, INCLUDING 5 FACULTY AND OTHER GROUPS IN THE DISTRICT. AND THE 6 DISTRICT ASKED US TO CONTINUE THAT FOR A PERIOD OF -- A 7 TOTAL OF TWO YEARS. 8 AT THE SAME TIME WE DISCOVERED THE DISTRICT HAD 9 MANY UNFUNDED FTES THAT WE WERE FINDING THAT WE WERE 10 PAYING FOR -- EXCUSE ME, THAT THE FACULTY WERE TEACHING 11 MORE STUDENTS THAN THE STATE WAS PAYING FOR AND AT THE 12 SAME TIME BEING ASKED TO SUBSIDIZE THAT EDUCATION. 13 WE INSISTED AT THAT TIME WITH THE ADMINISTRATION 14 THAT THE COLLEGE COULD NOT CONTINUE THIS PRACTICE. AND 15 CHANCELLOR DAY AT THAT TIME AGREED SAYING, IF NECESSARY, 16 HE'D EVEN CLOSE PROGRAMS TO KEEP THE DISTRICT SOLVENT. 17 LAST SPRING, AFT NEGOTIATED AN AGREEMENT WITH 18 THE ADMINISTRATION. DURING THAT TIME WE DID NOT ASK FOR 19 ANY IMPROVEMENTS. WE AGREED THAT THE DISTRICT NEEDED 20 RESERVE, NOT JUST IN THE DESIGNATED RESERVE. AND THEN 21 WHEN IT CAME TIME TO ADOPT THAT BUDGET, THIS BOARD WITHOUT 22 ANY CONSULTATION DECIDED TO INCREASE EXPENDITURES BY $2 23 MILLION. THE ADMINISTRATION, I'M SORRY TO SAY, DID NOT 24 RAISE AN OBJECTION AT THAT TIME, BUT THE FACULTY WHO WERE 25 INVOLVED WERE VERY ANGRY ABOUT THAT. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 22 1 NOW WE FEEL THAT WE, NOT ONLY THE FACULTY BUT 2 THE GENERAL EMPLOYEES OF THIS DISTRICT, ARE BEING ASKED TO 3 PAY FOR THIS BOARD'S IMPRUDENT ACTIONS. THE FACULTY ARE 4 IN NO MOOD TO ACCEPT A PAY CUT THIS YEAR OR NEXT YEAR FOR 5 FACULTY. 6 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 7 MR. BIXLER: WITH LESS THAN 25 YEARS OF SERVICE 8 CREDIT, THIS COULD MEAN LIFELONG REPERCUSSIONS IN THEIR 9 PENSION BENEFITS. AND WE FEEL IT'S A FIRST STEP TO 10 BALANCING THE DISTRICT BY EVISCERATING EMPLOYEE 11 COMPENSATION IN THE FUTURE. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 13 MR. BIXLER: WE HOPE YOU LOOK FOR OPTIONS LIKE 14 THE COLLEGE FOUNDATION WHICH EXISTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF 15 THIS INSTITUTION. THANK YOU. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 17 DIANE FREDERICKS. 18 TRUSTEE MARKS: PRESIDENT RIZZO, I WANTED TO ASK 19 MR. BIXLER A QUESTION. 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE MARKS. 21 TRUSTEE MARKS: MR. BIXLER. 22 MR. BIXLER: YES. 23 TRUSTEE MARKS: I NEED YOU TO GO UP THERE. 24 MR. BIXLER: YES. 25 TRUSTEE MARKS: DO YOU KNOW WHO WAS ON THE BOARD FEBRUARY 23, 2012 23 1 WHEN THE $2 MILLION WAS -- 2 MR. BIXLER: I KNOW SOME OF YOU, YES. 3 TRUSTEE MARKS: COULD YOU TELL US WHO WAS ON THE 4 BOARD? 5 MR. BIXLER: YES, WELL, I THINK THAT EVERYBODY 6 HERE PRETTY MUCH WAS ON THE BOARD. MY UNDERSTANDING IS 7 THAT THIS WAS A DECISION THAT WAS MADE PRIMARILY AT THE 8 INSTIGATION OF A COUPLE OF MEMBERS OF THIS BOARD. MR. NGO 9 PRIMARILY. 10 TRUSTEE MARKS: HE WASN'T ON THE BOARD. 11 MR. BIXLER: AM I WRONG? 12 TRUSTEE NGO: WHAT YEAR ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? 13 MR. BIXLER: I AM TALKING THIS PAST -- WHEN WE 14 ADOPTED THIS BUDGET FOR THIS YEAR. 15 TRUSTEE NGO: I WAS ON THE BOARD THIS YEAR. 16 YES, I WAS. 17 MR. BIXLER: YES, THAT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING. IT 18 WAS YOU WHO WANTED TO INCREASE THE BUDGET BY $2 MILLION. 19 TRUSTEE NGO: THAT'S INCORRECT. THAT'S -- 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YOU KNOW, THIS IS NOT A 21 DISCUSSION. 22 TRUSTEE MARKS: OKAY. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WE ARE JUST TAKING PUBLIC 24 COMMENT. 25 TRUSTEE MARKS: I HEARD YOU SAY, "2002." SO -- FEBRUARY 23, 2012 24 1 MR. BIXLER: NO, NO. I SAID, 2002 WAS THE FIRST 2 TIME WE HAVE BEEN THROUGH. WE'VE SEEN THIS MOVIE. BUT IT 3 CAME BACK TO US THIS PAST SPRING. 4 TRUSTEE MARKS: THANK YOU. 5 MR. BIXLER: OKAY, THANK YOU. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 7 DIANE FREDERICKS. 8 AND THEN AFTER THAT PATTY CHONG-DELON. 9 MS. FREDERICKS: HI. I AM A READING AND WRITING 10 TEACHER AND COORDINATOR OF THE ADULT LEARNING AND TUTORIAL 11 CENTER OF THE NONCREDIT TRANSITIONAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT. 12 WE HAVE BEEN PART OF CITY COLLEGE SINCE 1974. 13 MANY OF THE STUDENTS AT THE ADULT LEARNING AND 14 TUTORIAL CENTER HAVE OVERCOME VERY DIFFICULT HISTORIES. 15 THEY MAY INCLUDE, MISSED YEARS OF SCHOOL, POVERTY, 16 PREJUDICE, DRUG USE, INCARCERATION OR UNADDRESSED EARLY 17 LEARNING DISABILITIES. SOME STUDENTS ARE NOW AS ADULTS 18 LEARNING TO READ, WRITE, AND DO MATH. AND THEY STAY WITH 19 US FOR A LONG TIME. 20 OTHERS STUDY AT THE LEARNING CENTER A SHORT 21 TIME, WHILE THEY BUILD THE NECESSARY CONFIDENCE AND SKILLS 22 TO PASS THE GED EXAMS. 23 30 TO 60 STUDENTS REFERRED TO TESTS FROM OUR 24 OPEN ENROLLMENT PROGRAM RECEIVED THEIR GED CERTIFICATES 25 DURING THROUGHOUT EACH YEAR. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 25 1 I KNOW AND APPRECIATE THAT CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN, 2 PETER, AND ALL OF YOU ON THE BOARD ARE DOING EVERYTHING 3 YOU CAN AND ARE UNDER TREMENDOUS PRESSURE BY THE STATE TO 4 FIND THE MONEY TO KEEP THE COLLEGE SOLVENT. 5 ON PAPER, A NONCREDIT ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAM 6 LIKE THE LEARNING CENTER WHERE CLASSES ARE SMALL, 7 CERTAINLY MAY APPEAR TO BE AN OBVIOUS PLACE FOR CUTS. 8 THREE CLASSES, 15 PERCENT OF OUR PROGRAM, WERE CLOSED THIS 9 WEEK. IN SPITE OF THIS, INCREASED OUTREACH IS SHOWING 10 RESULTS IN BOTH NEW AND RETURNING STUDENTS. 11 OUR STUDENTS DIDN'T SUCCEED IN LARGE CLASSES AND 12 LARGE SET SETTINGS. 13 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 15 MS. FREDERICKS: OKAY, ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. I 16 WILL LEAVE THIS HERE. 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 18 PATTY CHONG-DELON, FOLLOWED BY ELIZABETH 19 STEWART. 20 MS. CHONG-DELON: MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, 21 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN, I AM NOT GOOD AT SPEAKING IN LARGE 22 CROWDS, SO EXCUSE ME IF I START TREMBLING. 23 BUT I AM HERE TODAY ON BEHALF OF WHAT'S 24 HAPPENING TO OUR COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM AND OUR ACCESS 25 TO PUBLIC EDUCATION IN GENERAL. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 26 1 OUR ACCESS IS BEING CLOSED TO OUR STUDENTS. 2 PEOPLE COME TO US WHEN THEY ARE -- WHEN THEY NEED 3 RETRAINING. THEY ARE LAID OFF WORK. WE ALL KNOW THIS. 4 THE STUDENTS THAT ARE THE MOST NEEDY, THEY TURN TO US. 5 REVERSE TRANSFERS, THEY COME TO US. 6 IN THE MID-SEMESTER WHEN THE CLASSES WERE 7 CANCELED, STUDENTS CAME IN AND ASKED WHAT DO I DO NOW, I 8 JUST QUIT MY JOB BECAUSE I WANTED TO COMPLETE A FULL-TIME 9 EDUCATION SO I COULD HAVE A BRIGHTER FUTURE. WHAT DO YOU 10 SAY? 11 WELL, I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DO BEST 12 IN EDUCATION IS HELPING PEOPLE ADVOCATE FOR THEMSELVES. 13 AND TEACH THEM THAT THEY CAN TAKE CONTROL OF THE 14 SITUATION. AND WE KNOW THAT WE WERE NOT PART OF THE 15 PROBLEM THAT IS CAUSED TODAY. IT WAS CAUSED BY THE LACK 16 OF OVERSIGHT IN OUR FINANCIAL SECTOR. IT WAS CAUSED 17 BECAUSE OF GREED. IT WAS CAUSED BECAUSE OF DEREGULATION. 18 IT WAS NOT OUR FAULT. IT WAS NOT OUR STUDENTS' FAULT. WE 19 NEED TO KEEP THE AMERICAN DREAM ALIVE. 20 SO TO TAKE CONTROL, I THINK WHAT WE NEED TO DO 21 IS TEACH OUR STUDENTS TO DO WHAT PEOPLE HAVE DONE IN THE 22 PAST. SO IT IS OUR TURN NOW TO TEACH OUR STUDENTS TO TAKE 23 CONTROL OF THEIR FUTURE. WE NEED TO ADVOCATE FOR 24 SOMETHING. WE NEED TO ADVOCATE FOR REVENUE. WE'VE HEARD 25 ABOUT CUTS, BUT WHAT DO WE DO IN OUR OWN DEFENSE. WE FEBRUARY 23, 2012 27 1 MOBILIZE. WE WORK TOGETHER. AND WE DO WHAT'S RIGHT. AND 2 WHAT'S RIGHT -- 3 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 4 MS. CHONG-DELON: -- IS TO FUND THE AMERICAN 5 DREAM, THE MILLIONAIRES' TAX. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 7 AND, OF COURSE, YOU WERE SPEAKING ABOUT THE 8 MILLIONAIRES' TAX THAT WILL BE ON THE BALLOT IN NOVEMBER. 9 ELIZABETH STEWART, FOLLOWED BY JOSE LOPEZ. 10 MS. STEWART: BOARD MEMBERS, LOVERS OF CITY 11 COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO, PLEASE LOOK INTO ALTERNATIVES 12 BEFORE CUTTING STUDENTS, STAFF, FACULTY, INCLUDING 13 PART-TIME FACULTY, MANY OF WHOM HAVE SERVED THE COLLEGE 14 FOR MANY YEARS AND CLASSES. PLEASE CONSIDER ALTERNATIVES. 15 I TEACH COLLEGE SUCCESS. A MAJORITY OF MY 16 STUDENTS STRUGGLE TO JUGGLE WORK AND FAMILIES WITH GETTING 17 AN EDUCATION AS I DID. 18 I KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE AND FROM WHAT I'VE 19 LEARNED FROM THEIR EXPERIENCES, THAT THEY NEED TO CHOOSE 20 FROM MANY CLASSES IN ORDER TO ACCOMMODATE THEIR BUSY 21 SCHEDULES. CUTTING CLASSES LIMITS THEIR OPPORTUNITIES TO 22 IMPROVE THEIR LIVES, THAT OF THEIR FAMILIES, AND THEIR 23 COMMUNITIES. 24 ONE OF THE WONDERS OF CITY COLLEGE OF SAN 25 FRANCISCO IS THAT WE REACH OUT TO STUDENTS WHO MAY FEBRUARY 23, 2012 28 1 OTHERWISE BE EXCLUDED. WE ALSO PROVIDE THE VISION OF 2 LIFELONG LEARNING. FROM THE YOUNG, TO THE MIDDLE AGED, 3 AND EVEN THE ELDERLY, ALL DEPEND ON US FOR COMMUNITY, 4 MEANING, HOPE, AND SELF-IMPROVEMENT. 5 PLEASE DON'T ABANDON THESE PEOPLE. CONSIDER 6 ALTERNATIVES. THANK YOU. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: JOSE LOPEZ. 8 MR. LOPEZ: GOOD EVENING TO EVERYBODY. I COME 9 FROM CITY COLLEGE OF MISSION CAMPUS. 10 AND I JUST WANT TO ASK PLEASE NOT TO CUT THE 11 CLASSES. I AM TAKING HIGH SCHOOL CLASSES. AND I SEE THAT 12 THEY ARE COMING WITH THINGS LIKE NUMBERS. WE HAVE TO HAVE 13 A MINIMUM OF 20 STUDENTS IN A CLASS IN ORDER TO KEEP OUR 14 CLASS GOING. WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN WITH THE OTHER 19 15 STUDENTS THAT ARE IN THERE? 16 I AM TAKING A CLASS AT 7:00 TODAY, AND I AM HERE 17 BECAUSE I NEED TO SPEAK OUT. WE ARE IN A CLASS THAT HAS A 18 CAPACITY FOR AT LEAST OR A MAXIMUM 20 STUDENTS AND WE ARE 19 30. SO HOW CAN THAT HAPPEN? 20 WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TEACHERS, AND THEY STILL 21 WANT TO CUT OUR CLASSES. THAT'S NOT RIGHT. THAT'S IT. 22 THANK YOU. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 24 I'M NOT SURE IF I COULD READ THIS, BUT IT LOOKS 25 LIKE ROBERTO FLORES. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 29 1 MR. RODRIGUEZ: GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY. 2 ROBERTO IS ACTUALLY ONE OF MY STUDENTS. AND HE WAS HERE 3 AT SIX O'CLOCK. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: COULD YOU STATE YOUR NAME. 5 MR. RODRIGUEZ: MY NAME IS PABLO RODRIGUEZ. I 6 TEACH ON MISSION CAMPUS TRANSITIONAL STUDIES AS OUR 7 PREVIOUS SISTER HAS INDICATED. IT'S BEEN CUT AT ALMOST 8 ONE-THIRD RELATIVELY SPEAKING. 9 SO ROBERTO COMES TO SCHOOL AND HE HAS TWO JOBS 10 RIGHT NOW. AND HE'S TRYING TO GRADUATE THIS YEAR. AND 11 CHANCES ARE THAT HE MIGHT NOT. SO HE TOLD ME, TEACHER, 12 I'VE GOT TO RUN RIGHT NOW, PLEASE, PLEASE TELL THE 13 GENTLEMEN AND EVERYBODY WHO IS SITTING AT THAT TABLE TO 14 PLEASE CONSIDER THAT WE COME TO THIS COUNTRY TO MAKE IT 15 RICHER AND NOW THEY ARE TURNING THEIR BACK ON US. 16 AND HE WAS TELLING ME SOMETHING THAT I FOUND 17 INTERESTING BECAUSE HIS BROTHER WORKS AS A GARDENER AT ONE 18 OF THE RESIDENCES OF ONE OF THE YAHOO CEO'S HERE IN SAN 19 FRANCISCO WHOSE CAPITAL RIGHT NOW IS WORTH ABOUT 20 $8 BILLION. AND HE IS TELLING ME HOW CAN WE BE LOSING 21 CLASSES FOR BASICALLY DIMES WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, THREE, 22 EIGHT, $20 MILLION WHEN WE ARE SITTING IN ONE OF THE 23 RICHEST CITIES IN THE PLANET. SO HE ASKED ME, WHAT ARE 24 YOU, ALL OF YOU, DOING FOR US? 25 THANKS. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 30 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 2 JOSE ELNER MARTINEZ, FOLLOWED BY RAUL HERNANDEZ. 3 MR. MARTINEZ: HELLO, I JUST COME I REPRESENT 4 CITY COLLEGE TOO. 5 I AM GOING TO BE PRETTY CLEAR ON THIS. ALL I 6 GOT TO SAY IS THAT THE CLASSES CAN BE CUT NO MORE BECAUSE 7 WE ARE LOSING TEACHERS. WE ARE LOSING STUDENTS. WE ARE 8 TRYING TO GRADUATE AND TRYING TO MOVE FORWARD. 9 THIS IS AFFECTING MIDDLE AND LOW CLASS. THIS IS 10 NOT AFFECTING THE HIGH CLASS, WHO HAS ALL THE MONEY, WHO 11 IS MAKING 275 MORE ON PROFIT EVERY YEAR, WHO IS OWNING THE 12 BANKS, WHO IS OWNING CORPORATIONS, AND THEY DON'T GET 13 TAXED YOU KNOW. 14 SEE THIS IS DIRECT TO YOU GUYS. DO SOMETHING 15 FOR US. WE ARE DOING A LOT FOR, OKAY? 16 WE COME TO THIS COUNTRY. WE DO AS MUCH AS WE 17 CAN TO BE GOOD CITIZENS, YOU KNOW. AND YOU GUYS ARE 18 TURNING YOUR BACK, YOU KNOW. THANK YOU. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 20 RAUL HERNANDEZ. 21 MR. HERNANDEZ, IS HE HERE? 22 THE NEXT NAME, IT JUST SAYS FRANCISCO. THERE'S 23 NO LAST NAME. 24 FRANCISCO? 25 AND IF YOU CAN STATE YOUR FULL NAME IN THE FEBRUARY 23, 2012 31 1 MICROPHONE. PLEASE COME UP, PLEASE. 2 MR. ELAR: GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY. MY NAME IS 3 FRANCISCO ELAR. I AM A CITY COLLEGE -- I'M A STUDENT OF 4 CITY COLLEGE. THERE IS A GROUP IN HERE FROM THERE THAT 5 THEY ARE HERE BECAUSE THEY REALLY NEED TO STAND FOR OUR 6 COLLEGE. 7 YOU KNOW, I REALLY THINK THAT OUR CLASSES 8 SHOULDN'T BE CUT. YOU KNOW -- IT'S LIKE MANY OF THOSE 9 GUYS SAID, WE ARE HERE. WE ARE TRYING TO DO OUR BEST. 10 YOU KNOW, WE ARE TRYING TO DO AS MUCH AS WE CAN. MOST OF 11 THEM ARE PUTTING THEIR BEST FOOT FORWARD. AND I THINK YOU 12 SHOULD HELP US. 13 YOU KNOW, SOME OF THEM ARE EVEN QUITTING THEIR 14 JOBS. SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THEY ARE TRYING TO PROVE 15 YOU THAT THEY ARE REALLY INTERESTED IN CLASSES, AND SO 16 PLEASE HELP US, GUYS. I MEAN WE REALLY NEED YOUR HELP AND 17 YOU CANNOT TURN YOUR BACK TO US RIGHT NOW. THANK YOU. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 19 JOSE LUIS MEJIA. 20 MR. MEJIA: GOOD EVENING. I AM JOSE LUIS MEJIA, 21 AND I AM HERE WITH OUR STUDENTS MAKING A CHANGE, AND YA 22 BASTA, AND OCCUPY CCSF. 23 REALLY THOSE ARE NAMES, BUT HERE THEY REPRESENT 24 NOT JUST THE 99 PERCENT, BUT THE BOTTOM OF THE 99 PERCENT. 25 AND THE FOLKS LIKE WHO JUST SPOKE RIGHT HERE, SPECIFICALLY FEBRUARY 23, 2012 32 1 WHEN FOLKS ARE TALKING ABOUT THE PEOPLE IN TRANSITIONAL 2 STUDIES OR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY ARE PEOPLE WHO, INCLUDING 3 MYSELF, WORK WITH YOUNG PEOPLE AS WELL AND TELL THEM, YOU 4 KNOW, TO GO TO SCHOOL, TELL THEM THIS IS THE WAY TO HELP 5 OUT YOURSELF, HELP YOUR FAMILY, HELP YOUR COMMUNITY. 6 AND THIS IS JUST SO -- IT HONESTLY MAKES YOU 7 WANT TO CRY WHEN YOU HEAR OR SEE ABOUT THESE THINGS, YOU 8 HEAR THESE THINGS. 9 HONESTLY, I ALSO WANT TO SAY THAT I KNOW THAT 10 WHAT'S COMING DOWN FROM THE STATE IS NOT ANY OF YOUR 11 FAULTS INDIVIDUALLY OR AS A GROUP, BUT THIS IS A TIME OF 12 CRISIS. THIS IS A TIME WHEN IT TAKES US TO GO BEYOND WHAT 13 OUR REGULAR JOB IS AND ENGAGE WITH FOLKS LIKE THE CEO'S OF 14 YAHOO OR THE FOLKS AT JAMBA JUICE OR GOOGLE AND REALLY USE 15 YOUR NETWORKS AND GO BEYOND THE TRADITIONAL METHODS AND 16 SAY, HEY, YOU KNOW, I NEED TO HAVE A MEETING WITH YOU 17 BECAUSE MY STUDENTS RIGHT HERE ARE HAVING TO BE TURNED 18 AWAY WHO ARE WORKING TWO JOBS AS I DO, WHO HAS A DAUGHTER 19 AS I DO. I AM 24. 20 SO I REALLY JUST URGE YOU TO GO BEYOND WHAT 21 TRADITIONAL MEANS. WE HAVE -- YOU KNOW, GO OUT TO THE 22 STREETS AND JOIN US IN ACTIONS. JOIN US IN SACRAMENTO. 23 AND JOIN US IN DOING WHATEVER IT REALLY IS WE HAVE TO DO 24 TO FUND EDUCATION BECAUSE THIS IS SERIOUS. 25 WE KNOW. WE ALWAYS ARE URGING YOUNG PEOPLE TO FEBRUARY 23, 2012 33 1 GO TO SCHOOL. 2 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 3 MR. MEJIA: AND IF WE ARE NOT -- IF IT'S NOT 4 THERE FOR THEM TO DO, THEN IT'S JUST A REAL FALSE PROMISE. 5 SO I REALLY URGE YOU TO GO BEYOND YOUR JOB. JOIN US IN 6 THE STREETS. JOIN US IN SACRAMENTO. VOTE FOR THE 7 MILLIONAIRES' TAX. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 9 MR. MEJIA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 10 MS. MORGAN: POINT OF INFORMATION. I AM HERE 11 WITH THE MISSION CAMPUS STUDENTS. WHERE IS THE SIGN-UP 12 SHEET TO BE HEARD? 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THE YELLOW CARDS ARE UP FRONT. 14 MS. MORGAN: THANK YOU -- 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I HAVE LANCE BURTON AND THEN 16 INGRID WYNN. 17 MR. BURTON: GOOD EVENING TRUSTEES AND 18 CHANCELLOR LANCE BURTON, PLANET FILLMORE COMMUNICATIONS 19 AND ALSO A MEMBER OF THE MEN'S MOVEMENT, MENTORING 20 MOVEMENT, THE NAACP, THE SAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER -- BLACK 21 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, THE SECRETARY OF COMMUNICATIONS FOR 22 THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN DEMOCRATIC CLUB. 23 I AM HERE TO SPEAK ACTUALLY ON THE POSITION TO 24 ITERATE THE POSITION OF ESPINOLA JACKSON THAT WE STATED IN 25 LAST WEEK'S SPECIAL COMMITTEE SESSION WITH TRUSTEE MARKS FEBRUARY 23, 2012 34 1 IN RELATIONSHIP TO CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO ASKING 2 THE HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY TO VACANT THE 1800 OAKDALE 3 FACILITY. 4 IT IS MS. JACKSON'S POSITION THAT THE 1800 5 COMMUNITY CENTER WAS PLACED IN THAT LOCATION FOR THE 6 PURPOSE OF EDUCATION AND NOT FOR WELFARE SERVICES. SO SHE 7 HAS ASKED ME TO STATE THAT TO THE REST OF THE BOARD IN 8 TODAY'S OPEN SESSION. 9 ONE OF THE REASONS THAT WE WOULD LIKE THE HUMAN 10 SERVICES TO VACANT IS BECAUSE WE EXPECT TO COLLABORATE 11 WITH THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT TO CREATE AN 12 ENTREPRENEURIALSHIP TECHNOLOGY AND MEDIA CENTER AT 1800 13 WHEREBY SOME OF THE YOUNG MEN WHO ARE COMING BACK TO THE 14 COMMUNITIES OF HUNTERS POINT, WESTERN ADDITION, OCEAN 15 VIEW, CAN BEGIN TO LEARN A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE 16 TECHNOLOGY ARENA THAT THEY ARE FACING IN TERMS OF GETTING 17 JOBS. 18 IF WE ARE TO CHANGE THIS BUDGET AROUND, AND THIS 19 IS AN INTERESTING DICHOTOMY THAT THE MONEY SPENT FOR 20 PRISON WEIGH -- FAR OUTWEIGH THE MONEY SPENT FOR 21 EDUCATION. SO IF WE CAN TAKE MORE -- 22 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 23 MR. BURTON: -- OF THESE YOUNG FOLKS OUT OF THE 24 PRISON SYSTEM, PERHAPS WE CAN GET THEM INTO THE EDUCATION 25 SYSTEM, AND THE STATE WILL BEGIN TO FUND THE COMMUNITY FEBRUARY 23, 2012 35 1 COLLEGE DISTRICT A LITTLE BIT BETTER. THANK YOU. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I HAVE INGRID WYNN. 3 YOU MARKED ON YOUR CARD THAT YOU ARE GOING TO 4 SPEAK ON THE MARCH ON MARCH, WHICH IS ACTUALLY S3. 5 DID YOU -- ARE YOU GOING TO SPEAK TO THIS ISSUE 6 OR -- IF YOU WANT TO SPEAK ON THE MARCH ON MARCH IF YOU 7 COULD HOLD OFF A BIT, WE WILL DO THAT SHORTLY BECAUSE WE 8 HAVE A RESOLUTION ON THAT. 9 IS THAT -- OKAY, OR DO YOU WANT TO SPEAK NOW? 10 IT LOOKS LIKE YOU WANT TO SPEAK NOW. 11 MS. WYNN: GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS INGRID 12 WYNN, AND I AM A STUDENT. 13 I UNDERSTAND WE HAVE A RESOLUTION HERE, BUT WHAT 14 I WANT TO SAY ABOUT MARCH IN MARCH, I AM GLAD THAT, YOU 15 KNOW, YOU GUYS ARE SUPPORTING IT. AND WE ENCOURAGE PEOPLE 16 TO SUPPORT THE MARCH IN MARCH, BUT THE EVANS CAMPUS 17 DECIDED NOT TO BUY A BUS BECAUSE IT'S MONEY THAT WE CAN'T 18 SPEND. 19 NOW WE JUST LISTENED FOR THE LAST 45 MINUTES 20 ABOUT THE BUDGET AND HOW WE ARE SUFFERING, AND I JUST 21 WANTED TO KNOW THAT IF WE CAN CREATE THIS MONEY, THIS 22 INCOME IN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS AND BUY BUSES, WE HAVE MANY 23 CAMPUSES THAT ARE SUFFERING THAT NEEDS RESOURCES AND WE 24 DON'T HAVE A LOT OF STUDENT RESOURCES. 25 I AM NOT AGAINST IT, BUT IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE FEBRUARY 23, 2012 36 1 THAT WE, CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO, SENDS 40-PLUS 2 BUSES, 20-PLUS BUSES, BUT WE ARE AT THE SAME TIME SAYING 3 WE ARE BROKE. THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE TO ME WHEN WE 4 HAVE CAMPUSES THAT NEED RESOURCES AND WE ARE NOT FUNDING 5 THAT. 6 SO I WOULD ASK EVERYBODY IF YOU COULD BE MINDFUL 7 WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT AUTOMATICALLY MARCH IN MARCH IS 8 IMPORTANT. WE CAN MARCH AT THE CIVIC CENTER ON MARCH 1ST. 9 WE COULD MARCH ON CITY HALL, BUT LET'S DO SOMETHING THAT'S 10 FEASIBLE THAT HELPS US SAVE MONEY INSTEAD OF WASTING 11 MONEY. I THINK THAT'S MORE IMPORTANT. THANK YOU. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 13 ARE THERE ANY MORE CARDS ON THIS ITEM? ANY MORE 14 SPEAKERS? 15 I KNOW THERE WAS SOMEONE WHO WAS -- JUST ONE 16 MORE PERSON FROM MISSION CAMPUS. 17 MS. MORGAN: FIRST OF ALL, I AM HONORED. MY 18 NAME IS JUSTICE MORGAN. I AM A SEVENTH GENERATION SAN 19 FRANCISCAN. I HAVE BEEN A STUDENT OF CITY COLLEGE OFF AND 20 ON SINCE 1974, INCLUDING OVER 100 UNITS, EIGHT 21 CERTIFICATES, ALL RELATED TO MY JOB WHERE I USED TO MAKE 22 38 TO $60 AN HOUR. AND NOW I CAN'T EVEN BREATH DOWN 23 MOSCONE CENTER TO WORK. 24 SO I'VE GONE BACK TO GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS FOR 25 THE THIRD TIME AROUND TO NOT JUST TO GO DIGITAL, BUT TO FEBRUARY 23, 2012 37 1 GET INSIDE BECAUSE I AM HOMELESS TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL. 2 THIS IS HALF OF WHAT I NEED FOR A SHORT-TERM SATURDAY 3 MORNING CLASS. 4 AND I WENT TO SCHOOL TODAY ON MISSION CAMPUS TO 5 BE LOCKED OUT. HALF OF MY CLASSES ARE GONE. TWO-THIRDS 6 OF A SALARY IS GONE TO AN INSTRUCTOR WITH THREE MASTERS 7 AND A PHD WHO CANNOT POSSIBLY BE PAID WHAT SHE IS WORTH. 8 YES, MISSION CAMPUS, SHOW YOURSELVES. 9 HER NAME IS DR. KAREN BRESCHI, B-R-E-S-C-H-I. 10 AND ONE OF HER MASTERS IS IN VOCATIONAL REHAB, WHICH I 11 HAVE BEEN IGNORED BY 15 YEARS, FOR A WORK INJURY CAUSED BY 12 MY WORK FOR 27 YEARS DOWN AT MOSCONE CENTER. IT IS SO 13 TOXIC THAT WE HAVE KIDNEY DAMAGE, KIDNEY DIALYSIS, KIDNEY 14 TRANSPLANTS, DIABETES. I ALSO HAVE PULMONARY DISEASE FROM 15 IT AND A SPINE INJURY FROM THE WEAR AND TEAR BECAUSE I 16 BUSTED MY ASS FOR THIS CITY. EXCUSE ME. 17 I MADE MILLIONS FOR THIS CITY WITH MY HARD 18 LABOR. AND NOW I AM LOCKED OUT OF WORK AND OUT OF MY 19 CLASSROOM. 20 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 22 MS. MORGAN: I NEED TO BE HEARD. PLEASE GIVE ME 23 A MINUTE. 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: NO, I'M SORRY. 25 MS. MORGAN: I WAS ONE OF THE FIRST PEER FEBRUARY 23, 2012 38 1 ADVISORS -- 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WE HAVE TO GIVE EVERYONE THE 3 SAME AMOUNT OF TIME MORE. I'M SORRY WE CAN'T -- 4 MS. MORGAN: YES, WELL, THEY ARE ALL SIGNED UP 5 TO TALK. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THAT'S GREAT. THAT'S GREAT. 7 THANK YOU. 8 CAN YOU GIVE US YOUR CARD? 9 MS. MORGAN: I WANT THE CLASSES BACK. THERE'S 10 THREE AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS MISSING. WHERE IS IT? 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: COULD I HAVE YOUR CARD? 12 PLEASE COME UP, AND COULD YOU FILL OUT A CARD? 13 MS. MORGAN: THEY ALSO HAVE THEIR CARDS. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, CAN I HAVE THEM? 15 MS. MORGAN: THEY HAVE TO CALL YOU. YOU ARE NOT 16 SUPPOSED TO GO OVERTIME, BUT YOU CAN YIELD IT TO ANOTHER 17 SPEAKER. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: COULD I HAVE ALL OF THEM? 19 THANK YOU. 20 (INTERRUPTION.) 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE 22 MORE SPEAKERS, SO DON'T LEAVE. 23 OKAY, SO I AM JUST GOING TO READ OFF NAMES. 24 DANIEL GARRICK, IS THAT RIGHT? 25 IS THERE A DANIEL GARRICK? DANIEL GARRICK? FEBRUARY 23, 2012 39 1 MR. GARRICK: YEAH, WE NEED THOSE CLASSES 2 DEFINITELY. THE MISSION CAMPUS, YEAH, SO PLEASE. THANK 3 YOU. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 5 I AM NOT SURE I CAN READ THIS. MARIO GARCIA. 6 IS MARIO GARCIA HERE? 7 MEMBER OF THE AUDIENCE: HE LEFT. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 9 ENRIQUE PEREZ. 10 MR. PEREZ: HI THERE. GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY. 11 MY NAME IS ENRIQUE PEREZ, AND I AM A STUDENT AT CITY 12 COLLEGE, THE MISSION CAMPUS. 13 AND TODAY I HEARD THAT SOME OF OUR CLASSES ARE 14 BEING ELIMINATED. AND I AM HERE JUST TO PLEASE ASK YOU 15 NOT TO DO THAT. PLEASE KEEP OUR CLASSES GOING BECAUSE 16 THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE LIKE ME, MY AGE, WHO ARE STILL 17 WILLING TO GO TO SCHOOL AND LEARN MORE. SO PLEASE KEEP 18 OUR CLASSES. IT IS IN YOUR HANDS TO DO SO. THANK YOU. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 20 JANET DAVIS. 21 MS. DAVIS: THANK YOU. 22 MY NAME IS JANET DAVIS, AND I AM ONE OF THE 23 STUDENTS AT THE MISSION CAMPUS. AND I HAVE BEEN A 24 RESIDENT OF SAN FRANCISCO FOR SOMEWHERE AROUND 37 YEARS, 25 GOING TO THE MISSION CAMPUS ALL THROUGHOUT WORK. AND NOW FEBRUARY 23, 2012 40 1 I AM OFF WORK AGAIN, AND I DECIDED TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL, 2 ONLY TO FIND OUT THAT YOU GUYS ARE CUTTING THE CLASSES. I 3 DON'T GET IT. 4 I AM TRYING NOT TO GET ON UNEMPLOYMENT. I AM 5 TRYING TO MAKE THAT EFFORT TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL AND, YOU 6 KNOW, START OVER WHERE I NEED TO AND ADVANCE INTO THINGS 7 THAT I NEED TO. AND JUST TO COME TO SCHOOL TODAY AND FIND 8 OUT FROM SOME OF THE STUDENTS, OH, THEY ARE GOING TO CUT 9 THE CLASSES, AND I AM, LIKE, WHAT? I DON'T GET IT. 10 I KNOW THAT YOU GUYS ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY 11 OF THIS, BUT WE DO NEED YOUR HELP. AND, YOU KNOW, LIKE 12 THEY SAY, WE CAN'T MAKE IT ON OUR OWN. AND WE ARE TRYING 13 TO MAKE IT WITH THE HELP OF EVERYONE HERE TO SUPPORT THE 14 SCHOOL, KEEP US GOING, AND WE WOULD APPRECIATE IT IF YOU 15 GIVE US THAT CHANCE, OKAY? 16 THANK YOU. 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 18 I HAVE REGINA PANEA, FOLLOWED BY MARTHA, NO LAST 19 NAME, AND PABLO, NO LAST NAME. 20 REGINA PANEA. 21 MEMBER OF THE AUDIENCE: SHE'S NOT HERE. 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: HOW ABOUT MARTHA? 23 MEMBER OF THE AUDIENCE: NOT HERE. 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: NO? 25 OR SOMEONE NAMED PABLO. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 41 1 MR. RODRIQUEZ: I ALREADY SPOKE -- 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 3 MR. RODRIQUEZ: WELL, ACTUALLY THE NAMES THAT 4 YOU READ -- 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YES. 6 MR. RODRIQUEZ: -- ARE PEOPLE WHO ASKED ME TO -- 7 IF I KINDLY WILL ACCEPT THEIR TIME. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WELL, WE CAN'T DO THAT. 9 MR. RODRIQUEZ: WELL, I HAD THE PLEASURE TO 10 ACTUALLY KNOW MOST OF YOU. AND AS A MATTER OF FACT, I 11 HAVE WORKED VERY PROUDLY IN SEVERAL OF YOUR CAMPAIGNS AS, 12 YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY WHO WAS HOPING THAT YOU WILL MAKE IT 13 IN, AND I FEEL VERY PROUD THAT YOU ARE HERE. 14 ALSO, I WOULD LIKE TO -- I WOULDN'T LIKE TO SEE 15 YOU GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS THE ONE WHO WAS SITTING ON THESE 16 TIMES AND THE DECISION MAKING PROCESS TABLES IN WHICH OUR 17 CITY COLLEGE WAS DISMANTLED AND WAS CUT IN PIECES AS A LOT 18 OF MY STUDENTS ARE TELLING ME IN THEIR OWN STORIES. 19 YOU SEE, CITY COLLEGE FOR ME IS MY SECOND HOME 20 AND PROBABLY MY FIRST IN MANY CASES. I WAS HOMELESS. 21 THAT'S WHY I AM VERY CLOSE TO THE P.E. PEOPLE BECAUSE 22 THAT'S WHERE I SOMETIMES EVEN WOULD TAKE MY SHOWERS. 23 I GRADUATED FROM CITY COLLEGE VERY PROUDLY. AND 24 IF I WOULD BE AT CITY COLLEGE RIGHT NOW, I PROBABLY WOULD 25 BE OUT ON THE STREETS BECAUSE OUR CLASSES NEVER WENT FEBRUARY 23, 2012 42 1 BEYOND 15 OR 20. AND, YOU KNOW, I REMEMBER THAT WAS 2 QUALITY EDUCATION. 3 SO DON'T -- SOME OF YOU GUYS ARE PLANNING AND 4 GOING TO HIGHER OFFICE AND ARE WORKING ON THAT ALREADY. I 5 KNOW YOU GUYS DON'T HAVE A LOT OF TIME, BUT YOU KNOW YOU 6 DON'T WANT TO BE SEEN AS THE TRUSTEE WHO REALLY 7 CONTRIBUTED TO THE DESTRUCTION OF ONE OF THE MOST 8 BEAUTIFUL COLLEGES IN THE NATION. 9 YOU KNOW, WE ARE SITTING IN THE LAND WHERE 10 THERE'S A LOT OF MONEY, SO I WOULD SUGGEST AS THE BROTHER 11 WAS SAYING EARLIER, IT IS ABOUT TIME THAT WE GOT TO GO 12 REALLY AND -- 13 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 14 MR. RODRIQUEZ: -- AND KNOCK SOME DOORS WHERE 15 REALLY THE MONEY IS. WE ONLY NEED A DIME -- 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 17 MR. RODRIQUEZ: -- IN COMPARISON TO, YOU KNOW, 18 WHAT THESE GUYS GAVE TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, THE $100 19 MILLION DOLLAR, SO WE CAN GET THAT. 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU SIR. 21 MR. RODRIQUEZ: SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND 22 AGAIN, I APPRECIATE YOU GUYS' TIME. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 24 HECTOR SOSA, FOLLOWED BY LOURDES PADILLA. 25 MR. SOSA: GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 43 1 I AM COMING FROM MISSION CAMPUS. WE ARE NOT 2 HERE TO ACCUSE YOU GUYS, BUT I THINK YOU HAVE SOME 3 RESPONSIBILITY WITH THE EDUCATION OF THIS COUNTRY BECAUSE 4 THE GREATNESS OF THIS COUNTRY IS GOING DOWN. WHY? 5 LACK OF HONESTY. WE KNOW THERE IS MISSING SOME 6 MONEY FROM THE CITY COLLEGE. WHERE IS THE MONEY? 7 WE ARE GOING OUT FROM THE CLASSES. WHY? 8 WHO HAS THE MONEY? 9 I THINK YOU HAVE TO THINK ABOUT IT. TEACH US 10 HONESTY WITH THE PEOPLE WHO ARE IN CHARGE BECAUSE WE PAY 11 TAXES. THAT'S ALL I WANT TO SAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR 12 YOUR TIME. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 14 LOURDES PADILLA. 15 MS. PADILLA: GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS LOURDES 16 PADILLA. I AM FROM MEXICO. I AM AN UNEMPLOYED PERSON. I 17 HAVE BEEN UNEMPLOYED FOR TEN YEARS. 18 AND I HAVE TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL TO UPGRADE MY 19 EDUCATION SKILLS. AND IN ORDER FOR ME TO START LOOKING 20 FOR A JOB I NEED TO, LIKE I SAID, TO UPGRADE MY SKILLS IN 21 COMPUTER AND HELP TO LOOK FOR A JOB. 22 I WAS KIND OF EXCITED. I JUST FINISHED TRAINING 23 THAT IS CALLED, "OFFICE SUPPORT CERTIFICATE PROGRAM" WHERE 24 I LEARNED ALL THE COMPUTER TRAININGS, YOU KNOW, THAT WE 25 NEED TO FIND A JOB. AND OTHER SKILLS IS HOW TO FIND A FEBRUARY 23, 2012 44 1 JOB. SO I WAS TAKING THIS CLASS WITH MRS. BRESCHI. 2 AND I WAS VERY HAPPY WITH THAT CLASS BECAUSE I 3 NEED ALL THEIR TOOLS HOW TO FIND A JOB, HOW TO MOVE 4 MYSELF, BECAUSE NOW NOBODY HELP US TO FIND THAT JOB. 5 WELL, TO LOOK FOR THAT JOB. SO IT WOULD REALLY HELP TO 6 SEARCH ALL THE TOOLS. YOU KNOW, HOW TO -- WHERE TO GO AND 7 HOW TO LOOK FOR A JOB AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 8 SO TODAY I WAS VERY SURPRISED ALSO THAT OUR 9 CLASS IS BEING CUT OFF. YOU KNOW, I REALLY, REALLY NEED 10 YOUR SUPPORT TO GIVE US OUR CLASS BECAUSE WE ARE -- A LOT 11 OF STUDENTS LIKE ME, YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE THE SAME 12 SITUATION LIKE ME OR MAYBE WORSE, I DON'T KNOW, YOU KNOW. 13 BUT WE REALLY NEED TO HAVE OUR CLASS BACK TO US, YOU KNOW, 14 BECAUSE WE REALLY NEED TO LOOK FOR A JOB. YOU KNOW, WE 15 DON'T HAVE TO -- WE DON'T WANT TO END UP LIKE A LOT OF 16 PEOPLE HOMELESS IN THE STREET. 17 SO, YOU KNOW, WE JUST ARE ASKING KINDLY TO ALL 18 OF YOU TO SEE IF YOU COULD GIVE US OUR CLASS, OKAY? 19 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 20 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, THIS IS THE LAST CARD I 22 HAVE. IS THERE ANY FURTHER PUBLIC COMMENT? 23 MS. MORGAN: I KNOW I SPOKE -- 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WELL, YOU ALREADY SPOKE ONE. 25 MS. MORGAN: YES, BUT THESE STUDENTS IN FEBRUARY 23, 2012 45 1 SOLIDARITY WITH NO POLITICAL EXPERIENCE, NO PUBLIC 2 SPEAKING EXPERIENCE, NO KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT A TRUSTEE BOARD 3 IS LEFT THE CLASSROOM TOGETHER TONIGHT TO COME HERE AND 4 SAVE THEIR CLASSES AND SAVE DR. KAREN BRESCHI'S JOB. SHE 5 JUST DOESN'T INDIVIDUALLY TUTOR EVERY HUMAN BEING IN THAT 6 ROOM, SHE GETS THEM THROUGH VOCATIONAL REHAB. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. YOU KNOW, I AM 8 SORRY. WE COULD ONLY GIVE -- 9 MS. MORGAN: YES. 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: -- EACH PERSON TWO MINUTES. 11 MS. MORGAN: YES, I THINK THEY NEED TO BE 12 COMMENDED. THANK YOU FOR COMING BROTHERS AND SISTERS. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 14 ANY FURTHER PUBLIC COMMENT? 15 I SEE THERE IS NO MORE PUBLIC COMMENT. WE WILL 16 CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENT. I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE WHO SPOKE 17 FOR SPEAKING. I REALLY APPRECIATE PEOPLE COMING OUT. 18 TRUSTEES, I THINK TRUSTEE JACKSON AND THEN -- 19 DID YOU WANT TO SAY SOMETHING? 20 TRUSTEE JACKSON: YEAH, I GUESS I JUST WANTED TO 21 THANK EVERYBODY FOR COMING OUT. I ALSO AM JUST GOING TO 22 REITERATE SOME OF MY MESSAGE THAT I SAID AT THE BUDGET 23 COMMITTEE MEETING IS I UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, THAT WE HAVE 24 TO MAKE CUTS AND THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE GOING TO BE 25 SOME TOUGH SACRIFICES. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 46 1 AT THE BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETING, I DID SAY THAT 2 I AM ALSO CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT KIND OF COLLEGE ARE WE 3 GOING TO LEAVE BEHIND AFTER THE CUTS. 4 A LOT OF FOLKS, YOU KNOW, WE HAD A LOT OF PEOPLE 5 FROM TRADITIONAL STUDIES. YOU KNOW, THOSE ARE FOLKS THAT 6 ARE VERY NEAR AND DEAR TO MY HEART BECAUSE THOSE ARE A LOT 7 OF FOLKS WHO ARE VERY NEAR IN MY COMMUNITY. AND, YOU 8 KNOW, WITHOUT TRANSITIONAL STUDIES, WITHOUT ACCESS TO 9 THEIR GED CLASSES, THOSE FOLKS ARE EITHER GOING TO BE DEAD 10 OR IN PRISON. I AM SORRY, BUT THAT IS JUST KIND OF STARK 11 REALITY TO SOME FOLKS' NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE CITY. 12 I AM CONCERNED ABOUT THE PEOPLE THAT ARE COMING 13 BACK FROM THE PRISON SYSTEM WHO ARE EX-OFFENDERS, AND THEY 14 GIVEN A ONE TIME TO GET OUT OF PRISON BECAUSE OF THE 15 OVERCROWDING. AND WITHOUT AN OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE A 16 TRANSITIONAL STUDIES CLASS, TO TAKE A GED CLASS, TO TAKE 17 AN ESL CLASS, TO TAKE A WIDE VARIETY OF CLASSES. I AM 18 CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS TO THEM. 19 YOU KNOW, I AM ALSO CONCERNED ABOUT THE OTHER 20 PORTIONS OF OUR COLLEGE. WHO CLEANS UP OUR COLLEGE? HOW 21 IS OUR COLLEGE ACTUALLY GOING TO BE CLEANED? WHO DOES 22 THAT TYPE OF WORK AS WELL? 23 WE HAVE A LOT OF DEDICATED CLASSIFIED FOLKS THAT 24 DO A LOT OF WORK THAT SOMETIMES GOES UNNOTICED IN OUR 25 COLLEGE. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 47 1 MS. EVANS: THEY DON'T EVER NOTICE. 2 TRUSTEE JACKSON: THEY DON'T EVER NOTICE IT. 3 YOU ARE NOT KIDDING, MS. EVANS. 4 AND SO, YOU KNOW, IT IS -- I LOOK FOR NOT JUST 5 TO THIS CYCLE, BUT I LOOK FORWARD TO 2013-2014 TO 6 2014-2015 AND WHAT KIND OF ACCESS ARE YOU GOING TO -- ARE 7 WE GOING TO HAVE FOR OUR MOST VULNERABLE STUDENTS? 8 THE STUDENTS THAT ARE GETTING KICKED OUT OF THE 9 UC'S AND THE CSU'S, THEY ARE GOING TO BE FINED. THEY ARE 10 GOING TO MAKE IT IN OUR COLLEGE BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE 11 SKILLS COMING OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL. THEY ARE GOING TO BE 12 OKAY. I AM ACTUALLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE FOLKS WHO BARELY 13 MADE IT TO COMMUNITY COLLEGE WHO ARE HOLDING ON BY VERY 14 THIN THREAD WHO MIGHT NOT KNOW THE ENTIRE LANGUAGE, WHO 15 MIGHT NOT HAVE THE SKILLS, WHO MIGHT HAVE HAD A LOT OF 16 GAPS AND A LOT OF CRACKS IN THEIR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM, AND 17 WHERE ARE THEY GOING TO GO IF THEY CAN'T MAKE IT HERE IN 18 COLLEGE? 19 AND SO, YOU KNOW, IT IS MY HOPE THAT WE COME 20 TOGETHER. YOU KNOW, ALL CONSTITUENCIES COME TOGETHER AND 21 FIND A SOLUTION THAT LEAVES A COLLEGE THAT, YOU KNOW, 22 THAT'S A FIRST CLASS COLLEGE. 23 MY OTHER COMMENT, AND THIS IS THE SAME THING 24 THAT I MENTIONED AT THE BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETING, IS, YOU 25 KNOW, I SEE ALL THESE GROUPS HERE. BUT, YOU KNOW, THE ONE FEBRUARY 23, 2012 48 1 GROUP THAT'S MISSING, I THINK ONE GENTLEMAN MENTIONED IT, 2 IS THE FOUNDATION. 3 EVERY SINGLE BOARD MEETING WE HAVE THE, YOU 4 KNOW, THE CLASSIFIEDS MEETING. WE HAVE A FACULTY COMMENT 5 HERE. WE HAVE OUR TWO UNIONS MAKE A COMMENT HERE. BUT WE 6 NEVER ASK THE FOUNDATION TO MAKE NOT ONE SINGLE COMMENT, 7 AND THEY ARE THE 1 PERCENT. I MEAN IF WE HAVE A 1 PERCENT 8 IN THIS COLLEGE, IT'S THE FOUNDATION. I KNOW THEY ARE 9 RICH. I KNOW THEY ALL HAVE MONEY. THEY DRESS A LOT 10 BETTER THAN I DO. 11 AND I REALLY, REALLY FEEL THAT WE NEED TO HOLD 12 THEM TO TASK. WHEN THEY SAID THAT THEY WANTED TO SEPARATE 13 FROM CITY COLLEGE AND FORM THEIR OWN SEPARATE 14 ORGANIZATION, THEY SAID THAT THEY COULD RAISE TENS OF 15 MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. WELL, IT'S KIND OF TIME TO FIND THAT 16 TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS BECAUSE WE SURE NEED IT. 17 AND I NEVER HAVE A FINANCIAL REPORT FROM THE 18 FOUNDATION. I NEVER HAVE A PROGRESS REPORT OF HOW MUCH 19 THEY RAISE IN ONE MONTH OR WITHIN ONE QUARTER OR ANYTHING 20 LIKE THAT. AND I'VE ASKED THAT THE BUDGET COMMITTEE 21 MEETING THAT WE HAVE A REPORT FROM THE FOUNDATION. AND I 22 AM HOPING AT THE BOARD MEETING -- BECAUSE WE'VE HAD 23 REPEATED COMMENTS ABOUT WHAT'S THE FOUNDATION DOING. I 24 REALLY WANT TO SEE THE FOUNDATION LOOKED AT AS A REAL 25 VIABLE OPTION BECAUSE THEY ARE THE 1 PERCENT. THEY ARE FEBRUARY 23, 2012 49 1 THE FOLKS THAT HAVE THE MONEY TO DONATE TO CITY COLLEGE. 2 AND I WANT TO SEE THEM AS A VIABLE OPTION FOR NOT JUST THE 3 IMMEDIATE BUDGET CRUNCH, BUT FOR OUR NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET AS 4 WELL. THANK YOU. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I WILL JUST MENTION THAT WE 6 DID HAVE A REPORT FROM THE FOUNDATION A COUPLE OF MONTHS 7 AGO IF YOU REMEMBER. 8 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: WE DID HAVE A REPORT FROM 9 THE FOUNDATION. I THINK IT WAS ABOUT THREE MONTHS AGO. I 10 THINK YOU RECALL THAT REPORT. 11 BUT JUST FOR THE RECORD, WE ARE GETTING BACK 12 $5.1 MILLION FROM THE FOUNDATION THIS YEAR OF WHICH WE ARE 13 DEPENDING UPON $1.5 MILLION OF IT TO APPLY TO THIS YEAR'S 14 BUDGET. SO I DON'T WANT FALSE IMPRESSIONS OUT THERE. 5.1 15 MILLION OF WHICH 1.5 MILLION OF IT TO APPLY TO THE 16 2011-2012 FISCAL YEAR. 17 AND WE DO HAVE PEOPLE REACHING OUT TRYING TO 18 RAISE MORE MONEY AS FAR AS THE FOUNDATION IS CONCERNED. 19 THIS 1.5 MILLION DOES NOT COUNT. DOLLARS THAT WERE 20 DONATED FOR "SAVE THE CLASSES" AND SO FORTH. IT DOES NOT 21 COUNT THE QUARTER OF A MILLION DOLLARS THAT WAS RAISED FOR 22 THE BASIC SKILLS LUNCHEON. SO IT DOES NOT COUNT THAT OVER 23 THE LAST SIX OR SEVEN YEARS THERE'S BEEN MORE THAN 24 $10 MILLION RAISED BY THE FOUNDATION ON BEHALF OF THE 25 COLLEGE. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 50 1 SO WE JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE GET BOTH 2 SIDES OF THIS WHEN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 4 TRUSTEE WONG, DID YOU -- 5 OH, TRUSTEE BERG, OKAY. 6 TRUSTEE BERG: I JUST SIMPLY WANT TO THANK 7 EVERYBODY WHO IS HERE TONIGHT. I WANT YOU ALL TO KNOW 8 THAT EVERYONE OF US IN THAT -- IS IT NOT WORKING? BETTER? 9 THANK YOU. 10 I WANTED TO THANK EVERYBODY WHO IS HERE TONIGHT. 11 AND I WANT EACH OF YOU TO KNOW THAT EVERY ONE OF US IN 12 THIS ROOM IS DEDICATED TO CITY COLLEGE. WE LOVE CITY 13 COLLEGE, AND WE ARE GOING TO GET THROUGH THIS. IT IS 14 GOING TO BE PAINFUL FOR A LITTLE WHILE, BUT WE ARE GOING 15 TO GET THROUGH IT. 16 PLEASE KEEP OPTIMISTIC THOUGHTS BECAUSE WE WILL 17 PREVAIL. I PROMISE YOU THAT. WE WILL. THANK YOU. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU, TRUSTEE BERG. 19 TRUSTEE NGO. 20 TRUSTEE NGO: SO THERE WAS COMMENTARY TONIGHT 21 THAT THIS BOARD OF TRUSTEES IS RESPONSIBLE SOMEHOW FOR 22 ABOUT A $2 MILLION EXPENDITURE THAT IS CAUSING SOME ANGST, 23 SOME DEMONSTRABLE ANGST AMONG OUR CONSTITUENT GROUPS. AND 24 I THINK THAT COMMENTARY ACTUALLY IS CORRECT. AND IT DOES 25 APPLY TO THIS BOARD. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 51 1 WE ARE A PUBLIC BODY GOVERNED BY PUBLICLY 2 ELECTED OFFICIALS. AND WE ULTIMATELY HAVE FIDUCIARY DUTY 3 OVER THE FUNDS AT THIS COLLEGE. SO THAT IS A FACT. 4 WE WILL ACCEPT -- I WILL ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY 5 FOR THAT $1.9 MILLION EXPENDITURE THAT FUNDED CLASSES THAT 6 SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE HEARD TONIGHT ACTUALLY MATTERED TO 7 THE STUDENTS THAT TESTIFIED. I CAN'T ACTUALLY TAKE CREDIT 8 FOR IT. IT WAS TRUSTEE RIZZO'S AMENDMENT, BUT I VOTED FOR 9 IT. SO, YES, I TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT. 10 BUT I THINK IT IS CLEAR TO ME TONIGHT THAT SOME 11 PEOPLE SHOWED UP TONIGHT VERY UNTOUCHED WITH REALITY AND 12 OTHERS NOT. PEOPLE IN TOUCH WITH REALITY INTENDED TO SHOW 13 UP IN PURPLE SHIRTS. PEOPLE NOT IN TOUCH IN REALITY DID 14 NOT, GENERALLY SPEAKING. 15 SOME PEOPLE ARE IN DENIAL STILL, VERY MUCH IN 16 DENIAL. I MAY HAVE VOTED FOR THAT $1.9 MILLION ADD BACK 17 FOR CLASSES, WHICH IS WHAT WE DO AT THIS COLLEGE, BUT I 18 DID NOT UPLOAD EXCESSIVE SECTIONS IN BANNER. I DID NOT DO 19 THAT. I DID NOT FIND A $1.2 MILLION BILL FOR WORKERS' 20 COMPENSATION IN MY POCKET. THAT WAS NOT ME. SOME PEOPLE 21 ARE IN DENIAL STILL ABOUT A LOT OF THINGS. 22 I DID NOT HIRE STAFF. I DON'T HAVE THAT POWER. 23 ALL THOSE EXPENDITURES ARE WAY, WAY MORE THAN $2 MILLION. 24 SOME PEOPLE ARE IN DENIAL STILL. 25 AND TRUSTEE MARKS WAS RAISING A VERY GOOD POINT FEBRUARY 23, 2012 52 1 WHICH WAS, WHO WAS HERE IN 2002, BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN ON 2 THIS BOARD FOR THREE YEARS, ONLY THREE YEARS. 3 AND LAST YEAR AND MY FIRST YEAR CHAIRING THIS 4 BUDGET COMMITTEE, WE ACTUALLY FINALLY ASKED A VERY SIMPLE 5 QUESTION. WHAT WAS IN THAT $6.5 MILLION LINE ITEM FOR NON 6 INSTRUCTIONAL FUNDS? 7 DO YOU KNOW WHAT WE KNEW THE ANSWER WAS TO THAT 8 QUESTION, IT TOOK US THREE MONTHS TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WAS 9 IN THAT LINE ITEM. WE ARE IN DENIAL. SOME OF US ARE IN 10 DENIAL AT THIS INSTITUTION. 11 IF YOU THINK THAT FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS BOARD 12 ACTUALLY HAS AN ENGAGED ACTIVE INTEREST IN THE BUDGET AND 13 WE ARE ASKING ABOUT A $6.5 MILLION LINE ITEM THAT COULD GO 14 INTO CLASSES BUT IT IS INSTEAD GOING INTO NON 15 INSTRUCTIONAL FUNDS, AND YOU THINK THE BOARD IS TO BLAME 16 FOR OUR QUAGMIRE, OUR CRISIS TODAY, SOME PEOPLE ARE IN 17 DENIAL. 18 SOME PEOPLE ARE IN DENIAL IF YOU DON'T I THINK I 19 KNOW THAT OVERLOAD HAS GONE UP BY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN 20 THE PAST THREE YEARS, FACULTY OVERLOAD. SOME PEOPLE ARE 21 IN DENIAL IF YOU DON'T THINK I KNOW THAT. 22 SOME PEOPLE ARE NOT IN TOUCH WITH REALITY. SOME 23 PEOPLE ARE NOT IN TOUCH WITH REALITY IF YOU DON'T THINK I 24 KNOW THAT THIS SUB BUDGET IS EXPLAINABLE BUT STILL HIGH. 25 SUBS, $1 MILLION IN SUB BUDGET. THOSE ARE SUBSTITUTE FEBRUARY 23, 2012 53 1 TEACHERS COMING IN TO TEACH, TO FILL IN VACANCIES FOR 2 FULL-TIME TEACHERS WHO ARE NOT ABLE TO TEACH. THEY ARE 3 SICK. IT'S HIGH. YOU ARE IN DENIAL IF YOU DON'T THINK 4 THAT'S TRUE OR IF YOU DON'T THINK WE SHOULD BE ASKING 5 THOSE QUESTIONS. 6 YOU ARE IN DENIAL IF YOU DON'T THINK FOR YEARS 7 YOU WERE OKAY WITH A $500,000 FUND FOR A CHILD CARE CENTER 8 AT GRACE THAT WE HAD TO CONFRONT. THIS BOARD HAD TO 9 CONFRONT FINALLY AFTER YEARS, IT'S BEEN THERE. NONE OF 10 YOU CONFRONTED IT. YOU ARE IN DENIAL ABOUT SOME OF THE 11 REALITIES THAT WE ARE DEALING WITH. 12 YOU ARE IN DENIAL IF YOU DON'T THINK THAT I KNOW 13 THAT OF OUR LOW ENROLLED CLASSES, 50 PERCENT OF THEM ARE 14 ATTRIBUTABLE TO FULL-TIME FACULTY. YOU ARE IN DENIAL. 15 YOU ARE IN DENIAL IF YOU DO NOT HEED THE 16 CRITIQUE OF THE TRANSITIONAL STUDIES PROFESSOR, WHICH WAS 17 THERE WAS A PROBLEM WITH PLANNING IN OUR DEPARTMENTS AND 18 THEN WHAT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME IS THAT PEOPLE BRING UP 19 STUDENTS ABOUT THE CLASSES WE HAVE TO CUT WHEN IN REALITY 20 YOU SHOULD HAVE MANAGED THAT YOURSELF, IN HOUSE, BEFORE 21 YOU BRING IT TO US. YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THOSE CLASSES 22 WERE LOW ENROLLED YEARS AGO, BUT NO ONE DID ANYTHING ABOUT 23 IT. YOU ARE IN DENIAL IF YOU DON'T THINK WE KNOW THAT. 24 AND YOU ARE GOING TO CRITICIZE US FOR ACTUALLY ASKING 25 THESE QUESTIONS. THAT'S DENIAL. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 54 1 YOU ARE IN DENIAL IF YOU DON'T THINK I NOTICE 2 THE DIFFERENCE IN DIVERSITY AMONG THE FACULTY AND STAFF AT 3 THIS COLLEGE. AND WHY THAT MATTERS TO OUR STUDENTS AND 4 WHY THAT MATTERS TO THE POPULATION OF THIS CITY. THAT 5 IT'S A MAJORITY MINORITY CITY. YOU DON'T THINK -- YOU ARE 6 IN DENIAL IF YOU DON'T THINK THAT'S A REALITY THAT SOME OF 7 YOU FAIL TO EMBRACE. 8 YOU ARE IN DENIAL IF YOU DON'T THINK THAT OUR 9 WORK AND EQUITY BY THE ENGLISH AND MATH DEPARTMENT MATTERS 10 TO THE PUBLIC AND TO THESE STUDENTS THAT WE SERVE. YOU 11 ARE IN DENIAL IF YOU DON'T EMBRACE THOSE CONCEPTS, FLAT 12 OUT DENIAL. 13 LET ME TELL YOU WHAT ELSE YOU ARE IN DENIAL 14 ABOUT. ONE LAST THING YOU ARE IN DENIAL ABOUT. SOME OF 15 YOU WANT TO GO OUT FOR A PARCEL TAX MEASURE THIS FALL, 16 OKAY. 17 AND SOME OF YOU WHO ARE IN DENIAL ARE GOING TO 18 COME UP HERE AND TELL US THAT YOU OPPOSE US PUTTING MONEY 19 BACK INTO CLASSES AND THEN PIVOT AND SAY YOU WANT THE 20 PUBLIC TO PAY FOR MORE CLASSES. YOU ARE IN DENIAL. YOU 21 ARE IN DENIAL IF THE PUBLIC IS NOT GOING TO ASK ARE WE 22 SPENDING OUR MONEY WISELY, AND IS IT GOING TO THE 23 STUDENTS. YOU ARE IN DENIAL. 24 THAT'S JUST -- YOU ARE JUST NOT IN TOUCH WITH 25 REALITY ON THOSE CONCEPTS. AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE I FEBRUARY 23, 2012 55 1 CAN DO TO REMIND YOU. 2 YOU ARE IN DENIAL IF FOR YEARS NO ONE AT THIS 3 COLLEGE, NO ONE ON THE BOARD, FOR YEARS THE BOARD HAD 4 IGNORED OUR OPEB LIABILITY. MILLIONS OF DOLLARS EVERY 5 YEAR INCREASE, MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. DO YOU KNOW WHEN WE 6 FINALLY ADDRESSED OPEB LIABILITY FOR THE FIRST TIME, THIS 7 BUDGET YEAR WHEN WE CHAIRED IT. THIS COMMITTEE -- THIS 8 BOARD FINALLY ADDRESSED OUR OPEB LIABILITY. THAT WENT UP 9 BY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS EVERY YEAR. THIS BOARD, BEFORE I 10 GOT HERE, BECAUSE REMEMBER I WAS ONLY HERE FOR THREE 11 YEARS, IGNORED IT. THEY IGNORED IT. SOME PEOPLE ARE JUST 12 NOT IN TOUCH WITH REALITY. 13 AND YOU ARE DEFINITELY NOT IN TOUCH OF REALITY 14 IF YOU DON'T THINK WE ARE NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO OUR 15 GRANT FUNDING AND OUR INDIRECT COSTS. WHO HAS BEEN ASKING 16 THOSE QUESTIONS ABOUT INDIRECT COSTS, AND WHY WE ARE JUST 17 PULLING IN GRANT AFTER GRANT AND ASSUMING LIABILITY AFTER 18 LIABILITY WITHOUT THINKING HOW MUCH OUR INDIRECT COSTS 19 ACTUALLY ARE. WHO IS DOING THAT? NO ONE HAS DONE THAT 20 UNTIL THIS BOARD ACTUALLY PAID ATTENTION. 21 AND SOME OF YOU ARE GOING TO COME UP HERE AND 22 SAY THAT WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS MESS. SOME PEOPLE 23 ARE NOT IN TOUCH WITH REALITY. IT'S ABOUT TIME YOU DO GET 24 IN TOUCH WITH REALITY BECAUSE CHICKENS ARE COMING HOME TO 25 ROOST AND ALL OF US ARE IN -- AND ALL OF US HAVE TO DEAL FEBRUARY 23, 2012 56 1 WITH IT. 2 AND SO LET'S ALL GROW UP AND HAVE SOME MATURE, 3 HONEST, TRUTHFUL CONVERSATIONS. THAT IS OUR MOTTO, THE 4 TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE. 5 YOU CANNOT TELL THE TRUTH IF YOU ARE, GUESS 6 WHAT, IN DENIAL. THANK YOU. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE WONG. 8 TRUSTEE WONG: YOU KNOW, IT'S -- I HAVE TO SAY 9 THAT IT'S HOW YOU LOOK AT A SITUATION. MANY OF THE THINGS 10 THAT TRUSTEE NGO HAS TALKED ABOUT IS TRUE. BUT THIS 11 SO-CALLED RALLY, THIS COMING TOGETHER, THIS COLOR PURPLE 12 AND THOSE ARE NOT IN COLOR PURPLE, AFT 2121, YOU ARE ALSO 13 PART OF THE GROUP AND ALL THE OTHERS, THIS IS NOT ABOUT 14 YOUR RIGHT. YOU ARE WRONG. THIS IS ABOUT VOICING ABOUT 15 THE FACT THAT WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER. AND THAT YOU 16 ARE NOT ATTACKING THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. YOU ARE NOT. 17 YOU ARE SAYING THAT WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER AND 18 WE WANT TO REMIND YOU OF THE PAIN THAT WE ARE ALL 19 SUFFERING OUT THERE IN SAN FRANCISCO WHEN CLASSES ARE 20 BEING CUT. THAT IS INSPIRATIONAL. THAT'S WHAT THIS IS 21 ALL ABOUT. IT'S AN INSPIRATION. 22 I HAVE SERVED ON THIS BOARD FOR 18 YEARS, GOING 23 ON 18 YEARS. AND IT HAS BEEN DIFFICULT. BUT THIS IS ONE 24 OF THE MOST DIFFICULT TIMES. AND THIS IS PROBABLY THE 25 THIRD OR FOURTH KIND OF BIG DEMONSTRATION. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 57 1 I REMEMBER THE TIME WHEN PHIL DAY, HIS VERY 2 FIRST DAY HERE, THERE WAS -- WHERE IS ATHENA? 3 THERE WAS A STRIKE. 4 MS. STEFF: YES. 5 TRUSTEE WONG: REMEMBER THAT? 6 MS. STEFF: '98, BABY. 7 TRUSTEE WONG: REMEMBER? 8 MS. STEFF: YEAH. 9 TRUSTEE WONG: AND ALL OF YOU CAME AND YOU 10 SPOKE. AND IT CAN BE PERCEIVED, OH, YOU ARE ATTACKING THE 11 BOARD. YOU ARE ATTACKING THE BOARD. BUT I DON'T GET A 12 SENSE OF THAT. YES, WE HAVE DONE A LOT. WE HAVE DONE A 13 LOT. WE HAVE FOCUSED ON A LOT OF ISSUES. WE HAVE WORKED 14 A LOT. 15 I THINK THIS BOARD IS A VERY HARD WORKING BOARD, 16 BUT I DO NOT GET A SENSE THAT WE ARE BEING ATTACKED. I 17 GET A SENSE THAT WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER AND LET'S WORK IT 18 OUT TOGETHER. LET'S MAKE IT HAPPEN TOGETHER. 19 LET ME TELL YOU WHAT IS THE SUFFERING IN THOSE 20 CLASSES WHEN CLASSES ARE BEING CUT. THE WOMAN WHO WAS 21 HOMELESS REALLY TOUCHED MY HEART. I REMEMBER THAT STORY 22 THAT I ALWAYS TELL AGAIN AND AGAIN FOR 18 YEARS. 23 WHEN I FIRST STARTED AND THERE WAS THIS WOMAN 24 WHO LIVED UNDER A TREE AT THE OCEAN AVENUE CAMPUS. DO YOU 25 REMEMBER THAT STORY I USED TO TELL ALL THE TIME? FEBRUARY 23, 2012 58 1 I REALLY WISH I KEPT IN CONTACT WITH HER BECAUSE 2 I THINK ABOUT HER OFTEN. SHE WOULD LIVE UNDER A TREE AT 3 THE OCEAN AVENUE CAMPUS, USE THE RESTROOMS TO CLEAN UP AT 4 THE OCEAN AVENUE CAMPUS, GO TO CLASS, AND SHE TOLD HER 5 STORY OF HOW SHE BECAME ONE OF THE FORTUNE 500 TOP 6 EXECUTIVES. 7 AND I WAS SO IMPRESSED AND EVERY TIME WHEN I 8 HAVE DOUBTS ABOUT WHY AM I STILL HERE, AND IT IS DIFFICULT 9 BECAUSE AT LEAST FOUR OF US ARE NOT FEELING VERY WELL 10 TONIGHT. I HAVE TO TELL YOU THAT. A COLD A VIRUS OR 11 WHATEVER, ONE REASON OR ANOTHER. 12 AND SOMETIMES IT GETS VERY, VERY DIFFICULT. AND 13 AFTER 18 YEARS, IT GETS VERY DIFFICULT, YES. AND THIS IS 14 ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT TIMES. BUT I DO NOT FEEL THAT 15 YOU ARE IN DENIAL. I DON'T FEEL THAT WE ARE WORKING 16 AGAINST EACH OTHER. I FEEL THAT WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS, 17 WE ARE WORKING TOGETHER AND THAT YOU ACTUALLY INSPIRE US 18 WITH YOUR PERSONAL STORIES. 19 AND I WANT TO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I WANT TO 20 THANK YOU THE COLOR PURPLE. REMEMBER THE MOVIE THE COLOR 21 PURPLE WITH WHOOPI GOLDBERG? DO YOU REMEMBER THAT? 22 REMEMBER HOW SHE SUFFERED, HOW SHE PREVAILED. 23 THANK YOU, TRUSTEE NATALIE BERG, MY VERY WORD. 24 SHE PREVAILED BECAUSE OF HER HARDSHIP. THAT WAS 25 THE MESSAGE OF THE STORY. WE WILL PREVAIL, BUT WE WILL FEBRUARY 23, 2012 59 1 PREVAIL TOGETHER. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 2 MS. STEFF: THANK YOU, LAWRENCE. 3 TRUSTEE WONG: THANK YOU. 4 MS. STEFF: I LOVE YOU, BABY. 5 TRUSTEE WONG: I LOVE YOU TOO. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I JUST WANTED TO MENTION ONE 7 THING. YOU KNOW WE HAD -- THIS BRINGS US TO $17 MILLION 8 IN CUTS THIS YEAR. THIS ISN'T OUR FIRST CUT. WE'VE HAD 9 CUTS FOR TWO OR THREE PREVIOUS YEARS, SOMETHING LIKE 10 $20 MILLION PREVIOUS TO TWO YEARS TO THAT. SO WE'VE BEEN 11 CUTTING FOR A LONG TIME. 12 AND THIS -- AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR, WE CUT 13 $1.9 MILLION WORTH OF CLASSES. THESE ARE CLASSES THAT WE 14 JUST DID NOT SCHEDULE. THEY WEREN'T -- THEY WERE LESS 15 VISIBLE THEN THEY ARE NOW BECAUSE WE ARE NOW ELIMINATING 16 CLASSES THAT HAVE STARTED. BUT WE ELIMINATED $1.9 MILLION 17 WORTH OF CLASSES. AND OUR -- WE WERE ORIGINALLY TALKING 18 ABOUT ELIMINATING MORE THAN THAT, TWICE THAT, $3.6 MILLION 19 OF CLASSES. 20 SO WHAT TRUSTEE NGO WAS TALKING ABOUT WAS THAT I 21 PROPOSED AND THE BOARD ACCEPTED THAT WE DON'T CUT $3.6 22 MILLION WORTH OF CLASSES THAT WE CUT ONLY $1.9 MILLION OF 23 CLASSES. 24 AND IF YOU WANT TO CALL THAT AN EXPENDITURE, 25 OKAY, BUT WE ARE A COLLEGE AND OUR MISSION OF THE COLLEGE FEBRUARY 23, 2012 60 1 IS TO HAVE CLASSES. SO I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THE BOARD, 2 YOU KNOW, RESTORING $1.9 MILLION OF CLASSES. WE THOUGHT 3 WE COULD PAY FOR IT. WE DIDN'T KNOW THE STATE WAS GOING 4 TO COME BACK AGAIN AND SAY, GUESS WHAT, WE ARE TAKING 5 ANOTHER THREE AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS FROM YOU. 6 YOU KNOW, I JUST WANT TO MENTION THIS IS $149 7 MILLION THAT THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM IS LOSING NOW. 8 THE STATE IS SUPPLYING $100 MILLION TO BUILD JAILS IN 9 COUNTIES IN THIS YEAR'S BUDGET. SO, YOU KNOW, IF WE ARE 10 GOING TO GET ANGRY, THAT'S SOMETHING TO GET ANGRY ABOUT. 11 CHANCELLOR, DID YOU HAVE -- 12 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: A COUPLE OF WORDS. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH. 14 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: I THINK BASICALLY IF YOU 15 LOOK BACK ON IT 2008, WE WERE ALL FACED WITH A LOT OF 16 TRAUMA. IF YOU CAN RECALL BACK TO 2008, SOME OF YOU CAN 17 EASILY. THE ISSUE WAS IS CITY COLLEGE GOING TO SURVIVE? 18 IS THE COUNTRY GOING TO SURVIVE? AND A LOT OF US WAS VERY 19 CONCERNED ABOUT THAT. 20 BUT NOT ONLY DID WE SURVIVE 2008-2009 FISCAL 21 YEAR, WE ALSO SURVIVED 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012 IS 22 WHAT WE ARE IN NOW, AND WE HAVE TO PLAN FOR 2012-2013. 23 IF YOU WANT TO LOOK AT WHAT WE'VE ACTUALLY DONE 24 AS OPPOSED TO WHAT PEOPLE ARE CLAIMING THAT WE ARE DOING, 25 WE HAVE STATISTICS TO SHOW THAT. WE HAVE STATISTICS TO FEBRUARY 23, 2012 61 1 SHOW YOU THAT WE'VE SERVED MORE STUDENTS DURING THAT 2 PERIOD OF TIME THEN THE PRIOR FOUR YEARS OF TIME, STUDENTS 3 NOT CUTTING CLASSES. 4 BY THE WAY, BUT WE GOT CONFRONTED THIS YEAR WITH 5 SOMETHING THAT WE DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO REALLY PLAN 6 FOR, WHICH IS THEY TOLD US IN ADVANCE YOU ARE GOING TO BE 7 LOSING $13.4 MILLION THAT HAS TO COME OUT OF YOUR BUDGET. 8 WE DIDN'T SAY WHEN THEY TOLD US THAT WE ARE GOING TO LOSE 9 $13.4 MILLION, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE LAYOFFS. WE DIDN'T 10 SAY THAT. WE DIDN'T TELL YOU THAT WE WERE GOING TO 11 TERMINATE HALF OF OUR -- 20 PERCENT OF OUR CLASSES. WE 12 DID NOT TELL YOU THAT WE WERE GOING TO KICK TO THE CURB 13 OUR STUDENTS. WE DIDN'T SAY ANY OF THOSE THINGS. AND WE 14 HAVE NOT DONE ANY OF THOSE THINGS. 15 AS FAR AS THE CLASSES ARE CONCERNED, I'VE SAID 16 IT AT THIS BOARD MEETING, AND I WILL CONTINUE TO SAY IT. 17 WE HAVE BEEN LIVING A LIFESTYLE OF LUXURY AT CITY COLLEGE 18 IN TERMS OF WHAT WE CAN DO AND WHAT WE CAN'T DO. THERE 19 ARE THINGS THAT WE ARE NO LONGER GOING TO BE ABLE TO DO. 20 WHY WE ARE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO DO THOSE THINGS? 21 IT'S NOT BECAUSE WE DON'T LOVE HAVING SEVEN 22 STUDENTS IN A CLASS OR 12 STUDENTS IN A CLASS OR 15 23 STUDENTS IN A CLASS, IT'S BECAUSE THE STATE SAID, THEY ARE 24 ON A PURPOSE, ON A MISSION. THEIR MISSION IS TO DOWNSIZE 25 EVERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE IN CALIFORNIA. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 62 1 THEY SAID OUT-FRONT TO LET ALL YOU KNOW THAT WE 2 DO NOT WANT CITY COLLEGE TO EXIST THE WAY IT CURRENTLY 3 EXISTS. THEY DO NOT WANT CERTAIN PROGRAMS HERE. THEY DO 4 NOT WANT CLASS SIZES THAT ARE SMALL. THEY DO NOT WANT 5 PROGRAMS THAT YOU THINK ARE TREMENDOUSLY VALUABLE. 6 THEY WANT IT TO BE A JUNIOR COLLEGE IN THE OLD 7 MODEL OF THE JUNIOR COLLEGE. THAT'S WHAT THEY ARE TRYING 8 TO PUSH US BACK TO. THEY DON'T CARE THAT WE SERVE 40-PLUS 9 PERCENT OF CAREER TECH EDUCATION HERE, WHERE PEOPLE GO 10 FROM COMING HERE TO GETTING JOBS. THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT 11 THAT. 12 THEY TALK ABOUT HOW MANY STUDENTS ARE 13 TRANSFERRING TO THE STATE COLLEGE SYSTEM OR UC'S OR 14 WHATEVER. THEY DON'T SEEM TO CARE THE FACT THAT 15 CALIFORNIA HAS CHANGED. AND THAT IF YOU REALLY WANT TO 16 SERVE ALL CALIFORNIANS, YOU CANNOT KICK TO THE CURB THE 17 COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM. 18 THEY WANT TO STEAL THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM 19 FOR THEIR SO CALLED MIDDLE CLASS WHICH THEY ARE EJECTING 20 FROM THE STATE COLLEGE SYSTEM. THEY ARE BASICALLY SAYING 21 WE DON'T WANT YOU AT UC, AND WE DON'T WANT YOU AT STATE 22 COLLEGE. WE ARE GOING TO GIVE THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE TO 23 THE MIDDLE CLASS. THAT'S BEEN DECIMATED. AND WE ARE 24 GOING TO TAKE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE AT THE BOTTOM, AND WE ARE 25 GOING TO KICK YOU OUT OF EDUCATION ALTOGETHER. THAT'S FEBRUARY 23, 2012 63 1 WHAT'S GOING ON. 2 IT DOESN'T DO US ONE BIT OF GOOD TO COME IN HERE 3 AND START STAGING ISSUES AMONG OURSELVES AND CREATE CLASS 4 WARFARE OVER SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD NOT BE HAVING CLASS 5 WARFARE OVER. 6 THE ONLY THING THAT WE ARE ASKING TONIGHT IS 7 PRETTY SIMPLE. THE STATE TOOK AWAY FROM US BETWEEN 8 JANUARY 18TH AND FEBRUARY -- 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: 15TH. 10 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: -- THE 15TH $2.88 MILLION. 11 DO WE WANT TO SURVIVE AS A COLLEGE OR NOT? ARE WE GOING 12 TO GO AND SAY, WE ARE NOT GOING TO GET A LIFEBOAT TOGETHER 13 AND SURVIVE OR ARE WE JUST GOING TO CUT OUR THROATS AND 14 SAY FORGET IT BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT IT'S COMING TO BY THE 15 WAY. THIS 2.88 MILLION, BELIEVE ME IF YOU WISH, DOUBT ME 16 IF YOU LIKE, BUT IF WE DON'T ADDRESS THIS $2.88 MILLION, 17 WE WILL NOT ONLY BE ON WATCH, BUT WE WILL BE A LOT FARTHER 18 ALONG THAN THAT. 19 AND THERE WILL BE SOMEBODY FROM THE STATE, THE 20 SAME STATE THAT PUT THIS BURDEN ON US AT THE LAST MINUTE. 21 THERE WILL BE SOMEBODY FROM THE STATE COMING DOWN HERE AND 22 SAYING, THIS BOARD DOES NOT GET TO RUN THE COLLEGE. YOUR 23 ACADEMIC SENATE DOES NOT GET TO RUN THE COLLEGE. YOUR 24 OTHER SENATES DO NOT GET TO RUN THE COLLEGE, NONE OF YOU 25 GET TO RUN THE COLLEGE. GUESS WHAT? FEBRUARY 23, 2012 64 1 WE ARE GOING TO DO A COMPTON ON YOU. WE ARE 2 GOING TO TAKE OVER, AND WE ARE GOING TO TELL YOU WHAT TO 3 DO. 4 NOW I SAID TO MYSELF, WHY WOULD ANY OF US WHO 5 REALLY LOVE CITY COLLEGE STAND FOR THIS AT ALL? 6 I THINK ALL OF YOU NEED TO STAND UP AND DEAL 7 WITH THIS. SURE I KNOW THAT THERE'S BEEN MISTAKES AS FAR 8 AS ADMINISTRATION IS CONCERNED. ABSOLUTELY MISTAKES HAVE 9 BEEN MADE. 10 BUT IF YOU DON'T WANT TO GIVE ADMINISTRATION 11 SUPPORT FOR THE FOUR YEARS OR THREE AND A HALF YEARS OF 12 NOT MAKING THESE MISTAKES, THEN OKAY, YOU COULD SAY THE 13 FIRST MISTAKE, YOU ARE DEAD. BUT LET'S NOT ALL DIE 14 TOGETHER. THIS MONEY HAS TO BE RAISED. AND THE ONLY WAY 15 IT IS GOING TO BE RAISED IS THAT COLLECTIVELY WE AGREE TO 16 RAISE IT. AND THAT'S WHY WE BRING YOU THIS TONIGHT. 17 IT IS NOT ABOUT YOU LOSING A PLACE IN A CLASS 18 WITH SEVEN STUDENTS BECAUSE IF A LOT OF STUDENTS GO AND 19 LOOK AT THIS -- WHICH CLASSES WERE CUT? 20 IF YOU WANT TO BE REALLY HONEST ABOUT IT, I 21 LOOKED AT THE LIST OF CLASSES THAT WERE BEING PROPOSED TO 22 BE CUT. AND I LOOKED AT THE ENROLLMENT. THERE WERE TWO 23 SEGMENTS. THERE WERE CLASSES THAT WE CUT, 20 -- 40, 24 ALMOST NEARLY 40 SECTIONS OF CLASSES CUT IN DECEMBER, MANY 25 OF THEM HIGH ENROLLED CLASSES. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 65 1 THEN THERE WERE ADDITIONAL CLASSES OF ABOUT 70 2 SECTIONS AND THE ENROLLMENTS, THE AVERAGE ENROLLMENT IN 3 THERE WAS AROUND 11 STUDENTS PER CLASS. WE ARE ASKING 4 DEPARTMENTS TO TEACH 45 AND 50 STUDENTS PER CLASS. WE ARE 5 ASKING DEPARTMENTS TO TEACH 35 AND 40 STUDENTS. WE ARE 6 ASKING DEPARTMENTS TO TEACH AND 25 AND 30 STUDENTS, AND 7 THEY ARE THERE. SO WE COULD TURN AROUND -- NO WAY ARE WE 8 GOING TO TURN AROUND AND SAY TO PEOPLE ANYMORE THAT YOU 9 CAN HAVE A CLASS WITH SEVEN OR TEN STUDENTS AND WE CAN 10 CARRY IT. THE STATE WILL NOT ALLOW US TO DO IT. THEY DO 11 NOT GIVE US MONEY FOR IT. 12 SO THEREFORE, IF CITY COLLEGE CHOOSES TO DO 13 THIS, IT'S COMMITTING A VERY DEFINITE ACT OF SUICIDE WHICH 14 YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO DO BY ME. OKAY, SO IF YOU WANT 15 TO KILL YOURSELF, WAIT UNTIL I LEAVE AND DO THAT THEN. 16 THIS -- WE ARE TALKING ABOUT 32 HOURS PER PERSON 17 THAT YOU WON'T GET PAID FOR TO SAVE THE COLLEGE. IF YOU 18 ARE SAYING, I DON'T WANT TO SAVE THE COLLEGE, I'D RATHER 19 HOLD ON TO MY 32 HOURS, PLEASE REVIEW YOUR SANITY BECAUSE 20 YOU'VE GOT A PROBLEM IN TERMS OF THAT. THAT'S WHAT I AM 21 TELLING YOU. 22 I PERSONALLY WOULD GIVE MY ENTIRE SALARY TO SAVE 23 THE COLLEGE. IT IS NO PROBLEM WITH ME IN TERMS OF DOING 24 THAT, BUT YOU HAVE TO CHIP IN AS WELL. YOU HAVE TO SHOW 25 PEOPLE THAT IN THE MOST DIRE PERIOD OF CITY COLLEGE'S FEBRUARY 23, 2012 66 1 LIFE, YOU ARE WILLING TO MAKE A SACRIFICE. 2 NOW STUDENTS CAN COME -- I WAS STUDENT 3 HERE FOR -- I WASN'T A STUDENT, BUT I WAS A FACULTY HERE 4 FOR 27 YEARS. AND YOU KNOW AS WELL AS I DO THAT AS FAR AS 5 STUDENTS ARE CONCERNED, THEY LOVE TEACHERS. THEY LOVE 6 THEIR TEACHERS. AND THEY WANT THOSE TEACHERS TO BE 7 AROUND. OKAY? 8 WE WANT THOSE TEACHERS TO BE AROUND TOO. WE ARE 9 NOT TALKING ABOUT GETTING RID OF TEACHERS IF WE COULD STOP 10 DOING THAT. BUT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT FOR A SHORT-TERM 11 BASIS SOME OF THESE LOW ENROLLED CLASSES. 12 HOW MANY DO WE HAVE BY THE WAY? 13 I'VE SAID OVER AND OVER, WE CARRY MORE THAN 500 14 VERY SEVERELY LOW-ENROLLED CLASSES EVERY YEAR, MORE THAN 15 500 SECTIONS. OKAY? 16 WE DO IT. WE CARRY THOSE BECAUSE WE LOVE 17 STUDENTS, AND WE THINK IT IS GOOD TO CARRY THOSE SECTIONS. 18 NOW THE STATE SAYS, DON'T YOU DARE DO IT. 19 SEVERAL YEARS AGO WHEN THE STATE SAID TO US, CITY COLLEGE 20 IS GETTING $19.99 MILLION FOR ITS CATEGORICAL PROGRAMS, 21 CUT THEM BY 50 PERCENT. GUESS WHAT OUR RESPONSE WAS? 22 HELL NO. WE REFUSE TO CUT OUR CATEGORICAL 23 PROGRAMS. WE ARE JUST GOING TO CARRY THEM ANYWAY. THAT'S 24 WHAT THEY TOLD US. 25 THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME THAT OUR WORKLOAD FEBRUARY 23, 2012 67 1 REDUCTION HAS OCCURRED. THEY HAVE TOLD US BEFORE YOU NEED 2 TO REDUCE HOW MANY STUDENTS THAT YOU SEE. WE SAID, OKAY, 3 WE WILL JUST CARRY THE UNPAID -- WE WILL CARRY THE 4 UNFUNDED FTES. WE WILL ACTUALLY GO INTO THE HOLE TO KEEP 5 THIS THING OPEN AND WE DID. OKAY? 6 THAT'S A REALITY. WE HAVE STATISTICS ON ALL OF 7 THIS. SO TELL ME WHAT YOU REALLY WANT. DO YOU REALLY 8 WANT THE LEADERSHIP OF THE COLLEGE TO JUST SAY, CLOSE US 9 DOWN? 10 IF YOU WANT US TO CLOSE IT DOWN, THEN WE BETTER 11 REALLY REASSESS OURSELVES FOR 32 HOURS THAT WE ARE TALKING 12 ABOUT NOT CLOSING IT DOWN. 13 I WILL GUARANTEE YOU THAT IF THIS PROPOSAL, 14 WHICH I'VE SAID TO EVERYBODY AT THE COLLEGE IS ACCEPTED, 15 IT WILL GUARANTEE THAT WHEN WE HAVE OUR ACCREDITATION 16 VISIT, THERE WILL NOT BE THIS NOTION THAT THIS COLLEGE HAS 17 TO BE TURNED OVER TO SOMEONE ELSE. BUT IF WE DON'T DO 18 THIS, IT'S ALMOST GUARANTEED THAT IT WILL BE TURNED OVER 19 TO SOMEBODY ELSE TO RUN. 20 SO THAT'S MY REALITY. I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOURS 21 IS, SO THANK YOU. 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE GRIER. 23 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: THANK YOU. 24 I CAN'T SAY MUCH MORE THAN WHA WE WE'VE ALREADY 25 HEARD. BUT I JUST WANTED TO RECOGNIZE YOU AND SOMEHOW FEBRUARY 23, 2012 68 1 APOLOGIZE FOR THE LIMITED AMOUNT OF TIME THAT YOU HAD TO 2 SPEAK. THERE WERE SO MANY OF US WHO WANTED TO SPEAK 3 BECAUSE WE ARE IN CRISIS SITUATION. WE'VE BEEN IN CRISIS 4 SITUATIONS BEFORE AND EACH OF THE PEOPLE AT THIS TABLE 5 HAVE SPOKEN TO HOW WE SHOULD RESOLVE THIS PROBLEM OR THIS 6 CRISIS. 7 THE REALITY IS I JUST REALLY WANT YOU TO KNOW 8 THAT WE LISTENED TO YOU. THAT WE HEARD YOU. STARTING 9 WITH PETER GOLDSTEIN WHO TOLD US ABOUT WHAT THE MONEY 10 SITUATION WAS AND ALSO THE CHANCELLOR WHO JUST VERY 11 SPECIFICALLY TOLD US HOW WE CAN GET AROUND THIS NEXT BEND 12 THAT WE ARE FACING. 13 WHAT WAS ALSO IMPORTANT WAS THE INDIVIDUALS HERE 14 WHO CAME TO SPEAK, ESPECIALLY THE STUDENTS. YOU NEED TO 15 KNOW THAT WE HEARD YOU. WE ARE LISTENING TO YOU. AND YOU 16 MAY NOT BELIEVE IT, BUT WE'VE GOT SUGGESTIONS. WE'VE GOT 17 IDEAS. 18 WE ALSO GOT THREATS THAT WE WILL FOLLOW THROUGH 19 ON. AND THAT IS THAT WE KNOW THAT YOU ARE WATCHING US AND 20 THAT'S IMPORTANT. AND WE ALSO KNOW THAT YOU WILL COME OUT 21 AND YOU WILL TELL US WHAT YOU WANT US TO DO. YOU WILL 22 COMPLAIN ABOUT WHAT WE ARE DOING. BUT IT'S ALL A PART OF 23 THE COMMUNICATION PROCESS. IT'S ALL A PART OF BEING THE 24 FAMILY AT CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO. 25 AND SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, I WANT TO REALLY FEBRUARY 23, 2012 69 1 COMMEND SEIU 1021 BECAUSE THEY WERE LIKE THE FIRST ONES TO 2 STEP UP TO THE PLATE TO DO THEIR PART IN ORDER TO ADDRESS 3 THIS ISSUE WITH MONEY. AND THEN I ALSO WANT TO THANK THE 4 FACULTY WHO STOOD UP AND THE UNDER-REPRESENTED, THE 5 ADMINISTRATION, THE DCC, THE NON PERSONNEL PEOPLE, AND 6 ALSO THE BOARD WHO HAS TO STEP UP NOW AND BE A PART OF 7 THIS TO MAKE THIS A SOLUTION THAT WORKS. 8 AND WE LISTENED TO YOU WHEN YOU TALKED ABOUT THE 9 GED PROGRAMS. WE LISTENED TO YOU WHEN YOU TALKED ABOUT 10 THE TRAINING YOU NEED IN ORDER TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR 11 FAMILIES, AND THAT'S WHAT CITY COLLEGE IS ABOUT. AND WE 12 WILL GET BACK TO THE PLACE WHERE WE CAN DO WHAT WE NEED TO 13 DO IN ORDER TO BE SUCCESSFUL AND IN ORDER TO GET THE 14 EDUCATION THAT THIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE HAS ALWAYS BEEN 15 KNOWN TO PROVIDE. 16 SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT 17 I WILL SEE MOST OF YOU, MAYBE NOT ALL OF YOU, AT THE MARCH 18 IN MARCH IN SACRAMENTO. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE FANG. 20 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: YEAH, YOU KNOW WHAT, I AM 21 NOT TOO SMART, SO I AM JUST GOING TO SAY THIS. STUDENTS 22 ARE ANGRY. WE ARE ANGRY. WE ARE PISSED OFF. CLASSES 23 HAVE BEEN CUT. I KNOW. WE KNOW. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT'S NOT 24 RIGHT, MIDYEAR. THIS IS HAPPENING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 25 SCHOOL YEAR, OKAY. YOU HEARD IT TODAY. I AM JUST FEBRUARY 23, 2012 70 1 REPEATING WHAT THEY SAID. OKAY, IT'S NOT EVEN -- 2 YOU KNOW WHAT, THE WAY I ANALYZE THIS IS THE 3 PROBLEM IS FALSE HOPE. MISTAKES WERE MADE, YES. AND YOU 4 KNOW WHAT I AM GOING TO SAY, IT'S NOT ABOUT DENIAL, 5 SANITY, INSANITY, WHATEVER. IT IS ABOUT THE FACT THAT WE 6 ARE HERE NOW, ALL OF US. THE BOARD THE CONSTITUTE GROUP, 7 THE STUDENTS, WE ARE ALL HERE. WE NEED TO OWN UP TO THIS, 8 WHETHER WE WERE AT FAULT OR NOT, WHETHER WE HAD THE 9 SOLUTION OR NOT. WE NEED TO SOLVE THIS NOW BECAUSE IF WE 10 DON'T, IT'S NOT CRISIS. IT'S DOOM. 11 AND YOU KNOW WHAT, AS A STUDENT, I DON'T WANT 12 THAT TO HAPPEN. I WANT MY CLASSES. I WANT TO GET THROUGH 13 THIS PLACE. 14 SO HERE'S MY MESSAGE -- HERE'S WHAT I AM CALLING 15 OUT TO MY COLLEAGUES HERE AND EVERYONE HERE, WE ARE ANGRY, 16 YES, BUT LET'S FIND SOME WAY TO GET THROUGH THIS. LET'S 17 SOLVE THIS. YOU CAN LEAVE THE FINGER POINTING LATER 18 BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT, THAT'S THE EASIEST THING TO DO. I 19 KNOW HOW TO POINT FINGERS ALL THE TIME, OKAY, BUT DO THAT 20 LATER, SOLVE THE PROBLEM NOW. 21 AND YOU KNOW WHAT, WHILE WE ARE DOING THIS, NO 22 MORE MISTAKES. NO MORE MISTAKES. OKAY? 23 AND NO MORE OF THIS FALSE HOPE. IF WE PROMISE 24 SOMETHING, LET'S DELIVER IT. AND BEFORE WE EVEN PROMISE, 25 MAKE SURE WE CAN. MAKE SURE THERE'S THE RESOURCES FOR IT. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 71 1 I DON'T WANT TO BE SAYING -- HAVING TO SEE ANOTHER ROUND 2 OF STUDENTS HERE SAYING, WELL, WE AIN'T GOT CLASSES AND 3 THAT WAS OFFERED IN THE COURSE CATALOG, OH, WAIT, IT'S 4 CUT. WE HAVE NO MONEY NOW. 5 OKAY, WHETHER THEY ARE LOW ENROLLED OR NOT, THE 6 FACT IS WE ARE BEING IMPACTED. THE STUDENTS ARE BEING 7 IMPACTED AND THAT IS NOT OKAY. NO MORE MISTAKES. NO MORE 8 FALSE HOPE. 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEES, WE NOW HAVE FOUR 10 RESOLUTIONS THAT IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER ADDRESS THIS ISSUE, 11 SO WE CAN MOVE NOW TO THE POSITIVE OF WHAT WE ARE GOING TO 12 DO ABOUT THIS. 13 THE FIRST TWO ARE S7 AND S8. 14 COUNSEL, IF YOU COULD READ S7 FOR US. 15 COUNSEL DICKEY: YES, RESOLUTION S7 IS 16 "RECOMMEND ADOPTION OF MODIFIED TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF 17 EMPLOYMENT FOR ACADEMIC MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES FOR FISCAL 18 YEAR 2011-2012." 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: DO WE HAVE A MOTION FOR S7? 20 TRUSTEE BERG: MOVE S7. 21 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: SECOND. 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE BERG; 23 SECONDED BY TRUSTEE GRIER. 24 IS THERE DISCUSSION? 25 TRUSTEE MARKS. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 72 1 TRUSTEE MARKS: THIS IS TO THE CHANCELLOR. 2 WHAT IMPACT WOULD THESE FURLOUGH DAYS HAVE ON 3 THE STUDENTS? 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: COULD WE HAVE -- WE ARE HAVING 5 TROUBLE HEARING. COULD WE NOT HAVE ANY DISCUSSION IN THE 6 AUDIENCE. THANK YOU. 7 TRUSTEE MARKS: WHAT IMPACT WOULD THIS HAVE ON 8 STUDENTS? 9 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: IF FURLOUGHS ARE USED, THEY 10 WOULD BE USED DURING A PERIOD OF TIME WHEN THE COLLEGE 11 POSSIBLY WOULD BE CLOSED. 12 FOR EXAMPLE, THERE'S A PERIOD OF TIME THAT'S 13 BETWEEN MAY -- END OF MAY AND BEGINNING OF CLASSES AT THE 14 END OF JUNE. SO THERE'S A PERIOD THAT SOME OF THE 15 FURLOUGHS COULD BE USED. 16 THERE'S OTHER TIMES THAT PEOPLE INDIVIDUALLY 17 COULD TAKE A FURLOUGH DAY RELATIVE TO THEIR OWN SPECIFIC 18 CALENDAR SO THAT IT WOULD NOT ACTUALLY CLOSE DOWN A 19 PROGRAM OR AFFECT A WHOLE UNIT OF OPERATION. 20 SO SOMEONE, FOR EXAMPLE, IN ADMISSIONS AND 21 RECORDS MIGHT CHOOSE TO TAKE A FURLOUGH DAY ON JUNE 1ST. 22 ANOTHER PERSON MIGHT CHOOSE TO TAKE A FURLOUGH DAY ON -- 23 TWO WEEKS LATER. SO THE UNIT WILL STILL BE ABLE TO BE 24 FUNCTIONAL IN TERMS OF THIS PLAN. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: FURTHER DISCUSSION? FEBRUARY 23, 2012 73 1 IS THERE PUBLIC COMMENT? 2 I HAVE ONE CARD. TOM BOEGEL. 3 MR. BOEGEL: THANK YOU, CHANCELLOR AND BOARD OF 4 TRUSTEES. I AM TOM BOEGEL. I AM THE CO-CHAIR OF THE 5 ADMINISTRATORS ASSOCIATION. I AM HERE WITH KRISTIN 6 CHARLES, MY OTHER CO-CHAIR. AND WE ARE HERE TO SPEAK 7 ABOUT S7. 8 WE'VE MET AS AN ASSOCIATION. WE UNDERSTAND THE 9 GRAVITY OF THE SITUATION. THE FACT THAT THIS IS AN 10 UNPRECEDENTED AND NOT EXPECTED REDUCTION IN THE FUNDING TO 11 OUR COLLEGE. AND WE SUPPORT THE CHANCELLOR IN BATTLE IN 12 SAYING THE DISTRICT'S BUDGET THROUGH ADMINISTRATIVE 13 CONCESSIONS PROPORTIONAL TO OUR SHARE OF THE BUDGET. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: GREAT. THANK YOU. 15 MR. BOEGEL: THANK YOU. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WE APPRECIATE THAT. 17 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: THANK YOU. 18 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: THANK YOU. 19 TRUSTEE MARKS. 20 TRUSTEE MARKS: WOULD THESE FURLOUGH DAYS BE IN 21 ADDITION TO THE 6 PERCENT GIVEBACK OF SALARIES? 22 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: NO, THERE IS NO MOTION FOR 23 A 6 PERCENT GIVEBACK OF SALARIES. 24 TRUSTEE MARKS: OKAY, I AM CONFUSED. 25 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: THE FURLOUGH DAYS, AS FAR FEBRUARY 23, 2012 74 1 AS THE ADMINISTRATION IS CONCERNED, WOULD COVER THE AMOUNT 2 OF DOLLARS THAT WE ARE SEEKING TO GET FROM THE 3 ADMINISTRATION. SO THERE WOULD NOT BE AN ADDITIONAL 6 4 PERCENT. 5 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: 6 PERCENT WAS LAST YEAR. 6 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: LAST YEARS? DO YOU WANT TO 7 SPEAK TO THAT, PETER? 8 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: THE SALARY REDUCTION WHICH WAS 9 IN THE FORM OF FURLOUGH DAYS THAT YOU ARE REFERRING TO, 10 TRUSTEE MARKS, WAS LAST FISCAL YEAR AND ENDED JUNE 30TH, 11 2011. 12 IN THE CURRENT FISCAL YEAR, STARTING JULY 1, 13 THERE WERE NO FURLOUGH DAYS AND NO SALARY REDUCTIONS FOR 14 ANY DISTRICT EMPLOYEES. 15 TRUSTEE MARKS: THAT'S NOT WHAT I REMEMBER, BUT 16 I WILL BELIEVE YOU. 17 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: OKAY. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 19 FURTHER PUBLIC COMMENT? 20 FURTHER DISCUSSION ON THE BOARD? 21 STUDENT TRUSTEE, YOUR VOTE, PLEASE. 22 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 24 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 25 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: AYE. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 75 1 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 2 TRUSTEE MARKS: AYE. 3 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 5 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 7 S7 IS APPROVED. 8 COUNSEL, PLEASE, IF YOU COULD READ S8. 9 COUNSEL DICKEY: S8 IS ENTITLED, "RECOMMEND 10 ADOPTION OF MODIFIED TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT 11 FOR UNREPRESENTED CLASSIFIED MANAGEMENT, SUPERVISORY, AND 12 CONFIDENTIAL EMPLOYEES FOR FISCAL YEAR 2011-2012. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AND IS THERE A MOTION? 14 TRUSTEE WONG: SO MOVED. 15 TRUSTEE NGO: SECOND. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE WONG; 17 SECONDED BY TRUSTEE NGO. 18 THIS IS SIMILAR TO S7, AUTHORIZING FURLOUGH DAYS 19 IF NEEDED FOR OTHER EMPLOYEES. 20 IS THERE DISCUSSION? 21 IS THERE PUBLIC COMMENT ON S8? 22 OKAY, SEEING NONE, STUDENT TRUSTEE. 23 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 25 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 76 1 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: AYE. 2 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 3 TRUSTEE MARKS: AYE. 4 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 6 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 8 S8 IS CARRIED. 9 THE NEXT ITEM LET'S TAKE UP S5. 10 COUNSEL. 11 COUNSEL DICKEY: S5 IS ENTITLED, "ADOPT THE 12 RECOMMENDATION OF THE SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY COLLEGE 13 DISTRICT PARCEL TAX COMMITTEE THAT THE DISTRICT PLACE A 14 BALLOT MEASURE ON THE NOVEMBER 2012 BALLOT SEEKING TO 15 IMPOSE A FLAT-RATE PARCEL TAX OF $74 PER PARCEL, FOR THE 16 PERIOD OF 2012-2019; CONSIDER WHETHER THE PARCEL TAX 17 SHOULD INCLUDE AN EXEMPTION FOR SENIORS; AND DIRECT 18 PREPARATION OF THE BALLOT TAX MEASURE FOR BOARD APPROVAL 19 AT THE BOARD'S APRIL 26, 2012 MEETING." 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 21 SO THIS IS THE PARCEL TAX. THIS IS ONE MEASURE 22 THAT WE ARE GOING TO ASK THE VOTERS TO DO. IT WON'T 23 EFFECT THIS YEAR'S BUDGET. IT WON'T EFFECT THE FALL 24 BUDGET EITHER. 25 THERE WAS A COMMITTEE THAT THE BOARD CREATED BY FEBRUARY 23, 2012 77 1 RESOLUTION AT THE END OF LAST YEAR. AND IT TASKED THE 2 COMMITTEE TO DO SEVERAL THINGS. BASICALLY TO MAKE THE 3 RECOMMENDATION THAT ARE IN THIS RESOLUTION S5. AND IT -- 4 THE COMMITTEE LOOKED AT THE LAST PARCEL TAX POLL THAT THE 5 DISTRICT UNDERTOOK. AND WE HAD DISCUSSIONS WITH COUNSEL 6 AS TO WHAT TYPES OF TAXES ARE PERMITTED OR WOULD NOT BE 7 PERMITTED AND THE COMMITTEE CAME UP WITH THIS, 8 RECOMMENDING THAT WE PUT ON THE BALLOT, IN APRIL IS THE 9 TIME FRAME, A $74 TAX PER YEAR THAT WOULD RAISE 10 $14 MILLION PER YEAR FOR CITY COLLEGE FOR A PERIOD OF 11 SEVEN YEARS. SO IT'S NOT A PERMANENT TAX. IT'S A 12 SEVEN-YEAR TAX. 13 I WILL POINT OUT THAT THIS $14 MILLION PARCEL 14 TAX DOES NOT COVER THE CUT THAT WE GOT THIS YEAR. SO JUST 15 TO PUT THAT IN PERSPECTIVE. THIS DOES NOT SOLVE ALL OUR 16 PROBLEMS, BUT IT WAS THE AMOUNT THAT WE AND THE COMMITTEE 17 THOUGHT WAS AN APPROPRIATE AMOUNT FOR THIS TYPE OF TAX. 18 SO THAT'S -- THAT'S MY EXPLANATION. 19 ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? 20 STUDENT TRUSTEE. 21 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: YEAH, SO MY COMMENT IS 22 THIS, IS THAT WE NEED THIS NOW MORE THAN EVER. AND I WANT 23 TO REALLY SAY, I TOLD YOU SO. I GUESS I JUST DID. 24 BUT THIS NOTION, A PARCEL TAX, HAS BEEN DEBATED. 25 IT'S BEEN KICKED AROUND IN THIS COLLEGE FOR A WHILE NOW. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 78 1 IN THE PUBLIC MEETING HERE, I'VE SAID QUITE A FEW TIMES 2 THAT WE SHOULD GO FOR IT. NOW WE NEED IT. IT'S NOT EVEN 3 A QUESTION. WE HAVE TO HAVE THIS, AND THAT DOESN'T EVEN 4 COVER MOST OF OUR PROBLEMS. BUT WE HAVE TO DO THIS. 5 SO WHAT I AM SAYING IS -- WE HAVE -- I WOULD SAY 6 I DEFINITELY WOULD VOTE "YES" FOR THIS, BUT WHEN IT COMES 7 DOWN TO ACTUALLY HELPING OUT AND TRYING TO GET THIS 8 THROUGH, I EXPECT EVERYONE OF YOU HERE IN THIS ROOM TO 9 PITCH IN BECAUSE I AM GOING TO DO MY SHARE. THAT'S ALL. 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 11 TRUSTEE JACKSON. 12 TRUSTEE JACKSON: HI, AND I KNOW THIS IS A VOTE 13 TO YOU KNOW JUST -- NOW YOU GUYS OFFICIALLY KNOW I HAVE A 14 BAD VOICE. 15 SO I UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS A VOTE NOT TO 16 FORMALLY PLACE THIS ON THE BALLOT BUT TO -- THIS IS A STEP 17 IN THE TIMELINE PROCESS. 18 ONE THING I WOULD LIKE TO PUT WITHIN THE PROCESS 19 WHEN I COMMENT ON THIS IS I UNDERSTAND THAT, YOU KNOW, THE 20 LAST PARCEL TAX -- THE LAST FLAT TAX THAT WE HAD, THE 21 SALES TAX WENT DOWN AND IT WENT DOWN FAIRLY BAD. I THINK, 22 YOU KNOW, THIS IS A GOOD MEASURE. LIKE STUDENT TRUSTEE 23 SAID, THIS IS A MEASURE THAT'S MUCH NEEDED. 24 I THINK THAT WE SHOULD WITHIN THE TIMELINE TRY 25 TO DO AT LEAST ONE OR TWO COMMUNITY MEETINGS MAYBE AT FEBRUARY 23, 2012 79 1 MISSION CAMPUS AND JOHN ADAMS CAMPUS OR YOU PICK A CAMPUS, 2 BUT WE SHOULD KIND OF REACH OUT TO THE COMMUNITY, HAVE 3 THEM COME IN AND TALK ABOUT THE IMPACTS OF CITY COLLEGE SO 4 THE COMMUNITY AND, YOU KNOW, CAN ACTUALLY OWN THIS PARCEL 5 TAX. SO IT'S NOT JUST A CITY COLLEGE PARCEL TAX, IT'S 6 EVERYONE'S PARCEL TAX TO SUPPORT THIS. 7 AND SO I WOULD JUST SAY WITHIN THE TIMELINE, IF 8 WE CAN ADD IN MAYBE TWO COMMUNITY MEETINGS THAT ARE 9 OUTSIDE THE BOARD STRUCTURE JUST TO TALK TO PEOPLE ABOUT 10 IT, GET THEIR INPUT ABOUT THIS, AND WHAT THEY FEEL, YOU 11 KNOW, WE SHOULD DO WITH THIS MONEY. I THINK IT WILL GO A 12 LONG WAYS IN MAKING PEOPLE FEEL REALLY INVESTED IN THIS 13 PARCEL TAX. 14 SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S JUST MY TWO CENTS IN TERMS 15 OF ADDING SOMETHING TO THE TIMELINE, BUT I DEFINITELY 16 SUPPORT THIS PARCEL TAX. AND I, YOU KNOW, I DEFINITELY 17 WILL DO MY SHARE TO SEE IT PASS. THANK YOU. 18 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: DR. BERG. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: DR. BERG. 20 THANK YOU. 21 TRUSTEE BERG: YES, I ACTUALLY WOULD LIKE TO 22 AMEND THIS PARCEL TAX. AND I WANT TO AMEND IT BY 23 INCLUDING SENIORS -- EXCLUDING SENIORS FROM THE PARCEL 24 TAX. 25 AND THE REASON I AM DOING THAT IS THAT IT HAS FEBRUARY 23, 2012 80 1 BEEN MY EXPERIENCE WITH A LOT OF POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS THAT 2 SENIORS ARE VERY VIABLE AND VERY -- VOTERS WHO SHOW UP. 3 THEY ARE VERY RELIABLE. THEY DO VOTE. THAT'S THE ONE 4 THING THAT SENIORS DO. 5 AND SAN FRANCISCO IS VERY EXPENSIVE, AMONG OTHER 6 THINGS, BUT IT'S A VERY EXPENSIVE CITY. AND IF YOU ARE A 7 HOMEOWNER IN SAN FRANCISCO, THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE THAT THE 8 MAJORITY OF THE HOMEOWNERS ARE SENIORS. AND IT'S VERY -- 9 IT'S MUCH MORE PALATABLE TO GET THEIR VOTES IF WE SAY THAT 10 WE EXCLUDE THE SENIORS. THE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT 11 EXCLUDED SENIORS, AND I THINK THAT THE LAST TIME THAT WE 12 DID THIS, WE EXCLUDED SENIORS I BELIEF. 13 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: WE DID. 14 TRUSTEE BERG: SO I THINK IT JUST MAKES THE VOTE 15 MORE VIABLE, SO I WOULD LIKE TO AMEND. I WOULD LIKE TO 16 OFFER AN AMENDMENT TO THIS RESOLUTION SAYING THAT SENIORS 17 WILL BE EXCLUDED FROM THE PARCEL TAX AND PUT THAT ON THE 18 PARCEL TAX RESOLUTION. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE BERG, I TOTALLY AGREE, 20 BUT I BELIEVE THE WAY IT'S WRITTEN HERE THAT IT DOESN'T 21 REQUIRE AN AMENDMENT. IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S WRITTEN IN HERE. 22 TRUSTEE BERG: OH, OKAY. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THE SECOND RESOLVED CLAUSE 24 SAYS, "THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES DETERMINES THAT THE 25 PROPOSED PARCEL TAX SHALL INCLUDE AN EXEMPTION FOR FEBRUARY 23, 2012 81 1 SENIORS." 2 TRUSTEE BERG: OKAY. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: BECAUSE I KNOW YOU AND I HAD A 4 DISCUSSION -- 5 TRUSTEE BERG: YES. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: -- EARLIER. 7 TRUSTEE BERG: YES, WE DID. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: BUT IF TURNS OUT THAT -- 9 TRUSTEE BERG: OKAY. GREAT. THAT'S FINE. 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IT IS NOT NEEDED. 11 TRUSTEE BERG: THEN I JUST -- OKAY, ALL I AM 12 DOING THEN IS SPEAKING IN FAVOR OF IT. THAT'S FINE. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE GRIER. 14 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: THANK YOU, PRESIDENT 15 RIZZO. 16 I WANTED TO JUST ADD ON TO WHAT TRUSTEE JACKSON 17 WAS SAYING ABOUT HAVING TWO ADDITIONAL MEETINGS EVEN 18 THOUGH IT WASN'T REQUIRED AS PART OF THE PARCEL TAX. IN 19 DOING THE BOND MEASURE, I KNOW THAT THERE ARE COMMUNITIES 20 THAT DON'T NECESSARILY COME TO OUR BOARD MEETINGS OR EVEN 21 WHEN WE HAVE COMMUNITY MEETINGS. SO I THINK WE NEED TO 22 SEEK THAT POPULATION OUT, AND WE KNOW WHO THEY ARE, AND GO 23 TO THAT COMMUNITY OR THOSE COMMUNITIES AND PRESENT THE 24 PARCEL TAX AND EXPLAIN IT AND ASK FOR THE COMMUNITY'S HELP 25 IN THIS PROCESS. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 82 1 SO IN ADDITION TO THE TWO MEETINGS, ADDITIONAL 2 MEETING -- I DON'T KNOW IS THIS AN AMENDMENT? 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IF YOU WOULD LIKE. 4 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: AN AMENDMENT TO ADD A 5 MEETING OR TWO IN OTHER NEGLECTED AREAS OF THE CITY. 6 TRUSTEE JACKSON: I ACCEPT IT. 7 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: THANK YOU. 8 TRUSTEE NGO: BUT THE LANGUAGE OF THIS AMENDMENT 9 IS -- 10 COUNSEL DICKEY: I DON'T THINK IT IS NECESSARY 11 TO DO THAT AS AN AMENDMENT. 12 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: OKAY, I DIDN'T KNOW. 13 COUNSEL DICKEY: MOVE TO DIRECT THAT THERE BE 14 COMMUNITY MEETINGS INCORPORATED IN THE TIMELINE AS A 15 SEPARATE MOTION FOR THE ULTIMATE RESOLUTION HERE. 16 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: OKAY. 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE WONG. 18 TRUSTEE WONG: THIS IS BASICALLY A RESOLUTION 19 JUST TO MOVE THE PROCESS FORWARD. I UNDERSTAND THAT. AND 20 THAT IN APRIL WE WILL THEN VOTE ON THE LANGUAGE OF THE 21 BALLOT MEASURE. 22 NOW IF WE CONTINUE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS, 23 THIS WILL BE THE FOURTH REVENUE ENHANCING CAMPAIGN THAT I 24 WOULD HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN. AS AGAIN, IN MY 18 YEARS, I 25 HAVE BEEN ON THE COMMITTEE FOR THE LAST THREE BOND FEBRUARY 23, 2012 83 1 MEASURES FOR CITY COLLEGE. 2 AND WHAT'S KEY IS EDUCATING THE VOTERS ABOUT THE 3 NEED FOR THIS PARCEL TAX, WHICH TRANSLATES INTO RAISING 4 CAMPAIGN FUNDS AND THAT'S THE DIFFICULT PART. SO KEEP 5 THAT IN MIND. AND THAT ONCE WE MOVE FORWARD, THAT WE DO 6 NEED THE COMMITMENT FROM EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU BEYOND 7 LIP SERVICE. AND THAT'S THE REALITY, AND THAT'S FROM MY 8 EXPERIENCE. THANK YOU. 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: FURTHER COMMENT? 10 TRUSTEE NGO. 11 TRUSTEE NGO: I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TOO THAT 12 AS WE OR BEFORE WE ADOPT ANY LANGUAGE -- 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: EXCUSE ME, TRUSTEE. 14 CAN WE NOT HAVE CONVERSATIONS, THANK YOU. 15 TRUSTEE NGO: IT'S OKAY. 16 I THINK BEFORE WE -- THE BOARD FORMALLY ADOPTS 17 BALLOT MEASURE LANGUAGE FOR THIS PARCEL TAX THAT THERE BE 18 A VERY THOROUGH AND VIGOROUS DEBATE NOT JUST IN 19 COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT THE CITY, BUT AMONG THE BOARD AS 20 DULY ELECTED MEMBERS OF THE BOARD ABOUT WHERE AND HOW THAT 21 MONEY IS SPENT. IT IS A LOT OF MONEY OVER THE NEXT "X" 22 AMOUNT OF YEARS. AND I THINK IT WOULD REASSURE THE 23 PUBLIC. IT'S CONSISTENT WITH OUR FIDUCIARY DUTY TO HAVE 24 THAT DISCUSSION AND DETERMINE EXACTLY HOW THAT MONEY IS 25 GOING TO BE SPENT. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 84 1 AND I WOULD URGE OUR COLLEAGUES TO KEEP THOSE 2 PRIORITIES IN MIND FOR THAT DISCUSSION THAT WE'LL 3 ULTIMATELY HAVE. THANK YOU. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE MARKS. 5 TRUSTEE MARKS: THERE IS NO BOX THAT'S CHECKED 6 NEXT TO THE "YES" AND "NO" BOX CHECKED BY THE "NO" UNDER 7 "SHARED GOVERNANCE REVIEW," SO WHICH IS IT, "YES" OR "NO" 8 BECAUSE A "NO" WOULD INDICATE THAT A REVIEW IS NOT 9 NECESSARY. 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: DOES SOMEONE -- DOES ANYONE 11 KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT? 12 TRUSTEE MARKS: THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I PUT ON 13 THE RESOLUTIONS WHEN PHIL DAY WAS HERE, SO IT HAS TO BE 14 DONE. 15 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: IT DID GO THROUGH. I 16 RECALL THE COLLEGE ADVISORY COUNCIL IS WHERE IT WENT, SO 17 THERE SHOULD BE A CHECKOFF. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IT SHOULD BE A "YES." 19 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: IT SHOULD BE A "YES," I'M 20 SORRY. IT SHOULD BE A "YES." 21 TRUSTEE MARKS: OKAY, THANK YOU. 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 23 TRUSTEE MARKS: WHAT WAS THE DATE? 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 25 TRUSTEE MARKS: NO, NO. WHAT WAS THE DATE? FEBRUARY 23, 2012 85 1 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: I CAN GET THE DATE, BUT I 2 DON'T HAVE IT WITH ME. 3 COUNSEL DICKEY: I CAN'T RECALL IT RIGHT NOW. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, IS THERE FURTHER 5 COMMENT? 6 IS THERE PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS? 7 OKAY, SEEING NONE, I GUESS WE WILL TAKE THE 8 VOTE. 9 STUDENT TRUSTEE. 10 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 12 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 13 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: AYE. 14 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 15 TRUSTEE MARKS: AYE. 16 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 18 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 20 OKAY, THE MOTION CARRIES. WE WILL MOVE THE 21 PROCESS FORWARD AND BE VOTING TO PUT A PARCEL TAX ON THE 22 BALLOT ON APRIL 26TH. 23 AND THERE'S ONE MORE ITEM RELATED TO THIS BUDGET 24 CRISIS ISSUE, AND THAT IS S3. 25 COUNSEL. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 86 1 COUNSEL DICKEY: S3 IS ENTITLED, "RESOLUTION IN 2 SUPPORT OF MARCH IN MARCH ON MARCH 5TH, 2012 TO 3 SACRAMENTO." 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: S3 IS ABOUT THE PROTEST MARCH 5 IN SACRAMENTO THAT SEVERAL PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY URGED, 6 INCLUDING MYSELF, THAT WE ALL ATTEND. I WILL BE THERE. 7 TRUSTEE JACKSON. 8 TRUSTEE JACKSON: I WANTED TO, YOU KNOW, BRING 9 BACK MS. INGRID WYNN'S COMMENTS. I AM ACTUALLY NOT A 10 STRANGER TO THESE COMMENTS. 11 TRUSTEE MARKS: IT'S NOT MOVED AND SECONDED. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, I'M SORRY. I'M SORRY. 13 IS THERE A MOTION? 14 TRUSTEE MARKS: I WILL MOVE IT. 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE MARKS. 16 IS THERE A SECOND? 17 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: SECOND. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE GRIER. 19 I'M SORRY. 20 SPEAKER UNKNOWN: (INAUDIBLE). 21 TRUSTEE JACKSON: THAT'S FINE. 22 I AM VERY SENSITIVE TO THE NEED TO BE IN 23 SACRAMENTO ESPECIALLY, YOU KNOW, IN THIS UNPRECEDENTED 24 TIME TO REALLY GIVE A SHOW OF STRENGTH. 25 BUT I KNOW SEVERAL STUDENT LEADERS HAVE KIND OF FEBRUARY 23, 2012 87 1 QUESTIONED THE NEED TO MARCH IN MARCH, AND SO I JUST KIND 2 OF WANTED TO YOU KNOW -- YOU KNOW, I JUST WANTED TO JUST 3 ASK THE QUESTION, YOU KNOW, IS THERE STUDENT MONEY BEING 4 USED TO PAY FOR THE BUSES? HOW MUCH OF IT IS BEING USED? 5 HAS THIS MEASURE BEEN VOTED ON BY THE STUDENTS ALREADY? 6 WHAT WERE THE DESCENTING COMMENTS? 7 I JUST KIND OF WANT TO KNOW THE THOUGHT PROCESS 8 BECAUSE THIS IS NOT THE FIRST YEAR THAT HAS BEEN 9 QUESTIONED. AND I KIND OF -- I JUST WANT TO KIND OF 10 UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S GOING ON. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG, DO YOU 12 KNOW THE ANSWERS? 13 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: YES. I WILL ATTEMPT TO 14 ANSWER THE QUESTION. I HOPE I WILL BE ABLE TO SATISFY 15 YOUR QUESTION ON THAT ONE. 16 SO MARCH IN MARCH HAS BEEN QUESTIONED. IT HAS 17 BEEN QUESTIONED EVERY YEAR FOR AT LEAST THREE THAT I KNOW 18 OF, PROBABLY LONGER. AND WHAT IT REALLY COMES DOWN TO IS 19 IT'S THE PROCESS AND THE ORGANIZING, AND THAT'S REALLY 20 WHERE ALL THE PROBLEMS IS AT. NOT WHETHER WE WANT TO GO 21 OR WE DON'T LIKE IT OR WE LIKE IT OR NOT. 22 THE FACT IS, YOU KNOW, WE ALL NEED TO ASK 23 OURSELVES, IF NOT MARCH IN MARCH, THEN WHAT? WHAT'S THE 24 ALTERNATIVE? 25 YES, I -- YOU KNOW WHAT, I WILL BE HERE TO SAY FEBRUARY 23, 2012 88 1 IT TO YOU, ALL OF YOU, RIGHT NOW. MY PERSONAL OPINION IS 2 MARCH IN MARCH HAS NOT EFFECTIVE AS IT HAS BEEN. 3 IF THERE IS AN ACTUAL VIABLE ALTERNATIVE, LET'S 4 DO THAT. BUT THERE ISN'T. IT WASN'T THERE LAST YEAR. IT 5 WASN'T THERE THIS YEAR. AND I WILL TELL YOU ABOUT THIS 6 YEAR. I KNOW THE SAME QUESTION EXISTS WHETHER STUDENT 7 MONEY HAS BEEN USED OR WHATNOT, OR WHETHER THE STUDENTS 8 VOTED ON IT. 9 I WILL TELL YOU WHAT HAPPENED. SO THIS YEAR, 10 PARTICULARLY AS A RESULT OF LAST YEAR BEING SENSITIVE TO 11 THE STUDENTS CONCERN, I DID NOT PUSH FOR MARCH IN MARCH. 12 THE EXECUTIVE BOARD REALLY DIDN'T PICK THAT UP TOO MUCH. 13 IT WASN'T UNTIL A MONTH AND A HALF AGO CAMPUSES, CAMPUS 14 COUNCIL, MULTIPLES OF THEM STARTED SAYING WE WANT TO DO 15 THIS. WE WANT TO DO THIS. WHERE IS THE ORGANIZING? 16 SO NOW I AM SCRAMBLING TRYING TO FIND MONEY FOR 17 IT, SO IT ENDED UP BEING THE CASE MAYBE EACH OF THE 18 COUNCIL NEEDS TO DETERMINE HOW MUCH MONEY THEY CAN AFFORD 19 TO BUY THEIR OWN BUSES BECAUSE NOBODY WANTED TO DO IT FOR 20 THE LONGEST TIME, SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THIS FISCAL YEAR 21 AND NOW THEY WANT IT. AND WE DIDN'T PREPARE FOR THE 22 MONEY. 23 SO, YEAH, SOME STUDENT MONEY HAS BEEN USED, BUT 24 IT'S DETERMINED BY THE STUDENT LEADERS THEMSELVES. THEY 25 MADE THEIR -- THEY HAD THEIR MEETING. THEY TALKED ABOUT FEBRUARY 23, 2012 89 1 IT. NOBODY IS FORCING THEM. OKAY? 2 AND IF THERE WERE ALTERNATIVES, LET'S DO IT. 3 BUT THIS YEAR, UCSA IS ON THE MARCH IN MARCH. CSSA IS ON 4 MARCH IN MARCH. THEY ARE EVEN UNIONS ALL IN MARCH IN 5 MARCH. WE WANT TO MARCH BECAUSE -- NOT BECAUSE IT'S THE 6 BEST MOVE POSSIBLE, BUT BECAUSE IT IS A NECESSARY TOOL. 7 IT'S NOT ABOUT WHETHER IT LOOKS GOOD TO SPEND 8 MONEY. WE DON'T HAVE MONEY, BUT WE SPEND MONEY TO GO UP 9 THERE FOR MARCH IN MARCH. IT'S THE FACT THAT IF NOT 10 THERE, WHERE? 11 YOU WANT TO GO TO CITY HALL? CITY HALL IS NOT 12 GOING TO GIVE US THE MONEY. THEY ARE NOT GOING TO GIVE US 13 THE "X" MILLION DOLLARS THAT WE ARE MISSING. THEY DON'T 14 HAVE THE MONEY EITHER. 15 OUR APPORTIONMENT COMES FROM THE STATE. THE 16 PROBLEM IS IN SACRAMENTO, WELL, LET'S START THE FIGHT 17 THERE. LET'S KEEP UP THE FIGHT EVERYWHERE STARTING WITH 18 MARCH IN MARCH. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY WHEN 20 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG TALKS ABOUT MONEY, THIS IS NOT 21 DISTRICT MONEY. THE DISTRICT DOES NOT SPEND ANY MONEY ON 22 THE MARCH. THIS IS THE STUDENTS OWN MONEY AND THE UNIONS 23 OWN MONEY. 24 I THINK ONE DIFFERENCE THIS YEAR IS THE OCCUPY 25 MOVEMENT THAT I THINK CHANGES THIS YEAR'S MARCH. THAT'S FEBRUARY 23, 2012 90 1 ONE THING THAT HAS HAPPENED SINCE THE LAST MARCH. AND I 2 THINK THERE'S A LOT OF -- THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE 3 ENERGIZED NOW THAT WERE NOT ENERGIZED A YEAR AGO. 4 ENERGIZED BY THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT. AND INSPIRED BY THE 5 OCCUPY MOVEMENT. WE HAVE AN OCCUPY CCSF HERE AT CITY 6 COLLEGE THAT ARE ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT THIS MARCH. 7 SO I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE DIFFERENT THIS YEAR. 8 I THINK THERE'S TO BE, YOU KNOW, A MORE POSITIVE, NOT THAT 9 IT WASN'T POSITIVE, BUT A MORE -- YOU KNOW, JUST MORE 10 ENERGY. 11 AND I AM VERY HOPEFUL THAT THIS YEAR'S MARCH 12 WILL HAVE AN EFFECT ON THE PEOPLE IN SACRAMENTO, THE 13 GOVERNOR AND THE LEGISLATURE. 14 TRUSTEE NGO. 15 TRUSTEE NGO: SO I THINK WE STATED ON THE RECORD 16 THAT THERE WILL BE NO DISTRICT FUNDS USED -- 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THAT'S RIGHT. 18 TRUSTEE NGO: -- FOR THE MARCH IN MARCH; IS THAT 19 CORRECT? 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THAT'S RIGHT. 21 TRUSTEE NGO: DOES THAT INCLUDE OUR GOVERNMENTAL 22 RELATIONS OFFICE TIME OR NOT? 23 I ASK THAT BECAUSE I DO THINK THERE IS AN 24 ALTERNATIVE. THERE'S BEEN AN ALTERNATIVE FOR YEARS. THE 25 CRITIQUE HAS BEEN RAISED BY THE BOARD FOR YEARS BECAUSE FEBRUARY 23, 2012 91 1 THERE HAS BEEN ALTERNATIVES. AND EVERY YEAR IT'S LIKE 2 SISYPHUS. I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY WE CONTINUE TO TRY TO 3 PUSH THIS ROCK UP ON THAT HILL WHEN EVERY YEAR WE KNOW 4 THAT THERE IS NO MONEY COMING OUT OF SACRAMENTO. DENIAL. 5 OKAY? IT'S A FACT. 6 PETER GOLDSTEIN, NO ONE IN THE FINANCE SHOP HAS 7 TOLD US THERE ACTUALLY IS A POSSIBILITY FROM SACRAMENTO 8 WITHOUT REVENUE MEASURES, OKAY, THAT THERE WILL BE REVENUE 9 COMING TO US. 10 HAS ANYONE HEARD THAT TONIGHT? ANYONE? HAS 11 ANYONE HEARD THAT IF WE JUST LOBBY MORE, THEY ARE GOING TO 12 MAGICALLY FIND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR THIS DISTRICT AND 13 THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM? 14 I DON'T THINK ANYONE HAS HEARD THAT. I AM 15 TRYING TO NOT CREATE A THEME TONIGHT, BUT I DON'T 16 UNDERSTAND -- THIS IS OUR THIRD YEAR -- THIS IS THE THIRD 17 YEAR THIS HAS BEEN BEFORE THE BOARD. I VOTED FOR IT THE 18 PAST TWO YEARS WITH THE SAME KIND OF CAVEAT AND URGING OF 19 STUDENT LEADERSHIP AND OUR GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS OFFICE 20 TO CONSIDER. 21 THERE IS NO MONEY IN SACRAMENTO. WE'VE KNOWN 22 THAT FOR YEARS. YET WE SPEND OUR TIME LOBBYING 23 SACRAMENTO. 24 SOME OF US MAY NOT HAVE BEEN PAYING ATTENTION TO 25 THE NEWS OR IN FACT TO OUR AGENDA TONIGHT BECAUSE WE DO FEBRUARY 23, 2012 92 1 HAVE A PARCEL TAX MEASURE THAT WE ARE WORKING ON. THAT'S 2 LOCAL MONEY. SO, YES, I ACTUALLY DO THINK CITY HALL IS 3 VALUABLE. THAT TIME IS VALUABLE BECAUSE THERE IS POSSIBLY 4 MONEY THERE. 5 AND WHOEVER FOLLOWS FEDERAL POLITICS, HOPEFULLY 6 OUR GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS OFFICE DOES, THERE'S $8 BILLION 7 THAT THE PRESIDENT PROPOSED FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGES. 8 THEY CAN ACTUALLY GO INTO DEBT TO SPEND MONEY. 9 THE STATE CANNOT. WE CAN DEBT FINANCE AT THE FEDERAL 10 LEVEL. WE CANNOT DO THAT AT THE STATE LEVEL. OKAY? 11 SO WE MAY RECALL -- SOME OF US MAY RECALL THAT 12 IN 2009, IT WAS THE FEDERAL STIMULUS DOLLARS THAT SAVED A 13 LOT OF THE COUNSELING CATEGORICAL FUNDS, THE HOURS THAT WE 14 ARE GOING TO SPEND ON COUNSELORS THAT WE WOULD HAVE HAD TO 15 NOT SPEND IF BUT FOR THE STIMULUS DOLLARS. THAT'S FEDERAL 16 MONEY. WE'VE KNOWN THAT FOR YEARS. 17 AND YET, THIS IS BEFORE US AGAIN. AND I DON'T 18 THINK IT'S RIGHT TO QUESTION WHY IT'S BEFORE US. WE'VE 19 HAD TRUSTEE GRIER GO OUT TO DC, BUT LET'S MAKE VALUE OUT 20 OF HER TRIPS TO DC. 21 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: A REPORT IS DONE. 22 TRUSTEE NGO: I UNDERSTAND. 23 SO IS THERE A COHERENT STRATEGY AROUND OUR 24 LOBBYING FOR FUNDING AT ALL? AND WHO IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE 25 THAT STRATEGY? ARE WE SENDING OUR KIDS OUT TO ESSENTIALLY FEBRUARY 23, 2012 93 1 BE DISAPPOINTED AGAIN? 2 THIS IS A WASTE OF RESOURCES. IT'S A WASTE OF 3 TIME. RIGHT BEFORE US TONIGHT, WE HAVE A PARCEL TAX 4 MEASURE WE JUST ADOPTED AND PRACTICED IN THEORY. AND WE 5 ARE GOING TO SACRAMENTO? 6 WE ALREADY KNOW WE ARE GOING FOR A PARCEL TAX 7 THIS FALL. WE SHOULD BE IN CITY HALL. WHERE HAVE OUR 8 EFFORTS BEEN IN CITY HALL FOR THE PAST TEN YEARS? 9 I DON'T KNOW OF ANY REPORT BACK ABOUT OUR 10 FEDERAL LAW BEING EFFORTS. THEY HAVE MONEY THERE, 11 BILLIONS OF DOLLARS. IT'S CALLED COMMUNITY COLLEGE TO 12 TRAINING -- IT'S A WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. THEY 13 ALSO HAVE THIS FIRST IN THE WORLD INITIATIVE THAT'S BEEN 14 THERE FOR YEARS. THAT'S BEEN PROPOSED BY PRESIDENT OBAMA 15 FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS. IT'S BEEN KILLED IN CONGRESS. 16 THEY HAVE PELL GRANTS THAT WERE EXPANDED UNDER THE 17 STIMULUS PROGRAM. THEY HAVE MONEY THAT THEY CAN ACTUALLY 18 SPEND ON STUDENTS. 19 SO UNFORTUNATELY, I STILL THINK SOME OF US ARE 20 IN DENIAL ABOUT THIS. AND I UNDERSTAND THE OCCUPY 21 MOVEMENT MAY FIND SOME RALLYING CRY AT THE MARCH IN MARCH 22 THIS YEAR AND I APPRECIATE THAT. AND I ENCOURAGE EVERYONE 23 TO GO TO THE MARCH IN MARCH STILL. 24 BUT MY CRITIQUE IS -- MY CRITIQUE IS ON WHETHER 25 OUR INSTITUTION HAS A COHERENT STRATEGY UTILIZING OUR MOST FEBRUARY 23, 2012 94 1 COMPELLING RESOURCE, OUR STUDENTS, IN THE MOST EFFECTIVE 2 AND USEFUL ENDEAVOR. AND I DON'T THINK THAT'S HAPPENING. 3 IT HASN'T BEEN HAPPENING FOR YEARS DESPITE OUR CRITIQUES. 4 I AM NOT GOING TO VOTE FOR THIS THIS TIME 5 BECAUSE I WANT IT TO BE CLEAR THAT I DON'T WANT THE 6 ADMINISTRATION DEALING WITH SACRAMENTO ON THIS LEVEL. WE 7 SHOULD BE FOCUSED ON THE LOCAL LEVEL AND THE FEDERAL 8 LEVEL. I DON'T WANT ANY RESOURCES OR ANY OF STAFF OR 9 ADMINISTRATOR TIME SPENT ON THIS UNICORN. IT'S A FANTASY 10 THAT WE CAN SOMEHOW LOBBY OUR WAY TO GET MORE MONEY FROM 11 SACRAMENTO. IT'S NOT TRUE. 12 I WOULD RATHER HAVE YOU GO SPEND IT LOBBYING FOR 13 THE MILLIONAIRES' TAX OR THE OIL TAX EXTRACTION. BUT 14 SOMEHOW WE ARE GOING TO FIND MONEY OUT OF EXISTING FUNDS 15 IN SACRAMENTO. NOT TRUE. NOT TRUE FOR YEARS. THAT'S MY 16 ALTERNATIVE STRATEGY. THAT'S MY APPROACH. LET'S ACTUALLY 17 RALLY AROUND INSTITUTIONS AND POLITICAL BODIES THAT HAVE 18 MONEY THAT WE CAN GET. THANK YOU. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE JACKSON. 20 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AND, YOU KNOW, I ASKED THIS 21 QUESTION, YOU KNOW, AND I WANT TO SAY FIRST OFF I 22 APPRECIATE, YOU KNOW, THE MISSING STUDENTS PROJECT. I 23 APPRECIATE WHAT WE HAVE BEEN DOING. 24 YOU KNOW, I JUST CAN'T GET OVER THE FACT THAT SF 25 UNIFIED GETS AROUND $48 MILLION ANNUALLY FROM THE CITY AND FEBRUARY 23, 2012 95 1 COUNTY FROM SAN FRANCISCO. THE MOST RECENT BUDGET 2 PROJECTION IS AT THE SAN FRANCISCO CITY AND COUNTY'S 3 BUDGET IS $80 MILLION BETTER THAN PREVIOUSLY PROJECTED. 4 AND I JUST GET THIS NAGGING FEELING THAT THERE'S MONEY 5 CLOSER TO US THAN SACRAMENTO. 6 YOU KNOW, IF WE SENT -- I THINK WE SENT 30 BUSES 7 OR SOMETHING TO SACRAMENTO OR PROBABLY EVEN MORE THAN 8 THAT. IF WE SENT 30 BUSES TO CITY HALL, THEY WOULD 9 IMMEDIATELY LOOK AT OUR ISSUES. I MEAN IMMEDIATELY. IF 10 WE PUSHED TO ACTUALLY BE ON THE -- I MEAN THE SCHOOL BOARD 11 ACTUALLY HAS A JOINT CITY -- YOU KNOW, CITY AND COUNTY SAN 12 FRANCISCO SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD. THEY HAVE A JOINT SO 13 THEY MAKE FUNDING DECISIONS, AND THEY ACTUALLY MAKE POLICY 14 DECISIONS TOGETHER. WE ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THAT 15 CONVERSATION. 16 IF WE STARTED LOBBYING TO BUILD A BETTER 17 RELATIONSHIP WITH CITY AND COUNTY WHO HAS MUCH MORE MONEY, 18 BECAUSE THIS IS A MUCH RICHER CITY THAN OUR OTHER 19 SURROUNDING CITIES, I THINK WE WOULD FIND -- YOU KNOW, WE 20 WOULDN'T COVER ALL OF OUR BUDGETARY ISSUES, BUT WE COVER 21 SOME OF IT. WE ARE GOING OUT FOR A PARCEL TAX. THERE 22 NEEDS TO BE A HEAVY LOBBYING EFFORT TO MAKE SURE THE CITY 23 AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO DOESN'T PUT A WHOLE BOATLOAD 24 OF OTHER TAX INITIATIVES ON THE BALLOT. 25 SO I DO THINK THERE'S VALUE IN GOING TO FEBRUARY 23, 2012 96 1 SACRAMENTO. I MEAN I WENT THERE IN 2001, 2002, 2003, 2 2004, I MEAN I WAS A STUDENT ACTIVIST SO I'VE BEEN THERE. 3 AND THEY KEEP CUTTING US. AND IT SEEMS LIKE, YOU KNOW, 4 IT'S LIKE THAT MOVIE, THEY ARE JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU. AT 5 THIS POINT, THEY AREN'T. AND I KIND OF THINK WE SHOULD 6 USE SOME OF OUR EFFORTS TO GO LOCALLY. I MEAN THAT'S 7 WHERE THE MONEY IS. IT'S FEDERAL AND LOCAL. THE STATE 8 JUST DOESN'T HAVE THE MONEY. 9 AND WHEN I HEAR OTHER STUDENT ACTIVISTS TALK 10 ABOUT SAYING, HEY, WHAT DOES IT MAKE US LOOK LIKE WHEN WE 11 SEND 60 BUSES AND THEN WE SAY WE DON'T HAVE ANY MONEY, 12 WHAT DOES THAT MAKE YOU LOOK LIKE? 13 I AM ALL FOR THE ACTIVISM AND ADVOCACY. I'M 14 MOST LIKELY, IF WE VOTE FOR THIS, GOING TO GO TO 15 SACRAMENTO AND ENJOY THE DAY AND MARCH AND, YOU KNOW, ASK 16 FOR MORE MONEY, BUT I JUST DON'T THINK THEY HAVE IT. AND 17 I THINK LOCALLY WE DO HAVE IT. 18 AND IF OUR IMPACT IS LOCAL, WE EDUCATE THE 19 WORKFORCE LOCALLY. WE CAN TELL THEM OF ALL OF OUR SUCCESS 20 STORIES AND ALL OF OUR IMPACT STORIES OF HOW MANY FOLKS 21 THAT WE ACTUALLY EDUCATE IN THE CITY AND COUNTY. 22 SO I WOULD REALLY, REALLY SUGGEST THAT WE TURN 23 OUR EFFORTS IN TERMS OF LOBBYING AND ADVOCACY TO CITY HALL 24 BECAUSE I GUARANTEE IF WE SENT 30, 40, 50, 60 BUSES TO SAN 25 FRANCISCO CITY HALL ON TUESDAY AT 2:00 O'CLOCK, THEY WOULD FEBRUARY 23, 2012 97 1 ACTUALLY -- IT WOULD HAVE A DIRECT AND IMMEDIATE IMPACT. 2 SO I'M NOT -- UNFORTUNATELY, I AM NOT GOING TO 3 SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION, BUT I DO KIND OF HOPE THAT WE 4 KIND OF RE-CALIBRATE IT IN TERMS OF REALLY LOOKING AT OUR 5 FOCUS LOCALLY IN TERMS OF REVENUE. THANK YOU. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEES, I COULD NOT DISAGREE 7 MORE. 8 FIRST OF ALL, THE IDEA THAT THE CITY -- AS 9 SOMEONE WHO HAS LOBBIED THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO, WHO HAS 10 MET WITH THE MAYOR, WHO HAS MET WITH THE SUPERVISORS 11 ASKING FOR FUNDS FOR US, WHO HAS MET WITH THE DIRECTOR OF 12 THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION, I COULD TELL YOU THEY 13 HAVE A LOT BIGGER -- A LOT HIGHER DEFICITS THAN WE DO. 14 THEY ARE HAVING TROUBLE FUNDING MUNI. THEY ARE HAVING 15 TROUBLE FUNDING ALL THEIR SERVICES. SO THE IDEA THAT WE 16 SHOULD GO TO THE CITY FOR FUNDING IS JUST NOT REALISTIC. 17 IT'S THAT RIVER IN EGYPT THAT TRUSTEE NGO IS TALKING 18 ABOUT. 19 THE MONEY IS IN SACRAMENTO. THAT'S WHERE OUR 20 FUNDING COMES FROM. FOR INSTANCE, WE COULD TELL THEM WHEN 21 WE ARE IN SACRAMENTO ON MARCH 5TH, AS I WILL BE, THAT THEY 22 NEED TO RESTORE THAT $140 MILLION THAT THEY CUT FROM THE 23 COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM. WE CAN TELL THEM THAT $100 24 MILLION THAT YOU ARE SPENDING ON JAIL CONSTRUCTION, THAT'S 25 WRONG. YOU SHOULD NOT BE BUILDING JAILS NOW WHILE YOU ARE FEBRUARY 23, 2012 98 1 CUTTING EDUCATION. WE CAN TELL THEM THAT. THAT IS A 2 CHOICE THAT THEY CAN MAKE. 3 SO I AM ABSOLUTELY SUPPORTING THIS RESOLUTION. 4 AGAIN, THIS IS NOT AUTHORIZING ANY MONEY, IT'S JUST IN 5 SUPPORT OF THE MARCH IN SACRAMENTO. 6 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: AND -- 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: STUDENT TRUSTEE. 8 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: THANK YOU. 9 TRUSTEE NGO, I LOVE YOUR SUGGESTION. THE 10 ALTERNATIVE SOUNDS GREAT. MY ONLY REGRET IS I WISH I 11 HEARD IT EARLIER BECAUSE WE ARE HERE TONIGHT VOTING WITH 12 THE RESOLUTION IN FRONT OF US, MARCH IN MARCH ON THE 5TH 13 OF MARCH AND WE ARE HEARING IT. 14 I WOULD GLADLY WORK WITH YOU TO MAKE SURE WE 15 HAVE A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO PUT ALL CYLINDER IN A TUBE 16 AND FIRING -- ALL FIRING AT THE SAME TIME STARTING THE 17 MOMENT THAT WE CAN DO IT. OKAY? 18 BUT FOR NOW, LIKE I SAID, MARCH IN MARCH IS THE 19 ONE VIABLE ALTERNATIVE WE'VE GOT GOING. AND IT'S NOT 20 USING DISTRICT MONEY. WE ARE GOING BECAUSE WE SUPPORT 21 TELLING THE STATE, STOP CUTTING US. AND WE NEED THE 22 MONEY -- 23 TRUSTEE JACKSON: BUT WE'VE BEEN SAYING FOR TWO 24 YEARS. 25 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: -- IF YOU CAN FIND IT. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 99 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE WONG. 2 TRUSTEE WONG: PRESIDENT RIZZO, I AGREE WITH YOU 3 BECAUSE THROUGHOUT THE YEARS I HAVE DONE SO MUCH LOBBYING 4 WITH THE VARIOUS AGENCIES AND THE VERY SUPERVISORS AND THE 5 VARIOUS MAYORS, AND THEY ARE ALWAYS SAYING, WELL, YOU ARE 6 A STATE INSTITUTION. THEY'VE GOT SO MUCH ALREADY ON THEIR 7 PLATE. 8 I THINK WHEN YOU ARE A LOBBYIST, THE VOICE OF 9 THE PEOPLE IN TERMS OF THE PEOPLE OF SACRAMENTO, IT'S 10 INCREMENTAL. IT'S INCREMENTAL. 11 OKAY, THE FIRST TIME THEY DON'T HEAR IT. THE 12 SECOND TIME THEY DON'T HEAR IT. THE THIRD TIME THEY DON'T 13 HEAR IT. AND LIKE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, IF THEY DON'T 14 HEAR IT, OFF WITH THEIR HEADS OR THEY ARE NOT REELECTED. 15 IT'S INCREMENTAL. 16 TO THINK THAT YOU GO AND DEMONSTRATE AND GET 17 RESULTS LIKE THAT IS NIEVE. THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS. THE 18 REALITY IS THIS THAT THE STRONGER OUR VOICE IS UNITED WITH 19 OTHERS, UNITED WITH OTHER COLLEGES INCREMENTALLY, THE 20 VOICES BECOME STRONGER AND LOUDER AND THEY ARE HEARD. 21 AND THEN THE THING THAT WE WILL NOT GIVE UP ON 22 IS HOPE. THE HOPE THAT WE WILL HAVE SOME INTELLIGENT 23 WELL-MINDED ELECTED OFFICIALS SAY, OKAY, ENOUGH EDUCATION, 24 THAT'S WHERE IT'S AT. WE HAVE THAT HOPE. AND WHAT 25 INSPIRES THAT HOPE IS MARCHING. SO IT'S INCREMENTAL, ALL FEBRUARY 23, 2012 100 1 RIGHT? 2 IT HAS NOT SUCCEEDED IN THE PAST PERHAPS, BUT 3 THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE ARE GOING TO GIVE UP. IF YOU GIVE 4 UP, YOU GIVE UP ON DEMOCRACY. SIMPLE AS THAT. THANK YOU. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, WE HAVE SOME PUBLIC 6 COMMENT. 7 ALISA MESSER. 8 MS. MESSER: SO I WOULD LIKE TO TELL YOU WHY 9 THIS YEAR IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT AND WHY I THINK MARCH IN 10 MARCH REALLY DESERVES OUR SUPPORT. SOME PEOPLE MIGHT BE 11 SURPRISED TO HEAR THIS, BUT I AM NOT SOMEBODY WHO REALLY 12 LIKES TO CONTINUE TO BANG MY HEAD AGAINST A WALL OVER AND 13 OVER AND OVER AGAIN, DESPITE MY JOB TITLE AT THE MOMENT. 14 SO MARCH IN MARCH IS DIFFERENT THIS YEAR. AND I 15 ACTUALLY THINK THIS IS A REALLY GOOD CONVERSATION TO HAVE. 16 IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE TO HAVE HAD IT EARLIER. AND SOME 17 OF US HAVE TRIED TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION. BUT MARCH IN 18 MARCH IS DIFFERENT THIS YEAR BECAUSE ALL THREE STUDENT 19 GOVERNMENTS FOR THE FIRST TIME ARE WORKING TOGETHER. SO 20 IT'S COMMUNITY COLLEGES, UC, AND CSU THAT ARE DOING THIS 21 TOGETHER. AND I THINK THAT THAT'S A BIG DEAL TO HAVE 22 HIGHER ED WORKING TOGETHER TO DO THAT. 23 BUT EVEN MORE SO, WE ARE VERY EXCITED ABOUT IT 24 BECAUSE THIS YEAR IS, AS PRESIDENT RIZZO MENTIONED, AN 25 OCCUPY YEAR. AND IN FACT THAT DAY WILL BE AN OCCUPY FEBRUARY 23, 2012 101 1 EDUCATION DAY. IT'S GOING TO BE A VERY BIG DAY AROUND THE 2 STATE AND, PARTICULARLY, IN SACRAMENTO. 3 SO OCCUPY EDUCATION HAS BEEN DOING SOME AMAZING 4 ORGANIZING, BOTH AT CITY COLLEGE AND IN SAN FRANCISCO IN 5 GENERAL AND ACROSS THE STATE. WE HAVE BEEN INVOLVED. A 6 LOT OF PEOPLE ARE VERY, VERY EXCITING TO SEE THIS 7 HAPPENING. IT'S OVERLAYING ON MARCH IN MARCH. IT'S NOT 8 EXACTLY THE SAME EVENT. AND IT WILL BE HAPPENING 9 THROUGHOUT THE DAY AND LATER IN THE DAY. 10 AND I THINK, ACTUALLY, THE CRITIQUES THAT I AM 11 HEARING OF WHAT MIGHT BE THE PROBLEM WITH LOOKING AT 12 SACRAMENTO, IT'S A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT THIS YEAR. 13 SO THERE'S AN INTEREST IN TALKING ABOUT, REALLY 14 TALKING ABOUT THE MILLIONAIRES' TAX, THE OIL EXTRACTION 15 TAX, THOSE ARE KEY PLANKS IN OCCUPY EDUCATION. THEY ARE 16 REALLY LOOKING AT HOW ARE WE GOING TO GET REVENUE AND 17 CHANGE SOMETHING NOT BY GOING IN AND TALKING TO 18 LEGISLATURES WHO ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO DO THE SAME 19 THING, BUT TRYING TO CHANGE THE CONVERSATION. SO IT COULD 20 BE, IT WILL BE I THINK A REALLY GOOD DAY, A DIFFERENT KIND 21 OF DAY THEN IT HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY. 22 AND THEN THE OTHER THING THAT OCCUPY EDUCATION 23 HAS BEEN DOING IS THERE WILL BE A MASS RALLY IN VARIOUS 24 PLACES INCLUDING HERE IN CIVIC CENTER IN SAN FRANCISCO. 25 WE HAD THE FLIERS AROUND TONIGHT. WE WILL MAKE -- FEBRUARY 23, 2012 102 1 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 2 MS. MESSER: -- SURE WE GET SOME TO THE BOARD. 3 AND SO THAT IS THE SAN FRANCISCO ASPECT OF WHAT 4 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. WE WILL BE MOVING FROM SAN FRANCISCO 5 AND TALKING ABOUT LOCALLY WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE. AND THEN 6 STUDENTS WILL ACTUALLY BE MARCHING ALL THE WAY TO 7 SACRAMENTO, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, AND THEN WE WILL BE IN 8 SACRAMENTO ON THE FIRST. 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. THANK YOU. 10 JOE FITZGERALD. 11 MR. FITZGERALD: HEY, GUYS. JOE FITZGERALD, 12 STUDENT AND ALSO THE GUARDSMAN. 13 JUST SPEAKING TO WHAT MR. RIZZO AND MR. WONG 14 SAID EARLIER, WE SPENT A LOT OF LAST SEMESTER COVERING THE 15 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, AND A LOT OF THE CANDIDATES FOR 16 MAYOR, AND WE INTERVIEWED THEM A LOT. WE TALKED TO THEM A 17 LOT, MYSELF, AND A NUMBER OF MY REPORTERS. 18 AND THE ONE THING I HEAR FROM EACH ONE OF THE 19 SUPERVISORS, ESPECIALLY BOARD PRESIDENT CHIU AND FROM ED 20 LEE WAS THAT CITY COLLEGE IS SACRAMENTO'S PROBLEM. CITY 21 COLLEGE IS A SACRAMENTO ISSUE. AND THERE ARE A LOT OF 22 PEOPLE HURTING IN SAN FRANCISCO. 23 AND AS MUCH AS WE HEAR YOU, WE HAVE TO HELP THEM 24 FIRST AND YOU GUYS AREN'T OUR PROBLEM. THIS IS 25 ESSENTIALLY WHAT THEY'VE TOLD US TIME AND TIME AGAIN. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 103 1 MOSTLY, PRESIDENT CHIU, A LITTLE BIT MORE FROM ED LEE AND 2 THEN EVERYONE ELSE ON DOWN. SO I AM JUST PUTTING THAT OUT 3 THERE. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 5 DORETHA EVANS. 6 MS. EVANS: I JUST WANT TO SAY SOMETHING TO ALL 7 OF YOU. I WANT EVERYBODY IN HERE TO UNDERSTAND THAT 8 EVERYBODY IN HERE IS IMPORTANT. EVERYBODY IS NEEDED. I 9 DON'T CARE WHO YOU ARE, THE STUDENT WHATEVER YOU ARE. 10 MY NAME IS DORETHA FULLER EVANS. I TAKE CARE OF 11 THE LIBRARY, ME AND KIM. WE'VE GOT THE CLEANEST LIBRARY 12 IN TOWN. ANYBODY DENY THAT? HAVE YOU BEEN THERE? 13 LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING, IT'S IMPORTANT THAT 14 WE NOT FORGET WHERE WE CAME FROM. I HAVE BEEN ALL OVER 15 THE COUNTRY FOR THIS UNION. AND I AM TELLING YOU I WOULD 16 TALK TO THE DOORPOST, ANYBODY THAT WILL LISTEN. AND WE 17 CANNOT GIVE UP, Y'ALL. WE'VE GOT TO KEEP TALKING TO 18 PEOPLE. AND DON'T YOU ALL FORGET WHERE YOU CAME FROM. 19 Y'ALL WEREN'T ALWAYS AT THIS TABLE. COME ON NOW. YOU 20 CAN'T ALWAYS HAVE A NICE SUIT AND STUFF. 21 WHEN I WAS 11 YEARS OLD, WE WEREN'T EVEN 22 ALLOWED -- MY DAD IS 99. HE WILL BE 100 IN JUNE, 23 JUNE 18TH. AND WE WEREN'T EVEN ALLOWED TO EAT IN 24 RESTAURANTS. IF YOU THINK I AM GOING TO SIT BACK IN HERE 25 AND FORGET THAT I COULDN'T EVEN EAT BECAUSE OF THE COLOR FEBRUARY 23, 2012 104 1 OF MY SKIN, I AM VERY DARK. AND MY HAIR IS VERY NAPPY. 2 BUT I WILL TELL YOU ONE THING, I AIN'T GOING TO 3 QUIT TALKING. DON'T Y'ALL QUIT TALKING. DO YOU HEAR ME? 4 THAT'S ALL WE GOT LEFT. DON'T QUIT TALKING. I DON'T CARE 5 IF THEY DON'T LISTEN TO YOU. KEEP ON TALKING AND TELL 6 THEM ANYWAY. KEEP ON TALKING BECAUSE SOONER OR LATER, 7 SOMETHING'S GOING TO HAPPEN. YOU UNDERSTAND? 8 DON'T YOU ALL QUIT THAT. I WENT ALL THE WAY 9 FROM HERE TO FLUSHING MEADOWS, NEW YORK FOR IMMIGRATION. 10 MY GRANDCHILDREN ARE BLACK AND SPANISH, OKAY, I AM NOT 11 GOING TO STOP FIGHTING. DON'T YOU ALL GIVE UP. DO YOU 12 HEAR ME? 13 I DON'T CARE WHAT THEY ARE SAYING. KEEP TALKING 14 TO THEM. I DON'T CARE IF THEY REPUBLICANS. I DON'T CARE 15 WHO THEY ARE. OCCUPY, WE SANG OCCUPY SONGS BECAUSE I AM 16 IN THE LABOR CHORUS. I DID A GOSPEL ALBUM. WE ARE TRYING 17 TO COME TOGETHER Y'ALL. QUIT FUSSING AND ARGUING. I LOVE 18 ALL OF YOU ALL. QUIT FIGHTING, BABY. I UNDERSTAND YOUR 19 THING. 20 BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I AM SAYING? COME ON, LET'S 21 DO THIS THING. I GIVE YOU 32 HOURS. THAT'S WHAT YOU 22 NEED, ALL RIGHT. IF THAT'S WHAT YOU NEED BECAUSE THAT'S 23 JUST A PAIR OF SHOES FOR ME, YOU UNDERSTAND? 24 BECAUSE I AM ENTERTAINER, I LIKE TO DRESS. 25 (TIMER SOUNDS.) FEBRUARY 23, 2012 105 1 MS. EVANS: SO THAT'S WHAT I WANT YOU ALL TO DO. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 3 MS. EVANS: STOP FIGHTING Y'ALL. STOP FIGHTING 4 AND LET'S WORK THIS OUT. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 6 MS. EVANS: YOU KNOW WHAT I AM SAYING, 7 EVERYBODY'S IMPORTANT. AND WE -- 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WE DO. 9 MS. EVANS: -- BOTH NEED TO BE UP THERE. NOW 10 YOU COME ON. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 12 DIAMOND DAVE. 13 MR. WHITAKER: HERE WE ARE ONCE AGAIN. 14 FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS NOW YOU REMEMBER, 15 CHANCELLOR, WHENEVER I GET UP HERE AND I SAY, THEY CAN 16 TIGHTEN OUR BELTS SO MUCH THAT OUR HEAD EXPLODES. WELL, I 17 BELIEVE THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT'S HAPPENING. IT'S CALLED THE 18 OCCUPY. IT'S CALLED PEOPLE REALIZING THAT WHOEVER CAME UP 19 WITH THE BRILLIANT PLAN THE 99 PERCENT TO THE 1 PERCENT. 20 AND THIS IS WHAT THE CHANCELLOR SAID, THAT 21 SOMETHING IS GOING ON HERE. IT MAY NOT BE AN ACCIDENT. 22 IT'S JUST NOT ACCIDENTAL THOUGH THE ECONOMY IS SUCH THAT 23 WE'VE GOT TO TIGHTEN THE BELT AGAIN, AND AGAIN, AND AGAIN, 24 AND YOU GOT TO TAKE THESE OUR RESULTS AND ONE MORE THING 25 AND THINGS WILL GET BETTER. THERE'S OTHER THINGS IN MIND. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 106 1 OTHER THINGS IN MIND, THE OCCUPY HAS COME. HAS 2 SAID, BASED ON THE OCCUPY, WE ARE THE 99 PERCENT, AND IT'S 3 TIME TO BUILD A MOVEMENT. A MOVEMENT WHICH GOES BEYOND 4 JUST ASKING TO DO THIS OR GIVING US A LITTLE BIT MORE OR 5 TAKING A LITTLE BIT MORE AND WE WILL DO THIS AND THINGS 6 WILL BE OKAY. A MOVEMENT OF THE 99 PERCENT TO SAY IT'S 7 TIME TO FOR RESTRUCTURING. IT'S TIME FOR A REBIRTH. WE 8 ARE THE 99 PERCENT AND TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT THE 1 PERCENT 9 IS DOING IN THIS MANIPULATION OF LIES. 10 THE CHANCELLOR LAID IT OUT THERE BECAUSE HE'S 11 GOT THAT HISTORY. HE KNOWS WHAT'S GOING ON. THAT HISTORY 12 THAT WHEN THEY DECIDE THEY WANT TO BRING SOMETHING DOWN, 13 THEY CAN DO IT. 14 NOW WE TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT UNLESS WE DO 15 THIS AND THAT, SOME FACELESS BUREAUCRAT IS GOING TO COME 16 IN AND TAKE OVER. WHILE THESE VERY FACELESS BUREAUCRATS 17 WE ARE TALKING ABOUT, ARE THE ONES THAT ARE ALREADY 18 SETTING THE DEFICIT. SUDDENLY, WE HAVE MILLIONS OF 19 DOLLARS HERE. WE BETTER FILL THIS UP. WE BETTER TAKE 20 THIS TIME OFF. IT'S THE SAME PEOPLE BROTHERS AND SISTERS. 21 IT'S THE 1 PERCENT. 22 SO, HEY, IT'S TIME TO TAKE DOWN THE WALLS. IT'S 23 TIME TO GET RID OF THE BORDERS. TAKE DOWN THE WALLS, OPEN 24 THE DOORS AND GET RID OF THE BORDERS AND REALIZE WE ARE 25 ALTOGETHER IN THIS. WE ARE ALTOGETHER IN THIS. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 107 1 MS. EVANS: WE ARE ALTOGETHER. 2 MR. WHITAKER: WE ARE ALTOGETHER IN THIS. SAY 3 THAT AGAIN SISTER. 4 MS. EVANS: WE ARE ALTOGETHER. 5 MR. WHITAKER: WE ARE ALTOGETHER IN THIS. CITY 6 COLLEGE, STATE, THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM, IT'S THE UNEMPLOYED 7 KID WHO IS UNEMPLOYED. IT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE 8 ECONOMY. WE BETTER GET THERE. WE BETTER TAKE A LOOK AND 9 SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING. 10 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 11 MR. WHITAKER: AND WE GOT TO -- 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 13 MR. WHITAKER: SO BROTHERS AND SISTERS, THE 14 WHOLE IS GREATER THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS, UNLESS SOME OF 15 US MERGE. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU, SIR. 17 MR. WHITAKER: AND WE CAN DO MORE TOGETHER. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MARJORIE RUIZ. 19 MS. RUIZ: GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. HOW ARE YOU? 20 HOT I PRESUME. 21 SO, YOU KNOW, MARCHING IS GREAT. IT'S AMAZING. 22 IT'S WHY I AM HERE. YOU KNOW, SOMEONE POINTED OUT 23 EARLIER, I AM A WOMAN OF COLOR. 24 BUT IT SEEMS TO ME THAT NO ONE IN THIS ROOM IS 25 TALKING ABOUT THE PROCESS. THE INTEGRITY OF THE PROCESS FEBRUARY 23, 2012 108 1 OR HOW MUCH THIS IS GOING TO COST. STUDENTS GO OUT THERE, 2 AND ALL THEY KNOW IS WE ARE NOT IN CLASS. 3 AND FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, AND SOMEONE PLEASE 4 GET UP HERE AFTER AND CORRECT ME. SEIU DID NOT FUND THIS 5 MARCH LAST YEAR. AFT DID NOT REALLY GIVE MUCH. AND SO 6 STUDENTS WERE ASKED TO PAY FOR THIS MARCH TO THE TUNE OF 7 $30,000. SO WHAT IS SO DIFFERENT THIS YEAR? WHY IS THE 8 PROCESS ANY DIFFERENT? WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT? 9 IF THIS IS SO WORTHWHILE THAT SEIU IS CHOOSING 10 NOT TO CONCENTRATE ON GOING TO SACRAMENTO, AND AFT LAST 11 YEAR GAVE A VERY SMALL AMOUNT, IT RAISES THE QUESTION, HOW 12 MUCH? WHY? 13 YEAH, MARCHING IS GREAT. BUT AGAIN, WE ARE IN 14 THE MIDDLE OF A CRISIS. PEOPLE GOT UP HERE AN HOUR AGO 15 AND STARTED TALKING TO YOU ABOUT CLASSES THAT ARE BEING 16 CUT AND STUDENTS ARE BEING ASKED TO ALMOST THE TUNE OF 17 $30,000 TO PAY FOR A MARCH THAT HISTORICALLY HASN'T DONE 18 ANYTHING. 19 THIS IS A VERY CHEESY QUOTE, BUT YOU KNOW THE 20 DEFINITION OF INSANITY IS TO REPEAT THE SAME THING 21 CONSTANTLY EXPECTING A DIFFERENT RESULT. SO I, AS A 22 STUDENT, WOULD LIKE TO HOLD ANYONE IN THIS ROOM 23 ACCOUNTABLE TO TELL ME WHAT IS DIFFERENT ABOUT THIS 24 PROCESS. THANKS. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 109 1 I WILL CLARIFY ONCE AGAIN THAT THERE IS NO 2 PUBLIC MONEY IN THIS RESOLUTION. THIS IS JUST A 3 RESOLUTION TO SUPPORT THE SPIRIT. IT DOESN'T ASK THE 4 STUDENTS TO SPEND ANY MONEY. THE STUDENTS ARE ACTUALLY 5 ORGANIZING THIS, SO JUST TO BE CLEAR. 6 TRUSTEE NGO: POINT OF INFORMATION. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH. 8 TRUSTEE NGO: I DON'T THINK MY QUESTION WAS 9 QUESTIONED ABOUT WHETHER WE ARE SANCTIONING THE 10 GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS OFFICE TO SPEND TIME ORGANIZING AND 11 SUPPORTING THE STUDENTS AROUND THIS OR IF THEY ARE GOING 12 TO BE FOCUSED ON OUR FEDERAL, OUR FEDERAL LEGISLATION OR 13 LOCAL OR PARCEL TAX. CAN I GET SOME CLARITY? 14 OR SHOULD WE AMEND THE RESOLUTION TO MAKE THAT 15 CLEAR? 16 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: PRESIDENT RIZZO. 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE FANG, YOU HAVE AN 18 ANSWER TO THAT? 19 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: YEAH, AS FAR AS I KNOW, 20 THE STUDENTS ARE ORGANIZING THIS. AND IT'S NOT BEING 21 TOLD -- IT'S THE FACT THAT WE HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS. 22 AND I SAID IT ALREADY, AND I WILL SAY IT AGAIN, IS BECAUSE 23 THE STUDENT COUNCILS OF MANY CAMPUSES STARTED TO REALIZE 24 THEY WANT TO DO THE MARCH ONLY ABOUT A MONTH AND HALF AGO, 25 HENCE THE PROCESS QUESTION, THE STRUGGLE IN TRYING TO FIND FEBRUARY 23, 2012 110 1 MONEY. SO -- AND JUST TO CLARIFY, WE ARE NOT -- THE 2 STUDENT COUNCILS ARE NOT GIVING UP TO 30,000 THIS YEAR, 3 NOT AT ALL. WE ARE NOT EVEN CLOSE TO THAT. BUT WE ARE 4 TRYING TO FIND EVERY CENT POSSIBLE TO DO THE MARCH. 5 AND THE GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS OFFICE TO MY 6 UNDERSTANDING IS NOT PUTTING ANYTHING IN ON THIS ONE. 7 IT'S THE STUDENT ORGANIZING. THANK YOU. 8 TRUSTEE NGO: WELL, I WOULD LIKE SOME CLARITY 9 FROM SOMEONE WHO ACTUALLY HAS -- 10 SPEAKER UNKNOWN: SHOULD I -- 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: NO, PLEASE. 12 CHANCELLOR, WOULD YOU LIKE TO YOU -- 13 TRUSTEE NGO: IS THAT YOUR UNDERSTANDING, 14 CHANCELLOR? 15 I WANT TO KNOW IS THIS SOMETHING THAT WE ARE 16 JUST SUPPORTING IN SPIRIT OR ARE WE SANCTIONING TIME, OUR 17 ADMINISTRATIVE TIME, TO ORGANIZE THIS MARCH. I JUST WANT 18 CLARITY ON THAT BECAUSE IF THAT'S THE CASE, MY CRITIQUE 19 STILL STANDS AND MY POSITION STILL STANDS. IF IT'S NOT, 20 MAYBE I CAN CHANGE MY MIND. 21 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: SO MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT 22 THERE IS A VERY SMALL, A SMALL, SMALL PERCENT OF TIME 23 THAT'S USED BY THE GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS OFFICE IN 24 CONJUNCTION WITH TALKING TO THE STUDENTS, BUT NOT IN THE 25 DIRECT ORGANIZATION OF THE MARCH, NOR ACTUALLY DOING STUFF FEBRUARY 23, 2012 111 1 WITH THEM ONCE THEY GET UP TO SACRAMENTO. THAT'S MY 2 UNDERSTANDING. 3 BUT IN ANY OFFICE LIKE WHEN JEFFREY OR OTHER 4 STUDENTS COME INTO THE OFFICE, THEY ARE GOING TO GET 5 ADVICE. THEY ARE GOING TO BE TALKING TO LESLIE AND 6 PROBABLY GOING TO GET SUPPLIED INFORMATION. THERE'S A 7 PERCENT OF TIME, IN KIND, IF YOU WILL -- MAYBE NOT IN KIND 8 BUT IT CERTAINLY -- I WOULD SAY A CERTAIN PERCENT. 9 CERTAINLY IN THE SINGLE DECIMAL, NOT IN -- NOT EVEN 4 10 PERCENT OF HER TIME, MY GUESS. 11 SPEAKER UNKNOWN: (INAUDIBLE). 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: DOES IT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO 13 WITH THIS RESOLUTION? 14 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: IT DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO 15 DO WITH THIS RESOLUTION. IT HAS TO DO WITH CARRYING OUT 16 HER FUNCTIONS IN THE GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS OFFICE WHICH 17 IS PART TO RELATE AND INTERACT WITH STUDENTS. AND IF THEY 18 ARE -- SOME OF THEIR ISSUES ARE MARCH IN MARCH. OTHERS 19 ARE OTHER ISSUES. 20 BUT HAVING SAID THAT, I AM CONCERNED THAT IF WE 21 DO HAVE $30,000, WHY WOULD THE STUDENTS NOT ALSO THINK 22 ABOUT GIVING $30,000 TO SAVE THE CLASSES. THAT'S 23 SOMETHING THAT THE A.S. NEEDS TO THINK ABOUT AS WELL AS 24 OPPOSED TO TALKING ABOUT SPENDING THE MONEY ON A MARCH 25 BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT, EXCUSE ME, VOLUNTEERED. EVEN FEBRUARY 23, 2012 112 1 THOUGH I'VE BEGGED TO GIVE MONEY TO SAVE CLASSES. THOSE 2 CLASSES ARE THEIR CLASSES AS WELL. 3 SO IF YOU HAVE ENOUGH BUSES, WHY DON'T YOU HAVE 4 A LITTLE BIT MAYBE 20, 30, 40 PERCENT OF THAT TO SAVE THE 5 CLASSES AS WELL. THAT'S A CONCERN FOR ME BECAUSE WE ARE 6 ASKING EVERY OTHER GROUP TO GIVE MONEY TO SAVE THE 7 CLASSES. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. LET'S GO BACK TO 9 PUBLIC COMMENT, AND THEN WE WILL CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENT, AND 10 THEN WE WILL HAVE BOARD DISCUSSION. 11 JOSE LUIS. 12 MR. MEJIA: JOSE LUIS MEJIA. 13 I WANTED TO SAY, WELL, I APPRECIATE THE DIALOGUE 14 HONESTLY. LIKE I APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS. I APPRECIATE 15 WHERE BROTHER JACKSON'S COMMENTS. BUT I DO THINK IT IS 16 UNFORTUNATELY TOO LATE FOR THAT CONVERSATION TO HAPPEN 17 RIGHT NOW. I DO APPRECIATE AS WELL THAT YOU ARE ASKING 18 HOW MUCH MONEY IS GOING FROM CITY COLLEGE ITSELF TO, YOU 19 KNOW, BECAUSE THAT COULD BE A WASTE IN TERMS OF WHAT WE 20 KNOW HAS RESULTED IN THAT. 21 BUT YOU KNOW, ME PERSONALLY, AND I AM INVOLVED 22 WITH OCCUPY CCSF, BELIEVE THAT WE NEED TO EXPLORE EVERY 23 ROUTE. YOU KNOW, I DO BELIEVE THAT IT'S GOOD TO GO ABOUT 24 IT, YOU KNOW, MAYBE LOBBYING, MAYBE GOING TO CITY HALL, 25 BUT WE ALSO GOT TO GO TO THE STATE. WE ALSO HAVE TO MARCH FEBRUARY 23, 2012 113 1 AND WE NEED TO STOMP SOME PAVEMENT. 2 I AGREE WITH YOU, SISTER, LIKE WE DO NEED TO 3 REMEMBER OUR HISTORY IN THAT SENSE. MY TWO-YEAR-OLD 4 DAUGHTER IF YOU ASK HER WHAT KIND OF PIE, SHE WILL TELL 5 YOU OCCUPY. AND I AM RAISING A LITTLE REVOLUTIONARY, AN 6 ACTIVIST IN MY HOME BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT IT IS NECESSARY 7 FOR THAT SPIRIT TO STAY WELL ALIVE IN THIS COUNTRY. YOU 8 KNOW, STRAIGHT UP. 9 AND I AGREE WITH YOU AND MY SISTER HERE TOO. 10 YOU KNOW, WE ARE FOLKS. WE ARE PART OF SMAC, BUT IN THAT 11 SENSE, I DO THINK WE NEED TO HIT IT OUT THERE, YOU KNOW, 12 WHAT I MEAN BECAUSE -- AND EVEN IT'S NOT, THIS IS A 13 DIFFERENT YEAR. 14 YOU KNOW, I MEAN THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT WAS NOT 15 HAPPENING. WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO HAVEN'T BEEN IN THE -- WHO 16 BEFORE DID NOT IDENTIFY WITH THE STRUGGLE OF POOR PEOPLE 17 AND ARE STARTING TO BECAUSE THEY ARE STARTING TO FEEL THAT 18 PAIN. YOU KNOW AND IT'S UNFORTUNATE THAT IT TAKES THAT. 19 YOU KNOW, PEOPLE AREN'T IN SOLIDARITY FROM JUST 20 UNDERSTANDING AND SEEING THE FACT THAT WE NEED TO SUPPORT 21 THE PEOPLE THAT ARE IN THE MOST NEED, BUT IT IS A 22 DIFFERENT YEAR. 23 I APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS BROTHER RIZZO IN 24 TERMS OF THAT. I THINK THAT WE HAVE TO EXPLORE ALL 25 AVENUES, SO I APPRECIATE ALL YOUR COMMENTS. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 114 1 I WAS JUST TALKING TO CARLOS HERE, WHO IS ON THE 2 A.S. COUNCIL, AND WAS TELLING ME THAT 4,000 CAME FROM A.S. 3 RIGHT, AND YES AFT -- 4 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 5 MR. MEJIA: -- DID SUPPORT AND SO DID SEIU, THIS 6 YEAR. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THIS YEAR. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 8 MR. MEJIA: SO LET'S KEEP IT MOVING. ALL RIGHT. 9 SO WHAT KIND OF PIE? 10 MEMBERS OF THE AUDIENCE: OCCUPY. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL RIGHT. 12 KATIE GELARDI. 13 MS. GELARDI: WELL, THIS TRULY HAS BEEN A REAL 14 HEATED INSPIRING, INSPIRING MEETING. I THINK THAT -- OH, 15 GOD, WHERE DOES ONE BEGIN. LET'S START WITH THE FACT THAT 16 THE EXECUTIVE. THE ASSOCIATED STUDENT COUNCIL EXECUTIVE 17 BOARD MET TODAY. AND IT WAS AS HEATED THERE AS IT IS HERE 18 NOW. 19 NOT ALL THE CAMPUSES HAVE MONEY TO SUPPORT FOR 20 THE BUSES. THERE ARE CAMPUSES WHO WOULD LOVE TO BE ABLE 21 TO SUPPORT THE ISSUE OF GOING TO SACRAMENTO, BUT THEY -- 22 EXACTLY WHAT YOU HAD SAID, CHANCELLOR. 23 THEY CAN'T JUSTIFY SPENDING THE MONEY FOR THE 24 DAY TO TAKE THE TRIP WHEN THEY HAVE STUDENTS THAT NEED 25 BOOKS. THE MONEY GO TOWARDS A CLASS, AND THEY WERE FEBRUARY 23, 2012 115 1 LOOKING FOR ALTERNATIVES. AND I BELIEVE THAT AS A 2 COMMUNITY WE COULD COME TOGETHER TO FIT BOTH AGENDAS. 3 HOWEVER, IF WE ARE GOING TO GO TO SACRAMENTO, WE 4 NEED THE MONEY. AND IT'S WONDERFUL TO SAY, GO TO 5 SACRAMENTO, DO THIS, SUPPORT YOUR COMMUNITY, BUT WHO IS 6 GOING TO PAY FOR IT? 7 THANK YOU. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: DORA PALACIOS. 9 MS. PALACIOUS: HI, EVERYBODY. 10 GOOD EVENING TO ALL OF YOU, ESPECIALLY YOU, 11 MR. NGO. 12 HOWEVER, I WANT TO CLARIFY A LOT OF STUFF 13 BECAUSE LAST YEAR, AS I REMEMBER, AFT 21 (SIC) PUT SOME 14 MONEY. THIS YEAR AFT 21 (SIC) PUT LITTLE BIT MONEY 15 BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE A LOT OF MONEY. AND I UNDERSTAND 16 THAT EVERY YEAR IN THE LAST THREE YEARS, THEY AREN'T BEING 17 ACTIVIST AT CITY COLLEGE, I ASK ALL THE STUDENTS, LET'S GO 18 DO THIS. LET'S MARCH. EVERYBODY ANSWERS SO NEGATIVELY. 19 NOW THAT YOU'VE REALLY SEEN THE FIRE, YOU WORRY 20 ABOUT WHO IS GIVING MUCH AND WHO IS PUTTING MORE AND WHO 21 IS PUTTING LESS. THE MAIN THING IS NOT WHO IS GIVING THIS 22 MONEY OR THIS OTHER MONEY. THE MAIN THING IS REMEMBER IN 23 ANY REVOLUTION, VOICES ARE HEAR IT. AND IF WE KEEP 24 RAISING OUR VOICES, SOME DAY THEY ARE GOING TO CLIP THEIR 25 EARS, AND THEY ARE GOING TO GIVE US WHAT WE NEED. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 116 1 AND AT THIS POINT IT IS SO SAD THAT YOU GUYS 2 TALK TODAY ABOUT SO MANY RESOLUTIONS KNOWING THAT THIS 3 BOAT WAS GOING DOWN AND TODAY YOU BROUGHT ALL THIS 4 RESOLUTION THAT WE HEARING. YOU KNOW ABOUT LOBBY. YOU 5 KNOW ABOUT THIS. WHY YOU TALK TODAY? 6 YOU'RE TELLING US THAT WE CAN LOBBY HERE AND 7 LOBBY THERE WHEN THIS HAS BEEN HAPPENING SIX MONTHS AGO, A 8 YEAR AGO. ISN'T THAT SAD THAT NOW ALL OF SUDDEN YOU 9 BRINGING ALL THIS, IDEOLOGY TOGETHER TO TELL US AS A 10 STUDENT WHAT TO DO. YOU SHOULD HAVE SAID THAT A YEAR AGO 11 WHEN SUMMER CLASSES WERE NOT AT CITY COLLEGE. 12 SO MY UNDERSTANDING IS, AS A STUDENT, THAT WE 13 HAVE TO KEEP THE FIGHT. AND WE ARE GOING TO KEEP THE 14 MOVEMENT, WHETHER IT IS WITH OCCUPY -- 15 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 16 MS. PALACIOUS: -- OR CCSF. 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 18 MS. PALACIOUS: I'M HAPPY. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 20 ROSARIA VILLAGANA. 21 MS. VILLAGANA: HI, I'M VERY GLAD TO BE HERE. 22 IT IS THE FIRST TIME SPEAKING, AND IT'S A LITTLE 23 NERVE-WRACKING. 24 BUT I AM REALLY GLAD TO HEAR ALL OF THIS BEING 25 TALKED ABOUT BECAUSE I WANTED TO SUPPORT THE MARCH. I WAS FEBRUARY 23, 2012 117 1 SHOCKED WHEN I SAW AN AD, THE BILLBOARD AT THE TOP OF THE 2 HILL THAT SAYS, "ARIZONA SFU 100 PERCENT ONLINE." I DON'T 3 WANT TO SEE THAT HAPPEN TO CITY COLLEGE. YOU KNOW, 4 100 PERCENT ONLINE. THAT'S SCARY. 5 AND I THINK WE NEED TO FACE THE FACT THAT IT 6 ISN'T JUST A BUDGET CRISIS. IT'S CRISIS OF MAJOR 7 PROPORTIONS BECAUSE WE ARE CHANGING THE STRUCTURE OF 8 EDUCATION. WE ARE CHANGING THE NEED FOR -- SUPPOSEDLY THE 9 NEED FOR INSTRUCTORS. WE ARE CHANGING THAT EDUCATION IS 10 REALLY ABOUT THE HUMAN BEINGS. 11 AND I WANT CITY COLLEGE TO BE HERE WHEN THE 12 CHILDREN THAT ARE AT THE PRESCHOOL AT MISSION CAMPUS CAN 13 BE STUDENTS AT CITY COLLEGE AT ALL THE CAMPUSES, INCLUDING 14 MISSION CAMPUS. 15 AND LASTLY, I WANTED TO THANK CITY COLLEGE 16 BECAUSE MY DAUGHTER WAS ABLE TO GRADUATE AT CITY COLLEGE, 17 GO TO SAN FRANCISCO STATE. SHE IS IN HER LAST SEMESTER 18 NOW. SHE IS GOING TO GRADUATE DEBT FREE. MANY OF HER 19 FRIENDS HAVE $100,000 DEBTS FOR THEIR EDUCATION. SO I 20 WANTED TO SAY, THANK YOU. AND I KNOW YOU ALL CAN'T BE 21 KNIGHTS AND SHINNING ARMORS, BUT YOU CAN TRY. 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 23 IS THERE ANY FURTHER PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS 24 ISSUE? 25 OKAY, PUBLIC COMMENT IS CLOSED. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 118 1 TRUSTEE MARKS IS FIRST. HE HAD HIS HAND UP 2 EARLIER. 3 TRUSTEE MARKS: THIS IS TO THE CHANCELLOR. 4 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: YES. 5 TRUSTEE MARKS: HOW MUCH -- WHAT'S THE FULL-TIME 6 EQUIVALENT PER STUDENT WHO IS GOING TO MISS A CLASS? 7 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: HOW MANY FTES OF 8 STUDENTS -- 9 TRUSTEE MARKS: YEAH. 10 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: -- WHO ARE GOING TO MISS 11 CLASSES? 12 TRUSTEE MARKS: YES. 13 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: WELL, I DON'T KNOW THE 14 ANSWER TO THAT IN TERMS OF HOW MANY. BUT THERE ARE 15 CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH STUDENTS CAN WORK OUT WAYS OF 16 COMPLETING WORK THAT THEY HAVE NOT DONE IF THEY MISS THIS 17 DAY SO THAT IN MOST CASES WHAT I'VE BEEN TOLD IS THAT 18 STUDENTS DON'T REALLY MISS THEIR CLASSWORK BY DOING THIS 19 ACTIVITY. 20 TRUSTEE MARKS: HOW IS THAT SO? 21 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: WELL, BASICALLY IT IS NOT 22 LIKE -- AND I HAVE GONE TO A MARCH IN MARCH FOR THE LAST 23 SEVERAL YEARS. I MEAN I THINK FOR FOUR OR FIVE YEARS OR 24 LONGER, AND THERE ARE STUDENTS THERE. BUT ALL I AM SAYING 25 IS I HAVE BEEN THERE WITH STUDENTS THAT ARE DOING FEBRUARY 23, 2012 119 1 ASSIGNMENTS WHILE THEY ARE ON THE BUS. I'VE BEEN WITH 2 STUDENTS WHO ARE DOING ASSIGNMENTS IN BETWEEN GOING IN TO 3 VISIT DIFFERENT OFFICES. I'VE SEEN STUDENTS WHO, I DON'T 4 KNOW HOW THEY DO IT, BUT THEY ARE DOING LIKE THREE OR FOUR 5 THINGS AT ONCE. AND IN THE END, THEY'VE GOT THEIR PAPERS 6 IN ON TIME, AND THEY ARE ALSO TAKING THEIR EXAMS ON TIME. 7 SO I DON'T BELIEVE IN ANY SUBSTANTIVE WAY THAT 8 THE MARCH IN MARCH IS ACTUALLY DEPRIVING STUDENTS OF THEIR 9 ABILITY TO DO THEIR CLASSWORK, WHICH IS A ROUNDABOUT WAY 10 OF SAYING I DON'T THINK WE ARE LOSING FTES IN REGARDS TO 11 IT. 12 TRUSTEE MARKS: OKAY, THANK YOU. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE WONG. 14 TRUSTEE WONG: HOPEFULLY THIS WILL BE THE LAST 15 COMMENT. IT'S GETTING VERY LATE. 16 BUT MARTIN LUTHER KING, HOW MANY MARCHES? NO 17 GUARANTEE, BUT HE MARCHED. CESAR CHAVEZ, NO GUARANTEE, 18 BUT HE MARCHED. HARVEY MILK, HOW MANY MARCHES? HOW MANY 19 CANDLELIGHT MARCHES DOWN THE STREET OF MARKET STREET, NO 20 GUARANTEE, BUT THEY MARCHED. 21 OUR VOICES NEED TO BE HEARD. THIS IS NOT 22 ABOUT -- THIS IS NOT ABOUT ALLOCATING THE FUNDS, BUT JUST 23 SAYING, WE SUPPORT IT. REMEMBER EVERY MOVEMENT, HUMAN 24 RIGHTS, CIVIL RIGHTS, REQUIRES PERSEVERANCE AND A BELIEF 25 BECAUSE, AGAIN, IT GIVES PEOPLE HOPE FOR A BETTER FUTURE, FEBRUARY 23, 2012 120 1 SO LET'S MAKE THIS HAPPEN. 2 AND THE STUDENTS, IT'S UP TO YOU BECAUSE YOU GOT 3 TO RAISE THE MONEY. BUT YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE IN YOUR 4 CAUSE. YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE SO BADLY, SO DESPERATELY IN 5 YOUR CAUSE THAT YOU WOULD CHANGE AND TRANSFORM SOCIETY AND 6 TO GET THE MONEY FOR THIS DISTRICT. THANK YOU. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE JACKSON. 8 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AND I APOLOGIZE, I AM NOT 9 GOING TO BE ABLE TO FOLLOW THE WORDS OF TRUSTEE WONG. AND 10 I ALMOST APOLOGIZE FOR BRINGING UP THE ISSUE. 11 I MEAN THE FACT OF IT IS, YOU KNOW, IT WASN'T 12 MEANT TO BE THAT BIG OF A DEAL. IT WAS MEANT TO JUST KIND 13 OF QUESTION WHAT WE ARE ACTUALLY DOING IN TERMS OF THE 14 MARCH. IT WAS REALLY MEANT TO ACTUALLY -- KIND OF LIKE 15 RETARGET WHAT WE ARE LOOKING AT. 16 MLK KNEW THAT THE POLICIES WERE BEING AFFECTED 17 IN WASHINGTON DC. WE ACTUALLY KNOW, AND HE MARCHED ON 18 WASHINGTON, SACRAMENTO HAS CONSTANTLY SAID BECAUSE OF THE 19 BUDGET CUTS, YOU NEED TO FIND A DIFFERENT MODE OF 20 FINANCING YOUR EDUCATION. THEY ARE NOT GOING TO DO IT. 21 THEY'VE REPEATEDLY SAID BASED ON THE BUDGET THAT WE NEED 22 TO LOOK LOCALLY AND FOR FEDERAL DOLLARS AS WELL. 23 AND I SAY I AM OKAY WITH US GOING TO 24 WASHINGTON -- WOW. I AM OKAY WITH US GOING TO SACRAMENTO, 25 BUT WE SHOULD ALSO LOOK AT OTHER AREAS. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 121 1 SO I ACTUALLY JUST WANT TO ADD INTO THE 2 RESOLUTION "AND SAN FRANCISCO." I JUST WANT TO SAY, "AND 3 SAN FRANCISCO." I JUST WANT A PRESENCE BECAUSE WE HAVE 4 VIRTUALLY NO PRESENCE AND JUST LOOK AT LOCAL AND FEDERAL, 5 YOU KNOW, SOURCES OF REVENUE AS MUCH AS WE LOOK AT 6 SACRAMENTO AS A SOURCE FOR REVENUE. 7 AND SO I JUST WANT TO BE REALLY CLEAR, YOU KNOW, 8 THE SOLUTION AT THIS POINT IN HISTORY RIGHT NOW IS NOT IN 9 SACRAMENTO. THEY HAVE SAID SO, AND WE KEEP ON THINKING 10 THAT IT IS. IT'S NOT. WE NEED TO LOOK LOCALLY. AND WE 11 NEED TO LOOK TO THE FEDERAL. AND WE ALSO NEED TO LOOK AT 12 FOUNDATION, YOU KNOW, FOR SOURCES OF REVENUE. 13 AND IF WE ARE GOING TO SPEND THAT MUCH MONEY AND 14 THAT MUCH RESOURCES AND THAT MUCH PEOPLE POWER, I WOULD 15 LIKE IT TO BE DIRECTED AT PLACES WHERE THERE'S REVENUE AND 16 WHERE WE CAN BE MORE EFFECTIVE. AND I THINK SINCE WE 17 EDUCATE -- YOU KNOW, WE ALWAYS SAY WE EDUCATE THE CITY'S 18 WORKFORCE, LET'S HOLD THEM TO THAT TASK AND SAY, SINCE WE 19 EDUCATE YOUR WORKFORCE, WE NEED FUNDING FROM THE CITY FROM 20 LOCAL. AND I THINK THAT'S -- THAT'S REALLY WHERE MY HEART 21 IS. THAT'S REALLY WHERE I THINK WE NEED TO BE LOOKING FOR 22 REVENUE AT. 23 AND SO I JUST WANT TO ADD INTO THIS RESOLUTION 24 "AND SAN FRANCISCO." AND THAT'S THE WHOLE HEART OF WHY I 25 BROUGHT THIS ISSUE UP. SO THANK YOU AND YOU KNOW -- FEBRUARY 23, 2012 122 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE NGO. 2 TRUSTEE NGO: YEAH, I APOLOGIZE TO PEOPLE IF 3 THEY HAVE AN IMPRESSION OF MY ADVOCACY ON BEHALF OF 4 STUDENTS AT THIS COLLEGE. I HOPE THAT -- ALTHOUGH I 5 UNDERSTAND WHY SOME MAY SOUR TO MY COMMENTS, I'VE BEEN 6 HERE SINCE 2009 RAISING THESE POINTS ABOUT WASHINGTON AND 7 SACRAMENTO. I DON'T THINK ANYONE WOULD QUESTION HOW MUCH 8 OF AN ADVOCATE THIS BOARD HAS BEEN ENSURING THAT CLASSES 9 NOT BE CUT AND IN FACT CLASSES GET ADDED BACK. 10 THAT'S ACTUALLY PART OF OUR PROBLEM TO SOME 11 EXTENT THIS YEAR IS THAT WE'VE DEFIED THE STATE AND WE'VE 12 SAID TO THEM, EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE GOING TO CUT US, WE ARE 13 GOING TO FIND A WAY TO INVEST IN OUR KIDS. I HAVE BEEN 14 DOING THAT SINCE 2009. 15 I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY MEETINGS PEOPLE HAVE BEEN 16 TO TONIGHT OR AT THIS BOARD, BUT MY POSITION HAS BEEN VERY 17 CLEAR SINCE 2009, WHICH IS WHY I AM SO ADAMANT ABOUT IT IN 18 2012. THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME I'VE RAISED IT. I 19 RAISED IT BEFORE. IT JUST HASN'T -- IT HASN'T RESONATED, 20 AND I THINK I UNDERSTAND WHY. 21 I CANNOT -- I CANNOT IN GOOD CONSCIENCE TAKE A 22 POSITION THAT I BELIEVE FIRMLY IS NOT COMPLETELY HONEST 23 WITH THE STUDENTS. AND IF YOU THINK THAT THAT'S WRONG, 24 THAT'S FINE. IF YOU THINK THAT I AM A TERRIBLE PERSON, 25 THAT'S FINE. IF YOU THINK THAT I AM AN AWFUL ADVOCATE AND FEBRUARY 23, 2012 123 1 SABOTEUR, FINE WITH ME. 2 BUT YOU CANNOT EXPECT ME TO ALLOW SOMETHING TO 3 HAPPEN YEAR AFTER YEAR AFTER YEAR AND THEN TO STAND THERE 4 AND WATCH IT HAPPEN OVER AND OVER AGAIN. I AM NOT GOING 5 TO DO THAT. AND I AM NOT GOING TO MAKE EVERYONE HAPPY, 6 AND THAT'S FINE WITH ME. BUT LET'S JUST BE CLEAR ABOUT 7 THE RECORD BEFORE WE START STATING WHAT I DID AND WHAT I 8 HAVEN'T DONE OR WHAT I SHOULD HAVE DONE. 9 I AM MOVED BY THE DEBATE. AND I THINK THAT ALL 10 OF US HAVE COME TO A GENERAL CONSENSUS ABOUT WHAT WE 11 SHOULD BE DOING. 12 AND THAT'S WHY I AM GOING TO PROPOSE AN 13 AMENDMENT TO ADD AT THE END OF "SACRAMENTO" A COMMA "AND 14 STRONGLY ENCOURAGE A SIMILAR EFFORT IN SAN FRANCISCO." 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SO THAT'S A MOTION. 16 TRUSTEE JACKSON: SECOND. 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED FOR AMENDMENT. 18 TRUSTEE NGO: THANK YOU FOR SECONDING IT. 19 AGAIN, I DON'T DISAGREE WITH MARCHING. I KNOW 20 THAT A LOT OF US HERE, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO HAVE DEALT 21 WITH ADVERSITY OR ARE HERE BECAUSE OF MARCHES. LET'S NOT 22 CONFLATE THOSE TWO CONCEPTS ABOUT MARCHING AND ABOUT A 23 SOLID CRITIQUE ABOUT WHERE THEY WE'RE MARCHING TO. 24 WE CAN KEEP ON TALKING, YES. BUT IF WE ARE 25 TALKING TO A WALL, SOMETHING DOES NOT MAKE SENSE. IT'S FEBRUARY 23, 2012 124 1 NOT CLEAR WHY WE SHOULD BE TALKING TO A WALL, AND THAT'S 2 JUST MY POSITION. 3 SO I WOULD URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO ADOPT THIS WHAT 4 I BELIEVE TO BE A CONSENSUS VIEW THAT WE SHOULD MAKE OUR 5 VOICES HEARD EVERYWHERE. I DIDN'T ADD DC, ALTHOUGH I 6 THINK WE SHOULD REALLY CONSIDER IT. AND I WOULD REQUEST 7 AT SOME POINT THE CHANCELLOR REPORT BACK ON OUR EFFORTS, 8 OUR STRATEGY, ON HOW WE ARE MAKING INROADS IN WASHINGTON 9 DC AND IN SAN FRANCISCO. I WOULD LIKE THAT TO TAKE PLACE 10 BECAUSE I HAVE A STRONG IMPRESSION THAT IT'S NOT 11 HAPPENING. 12 AND I WOULD URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO ADOPT THIS 13 AMENDMENT. WE CAN COME TOGETHER AND MOVE ON. THANK YOU. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. I WOULD JUST URGE 15 EVERYONE WE HAVE A LOT OF THINGS STILL ON THE AGENDA, SOME 16 OF THEM VERY IMPORTANT. SO IF YOU ABSOLUTELY DON'T HAVE 17 TO SAY SOMETHING, I MEAN PLEASE DON'T. 18 SO I WILL ASK IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION ON THE 19 AMENDMENT? 20 NO DISCUSSION. 21 IS THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE AMENDMENT? 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, STUDENT TRUSTEE, YOUR 23 VOTE ON THE AMENDMENT. 24 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): NAY. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? FEBRUARY 23, 2012 125 1 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 2 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: AYE. 3 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 4 TRUSTEE MARKS: AYE. 5 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 7 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 9 OKAY, THE AMENDMENT CARRIES. 10 SO NOW A VOTE ON THE AMENDED S3. 11 WE'VE ALREADY HAD PUBLIC COMMENT. 12 STUDENT TRUSTEE, YOUR VOTE ON THE AMENDED S3. 13 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 15 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 16 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: AYE. 17 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 18 TRUSTEE MARKS: AYE. 19 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 21 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 23 OKAY, S3 IS APPROVED AS AMENDED. 24 AND IF THERE'S NO OBJECTION, TRUSTEES, I WOULD 25 LIKE TO TAKE A TEN MINUTE BREAK. WE WILL BE BACK IN TEN FEBRUARY 23, 2012 126 1 MINUTES. 2 (RECESS TAKEN.) 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEES, IF WE COULD RETURN. 4 OKAY, WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH PEOPLE YET, OKAY. 5 OKAY, WE HAVE FOUR TRUSTEES, ONE, TWO, THREE, 6 FOUR. 7 WE ARE BACK IN SESSION. I HAVE BEEN ASKED TO 8 TAKE ONE -- SOMEONE HAS TO LEAVE TO. LET'S TAKE ITEM S6 9 OUT OF ORDER. 10 COUNSEL, WOULD YOU READ THE RESOLUTION. 11 COUNSEL DICKEY: ITEM S6 IS ENTITLED, "STRATEGY 12 FOR IMPROVING EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN FACULTY RECRUITMENT AND 13 SELECTION." 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THERE A MOTION FOR S6 WEEK? 15 TRUSTEE JACKSON: I WILL MOVE IT. 16 TRUSTEE BERG: SECOND. 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE JACKSON; 18 SECONDED BY TRUSTEE BERG. 19 I'M JUST GOING TO POINT OUT THAT THIS IS 20 IRREGULAR BECAUSE WE ARE SUPPOSED TO SEND OUR RESOLUTIONS 21 TO COMMITTEE BEFORE THE BOARD VOTES ON THEM, SO I AM JUST 22 POINTING THAT OUT TO THE COMMITTEE. 23 TRUSTEE NGO: POINT OF ORDER. 24 I DON'T THINK THAT'S CORRECT. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WELL, I'M NOT -- FEBRUARY 23, 2012 127 1 TRUSTEE NGO: THAT WOULD BE -- I RESPECT YOUR 2 OPINION, BUT THERE'S NOTHING -- THERE'S NO PROPOSAL HERE. 3 IT IS JUST A REQUEST THAT THE ADMINISTRATION -- THAT THE 4 ADMINISTRATION COME BACK WITH A PROPOSAL AT WHICH POINT I 5 THINK IT WILL BE RIGHT FOR IT TO BE SENT TO COMMITTEE. 6 IF THIS IS A STANDARD WE ARE APPLYING TO ALL OUR 7 RESOLUTIONS, THEN EVERYTHING ON THIS S AGENDA NEEDS TO BE 8 SENT BACK TO COMMITTEE, WHICH I DON'T THINK WE'VE 9 TRADITIONALLY DONE. WE'VE TAKEN S RESOLUTIONS FOR THE 10 FIRST TIME AT THE BOARD LEVEL I THINK AS A MATTER OF 11 PRACTICE. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, OKAY. WE HAVE A LONG 13 MEETING AHEAD OF US. SO LET'S JUST NOT BELABOR THIS 14 POINT. 15 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE. 17 TRUSTEE NGO: THANK YOU. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 19 TRUSTEE JACKSON: YOU KNOW, THANK YOU, PRESIDENT 20 RIZZO. 21 IT IS MY HOPE THAT THIS RESOLUTION, YOU KNOW, IS 22 SENT -- SENT RECOMMENDATIONS, YOU KNOW, FROM THE 23 CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE THAT THE CHANCELLOR WORK WITH ALL THE 24 CONSTITUENCY GROUPS, ALL INTERESTED PARTIES. AND WE 25 REALLY HAVE A BOTTOM UP APPROACH TO THIS ISSUE. THIS FEBRUARY 23, 2012 128 1 ISSUE CAN BE CONTROVERSIAL. I AM HOPING THAT WE ALL KIND 2 OF COME TOGETHER AND, YOU KNOW, JUST WORK ON IT. THERE'S 3 A LOT OF STUFF WE DON'T KNOW. AND A LOT OF STUFF THAT WE 4 NEED TO LEARN BEFORE WE EVEN MAKE ANY JUDGEMENTS ABOUT, 5 YOU KNOW, ISSUES OF DIVERSITY. 6 AND SO IT'S MY HOPE THAT WE ALL KIND OF HAVE A 7 GRASSROOTS MOMENT AND REALLY KIND OF WORK THIS POLICY UP 8 AND WORK WITH THE CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE, WORK WITH ALL 9 INTERESTED PARTIES. AND, YOU KNOW, HAVE SOMETHING, YOU 10 KNOW, IN TERMS OF A RECOMMENDATION THAT'S READY. 11 SO THAT'S ALL I AM GOING TO SAY. I KNOW WE HAVE 12 A LONG AGENDA. THANK YOU. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? 14 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: THERE WAS JUST A 15 CORRECTION. THE LAST SENTENCE OF THE RECOMMENDATION 16 SHOULD READ, "THE CHANCELLOR WILL RETURN" SO WE NEED TO 17 JUST STRIKEOUT THE "TO," T-O, "TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ON 18 APRIL 26TH, 2012 WITH THE POLICY BLUEPRINT, ALONG WITH 19 DETAILED INFORMATION, AND A TIMELINE FOR IMPLEMENTATION." 20 IT'S MINOR. 21 WHAT'S IMPORTANT -- 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 23 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: -- IS THE RESOLUTION. 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I DON'T THINK -- THAT'S A 25 CORRECTION. I DON'T THINK WE NEED AN A MOTION FOR AN FEBRUARY 23, 2012 129 1 AMENDMENT. 2 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: OKAY. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: GOOD. 4 ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? 5 TRUSTEE NGO: MR. PRESIDENT. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEP. 7 TRUSTEE NGO: MAY I ADD MY NAME TO THE SPONSOR 8 LIST? 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SURE. 10 TRUSTEE NGO: THANK YOU. 11 NO PUBLIC COMMENT? 12 THERE WAS SOMEONE WHO TOLD ME THAT THEY -- WE 13 HAD TO DO THIS NOW BECAUSE THEY HAD TO LEAVE. OKAY. 14 MS. WILLIAMS: HI, BOARD. MY NAME IS JESSICA 15 WILLIAMS, AND I AM THE COORDINATOR OF OUR TWO FACULTY 16 DIVERSITY INTERNSHIP PROGRAMS HERE AT CITY COLLEGE. AND I 17 STARTED HERE AT CITY COLLEGE AS A FACULTY DIVERSITY INTERN 18 MYSELF. AND REALLY IT'S BEEN SUCH AN HONOR TO WORK IN 19 THIS CAPACITY. AND I REALLY LOVE WHAT I'VE DONE, PROBABLY 20 MORE THAN ANYTHING ASIDE FROM OUR STUDENTS, AND THEY ARE 21 PRETTY AWESOME, SO THAT'S SAYING A LOT. 22 IN WORKING WITH OUR GROW YOUR OWN AND OUR 23 FACULTY DIVERSITY INTERNSHIP PROGRAM, I FOUND A LOT OF 24 KIND OF COMMONSENSE POLICY CHANGES THAT COULD BE MADE 25 WITHOUT SPENDING A LOT OF MONEY THAT ARE JUST KIND OF FEBRUARY 23, 2012 130 1 COMMONSENSE TWEAKS TOO. 2 FOR EXAMPLE, IN THE LAST YEAR WE DECIDED TO GO 3 AHEAD AND INSTEAD OF JUST ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FROM 4 ANYONE FOR INTERNSHIPS, WE TRIED TO REALLY GO FORTH AND 5 TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHICH DEPARTMENTS WERE ACTUALLY GOING TO 6 BE HIRING, YOU KNOW, IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS AND THEN 7 GOING OUT AND DOING RECRUITING. 8 AND FROM THAT, I STARTED TO KIND OF REALIZE HOW 9 EVERYBODY ELSE WAS DOING ALL THIS AMAZING RECRUITING, BOTH 10 KIND OF DIVERSITY-BASED RECRUITING AND RECRUITING OVERALL. 11 AND I WAS REALLY KIND OF AMAZED THAT WHEN I WAS GOING TO 12 BERKELEY AND TO STANFORD AND TO STATE AND TO HAYWARD STATE 13 HOW EVERYBODY ELSE HAD KIND OF A FOOTPRINT THERE AND KIND 14 OF HOW WE WEREN'T -- WE DIDN'T HAVE A FOOTPRINT. AND I 15 KNOW THOSE STUDENTS WOULD LOVE TO COME AND WORK HERE. 16 SO I REALLY THINK IT WOULD BE GREAT FOR THE 17 COLLEGE TO TAKE A LOOK, USE ITS INSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES TO 18 FIGURE OUT WHAT WOULD BE THE BEST STRATEGIES AND PRACTICES 19 TO ENSURE THAT WE ARE DOING WHAT WE CAN DO TO GET THE BEST 20 AND THE BRIGHTEST HERE AT CITY COLLEGE. 21 AND I WOULD BE HAPPY TO ALSO WORK ALONGSIDE MY 22 COLLEAGUES AND GIVE THE INPUT OF WHAT I'VE LEARNED 23 THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS. AND I'VE ALSO DONE QUITE A BIT OF 24 KIND OF READING EXTERNAL READING AT THE ACADEMIC RESEARCH 25 ON THIS TOPIC AS WELL THAT I WOULD LOVE TO SHARE WITH YOU FEBRUARY 23, 2012 131 1 GUYS, SO PLEASE SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 3 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: THANK YOU. 4 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: THANK YOU. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: KAREN SAGINOR. 6 MS. SAGINOR: KAREN SAGINOR. 7 I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK IN SUPPORT OF THIS 8 RESOLUTION. A FEW WEEKS AGO I ATTENDED AN ORIENTATION 9 PROVIDED BY HUMAN RESOURCES FOR FACULTY WHO ARE PREPARING 10 TO SERVE ON SEARCH COMMITTEES. 11 I OBSERVED THAT THE ORIENTATION THAT WE GIVE TO 12 FACULTY WHO ARE GOING TO HIRE OTHER FACULTY COVERS THE 13 REQUIREMENT THAT THE MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS FOR CCSF 14 FACULTY INCLUDE UNDERSTANDING OF AND SENSITIVITY TO THE 15 DIVERSE ACADEMIC, SOCIOECONOMIC, CULTURAL, DISABLED, 16 SEXUAL ORIENTATION, AND ETHNIC BACKGROUNDS OF CALIFORNIA 17 COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS. 18 HOWEVER, THE ORIENTATION DOES NOT INCLUDE 19 INFORMATION ABOUT THE TRENDS THAT ARE DESCRIBED IN THE 20 FIRST TWO WHEREASES OF RESOLUTION S6, NOR DOES IT INCLUDE 21 THE DATA ABOUT FACULTY THAT'S PRESENTED TO THE BOARD. FOR 22 INSTANCE, IN A REPORT THAT'S TONIGHT, THAT REPORT ABOUT 23 FACULTY. 24 THE FOLKS WHO ARE PREPARING TO HIRE FACULTY, 25 THEY DON'T SEE THAT INFORMATION. I THINK IT WOULD BE FEBRUARY 23, 2012 132 1 HELPFUL FOR THERE TO BE A CLOSER ALIGNMENT BETWEEN THE 2 INFORMATION THAT HR PROVIDES TO YOU AND THE INFORMATION 3 THAT HR PROVIDES TO FACULTY DURING THE ORIENTATION. 4 RIGHT NOW, THIS IS JUST MY PERSONAL OBSERVATION. 5 I WILL BE TAKING THAT OBSERVATION TO THE ACADEMIC SENATE, 6 TO HUMAN RESOURCES, AND TO THE CHANCELLOR. I LOOK FORWARD 7 TO WORKING ON THIS. 8 AND BY MAKING THIS COMMENT AT THIS MEETING 9 THAT'S WATCHED BY MANY FACULTY OVER THE WEB AND ON CABLE 10 TELEVISION, I HOPE THAT I AM ALREADY INCREASING AWARENESS 11 OF THIS ISSUE, SO THANK YOU. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: CAN I ASK A QUESTION? 13 THERE'S NO CHECK MARKS AT ALL FOR SHARED 14 GOVERNANCE "YES" OR "NO." IT'S COMPLETELY MISSING FROM 15 THIS RESOLUTION, WHICH IS ALSO NOT OUR PRACTICE. 16 IS THERE -- WAS THERE SHARED GOVERNANCE -- 17 MS. SAGINOR: WE WERE NOT ASKED. NO, THERE WAS 18 NO SHARED GOVERNANCE REVIEW. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WAS THERE SHARED GOVERNANCE 20 REQUIRED FOR THIS? 21 THERE'S NO CHECK BOX HERE. 22 MS. SAGINOR: I THINK THERE NEEDS TO BE -- WHAT 23 YOU ARE DOING IS DIRECTING THE CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE TO DO A 24 BUNCH OF WORK. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 133 1 MS. SAGINOR: I THINK THAT IF AT THE END OF 2 THAT, THERE'S SOME PROPOSALS, THERE WOULD NEED TO BE 3 SHARED GOVERNANCE REVIEW OF SPECIFIC PROPOSALS. BUT RIGHT 4 NOW -- 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 6 MS. SAGINOR: -- THERE ISN'T A SPECIFIC PROPOSAL 7 SO. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 9 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT'S 10 WHY THIS WAS WARRANTED THE WAY IT WAS IS WE ARE DIRECTING 11 THE CHANCELLOR, WITH THE CHANCELLOR'S 40 YEARS OF 12 KNOWLEDGE WITHIN THIS INSTITUTION. HE IS GOING TO WORK 13 WITH ALL CONSTITUENCY GROUPS FROM THE GRASSROOTS UP. AND 14 SO WHEN THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS COME DOWN, WHICHEVER ONES, 15 YOU KNOW, REQUIRE A SHARED GOVERNANCE, YOU KNOW, OVERLOOK, 16 YOU KNOW, THEY WILL DEFINITELY GO TO THE SHARED 17 GOVERNANCE. 18 AND SO, YOU KNOW, THIS IS JUST DIRECTED TO THE 19 CHANCELLOR. HE WILL WORK WITH ALL CONSTITUENCY GROUPS AND 20 INTERESTED PARTIES TO BRING THIS ISSUE, YOU KNOW, TO THE 21 TABLE. 22 MS. SAGINOR: I DO SEE THAT OUR SHARED 23 GOVERNANCE COORDINATOR IS IN THE ROOM. 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THAT'S OKAY. I THINK -- 25 MS. SAGINOR: OKAY. THANKS. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 134 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I THINK WE SHOULD JUST MOVE 2 ALONG. I THINK WE ARE FINE. THANK YOU. 3 ANY OTHER PUBLIC COMMENT? 4 OKAY, WE WILL CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENTS. 5 FURTHER DISCUSSION, TRUSTEES? 6 NO, NO DISCUSSION. 7 TRUSTEE FANG. 8 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY 10 "AYE." 11 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 12 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: AYE. 13 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 14 TRUSTEE MARKS: AYE. 15 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 17 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 19 S6 IS APPROVED. 20 I WANTED -- BEFORE IT GOT TOO LATE, I WANTED TO 21 DO B6 WHICH HAS TO DO WITH THE CHANCELLOR'S SEARCH. AND 22 THIS SHOULD JUST TAKE FIVE MINUTES. 23 SO B6 WAS SUPPOSED TO BE AN APPROVAL TO CONTRACT 24 WITH A EXECUTIVE SEARCH FIRM FOR THE CHANCELLOR'S SEARCH. 25 UNFORTUNATELY, WE DID NOT GET ENOUGH BIDS BACK IN TIME FOR FEBRUARY 23, 2012 135 1 TODAY'S MEETING. 2 HOWEVER, WE CAN'T REALLY WAIT ANOTHER MONTH FOR 3 THIS. SO WHAT I AM PROPOSING IS A SPECIAL MEETING, A VERY 4 SHORT SPECIAL MEETING NEXT WEEK WHERE WE CAN GET THE BIDS 5 AND JUST VOTE ON IT, SO WE CAN GET STARTED ON THE 6 CHANCELLOR SEARCH. WE DO NEED TO MOVE ON THIS NOW. 7 SO I AM PROPOSING WEDNESDAY, THE 29TH, NEXT 8 WEDNESDAY -- 9 COUNSEL DICKEY: EXCUSE ME, JOHN. 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH. 11 COUNSEL DICKEY: THE CURRENT BID PERIOD DOESN'T 12 CLOSE UNTIL MARCH 2ND. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MARCH 2ND? 14 COUNSEL DICKEY: MARCH 2ND. SO ON THE 29TH, 15 THERE WON'T BE ANYBODY WE CAN -- RATHER DO PROPOSALS 16 (INAUDIBLE). IT WOULDN'T HAVE CLOSED YET. 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WHY IS THAT? 18 COUNSEL DICKEY: THAT WAS THE -- 19 MS. STARR: WE HAD TO EXTEND IT. AND WE 20 CONTACTED ALL THE PEOPLE THAT APPLIED LAST TIME. AND WE 21 CONTACTED SOME ADDITIONAL PEOPLE. AND WE EXTENDED IT TO 22 MARCH 2ND BECAUSE PEOPLE SAID THEY NEEDED MORE TIME. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WELL, THIS IS A PROBLEM. YOU 24 KNOW I UNDERSTAND THAT THESE PEOPLE WERE NOT CONTACTED 25 BEFORE JUST RECENTLY WHEN THEY SHOULD HAVE. WE HAD A FEBRUARY 23, 2012 136 1 MONTH WHERE NOTHING HAPPENED. WE APPROVED THIS IN JANUARY 2 FOR A REASON BECAUSE WE REALLY NEED TO MOVE ON THIS. 3 MS. STARR: YES. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AND THEN, YOU KNOW, I LEARNED 5 THAT NOTHING HAD HAPPENED. 6 MS. STARR: NO. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: UNTIL RECENTLY. 8 MS. STARR: WE -- 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AND NOW -- 10 MS. STARR: WE ADVERTISED THAT IN THE NEWSPAPER. 11 NOBODY APPLIED FOR IT. USUALLY, YOU DON'T HAVE TO CONTACT 12 EACH INDIVIDUAL COMPANY AND TELL THEM TO APPLY. USUALLY, 13 IT'S AN AD. SO WE CONTACTED THEM WHEN WE SAW THAT WE 14 DIDN'T HAVE WHEN WE RETURNED ON TUESDAY. 15 AND I CALLED YOU. AND AT THAT SAME TIME I 16 INFORMED YOU THAT I THOUGHT THE BEST DAY WAS MARCH 2ND. 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. SO WE ARE LOOKING AT 18 THE WEEK AFTER MARCH 2ND. 19 MS. STARR: RIGHT. REMEMBER I SAID, MAYBE WE 20 COULD TRY SOMETHING MARCH 7TH, 8TH, 9TH, THAT WEEK, THE 21 SECOND WEEK OF MARCH. 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MARCH 7TH IS THE BUDGET 23 COMMITTEE. WE COULD HAVE IT BEFORE OR AFTER THE BUDGET 24 COMMITTEE. 25 TRUSTEE NGO: I THINK THAT WAS GOING TO BE HER FEBRUARY 23, 2012 137 1 RECOMMENDATION. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SINCE WE HAVE FIVE -- 3 MS. STARR: OKAY. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: -- BOARD MEMBERS. 5 IS THAT OKAY WITH TRUSTEES TO HAVE IT -- 6 PROBABLY BEFORE THE BUDGET COMMITTEE BECAUSE IT'S THE 7TH. 7 TRUSTEE NGO: MARCH 7TH. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SO WE WILL GET A TIME 5:30. 9 IT SHOULDN'T TAKE LONG. IT REALLY SHOULDN'T TAKE LONG. 10 TRUSTEE NGO: AND EVERYBODY CAN CONFIRM THEY'LL 11 BE THERE. 12 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: I WILL BE HERE. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: GREAT. 14 TRUSTEE BERG: WHAT TIME? 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: 5:30. 16 TRUSTEE NGO: MARCH 7TH, 5:30. 17 TRUSTEE BERG: OKAY. 18 TRUSTEE NGO: I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE 19 QUORUM, MR. CHAIR. 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH, WHO CAN BE THERE? 21 TRUSTEE -- TRUSTEE GRIER, TRUSTEE BERG. I CAN 22 BE THERE. TRUSTEE WONG WILL TRY. IT'S THE 7TH. 23 TRUSTEE NGO: WE ALREADY HAVE A BUDGET MEETING 24 SET FOR THAT NIGHT. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH, THAT WORKS. THAT WORKS FEBRUARY 23, 2012 138 1 WELL. SO YOU'LL HAVE, HOPEFULLY, YOU AND PLURAL, NOT YOU 2 SPECIFICALLY, EVALUATED THEM. 3 MS. STARR: IT WILL PROBABLY JUST BE SINGULAR. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IT WILL PROBABLY BE JUST YOU, 5 OKAY. 6 MS. STARR: BUT I WILL PUT THAT ALTOGETHER. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 8 MS. STARR: AND HAVE IT FOR YOU GUYS ON THAT 9 DAY. 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. THAT SOUNDS LIKE IT 11 WILL WORK VERY WELL. 12 TRUSTEE MARKS: ARE WE DOING THIS IN OPEN 13 SESSION OR CLOSED SESSION? 14 TRUSTEE NGO: OPEN SESSION. 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPEN SESSION. 16 TRUSTEE MARKS: SO WHAT HAPPENS IF WE DON'T HAVE 17 ANYBODY BY THE 2ND OR THE 7TH, ANY BIDS? 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I CAN'T IMAGINE THAT THERE'S 19 NO SEARCH FIRM THAT WANTS A JOB. I DON'T UNDERSTAND IT, 20 BUT WE WILL DO OUR BEST. 21 OKAY, THANK YOU, TRUSTEES. 22 LET'S GO BACK TO THE REGULAR ORDER OF AGENDA, 23 WHICH I THINK IS THE APPROVAL OF CONSENT CALENDAR ITEMS -- 24 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: YES. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: -- IF I REMEMBER. YES. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 139 1 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: YEAH. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, SO LET'S GO THROUGH THE 3 CONSENT CALENDAR ITEMS. 4 CAPITAL OUTLAY, WE HAVE B2, WHICH IS NOW ON THE 5 CONSENT CALENDAR. 6 COUNSEL, WOULD YOU MIND READING THAT INTO THE 7 RECORD. 8 COUNSEL DICKEY: B2 IS ENTITLED, "AUTHORIZATION 9 FOR ONE CONTRACT MODIFICATION TOTALING $0.00 FOR SPECIAL 10 SERVICES CONTRACTS AND CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS." 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, DOES ANYONE -- DOES ANY 12 TRUSTEE WANT TO TAKE THAT OFF THE CONSENT CALENDAR? 13 IS THERE ANYONE IN THE ROOM OR IN THE PUBLIC WHO 14 WANTS TO TAKE THAT OFF THE CONSENT CALENDAR? 15 SEEING NONE, TRUSTEE FANG. 16 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 18 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 19 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: AYE. 20 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 21 TRUSTEE MARKS: AYE. 22 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 24 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? FEBRUARY 23, 2012 140 1 B2 IS APPROVED. 2 GRANTS AND CONTRACTS, WE HAVE ONE ITEM, B4. 3 COUNSEL. 4 COUNSEL DICKEY: ITEM B4 IS ENTITLED, 5 "AUTHORIZATION TO APPROVE NEW CONTRACTS AND MODIFY 6 EXISTING CONTRACTS." 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, IS THERE A MOTION FOR 8 B4? 9 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: I MOVE FOR APPROVAL. 10 TRUSTEE BERG: SECOND. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE BERG; 12 MOVED BY TRUSTEE FANG. 13 DOES ANYONE WANT TO TAKE IT OFF THE CALENDAR? 14 NOPE. 15 TRUSTEE FANG, YOUR VOTE. 16 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 18 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 19 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: AYE. 20 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 21 TRUSTEE MARKS: AYE. 22 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 24 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? FEBRUARY 23, 2012 141 1 B5 IS APPROVED. 2 WE HAVE HUMAN RESOURCES -- NO, EQUIPMENT, 3 SUPPLIES, AND SERVICES, C3. 4 TRUSTEE WONG: I'D LIKE TO PULL THAT. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YOU WANT TO PULL THAT? 6 TRUSTEE WONG: YES. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, WELL, WE WILL TAKE THAT 8 OFF THE CALENDAR. 9 TRUSTEE WONG: CONSENT CALENDAR. 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: CONSENT CALENDAR. 11 HUMAN RESOURCES, G1-13, H1-3, AND N1 AND N2, IS 12 THERE ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO REMOVE THAT, ANY OF THOSE 13 FROM THE CONSENT CALENDAR? 14 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: I MOVE FOR APPROVAL. 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: HOLD ON. 16 NO ONE IN THE AUDIENCE. 17 OKAY, SO IT'S MOVED BY STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG. 18 IS THERE A SECOND? 19 WOULD SOMEONE LIKE TO SECOND THOSE CONSENT 20 ITEMS? 21 TRUSTEE BERG: SECOND. 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE BERG. 23 THANK YOU. 24 STUDENT TRUSTEE. 25 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 142 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 2 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 3 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: AYE. 4 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 5 TRUSTEE MARKS: AYE. 6 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 8 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 10 OKAY, THE HUMAN RESOURCES ARE APPROVED. 11 SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS, WE HAVE S1 AND S2. 12 WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO REMOVE THOSE FROM CONSENT? 13 ANYONE IN THE PUBLIC TO REMOVE THOSE FROM 14 CONSENT? 15 COUNSEL, COULD YOU READ THOSE INTO THE RECORD. 16 COUNSEL DICKEY: S1 IS ENTITLED, "APPROVAL OF 17 TENURE STATUS FOR SELECTED FACULTY MEMBERS." 18 AND S2 IS ENTITLED, "APPROVAL OF EARLY TENURE 19 STATUS FOR SELECTED FACULTY MEMBERS." 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, IS THERE A MOTION FOR S1 21 AND S2? 22 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: I MOVE FOR APPROVAL. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE FANG. 24 SECOND BY SOMEONE OVER HERE? 25 TRUSTEE JACKSON: SECOND. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 143 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE JACKSON. 2 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 3 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 4 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: AYE. 5 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 6 TRUSTEE MARKS: AYE. 7 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 9 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 10 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 12 OKAY, S1 AND S2 ARE APPROVED. THAT IS THE 13 CONSENT CALENDAR. 14 SO NOW WE HAVE DISCUSSION ITEMS, ACCOUNTABILITY 15 REPORTING FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGES. 16 STEVE SPURLING. 17 HE IS NOT HERE. 18 MS. MERY: THIS IS PAM MERY FROM THE DIVISION OF 19 RESEARCH AND POLICY. AND MY COLLEAGUE, STEVE SPURLING, I 20 AM GOING TO BE PREFACING THE DISCUSSION WITH A FEW 21 OVERVIEW STATEMENTS. AND THEN STEVE WHO HAS DONE THE BULK 22 OF THE WORK ON THIS CAN RESPOND TO ANY KIND OF DETAILED 23 QUESTIONS OR DELVE INTO IT A LITTLE BIT MORE. 24 SO I BELIEVE YOU ALL HAVE THIS PACKET IN FRONT 25 OF YOU THAT'S TITLED, "A REPORT TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES FEBRUARY 23, 2012 144 1 REGARDING ARCC: ACCOUNTABILITY REPORTING FOR COMMUNITY 2 COLLEGES." 3 THERE ARE THREE ITEMS CONTAINED WITHIN IT. 4 TRUSTEE NGO: IS IT THIS? WAS IT PUT AT OUR 5 DESK? 6 MS. MERY: I WAS INFORMED THAT IT WAS. 7 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: IS THIS IT (INDICATING)? 8 MS. MERY: YES. 9 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: OKAY, DO WE HAVE ALL 10 THEM, NO. 11 TRUSTEE NGO: DO YOU HAVE AN EXTRA COPY? 12 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: IT IS THREE PARTS? 13 MS. MERY: THERE ARE THREE PARTS. I HAVE ONE 14 ADDITIONAL COPY. 15 MR. SPURLING: THEY DON'T HAVE IT. 16 MS. MERY: I THINK THAT WE MAY HAVE TO COME BACK 17 BECAUSE WE ARE NOT GOING TO REALLY BE ABLE TO TALK ABOUT 18 THIS WITHOUT YOU HAVING IT IN FRONT OF YOU. I WAS 19 INFORMED THAT YOU ALL HAD COPIES. 20 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: I THINK IT'S AT THE BACK OF 21 THE CHANCELLOR'S -- 22 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: YEAH, IT WAS IN OUR 23 PACKET. 24 TRUSTEE WONG: IT WAS. 25 MS. MERY: OKAY, IT WAS IN THE PACKET, AND THERE FEBRUARY 23, 2012 145 1 WERE ALSO COPIES ON THE TABLE IN THE BACK. IT'S JUST THAT 2 I DON'T HAVE ANY EXTRAS. 3 TRUSTEE NGO: CHANCELLOR, IS IT PART OF THE 4 CHANCELLOR REPORT? 5 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: YES, IT'S AT THE END OF THE 6 CHANCELLOR'S REPORT. 7 TRUSTEE NGO: OH, I SEE, THERE IT IS. I HAVE A 8 COPY. 9 MS. MERY: OH, EXCELLENT. 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE? 11 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: IT LOOKS LIKE THIS 12 (INDICATING). YOU DON'T HAVE ONE? 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH. 14 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: HERE TAKE MINE. I'VE SEEN 15 IT. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 17 MS. MERY: SO NOW THAT I BELIEVE MOST OF YOU 18 HAVE IT IN FRONT OF YOU. THERE ARE THREE PIECES TO THIS: 19 THE 2011 ARCC REPORT, AND THIS IS PAGES 116 TO 20 121 OUT OF THE GIANT STATEWIDE REPORT THAT SHOWS CREDIT. 21 AND THEN THE NONCREDIT SECTION, WHICH IS PAGES 596 TO 601. 22 AND THEN IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE'VE PROVIDED YOU WITH ONE 23 ADDITIONAL SHEET AT THE BACK. IT'S A SPREADSHEET WHERE 24 WE'VE INCLUDED THE DRAFT 2012 DATA, ONE ADDITIONAL YEAR'S 25 WORTH OF DATA. SO YOU HAVE FOUR DATA POINTS. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 146 1 THE OVERVIEW HERE IS THAT THERE ARE SEVEN 2 MEASURES THAT THE COLLEGE IS REVIEWED ON IN TERMS OF 3 CREDIT PERFORMANCE, STUDENT PERFORMANCE, AND ONE MEASURE 4 IN NONCREDIT. AND WE CAN LOOK AT THOSE MEASURES COMPARING 5 TO OURSELVES LONGITUDINALLY HOW WE'VE DONE OVER TIME, ARE 6 WE IMPROVING? 7 WE CAN COMPARE OURSELVES TO A SET OF PEER GROUPS 8 THAT THE STATE HAS DETERMINED FOR US THAT ARE CREATED 9 THROUGH A STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY OR WE CAN COMPARE 10 OURSELVES TO A SET OF COMPARISONS, WHICH ARE INSTITUTIONS 11 THAT WE HAVE IDENTIFIED WHO WE FEEL WE SHOULD BE 12 PERFORMING SIMILAR TO AND JUDGING HOW IS OUR PERFORMANCE. 13 AND ON THE BASIS OF ALL THREE OF THOSE, WE'RE ON 14 THE WHOLE DOING REASONABLY WELL. THERE ARE A FEW AREAS 15 THAT STAND OUT AS EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD. THE ESL IMPROVEMENT 16 RATE, FOR EXAMPLE, COMPARED TO OUR PEER GROUP, WE ARE THE 17 HIGHEST WITHIN THE PEER GROUP. SO THAT IS NOTEWORTHY. 18 IN TERMS OF CONCERNS, THE BASIC SKILLS 19 COMPLETION, WHICH IS TABLE 1.4. RIGHT NOW, THE TREND LINE 20 IS GOING DOWN A BIT. IT'S GONE FROM A 64, 65 PERCENT 21 COMPLETION TO A 62 PERCENT COMPLETION. SO THAT'S NOT A 22 HUGE DROP, BUT IT CERTAINLY IS NOT THE DIRECTION THAT WE 23 WANT TO GO IN. 24 SO THAT'S THE OVERVIEW OF THE REPORT. AND I 25 GUESS NOW WOULD BE A GOOD TIME FOR ME TO TURN IT OVER TO FEBRUARY 23, 2012 147 1 STEVE IF YOU HAVE PARTICULAR QUESTIONS ABOUT ANY OF THE 2 MEASURES OR ANY OF THE TREND LINES. 3 MR. SPURLING: LET ME SAY ONE THING. THE MOST 4 IMPORTANT MEASURE IS THE FIRST ONE, THE SPAR RATE. WE 5 TALKED ABOUT THIS LAST TIME I WAS HERE TO PRESENT ON THE 6 ARCC REPORT. THE SPAR RATE HAS BEEN RELATIVELY FLAT. 7 AND I THINK IT WAS YOU, PRESIDENT RIZZO, WHO 8 MENTIONED SOMETHING TO THE EFFECT, WAS THIS REPRESENTATIVE 9 OF CITY COLLEGE STUDENTS IN GENERAL? 10 IN FACT THE SPAR RATE COHORTS IS ABOUT THREE TO 11 4,000 STUDENTS WHICH REPRESENTS 30 TO 40 PERCENT OF NEW 12 FIRST TIME STUDENTS. SO THESE COHORTS THAT THEY ARE 13 TRACKING ARE IN SOME CASES NOT ALL THAT REPRESENTATIVE OF 14 THE OVERALL POPULATION. 15 TRUSTEE NGO: STEVE, YOU ALSO MENTIONED LAST 16 YEAR THAT THE CONDENSED SEQUENCING PILOTS -- I'M NOT SURE 17 YOU THOUGHT THAT THE HIGH SCHOOL PRIORITY ENROLLMENT PILOT 18 WAS INCLUDED IN YOUR ASSESSMENT THAT YOU COULD EXPECT 19 INCREASES IN SOME OF THESE MEASURES. I KNOW THE ENGLISH 20 DEPARTMENT HAD ESTIMATED THAT WE WOULD DOUBLE THE AMOUNT 21 OF PEOPLE COMPLETING THE NEW SEQUENCE AND REDUCING BY HALF 22 THOSE WHO ARE REPEATING IT. 23 MR. SPURLING: RIGHT. 24 TRUSTEE NGO: ARE YOU -- 25 MR. SPURLING: YOU KNOW WHAT, I DON'T THINK -- I FEBRUARY 23, 2012 148 1 THINK THIS DATA IS STILL TOO FAR IN THE PAST TO REALLY 2 PICK THAT UP. 3 I HAVE LOOKED AT THE PRIORITY REGISTRATION 4 PEOPLE, AS HAS A AND R. AND THEY ARE DOING VERY WELL. 5 THE PILOT GROUP INVOLVED 2010. THEY'RE PERSISTING AT A 6 95 PERCENT RATE FROM TERM TO TERM. THEY ARE PASSING 7 75 PERCENT OF THEIR UNITS. THEY ARE TAKING 12 TO 13 UNITS 8 PER TERM. AT THAT RATE, WE SHOULD HAVE QUITE A BOOST IN 9 THEIR SUCCESS RATES. 10 AS FOR THE INTENSIFICATION IN ENGLISH AND 11 MATHEMATICS, THAT SHOULD ALSO HAVE A POSITIVE EFFECT. 12 IT'S JUST TOO EARLY TO SEE IT YET. 13 OTHER THAN IN THESE SMALL COHORTS THAT JUST 14 STARTED A SEMESTER AGO OR WAS IT LAST SPRING I GUESS A 15 YEAR AGO, THEY ARE SHOWING SOME -- A GREAT DEAL OF PROMISE 16 AS WELL. 17 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. I WOULD HOPE YOU WOULD 18 INDULGE ME IF I WERE TO CONTACT YOU ABOUT SOME OF THE DATA 19 THAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT. 20 MR. SPURLING: I'D LOVE TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT IT. 21 THERE'S MANY INTERESTING THINGS THAT ONE CAN GET FROM THE 22 DATA UPON PERUSAL OF IT. 23 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY, THANK YOU. 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 25 ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? FEBRUARY 23, 2012 149 1 THANK YOU. 2 IS THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM? 3 OKAY, THANK YOU. 4 NEXT IS A DISCUSSION ITEM -- 5 YOU HAVE A PUBLIC COMMENT? 6 MS. SAGINOR: ON THE ARCC REPORT, YES. 7 I JUST WANTED TO BRING SORT OF EVERYONE'S 8 ATTENTION TO THE NUMBERS IN THE ARCC REPORT, PARTICULARLY 9 THAT ONE BOX THAT COMPARES US TO OTHER COLLEGES. 10 THE ARCC REPORT IS WHAT IS GOING TO TURN INTO 11 THE SCORECARD, RIGHT. THE STATE CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE IS 12 TAKING THIS DATA. THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME THINGS ADDED 13 TO IT. SOME THINGS SUBTRACTED FROM IT. AND BY MARCH OF 14 NEXT YEAR, THIS WILL BE WHAT WE ARE REQUIRED TO POST 15 PUBLICLY AND ON OUR WEBSITE. NOT THE COMPARISON TO OTHER 16 SCHOOLS. IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE COMPARISON TO HOW WE ARE 17 DOING IN THE PAST. BUT, OF COURSE, ANYBODY CAN ALSO 18 COMPARE IT TO OTHER SCHOOLS. BUT THIS IS GOING TO BE 19 TRANSFORMED INTO THE SCORECARD. 20 I AM CONCERNED THAT ONE OF THE THINGS THEY ARE 21 PROPOSING TO DO IS NOW THERE'S SOMETHING IN THERE THAT 22 TAKES AS A FACTOR THE SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS OF OUR 23 STUDENTS. THAT'S GOING TO BE TAKEN OUT. I MEAN I HAVE IT 24 EXACTLY RIGHT WHAT IT IS THAT IS IN THERE AND A FACTOR NOW 25 THAT'S GOING TO BE TAKEN OUT. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 150 1 THERE'S BEEN A REQUEST THAT SOMETHING THAT 2 SHOULD BE ADDED INTO THIS AS A FACTOR IS THE SOCIOECONOMIC 3 STUDENTS FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF HOW MANY ARE ELIGIBLE 4 FOR BOG FEE WAIVERS. 5 BUT SO FAR, THE STATE CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE 6 APPEARS TO BE NOT AT ALL INTERESTED IN ADDING THAT INTO 7 THE STATISTICS THAT THEY WILL COLLECT. 8 SO IF YOU WANT SORT OF A PREVIEW OF WHAT THE 9 SCORECARD IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE, TAKE A GOOD HARD LOOK AT 10 THIS. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 12 TRUSTEE JACKSON: SO CAN I ASK A QUESTION? 13 MS. SAGINOR: YES. 14 TRUSTEE JACKSON: SO WHAT'S THE OVERALL IMPACT 15 OF TAKING THAT FACTOR OUT? 16 MS. SAGINOR: I DON'T KNOW THE DETAILS OVERALL, 17 BUT I CERTAINLY WOULD EXPECT THAT IF YOU'RE -- YOU KNOW, 18 IF YOU ARE COMPARING HOW IS THIS SCHOOL DOING WITH HOW IS 19 THAT SCHOOL IS DOING -- 20 TRUSTEE JACKSON: SO IT KIND OF MAKES -- 21 MS. SAGINOR: I WOULD THINK THAT IF YOU WERE 22 LOOKING AT STUDENT SUCCESS, ONE OF THE THINGS YOU WOULD 23 WANT TO KNOW IS, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE A LOT OF FACTORS ON 24 STUDENT SUCCESS BESIDES WHAT'S HAPPENING AT SCHOOL, RIGHT? 25 TRUSTEE JACKSON: YEAH, IT MAKES IT SEEM LIKE FEBRUARY 23, 2012 151 1 EVERYBODY IS EQUAL WHEN IN TERMS -- WHEN IN ACTUALITY, YOU 2 KNOW, SOME OF US, SOME OF OUR DISTRICTS ARE TEACHING MORE 3 AT-RISK PEOPLE THAN OTHER DISTRICTS ARE. SO I UNDERSTAND 4 THAT. BUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT WAS THE RATIONALE FOR TAKING 5 THAT OUT? 6 MS. SAGINOR: THEY DIDN'T COME UP WITH A 7 RATIONALE -- I HAVEN'T SEEN A RATIONALE FOR TAKING IT OUT. 8 ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, OUR RESEARCH OFFICE MAY KNOW 9 MORE ABOUT THE RATIONALE FOR TAKING IT OUT. YOU COULD 10 PROBABLY RESPOND TO THAT BETTER THAN I. 11 MS. MERY: I ACTUALLY DON'T HAVE AN ANSWER RIGHT 12 NOW, BUT I APPRECIATE KAREN STAYING ON TOP OF IT. 13 WE HAVE A REGIONAL RESEARCHERS MEETING NEXT 14 MONTH AND ARCC IS A TOPIC OF CONVERSATION AT THAT MEETING. 15 SO I WILL CERTAINLY FOLLOW-UP AND FIND OUT MORE DETAILS. 16 IF IT WARRANTS ANOTHER CONVERSATION, I'D BE HAPPY TO COME 17 BACK AND TALK ABOUT IT SOME MORE IN TERMS OF WHAT IS GOING 18 TO BE MOVING FORWARD. 19 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AND IF WE -- IF THEY TAKE IT 20 OUT, WE CAN CERTAINLY CONTINUE TO, YOU KNOW, COLLECT THAT 21 DATA, RIGHT? 22 MS. MERY: WE COULDN'T PUT IT IN THE SCORECARD, 23 BUT THIS IS CERTAINLY -- YOU KNOW, THE ARCC IS THE WAY 24 THAT THE STATE LEGISLATURE LOOKS AT US FRANKLY. IT'S ONE 25 OF THE THINGS THAT THEY HAVE AVAILABLE TO THEM TO LOOK AT. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 152 1 BUT WHEN WE ARE LOOKING AT OURSELVES LOCALLY, THERE ARE A 2 LOT OF ADDITIONAL MEASURES. IF YOU LOOK IN THE 3 ACCREDITATION REPORT, THERE'S LOTS OF INFORMATION IN THAT 4 FRONT MATTER THAT WE LOOK AT IN TERMS OF TRYING TO ASSESS 5 HOW WE ARE DOING. AND CERTAINLY SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS IS 6 AN IMPORTANT MEASURE AND AN IMPORTANT DEMOGRAPHIC TO LOOK 7 AT. 8 TRUSTEE JACKSON: OKAY, THANK YOU. 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 10 TRUSTEE NGO: MAY I, MR. PRESIDENT? 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEP. 12 TRUSTEE NGO: SO, PAMELA, THE -- THIS DATA IS 13 ALREADY PUBLIC, RIGHT? 14 MS. MERY: YES, IT IS. 15 TRUSTEE NGO: SO WE ARE NOT -- IT'S NOT SOME 16 SORT OF SECRET THAT WE HAVE THIS PERCENTAGE OR THESE 17 PERCENTAGES? 18 MS. MERY: NO, IT'S PUBLIC. 19 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. 20 MS. MERY: THIS HAS BEEN SEVERAL YEARS NOW THAT 21 THE ARCC REPORT COMES OUT. AND IT'S ON THE STATE 22 CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE WEBSITE. AND SO ANYBODY CAN LOOK AT 23 THIS YEAR'S REPORT, LAST YEAR'S REPORT. GO THROUGH THEM, 24 LOOK AT ALL THE OTHER COLLEGES. 25 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 153 1 MS. MERY: YEAH, IT'S ALL PUBLIC INFORMATION. 2 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. AND THE DATA THAT WE HAVE 3 HERE DOES NOT CONTROL FOR SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS CURRENTLY, 4 DOES IT? 5 MS. MERY: NO. THE ONLY THING THAT THAT MIGHT 6 BE REFERRING TO, AND I AM JUST SPEAKING OFF THE TOP HERE I 7 DON'T KNOW PRECISELY. BUT THE PEER GROUPING, THE 8 STATISTICAL PEER GROUPING THAT THE STATE CHANCELLOR'S 9 OFFICE DID, DOES TAKE INTO ACCOUNT SOCIOECONOMICS OF THE 10 REGION. 11 SO, FOR EXAMPLE, THEY MIGHT LOOK AT THE 12 BACCALAUREATE INDEX, WHICH IS A SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR. 13 AND THEY MIGHT USE THE BACCALAUREATE INDEX TO SAY, WE WANT 14 TO COMPARE CITY COLLEGE TO DE ANZA OR FOOTHILL. AND, YOU 15 KNOW, IS THAT A FAIR COMPARISON OR NOT? 16 AND IT'S A LOT MORE COMPLICATED THAN THAT. IT 17 INVOLVES A WHOLE BUNCH OF REGRESSION ANALYSIS, BUT THAT'S 18 BASICALLY WHAT THE PEER GROUPINGS ARE, TAKING A BUNCH OF 19 VARIABLES AND SAYING, BASED ON THESE FIVE VARIABLES, WE 20 THINK CITY COLLEGE SHOULD BE COMPARING ITSELF TO THESE 21 INSTITUTIONS. 22 TRUSTEE NGO: AND DO YOU FIND -- 23 MS. MERY: BUT, OF COURSE, THEY CAN'T TAKE 24 EVERYTHING INTO ACCOUNT. AND IT'S ALSO -- IT'S HARD TO 25 SEE IT. IT'S EASIER I THINK FOR US TO LOOK AT AN FEBRUARY 23, 2012 154 1 INSTITUTION AND SAY, I KNOW THAT INSTITUTION. I KNOW WHAT 2 THEY ARE DOING. HOW DO WE CAME COMPARE TO THEM, RATHER 3 THAN COMPARING TO A MYTHICAL PEER GROUPING THAT HAS EIGHT 4 INSTITUTIONS, SOME OF WHOM ARE SIMILAR, SOME OF WHOM ARE 5 NOT. 6 TRUSTEE NGO: I UNDERSTAND THAT REGRESSIONS ARE 7 LIMITED. THAT THERE IS AN ACCOUNT FOR WHAT WE DON'T KNOW. 8 SO YOU DON'T QUESTION THAT THERE SHOULD BE MORE VARIABLES 9 IN THOSE -- IN THAT REGRESSION ANALYSIS, DO YOU? 10 MS. MERY: ACTUALLY, WHAT I BELIEVE IS THAT THE 11 STATE IS MOVING AWAY FROM THE PEER GROUPINGS BECAUSE IT 12 HASN'T BEEN USED THAT WELL AT THE LOCAL LEVEL BECAUSE THE 13 PEER GROUPINGS ARE THEY ARE KIND OF ESOTERIC IN A WAY. I 14 MEAN IT'S STATISTICAL AS OPPOSED TO SOMETHING YOU COULD 15 PUT YOUR FINGER ON. BUT I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY 16 ARE MOVING TOWARD, SO I WILL KNOW MORE ABOUT THAT NEXT 17 MONTH FRANKLY. 18 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. THE LAST QUESTION IS 19 THESE -- THE GROUPINGS HERE, ARE THEY BASED ON THAT 20 METHODOLOGY OR IS THIS SOME OTHER PREMISE HERE ON TABLE 1 21 THROUGH 1.6. 22 MS. MERY: THE PEER GROUPINGS -- 23 TRUSTEE NGO: COMPARISON COLLEGE AS THEY CALL 24 IT. 25 MS. MERY: OKAY. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 155 1 TRUSTEE NGO: WHAT IS THAT BASED ON? 2 MS. MERY: SO THE COMPARISON COLLEGES IS 3 SOMETHING THAT WE DID LOCALLY. 4 TRUSTEE NGO: OH, OKAY. 5 MS. MERY: AND THE COMPARISON COLLEGES ARE BASED 6 ON LARGE COMPREHENSIVE COLLEGES, URBAN COLLEGES WHERE WE 7 COULD IDENTIFY THEM. COLLEGES THAT WE FEEL ARE MORE OR 8 LESS SIMILAR TO US. 9 THE PEER GROUPINGS, IF YOU LOOK IN THE PACKET, 10 THE PEER GROUPINGS ARE PAGE -- WELL, IT'S REALLY JUST PAGE 11 120 BECAUSE THE NONCREDIT DOESN'T HAVE A PEER GROUPING. 12 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. 13 MS. MERY: THAT'S THE STATISTICAL PEER GROUPING. 14 AND JUST TO GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE, SO YOU HAVE A SENSE OF 15 WHAT IT IS -- 16 TRUSTEE NGO: I'VE SEEN THAT DATA -- 17 MS. MERY: RIGHT. SO THE -- 18 TRUSTEE NGO: -- IN PREVIOUS YEARS. 19 MS. MERY: RIGHT. 20 TRUSTEE NGO: SO WHAT I WANTED TO ASK YOU ABOUT 21 WAS THE -- ON THE LAST PAGE OR ON PAGE 15 AND 16, IS THAT 22 OUR GROUPINGS -- WHEN YOUR OFFICE GROUPS THEM, ARE YOU 23 ACCOUNTING FOR SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS? 24 MS. MERY: WE ARE COUNTING FOR SOCIOECONOMIC 25 FACTORS IN SO FAR AS WE ARE LOOKING AT URBAN DISTRICTS. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 156 1 WE CAN'T ADJUST THEIR DATA, SO WE CAN'T DO THE KINDS OF 2 STATISTICAL THINGS THAT THE STATE DOES BECAUSE WE DON'T 3 HAVE ACCESS TO THE RECORD LEVEL DATA -- 4 TRUSTEE NGO: BUT YOU'RE USING PROXY -- 5 MS. MERY: -- FOR OTHER DISTRICTS. 6 TRUSTEE NGO: BUT YOU ARE USING PROXY -- THERE'S 7 PROXY VARIABLES, RIGHT? 8 MS. MERY: YEAH, ESSENTIALLY. 9 TRUSTEE NGO: AND YOU ARE USING THOSE FOR THESE 10 GROUPINGS? 11 MS. MERY: WE ARE LOOKING AT THE INSTITUTIONS 12 THAT WE FEEL ARE MOST COMPARABLE AND THAT'S PART OF -- 13 PART OF THE ISSUE IS LOOKING AT LARGE URBAN DISTRICTS, FOR 14 EXAMPLE, RATHER THAN SUBURBAN DISTRICT, LIKE MARIN FOR 15 EXAMPLE -- 16 TRUSTEE NGO: ALL RIGHT. I THINK I -- 17 MS. MERY: -- WHERE THE SOCIOECONOMICS WOULD BE 18 DIFFERENT. 19 SO WE ARE NOT DOING IT STATISTICALLY THE WAY THE 20 STATE IS DOING IT, BUT WE ARE DOING IT IN TERMS OF HOW WE 21 ARE IDENTIFYING THE COLLEGES WE'VE IDENTIFIED. 22 TRUSTEE NGO: RIGHT. AND YOU ARE USING PROXY 23 VARIABLES TO DETERMINE SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS, RIGHT? 24 LIKE THOSE VARIABLES THAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT ARE 25 WHAT YOU BELIEVE TO BE THE BEST -- THE CLOSEST PROXIMATION FEBRUARY 23, 2012 157 1 TO THE VARIABLES THAT WOULD BE SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS. 2 SO WHAT WE ARE LOOKING AT HERE, AS YOU CRAFTED 3 THEM LOCALLY, IT IS A GOOD COMPARISON BASED ON 4 SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS. 5 MR. SPURLING: WELL, YEAH, BUT WE HAVE 6 IDENTIFIED THE COMPARISON COLLEGES VERY SUBJECTIVELY. I 7 MEAN WE DIDN'T COLLECT A NUMBER OF MEASURES AND THEN TRY 8 TO ALIGN THE SOCIOECONOMIC VARIABLES TO CITY COLLEGE'S 9 VARIABLE. 10 SO WE TRIED TO DO WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT, 11 BUT IN A SUBJECTIVE WAY. 12 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. THANKS. I WILL E-MAIL YOU. 13 THANK YOU. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 15 I THINK WE ARE READY TO MOVE TO THE NEXT ITEM. 16 IT'S DISCUSSION ITEM REPORT ON CCSF'S COMMITTEE ON 17 REHABILITATION. 18 MS. STARR: GOOD AFTERNOON. NIGHT ALMOST, 19 MIDNIGHT. BOARD OF TRUSTEES, FACULTY, STAFF, EVERY YEAR I 20 REPORT TO YOU TWICE A YEAR ABOUT THE CONVICTION HISTORY 21 PROGRAM WE HAVE HERE AT CITY COLLEGE. SO YOU HAVE THE 22 REPORT IN YOUR FILE. 23 IT'S BEEN SEVERELY IMPACTED BECAUSE WE AREN'T 24 HIRING AS YOU KNOW. WE HAD ONE APPLICANT REMAIN IN THE 25 PROCESS FROM AUGUST, AND THAT PERSON WAS NOT SELECTED. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 158 1 AND THEN IF YOU CAN SEE FOR THE POSITIONS FOR 2 THREE CLASSIFIEDS POSITIONS, ONE APPLICANT WAS 3 DISQUALIFIED BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T MEET THE APPLICATION 4 REQUIREMENTS. ONE APPLICANT WAS DISQUALIFIED BECAUSE THEY 5 NEVER COMPLETED THE PROCESS. AND ONE APPLIED TO A JOB 6 THAT IS CURRENTLY FROZEN DUE TO BUDGET CUTS. 7 AND THEN IF YOU LOOK AT THE SECOND PAGE, 8 BASICALLY IT JUST KIND OF REPORTS, ONE FACULTY WAS HIRED. 9 AND WE WENT THROUGH THAT PROCESS WHERE I SAID THEY FEEL 10 THAT IF THEY'VE GOT THEIR RECORD EXPUNGED, THEY CAN CHECK 11 "NO" ON THE BOX. WHEN IN FACT SOMETIMES WHEN THE RECORDS 12 COME, THEN I HAVE TO CALL THEM IN AND HAVE A CONVERSATION 13 WITH THEM AND LET THEM KNOW WHAT POPPED UP ON THEIR 14 RECORD. 15 SO WE HAVE HIRED PEOPLE WITH CONVICTION HISTORY, 16 BUT IT HASN'T COME THROUGH THE PROCESS THAT THE BOARD HAS 17 SET UP. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 19 MS. STARR: OKAY. 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 21 MS. STARR: ALL RIGHT. 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THERE PUBLIC COMMENT? 23 REPORT FROM THE CONSTITUENT GROUPS, ASSOCIATED 24 STUDENTS. 25 VCFA GOLDSTEIN: MR. PRESIDENT, BRIEF -- FEBRUARY 23, 2012 159 1 SOMEBODY LOST THEIR KEYS. IT'S A CAR KEY AND MAYBE OTHER 2 KEYS. 3 IS IT YOU? 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: LARRY LAU, CHINATOWN/NORTH 5 BEACH CAMPUS. 6 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: UNFORTUNATELY, 7 MR. PRESIDENT, LARRY LAU RECENTLY STEPPED DOWN. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, HE'S NOT PRESIDENT 9 ANYMORE. 10 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: YEAH, I JUST GOT THE 11 NEWS. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 13 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: SO UNFORTUNATELY, THEY 14 ARE NOT HERE TODAY. 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 16 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO 17 REPORT AT THIS TIME DOWNTOWN CAMPUS MANDI LAM HAD TO LEAVE 18 EARLY. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 20 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: SHE REALLY COULDN'T WAIT 21 FOR IT ANYMORE. 22 AND I THINK SOUTHEAST IS HERE. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: EMANUEL ANDREAS. 24 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: AL YATES, VICE PRESIDENT, 25 IN HIS PLACE. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 160 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 2 MR. YATES: MY NAME IS ALBERT YATES, AND I AM 3 THE VICE PRESIDENT OF SOUTHEAST CAMPUS STUDENT 4 ASSOCIATION. 5 THIS WILL BE AN UPDATE OF OUR SOUTHEAST CAMPUS. 6 I WANT TO THANK, TRUSTEE MILTON MARKS, FOR CHAIRING THE 7 INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS COMMITTEE MEETING THAT WAS 8 HELD THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16TH, 2012. THAT MEETING 9 ADDRESSED SOME OF THE CONCERNS AND PLANS FOR THE SOUTHEAST 10 CAMPUS. 11 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT CAME OUT OF THAT MEETING 12 WAS A VERY PERSONAL ONE-ON-ONE TYPE MEETING. MS. ESPINOLA 13 JACKSON AND MR. LANCE BURTON WAS PRESENT. WE TALKED ABOUT 14 ALSO THE INSTRUCTOR FOR -- WE HAVE A NEW JAVA CLASS AT THE 15 SOUTHEAST CAMPUS. AND WE EXPRESSED OUR DESIRE TO MAKE 16 SURE THAT WE KEEP THAT CLASS AT THE SOUTHEAST CAMPUS. THE 17 ENROLLMENT WAS GROWING. THEY HAD -- IT TOOK A LITTLE 18 WHILE TO GET -- IT WAS THE FIRST TIME -- IT WAS THE FIRST 19 SEMESTER THAT IT WAS THERE. IT'S GOING TO TAKE A LITTLE 20 TIME TO DO THE COMMUNITY OUTREACH. 21 THERE ARE PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY WHO WILL COME 22 TO THAT CLASS AND WILL LEARN FROM THAT CLASS. IT'S THE 23 FIRST CLASS OF A SERIES THAT TEACHES -- THAT WILL TEACH 24 APPLICATION, HOW TO WRITE CODE FOR APPLICATIONS ON PHONE 25 APPLICATIONS. SO WE NEED THAT KIND OF CLASS IN OUR FEBRUARY 23, 2012 161 1 COMMUNITY. SO WE WANT TO KEEP THAT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 2 MR. BYNUM WANTED ME TO LET YOU KNOW THAT WE 3 REALLY APPRECIATE -- HE SENT OUT AN INVITATION TO THE 4 BOARD OF TRUSTEES TO VISIT SOUTHEAST CAMPUS. AND THANKS 5 TO, TRUSTEE GRIER, SHE WAS THE ONLY ONE THAT CAME BY, AND 6 WE HAD A WONDERFUL TIME AND TOURED THE CAMPUS. AND SHE 7 WAS VERY INTERESTED IN WHAT WAS THERE AND THE PLANS THAT 8 WE HAVE TO BRING CLASSES TO OUR CAMPUS. AND WE THANK HER 9 FOR THAT. 10 ALSO, OH, I KNOW -- THE NEED FOR TECHNOLOGY. I 11 HAVE BEEN HEARING TODAY ABOUT THE BUDGET, AND WE KNOW THAT 12 WE ARE IN A CRISIS. BUT ONE OF THE -- I THINK, BECAUSE I 13 AM WITH THE CNRT DEPARTMENT, I THINK TECHNOLOGY COULD HELP 14 US OUT. I WISH WE WOULD TAKE TIME TO FIND WAYS OF 15 UTILIZING THE TECHNOLOGY THAT WE HAVE AT THE CITY COLLEGE. 16 AS IT STANDS NOW, OUR PAPER CHASE IS 17 UNBELIEVABLE. FROM THE STUDENTS STANDPOINT, IT'S LIKE A 18 QUAGMIRE OUT THERE. A LOT OF THIS STUFF COULD BE ONLINE 19 OR JUST BE A PAPERLESS ENDEAVOR. AND IF THERE'S ANYTHING 20 A COMMITTEE OR SOMEBODY, A FEASIBILITY COMMITTEE TO SEE 21 HOW WE CAN REDUCE THE PAPER -- THE WORKLOAD OF THE 22 PAPERWORK -- ONE SHEET OF PAPER COULD HOLD UP THE WHOLE 23 SEMESTERS WORK FOR WORD. SO ANYWAY TECHNOLOGY, UTILIZE 24 IT. IT'S THERE. LET'S TRY TO EMBRACE IT. THANK YOU. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 162 1 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: THANK YOU. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ACADEMIC SENATE, KAREN 3 SAGINOR. 4 MS. SAGINOR: KAREN SAGINOR, PRESIDENT OF THE 5 ACADEMIC SENATE. 6 THE HOUR IS LATE. THERE IS STILL MUCH TO BE 7 COVERED. I THINK I WILL DELAY REPORTING UNTIL NEXT TIME, 8 EXCEPT FOR ASKING MY COLLEAGUE FROM AFT 2121. 9 MS. MESSER: I WANTED TO SAY A LITTLE BIT MORE 10 ABOUT THE CUTS FROM THE STATE AND JUST TO SAY THAT THE 11 STATE HAS REALLY FAILED US, RIGHT, IN TERMS OF THESE 12 MIDYEAR CUTS. AND I THINK THAT THAT'S BEEN DEMORALIZING 13 TO EVERYONE AT THE COLLEGE. SO I HOPE THAT WE WILL BE 14 COMING TOGETHER AROUND SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE NEED TO 15 DO. 16 AND I THINK WE NEED TO TAKE THOSE CONCERNS TO 17 THE STATE. AND SO IN FACT I -- THOUGH WE HAD A DISCUSSION 18 EARLIER ABOUT WHERE THE LOBBYING NEEDS TO HAPPEN, AND I 19 ACTUALLY THINK IT NEEDS TO BE HAPPENING AT EVERY LEVEL. 20 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE NEED TO BE DOING IS 21 REALLY PUSHING BACK AGAINST NO BACKFILL TO THOSE 22 PARTICULAR CUTS. AND WE ALSO NEED TO BE TALKING ABOUT THE 23 REASON THAT THEY HAPPENED, AND THE FACT THAT K-12 IS 24 ACTUALLY BACKFILLED WHEN SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPENS AND 25 WOULDN'T HAVE SEEN ADDITIONAL CUTS. BUT COMMUNITY FEBRUARY 23, 2012 163 1 COLLEGES FOR SOME REASON ARE NOT. 2 AND I THINK THAT'S PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT 3 BECAUSE THIS MORNING I HEARD THE STATE CHANCELLOR SAY, 4 CHANCELLOR JACK SCOTT, INDICATE THAT THE REASON THAT THESE 5 CUTS HAD HAPPENED WAS BECAUSE STUDENTS QUALIFIED FOR BOARD 6 OF GOVERNORS FEE WAIVERS, NOT BECAUSE THEY NEEDED -- THEY 7 COULD NOT AFFORD TO PAY THEIR FEES AND, THEREFORE, HAD 8 BOARD OF THE GOVERNOR'S FEE WAIVERS, BUT I AM PRETTY SURE 9 THAT WHAT I HEARD ON THE RADIO WAS THAT IT WAS THE FACT 10 THAT THEY QUALIFIED THAT WAS THE PROBLEM. 11 AND AS I THINK YOU ALL ALREADY KNOW, THEY HAVE 12 ALREADY CHANGED WHAT IT TAKES TO QUALIFY FOR A BOARD OF 13 GOVERNORS FEE WAIVER BECAUSE OF THIS SHORTFALL. SO I AM 14 WORRIED ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING TO OUR STUDENTS IN THE 15 PROCESS OF THIS AND IN ADDITION TO WHAT'S HAPPENING TO THE 16 COLLEGE. 17 SO THE CURRENT FISCAL CRISIS FOR CITY COLLEGE IS 18 QUITE REAL. IT'S A SERIOUS SITUATION. I WANTED TO SAY 19 THAT WE CAN MAKE EVEN UNDER THE SITUATION SOME REALLY, AND 20 YOU'VE REALLY HEARD ME SAY THIS BEFORE, SOME SMART 21 DECISIONS ABOUT HOW TO DEAL WITH THE SITUATION EVEN THOUGH 22 NONE OF US ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO DOING THAT. 23 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE CAN DO IS WE CAN, AS 24 WE'VE DONE BEFORE, WE CAN USE ATTRITION AND RETIREES AND 25 ALSO EXTRA PAY ASSIGNMENTS TO LESSEN THE IMPACT ON AT FEBRUARY 23, 2012 164 1 LEAST ON PART-TIME FACULTY AS WE NECESSARILY AT THIS 2 PARTICULAR MOMENT HAVE THIS PRECIPITOUS SHRINKAGE OF OUR 3 PROGRAM WHICH IS NOT SOMETHING ANY OF US I THINK WANT TO 4 SEE. 5 SO WE RECENTLY -- THERE WAS A DISCUSSION 6 RECENTLY, AND I HAD A DOCUMENT IN MY HAND, THAT SHOWS THAT 7 THERE IS IN FACT OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, THERE HAS 8 BEEN QUITE A LOT AGAIN OF EXTRA PAY ASSIGNMENTS. AND 9 THAT'S BEEN -- LAST YEAR WE TRIED TO GET A LOT OF 10 ENROLLMENT INCREASE AND THAT THERE WERE A LOT OF FACULTY 11 WHO TOOK ON EXTRA PAY ASSIGNMENTS. 12 AND AT THIS POINT WE ARE MOVING AWAY FROM THAT, 13 AND SO WE ARE GOING TO BE ASKING THAT WE REALLY TRY TO 14 LOOK AT THOSE ASSIGNMENTS AND TRY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE 15 DON'T HAVE FACULTY OR ANY OTHER MEMBER OF THE COLLEGE WHO 16 IS MAKING 20, 30, $40,000 OVER THEIR BASE PAY, WHILE SOME 17 FOLKS ARE ACTUALLY LOSING THEIR JOBS AT THE SAME MOMENT. 18 SO WE ARE LOOKING FOR, RIGHT, TO REALLY PRESERVE AS MANY 19 JOBS AS WE CAN UNDER THESE REALLY TRYING CIRCUMSTANCES. 20 AND WE THINK THAT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THE COLLEGE CAN DO 21 AND WE WANT TO PUSH YOU TO CONTINUE TO DO. THANK YOU. 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 23 IT'S GOOD TO HEAR YOU SAY THAT BECAUSE THERE'S A 24 $7 MILLION POT OF MONEY. 25 OKAY, CLASSIFIED SENATE. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 165 1 MR. ROGERS: JAMES ROGERS THE CLASSIFIED SENATE. 2 GOOD EVENING, HONORABLE TRUSTEES. 3 OUR UNION PRESIDENT SEIU DELIVERED 500 4 SIGNATURES THIS EVENING IN A VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE TO THE 5 CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER. SINCE LAST WE'VE MET, THERE'S 6 BEEN AN OPPORTUNITY TO GATHER SOME INFORMATION ON THE 7 RECENT FIT COMMITTEE AND SUBSEQUENT ARTICLE IN THE 8 CHRONICLE IN WHICH OUR CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER AND HIS 9 HIRED CONSULTANT SAID THAT THERE WAS A SIGNIFICANT 10 INFORMATION SECURITY BREACH AT THE COLLEGE. THE 11 STATEMENTS MADE WERE MISLEADING, IRRESPONSIBLE, AND 12 DISRUPTIVE TO STUDENTS, STAFF, AND INSTITUTION WITHOUT 13 THEM EVER HAVING COMPLETED A FULL INVESTIGATION. 14 THE NUMEROUS PROMISED DELIVERY DATES FOR THE 15 FINDINGS REPORT HAVE ALL PASSED. AND THIS VITAL DATA IS 16 STILL INCOMPLETE. 17 THE PARTIAL REPORT MADE AVAILABLE FOR PEER 18 REVIEW HAS BEEN UNANIMOUSLY CONSIDERED BY FACULTY AND 19 STAFF TO BE WOEFULLY LACKING IN PROFESSIONALISM, FINDINGS, 20 DETAIL, AND PROPOSED CORRECTIVE ACTIONS. 21 HOW IS THIS ACCEPTABLE? 22 IT IS UNCONSCIONABLE THAT SOMEONE CHARGED WITH 23 INFORMATION SECURITY HAS DONE SO MUCH TO TRAUMATIZE, 24 STIGMATIZE, AND USE PARTIAL TRUTHS MISLEADING THE 25 EMPLOYEES, PUBLIC, AND THIS BOARD. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 166 1 THE CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER POSITION IS 2 SUPPOSED TO PROVIDE ESSENTIAL COMMUNICATIONS AND 3 INFORMATION TO SEVERAL COLLEGE BODIES WHICH AID US TO 4 FUNCTION EFFECTIVELY. HE HAS CHOSEN NOT TO ATTEND THE 5 TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY GROUP SET UP TO HELP WITH COLLEGE 6 FUNCTIONS OR THE SHARED GOVERNANCE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 7 POLICY COMMITTEE WHICH ARE INTERREGAL TO THE BALANCED 8 OPERATION OF THE DISTRICT RENDERING THIS THESE GROUPS 9 BASICALLY IMPETENT. 10 NO SUPPORT OF THE DATA PLAN -- DATA OR PLAN OF 11 CHANGE HAS BEEN RELEASED ENABLING THE COLLEGE TO PROTECT 12 ITSELF AGAINST THE PURPORTED POTENTIALLY MASSIVE SECURITY 13 BREACH. 14 WE ENCOURAGE THE BOARD TO HOLD THE CHIEF 15 TECHNOLOGY OFFICER ACCOUNTABLE TO THE COLLEGE FOR HIS 16 INFLAMMATORY ACTIONS. 17 OUR BUDGET IS UNDER EXTRAORDINARY STRESS, AND 18 THE COST OF THESE ACTIONS HAS BEEN SIGNIFICANT. WE CANNOT 19 AFFORD TO SPEND SO MUCH MONEY ON A CTO AND HIS SELECTED 20 CONSULTANT, NEITHER OF WHOM IS RESPONSIVE TO THE COLLEGE 21 OPERATIONS AND NEEDS. 22 MOVING ALONG, THE BUDGET CRISIS THAT HAS BROUGHT 23 SO MANY TO THE BOARD TONIGHT IS SURMOUNTABLE. THE COLLEGE 24 PLANNING AND BUDGET COMMITTEE ENDORSED A PROPORTIONATE 25 PLAN FOR ALL CONSTITUENCIES IN THE CURRENT FISCAL YEAR. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 167 1 IT'S VERY BITTER MEDICINE, YET NECESSARY FOR THE 2 BOARD TO REMAIN IN POSITION AND THE COLLEGE TO STAY OUT OF 3 RECEIVERSHIP. THE PLAN CALLS FOR EVERYONE TO SHARE THE 4 PAIN AS EQUALLY AS POSSIBLE. 5 THE FOLLOWING FISCAL YEAR 2012-2013 REQUIRES 6 PLANNING FOR THE WORST WITH CUTS UP TO $25 MILLION AND 7 FAINT HOPE FOR MIDYEAR RESTORATION OF FUNDS, DEPENDING ON 8 NOVEMBER BALLOT MEASURES. 9 THE CLASSIFIED HAVE PAVED THE WAY IN THE PAST, 10 FREEZING STEPS, GIVING UP OVERTIME, TRADING CLASSIFIED 11 POSITIONS, CREATING A VESTING PERIOD FOR NEW HIRES. WE 12 HAVE LED THE DISTRICT COMING UP WITH IDEAS FOR SAVINGS. 13 IT'S NOT REASONABLE, REALISTIC, OR FAIR THAT THE 14 FACULTY, ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT CHAIRS, AND THE BOARD 15 CONTINUE THEIR COURSE OF SELF-INTEREST AT THE COST OF EACH 16 OTHER AND CLASSIFIED SURVIVAL. ALL GROUPS NEED TO STOP 17 REARRANGING THE DECK CHAIRS OF THE TITANIC AND APPROACH 18 THIS CRISIS TOGETHER. 19 THE PROBLEM IS TOO BIG TO BE SOLVED WITHOUT 20 EVERYONE HELPING AND SACRIFICING. YOU NEED TO BE PART OF 21 THE SOLUTION AVOIDING PARTISAN BLIND PREJUDICE AND 22 UNREASONING ALLEGIANCES. YOU NEED TO BE RESPONSIVE, FAIR, 23 AND LOYAL TO THE ENTIRE COLLEGE POPULATION. THANK YOU. 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WE WILL NOW MOVE ON TO THE 25 REMAINDER OF THE RESOLUTIONS AGENDA. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 168 1 THE FIRST ONE IS B1. 2 COUNSEL, WOULD YOU -- 3 COUNSEL DICKEY: ITEM B1 IS ENTITLED, 4 "AUTHORIZATION FOR ONE NEW CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT THAT IS 5 NO MORE THAN $15,000 AND NEW CONSTRUCTION RELATED SERVICE 6 CONTRACTS THAT ARE NOT MORE THAN $60,000. CONTRACTS NOT 7 SUBJECT TO THE FORMAL BIDDING REQUIREMENTS OF THE PUBLIC 8 CONTRACT CODE." 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THERE A MOTION FOR B1? 10 TRUSTEE NGO: I WILL MOVE IT. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE NGO. 12 IS THERE A SECOND? 13 TRUSTEE BERG: SECOND. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE BERG. 15 DISCUSSION? 16 PUBLIC COMMENT? 17 STUDENT TRUSTEE. 18 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 20 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 21 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: AYE. 22 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 23 TRUSTEE MARKS: AYE. 24 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 169 1 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 3 B1 IS APPROVED. 4 B2 -- B2(A). 5 COUNSEL DICKEY: B2(A) IS ENTITLED, 6 "AUTHORIZATION TO TRANSFER $500,000 TO THE SAN FRANCISCO 7 CITY AND COUNTY RETIREE HEALTH CARE TRUSTEE FUND FOR 8 POST-RETIREMENT HEALTH BENEFITS FOR EMPLOYEES OF THE SAN 9 FRANCISCO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT." 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 11 TRUSTEE NGO: I WILL MOVE. 12 TRUSTEE JACKSON: SECOND. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE NGO; SECONDED 14 BY TRUSTEE JACKSON. 15 IS THERE A DISCUSSION? 16 IS THERE PUBLIC COMMENT? 17 STUDENT TRUSTEE. 18 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 20 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 21 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: AYE. 22 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 23 TRUSTEE MARKS: AYE. 24 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 170 1 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 3 B2(A) IS APPROVED. 4 B3. 5 COUNSEL DICKEY: B3 IS ENTITLED, "APPROVAL TO 6 SOLICIT AND RECEIVE BIDS FOR SERVICES OF A PRIVATE HIGHER 7 EDUCATION MARKETING AND PUBLICITY FIRM FOR UP TO $50,000 8 DURING THE PERIOD APRIL 1ST, 2012 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30TH, 9 2012." 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THERE A MOTION? 11 TRUSTEE NGO: SO MOVED. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE NGO. 13 TRUSTEE JACKSON: SECOND. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE JACKSON. 15 DISCUSSION? 16 TRUSTEE MARKS. 17 TRUSTEE MARKS: THROUGH THE CHAIR, I WOULD LIKE 18 TO KNOW, TRUSTEE BERG, HOW YOU ARRIVED AT THE $50,000 19 AMOUNT THAT YOU WOULD APPROPRIATE -- THAT YOU WOULD 20 RECOMMEND BE APPROPRIATED FROM THE DISTRICT'S GENERAL 21 FUND? 22 TRUSTEE BERG: THAT'S JUST A NORMAL FIGURE FOR 23 HIRING AN OUTSIDE FIRM WHICH IS IN CHEAPER THAN HIRING AN 24 IN-HOUSE PERSON. 25 AND WE WOULD, I BELIEVE, ACCEPT THE LOWEST BID FEBRUARY 23, 2012 171 1 INSTEAD OF SOMEBODY WHO IS QUALIFIED. 2 TRUSTEE MARKS: WELL, YOU KNOW, I'VE HEARD A LOT 3 OF STUDENTS AND FACULTY AND CLASSIFIED STAFF SAY, WE CAN'T 4 SPEND THIS MONEY. AND I WOULD LIKE TO FIND OUT HOW YOU 5 CAN JUSTIFY SPENDING THIS MONEY. 6 TRUSTEE BERG: IF WE WANT TO REMAIN A VIABLE 7 COLLEGE, THEN WE REALLY HAVE TO HAVE EXTERNAL VISIBILITY. 8 AND THE ONLY WAY WE ARE GOING TO BE DOING THAT IS WITH A 9 FIRM. THE FIRM IS CHEAPER THAN HIRING SOMEBODY IN-HOUSE, 10 BUT REALLY WE HAVE TO MARKET OURSELVES. IT'S IMPORTANT 11 FOR US TO MARKET OURSELVES. IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THIS 12 COLLEGE TO BE OUT THERE IN FRONT. AND WE NEED TO HIRE 13 SOMEBODY TO DO THAT. AND WE NEED TO HAVE MARKETING FOR 14 THIS COLLEGE. WE CAN'T JUST SIT BACK ON OUR LAURELS. YOU 15 SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE. 16 SO I THINK IT IS VERY, VERY IMPORTANT IF YOU ARE 17 ANY KIND OF AN ORGANIZATION, YOU WANT VISIBILITY AND 18 VIABILITY, SO IT MAKES SENSE. AND IT'S MONEY VERY WELL 19 SPENT. 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE BERG, CAN I ASK WHY 21 THE END DATE IS SEPTEMBER 30TH AND SAY, NOT NOVEMBER? 22 TRUSTEE BERG: ABSOLUTELY, I SEE WHAT YOU ARE 23 SAYING. I DON'T KNOW WHY. I CAN'T ANSWER THAT. I DON'T 24 KNOW. I THINK THAT WAS -- THOSE ARE JUST THE MONTHS WE 25 PUT OUT. THERE'S NO REAL REASON FOR IT. YOU COULD CHANGE FEBRUARY 23, 2012 172 1 IT TO NOVEMBER IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO AMEND IT. IT DOESN'T 2 MATTER. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IT MIGHT BE USEFUL TO HAVE -- 4 TRUSTEE BERG: LET'S DO IT. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: -- IT NOVEMBER. 6 TRUSTEE JACKSON: POINT OF INFORMATION. 7 I KNOW OUR NEW POLICY IS THAT WE HAVE MORE THAN 8 ONE ORIGINATOR. WE HAVE TWO ORIGINATORS TO GET ON THE 9 AGENDA. 10 CAN I ASK HOW THIS MADE IT TO THE AGENDA WITH 11 JUST ONE ORIGINATOR OR IS THERE A SECOND ORIGINATOR ON 12 THIS ONE? 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IT'S TRUE. THERE ARE SUPPOSED 14 TO BE TWO ORIGINATORS. 15 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AND ALSO, I THINK THIS -- IF 16 WE ARE GOING TO EVEN CONSIDER THIS, THIS NEEDS TO BE 17 REFERRED TO THE BUDGET COMMITTEE AS WELL. 18 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: I THINK THERE WERE TWO 19 PEOPLE LISTED AS ORIGINATORS. I WAS THE OTHER PERSON. 20 TRUSTEE JACKSON: OH, YOU WERE. IT MUST HAVE 21 NOT MADE IT. 22 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: AND I DON'T KNOW WHY IT'S 23 NOT ON THERE. 24 TRUSTEE JACKSON: OKAY. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IT WAS LEFT OFF. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 173 1 TRUSTEE JACKSON: I GUESS, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT 2 GOING TO SAY I AM IN FAVOR OR OPPOSED TO THIS. I THINK WE 3 NEED TO TALK ABOUT IT AT THE BUDGET COMMITTEE LEVEL AND 4 KIND OF FIGURE OUT, YOU KNOW, CAN WE FUND THIS? 5 AND THEN IF WE CAN TAKE -- BRING THIS BACK WITH 6 A RECOMMENDATION AFTERWARDS, I THINK THAT'S A PROCESS THAT 7 WOULD RESPECT OUR COMMITTEE PROCESS, SO I DON'T WANT TO DO 8 AN UP OR DOWN VOTE. I WOULD LIKE TO REFER THIS TO THE 9 BUDGET COMMITTEE AND DECIDE FROM THERE IF THAT'S POSSIBLE 10 BECAUSE I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF QUESTIONS FROM FOLKS AND 11 MAYBE WE CAN ADDRESS SOME OF THOSE QUESTIONS AT THE BUDGET 12 COMMITTEE. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I WOULD SAY, YOU KNOW, I GET 14 CALLS FROM REPORTERS A LOT RECENTLY IN THE PAST FEW DAYS 15 ON THE BUDGET SITUATION, THE CALIFORNIA BUDGET. AND 16 BECAUSE I READ THE OTHER NEWSPAPERS, LIKE THE LA TIMES, I 17 CAN TELL THEM WHAT'S GOING ON. BUT, YOU KNOW -- AND THEY 18 TELL ME, WELL, I CAN'T GET A HOLD OF ANYONE IN THE 19 COLLEGE. AND I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S BECAUSE EVERYONE 20 TODAY WAS BUSY NEGOTIATING OR PREPARING FOR THIS MEETING 21 OR DOING THINGS. AND I HAVE TO TELL THE REPORTERS THAT, 22 WELL, BECAUSE OF THE BUDGET CUTS, WE DON'T HAVE AN 23 INFORMATION OFFICE, THAT WE DON'T HAVE SOMEONE TO TALK TO. 24 YOU KNOW, THE PRESS END, I AM HAPPY TO DO IT, 25 BUT I AM NOT ALWAYS THE BEST PERSON TO TALK TO THE PRESS FEBRUARY 23, 2012 174 1 BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION. AND, YOU KNOW, 2 SO I OFTEN HAVE TO SAY, WELL, YOU SHOULD CALL, YOU KNOW, 3 PETER GOLDSTEIN'S OFFICE OR SOMETHING. AND THEN THEY 4 CAN'T GET A HOLD OF HIM BECAUSE HE IS NOT THERE. AND 5 THAT'S NOT GOOD PRESS RELATIONS. 6 IF THE PRESS CALLS AND YOU CAN'T TALK TO THEM, 7 YOU NEED TO -- WE NEED TO ESTABLISH A GOOD RELATIONSHIP 8 WITH THE PRESS. GIVE THEM INFORMATION WHEN THEY WANT IT 9 AND THEY NEED IT. IT'S, YOU KNOW -- SO I SUPPORT THIS. 10 I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE ABSOLUTELY 11 NEED BECAUSE I AM, YOU KNOW, NOT A GOOD PRESS RELATIONS 12 PERSON. I DON'T THINK, YOU KNOW -- I THINK A PROFESSIONAL 13 COULD DO A MUCH BETTER JOB THAN ME TAKING ALL THE CALLS. 14 TRUSTEE JACKSON: MR. PRESIDENT. 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH. 16 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AND I SAY THIS, IN TERMS OF 17 WHAT WE JUST HAD, YOU KNOW, WE SPENT ABOUT TWO HOURS 18 TALKING ABOUT THE BUDGET CRUNCH AND TWO HOURS TALKING, YOU 19 KNOW, ABOUT THE PAIN THAT, YOU KNOW, I THINK JAMES JUST 20 TALKED REALLY ELOQUENTLY ABOUT SHARED PAIN AMONG ALL 21 FOLKS. AND IF WE ARE -- IF WE CONTRACT OUT FOR EVEN 22 $50,000, I THINK IT'S REALLY TOUGH TO SHOW THE CITY -- AND 23 IF WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A PARCEL TAX, THAT WE ARE REALLY 24 HAVING IT TOUGH, AND WE ARE ABOUT TO VOTE ON SOMETHING TO 25 CONTRACT OUT TO ACTUALLY SECURE AN INFORMATION OFFICER, FEBRUARY 23, 2012 175 1 SOMETHING THAT I THINK, YOU KNOW, THE CHANCELLOR, IF WE 2 DIRECT IT TO THE CHANCELLOR, I THINK THE CHANCELLOR AND 3 HIS OFFICE COULD EASILY HANDLE. 4 I THINK THIS IS A LUXURY AT THIS POINT, AND I 5 THINK THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE DON'T NEED RIGHT NOW. I 6 REALLY DON'T THINK THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S OF THE 7 UTMOST IMPORTANCE IN TERMS OF WHEN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT 8 CUTTING CLASSES AND CUTTING CLASSIFIEDS AND CUTTING 9 SERVICES, SO I AM HOPING THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY HAVE A 10 HEALTHY CONVERSATION ABOUT THIS AT THE BUDGET COMMITTEE 11 LEVEL. 12 I DON'T WANT TO VOTE THIS DOWN. I JUST WANT TO 13 REFER THIS TO COMMITTEE AND SEE IF WE CAN IDENTIFY 14 ADDITIONAL FUNDS TO VOTE FOR THIS. 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: CHANCELLOR, WOULD YOU LIKE TO 16 COMMENT? 17 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: YES. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS YOUR OFFICE WELL ABLE TO 19 HANDLE THIS? 20 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: THE PUBLICITY PERSON FOR 21 THE COLLEGE RETIRED IN JUNE OF 2010. SO WE HAVE BEEN 22 TRYING TO DO THIS OUT OF OUR BACK POCKET FOR THAT PERIOD 23 OF TIME. GOHAR IN MY OFFICE HAS BEEN WORKING ON IT. I 24 RESPOND TO SOME OF THE REPORTS THAT THE REPORTERS HAVE, 25 SOME OF THE REQUESTS. OTHER PEOPLE -- IT'S VERY FEBRUARY 23, 2012 176 1 SCATTERED. IT'S NOT FOCUSED. 2 AND FOR A COLLEGE OF THIS SIZE, YOU HAVE TO 3 SPEND A LITTLE BIT OF MONEY. WE ARE SPENDING PROBABLY 150 4 TO $170,000 A YEAR. AND NOW WE ARE ASKING TO SPEND 50,000 5 OVER A SPAN OF NEARLY TWO YEARS. THAT'S VERY SMALL. 6 THIS IS NOT ABOUT WASTING MONEY. IT'S ABOUT 7 GETTING WHO WE ARE. WE'VE HAD REALLY SOME GREAT THINGS 8 HAPPEN TO OUR BOARD MEMBERS. GREAT THINGS THAT HAPPENING 9 IN OUR PROGRAMS. MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF GRANTS THAT 10 ARE COMING IN. THE PUBLIC IS TOTALLY UNAWARE OF THIS ON A 11 REGULAR BASIS. 12 AND SO OUR -- THE KNOWLEDGE THAT THE COMMUNITY 13 HAS OF US IS BEING SHRUNK TO A SMALL LITTLE CAPACITY WHEN 14 ACTUALLY IT SHOULD BE PUSHED OUT THERE IN A MUCH, MUCH 15 BIGGER WAY. AND WE JUST GOT TO GET OUR MESSAGE OUT A LOT 16 MORE. PARTICULARLY, IF WE WANT THE PEOPLE IN SAN 17 FRANCISCO TO LOOK AT US AS THE GREAT INSTITUTION THAT WE 18 ARE. 19 SO I JUST THINK WE WANT TO BE A LITTLE BIT -- I 20 KNOW $50,000 IS A LOT OF MONEY, BUT POTENTIALLY WE ARE 21 GOING TO LOSE A LOT MORE MONEY BY NOT HAVING OUR 22 REPUTATION OUT THERE. I DON'T CARE WHETHER YOU ARE 23 TALKING ABOUT MORE FEDERAL GRANTS. I DON'T CARE IF YOU 24 ARE TALKING ABOUT JUST THE GOOD WILL OF PEOPLE IN THE SAN 25 FRANCISCO. I DON'T CARE IF YOU ARE JUST TALKING ABOUT FEBRUARY 23, 2012 177 1 STUDENTS WHO PERHAPS WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER INFORMED HAD 2 WE HAD A PUBLICITY PERSON HERE ABOUT THE SITUATION THAT WE 3 ARE IN. WE ABSOLUTELY NEED THIS. WE ABSOLUTELY NEED 4 THIS. THERE'S NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. 5 TRUSTEE BERG: JOHN. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH, TRUSTEE BERG. 7 TRUSTEE BERG: I WANT TO MAKE A VERY CLEAR 8 COMMENT. 9 YOU KNOW, CITY COLLEGE IS A FIRST CLASS 10 INSTITUTION. WE HAVE TO BEHAVE LIKE A FIRST CLASS 11 INSTITUTION. 12 FOR ONE THING, WE'VE HAD A LOT OF NEGATIVE 13 PRESS. WE SHOULD NOT BE GETTING NEGATIVE PRESS. IF WE 14 HAD A DECENT PERSON HANDLING THE PRESS, WE WOULD NOT HAVE 15 NEGATIVE PRESS. WE WOULD HAVE POSITIVE PRESS. WE DO 16 WONDERFUL THINGS AT THIS COLLEGE. WE HAVE PHENOMENAL 17 FACULTY WHO ARE SUFFERING AND GIVING OF THEMSELVES. AND 18 PHENOMENAL CLASSIFIED STAFF WHO WERE DOING THE SAME, AND 19 THE ADMINISTRATION TO SOME EXTENT. WE NEED TO -- WE NEED 20 TO SHOWCASE THIS. WE NEED TO BE PROUD OF OUR COLLEGE. 21 AND THE REST OF OUR CITY SHOULD BE PROUD OF OUR COLLEGE 22 BECAUSE WE ARE A NO. 1 INSTITUTION. 23 AND I THINK WE NEED TO HAVE -- YOU KNOW, ANY 24 VIABLE OPERATION HAS A VERY GOOD SPECIALIST FOR MARKETING 25 AND PUBLIC RELATIONS, AND WE DON'T. AND WE SHOULD. AND FEBRUARY 23, 2012 178 1 WE'VE HAD IT IN THE PAST, AND IT'S PAID BACK. IT'S PAID 2 BACK A LOT IN THE PAST, AND IT WILL PAY FOR US IN THE 3 FUTURE. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE FANG. 5 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: YEAH, I WOULD LIKE TO 6 SPEAK IN SUPPORT OF THIS RESOLUTION, NOT BECAUSE WE HAVE 7 MONEY TO SPEND, BUT THE REALITY IS THIS, WE HAVE FACTS 8 HAPPENING ON THE GROUND, AND WE HAVE PERCEPTION THAT'S OUT 9 THERE, OKAY. BUT THE PERCEPTION NEEDS TO BE MANAGED. 10 IT DOESN'T -- IF WE DON'T HAVE SOMEBODY TRYING 11 TO HELP US MANAGE THAT PROFESSIONALLY, IT WILL TAKE A LIFE 12 OF ITS OWN. IT GETS OUT OF OUR CONTROL NO MATTER HOW MUCH 13 GOOD WE DO HERE OR HOW MUCH WE TRY TO DO HERE, IT WILL BE 14 WHATEVER THE PERCEPTION IS AND WE WILL BE BATTLING. YOU 15 WILL BE BATTLING AS HARD AS YOU CAN, BUT THOSE PERCEPTIONS 16 IN THE END WILL GET YOU. WE NEED THIS. 17 IF WE WANTED -- IF WE ARE TALKING ABOUT TRYING 18 TO GET PARCEL OR ANYTHING, WE NEED TO START MANAGING OUR 19 OWN PERCEPTION. WE NEED TO TAKE OWNERSHIP OF IT. 20 TRUSTEE BERG: THAT'S RIGHT. 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SO THERE WAS A SUGGESTION TO 22 SEND THIS TO COMMITTEE. I WILL POINT OUT AGAIN THAT I 23 SAID THE SAME THING ABOUT ANOTHER RESOLUTION ON TONIGHT'S 24 AGENDA, S3, AND THE BOARD FELT OTHERWISE SO I JUST WONDER 25 ARE WE GOING TO BE CONSISTENT OR NOT SO I WILL -- FEBRUARY 23, 2012 179 1 WHAT DOES THE BOARD WHICH TO DO? 2 TRUSTEE NGO. 3 TRUSTEE NGO: YEAH, I UNDERSTAND THE VALUE OF 4 THIS POSITION. AND I DON'T THINK -- I DON'T THINK THAT'S 5 IN DISPUTE. I THINK WE DEFINITELY NEED PEOPLE WHO ARE 6 SKILLED AT PR. I CERTAINLY THINK PRESIDENT RIZZO DOESN'T 7 GIVE HIMSELF ANOTHER CREDIT ABOUT THIS PR SKILLS. 8 BUT, YOU KNOW, I THINK MY ISSUE IS IT NOT 9 NECESSARILY WITH THE VALUE ON THE MERITS. MY ISSUE IS 10 WHETHER OR NOT WE CAN MAKE DUE THROUGH THE CLOSE OF THE 11 FISCAL YEAR AND PUT THIS FORWARD IN EARNEST BEGINNING 12 JULY 1 RATHER THAN IN THE CURRENT YEAR JUST BECAUSE WE 13 HAVE A LOT OF PRESSURE THAT WE ARE PUTTING ON THESE 14 CONSTITUENT GROUPS RIGHT NOW FOR SOME CONCESSIONS. 15 AND WHAT I WANT US TO DO IS, I DON'T DISAGREE 16 WITH THE ISSUE IN THE MERITS I THINK IN TERMS OF TIMING. 17 I WOULD HOPE THAT WE CAN HAVE PEOPLE WHO DO ANY KIND OF 18 RELATIONS PICK UP THIS PART OF THE WORK UNTIL WE CLOSE OUT 19 THE YEAR. 20 AND I WOULD ACTUALLY BE VERY OPEN TO HAVING THIS 21 PROPOSAL BACK FOR THE 2012-2013 YEAR, WHICH I THINK WILL 22 STILL WORK GIVEN THAT THAT CAN BEGIN IN JULY, AND WE HAVE 23 ALL BASICALLY THE REST OF 2012 TO SPEAK ABOUT THE GOOD 24 THINGS THAT WE ARE DOING AT THE SAME TIME WE ARE HAVING 25 THIS -- NOT JUST THE PARCEL TAX, BUT THIS WHOLE DEBATE FEBRUARY 23, 2012 180 1 ABOUT THE VALUE OF EDUCATION AND WHY TAXPAYER DOLLARS ARE 2 IMPORTANT TO FUND EDUCATION. 3 I JUST THINK IT IS A TONE AND TIMING THING NOT 4 NECESSARY A MERITS ISSUE. AND I WOULD ENCOURAGE THE BOARD 5 DO THAT TONIGHT. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE BERG. 7 TRUSTEE BERG: I DON'T CARE IF WE WITHHOLD THE 8 FUNDING UNTIL JULY 1, BUT I DO THINK IT IS GOING TO TAKE 9 US FROM NOW UNTIL THEN TO FIND SOMEBODY WHO IS GOING TO BE 10 WHAT WE WANT. AND WE REALLY DO NEED THAT. 11 I MEAN WE NEED SOMEBODY THAT WILL BE DOING A 12 PARCEL TAX. WE NEED SOMEBODY IN OUR DISTRICT WHO IS 13 TOUTING THIS DISTRICT AND TELLING EVERYBODY HOW WONDERFUL 14 IT IS AND WHY A PARCEL TAX IS NECESSARY. WE REALLY DO 15 NEED SOMEBODY LIKE THAT. 16 AND SO I WOULD SAY IF YOU WANT TO DELAY THE 17 START TIME TO JULY 1, WHICH I THINK IS UNFORTUNATE BECAUSE 18 FRANKLY WE HAVE A PARCEL TAX COMING UP, AND IT'S COMING UP 19 SOON. 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IN APRIL. 21 TRUSTEE BERG: AND WE REALLY WANT TO DO THE BEST 22 WE CAN. BUT I WOULD LIKE TO THE PROCESS TO START NOW 23 BECAUSE IT IS GOING TO TAKE A WHILE TO FIND SOMEBODY. 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL RIGHT. SO THE QUESTION AS 25 TO WHETHER TO SEND IT TO THE BUDGET COMMITTEE, WHAT IS THE FEBRUARY 23, 2012 181 1 BOARD'S DESIRE? 2 DO PEOPLE WANT TO VOTE ON IT TONIGHT? 3 I AM JUST TRYING TO BE CONSISTENT. 4 I AM FINE WITH VOTING ON IT ON THE MERITS OR 5 HAVING IT SENT TO COMMITTEE. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 7 TRUSTEE NGO: I'M INDIFFERENT. 8 TRUSTEE JACKSON: I MEAN I JUST WANT TO SEND IT 9 TO COMMITTEE TO IDENTIFY WHERE WE ARE GOING TO FIND THE 10 MONEY TO PAY FOR IT. WHAT SOURCE OF MONEY IS GOING TO PAY 11 FOR IT? 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WHY DON'T WE -- WE DON'T YOU 13 MOVE THAT. AND WE WILL VOTE ON IT IF THAT'S THE WAY -- 14 TRUSTEE JACKSON: I MOVE TO REFER THIS ITEM TO 15 THE BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETING. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, IS THERE A SECOND? 17 IS THERE A SECOND ON THAT? 18 TRUSTEE BERG: TO SEND IT BACK TO COMMITTEE? 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TO SEND IT TO BUDGET 20 COMMITTEE. 21 TRUSTEE MARKS: SECOND. 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YOUR SECONDING IT, TRUSTEE 23 MARKS. 24 TRUSTEE MARKS: SECOND. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, DISCUSSION ON THE MOTION FEBRUARY 23, 2012 182 1 TO SEND IT TO THE BUDGET COMMITTEE. 2 TRUSTEE NGO: I WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS IT. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YES. 4 TRUSTEE NGO: I THINK TRUSTEE JACKSON'S 5 RECOMMENDATION IS CONSISTENT WITH THE OTHER MOTION THAT 6 MR. PRESIDENT RAISED ABOUT REFERRING ITEMS TO COMMITTEE. 7 THIS CALLS FOR AN ACTUAL ACTION. IT CALLS FOR 8 ACTION BY THE DISTRICT AS OPPOSED TO A PLAN. I THINK THIS 9 RESOLUTION IS RIGHT. I DON'T THINK THE HIRING PLAN WAS 10 RIPE, THAT RESOLUTION WAS RIPE YET. 11 SO I WOULD SUPPORT THE RECOMMENDATION BECAUSE I 12 DO THINK IT CANNOT HURT CERTAINLY IN THESE TIMES TO PUT IT 13 UNDER A LITTLE BIT MORE SCRUTINY AS I SUPPORT THE CONCEPT 14 ON THE MERITS. 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: FURTHER DISCUSSION? 16 TRUSTEE BERG: I HAVE DISCUSSION. I DON'T THINK 17 I WANT TO SEND THIS TO THE BUDGET COMMITTEE UNTIL IT IS 18 APPROVED HERE. THEN IT CAN GO TO THE BUDGET COMMITTEE AND 19 WE'LL FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO WITH THE MONEY. BUT I THINK 20 THIS POSITION REALLY SHOULD BE ESTABLISHED BECAUSE IT'S 21 GOING TO TAKE QUITE A WHILE FOR US TO FIND THE RIGHT 22 PERSON FOR US. 23 AND WE'VE GOT A LOT OF STUFF GOING ON THAT'S 24 REALLY IMPORTANT IN TERMS OF THE FINANCIAL VIABILITY OF 25 THIS INSTITUTION. WE SHOULD KEEP REMEMBERING THAT. WE FEBRUARY 23, 2012 183 1 DON'T GET MONEY FROM THE STATE. THE PARCEL TAX IS GOING 2 TO SAVE OUR LIVES WE HOPE. 3 YOU'VE GOT TO ACT PROFESSIONALLY. THIS IS A 4 PROFESSION INSTITUTION. SO I DON'T SEE ANY VALUE IN NOT 5 BRINGING FORWARD THIS POSITION. LET US TAKE A LOOK AT IT, 6 AND IF IT NEEDS TO GO TO THE BUDGET COMMITTEE AFTER IT'S 7 APPROVED, THEN LET IT GO TO THE BUDGET COMMITTEE. 8 BUT I WANT IT TO BE APPROVED FIRST SO THAT WE 9 KNOW WE CAN START LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY TO TAKE THIS JOB 10 AND HELP US OUT. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, I WOULD JUST SAY IT'S 12 UNUSUAL TO SEND SOMETHING TO COMMITTEE AFTER IT'S 13 APPROVED. 14 TRUSTEE BERG: NO, THEY COULD FIGURE OUT WHERE 15 THE MONEY CAN COME FROM. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WHERE THE MONEY COMES FROM, 17 TRUE. 18 TRUSTEE BERG: YEAH, I THINK THAT'S APPROPRIATE. 19 LOOK, WE ARE IN BAD SHAPE. WE REALLY NEED TO 20 START MOVING FORWARD AND THINKING TO THE FUTURE. WE CAN'T 21 JUST START SAYING, WOE IS US. WOE IS US. WE HAVE TO 22 START THINKING OF ALTERNATIVES TO HELP US OVER THIS. 23 AND ONE OF THEM IS TO FIND SOMEBODY WHO CAN GIVE 24 US A GOOD FACE AND HELP US RAISE MONEY. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE FANG, DID YOU FEBRUARY 23, 2012 184 1 HAVE YOUR HAND UP? 2 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: YEAH, I'LL KEEP IT BRIEF. 3 HONESTLY, THINGS OF ANY MATTER THAT WE ARE 4 TRYING TO DO AND THEY INVOLVE MONEY, IT TAKES TIME. AND 5 WE NEED SOMEBODY. AND WE ARE SEARCHING FOR SOMEBODY. IT 6 TAKES TIME. WE NEED TO START NOW. WE CAN'T WAIT. 7 TRUSTEE BERG: NO, WE CAN'T. 8 TRUSTEE JACKSON: SO MY COMMENT STANDS. YOU 9 KNOW, WHERE IS THE MONEY GOING TO COME FROM? 10 TRUSTEE BERG: WELL, THAT'S WHAT THE BUDGET 11 COMMITTEE CAN FIGURE OUT. 12 TRUSTEE JACKSON: WE HAVE NO MONEY. WE ARE 13 ACTUALLY IN DEFICIT. WE'VE HEARD STUDENTS, CLASSIFIED, 14 AND FACULTY TALK ABOUT THIS ISSUE. WHERE -- LIKE WHAT 15 SOURCE ARE WE GOING TO USE TO FIND THIS MONEY? 16 I MEAN I AM JUST A LITTLE -- AS SOMEONE ON THE 17 BUDGET COMMITTEE, I AM JUST ASKING THAT ONE QUESTION. 18 THIS RESOLUTION DOESN'T EVEN CITE THE SOURCE OF WHERE IT 19 IS GOING TO COME FROM. 20 TRUSTEE BERG: THAT'S RIGHT. 21 TRUSTEE JACKSON: WHERE IS THE MONEY? WHERE? 22 TRUSTEE BERG: WELL, THAT'S WHAT WE HOPE THE 23 BUDGET COMMITTEE CAN DETERMINE. 24 TRUSTEE JACKSON: BUT HOW DO YOU APPROVE -- 25 TRUSTEE BERG: I'M SERIOUS ABOUT THAT. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 185 1 TRUSTEE JACKSON: -- SOMETHING NOT KNOWING WHERE 2 IT'S GOING TO COME FROM. I'M AT A LOSS FOR WORDS. 3 TRUSTEE BERG: OBVIOUSLY WE CAN'T AREN'T GOING 4 TO HIRE THIS PERSON IMMEDIATELY, AND IT WILL GO TO THE 5 BUDGET COMMITTEE, AND WE WILL FIND THE 50,000. 6 TRUSTEE JACKSON: WELL, IF WE HIRE -- 7 TRUSTEE BERG: I FEEL VERY CONFIDENT THAT WE 8 WILL BE ABLE TO COME UP WITH THE MONEY. 9 TRUSTEE JACKSON: IF WE HAVE A $3 MILLION 10 DEFICIT THIS YEAR AND A LOOMING ALMOST 20 SOME MILLION 11 DOLLAR BUDGET NEXT YEAR, WHERE -- WHERE IS THE MONEY TO 12 FUND THIS POSITION RIGHT NOW? 13 WE ARE FREEZING CLASSIFIED POSITIONS. YOU KNOW, 14 WE ARE FREEZING FACULTY POSITIONS. WE ARE LOOKING AT A 15 LOT OF DRASTIC MEASURES HERE. WE ARE CLOSING DOWN 16 CLASSES. 17 YOU KNOW, I ACTUALLY GAVE IN BECAUSE I CARED 18 ABOUT GRACE. I GAVE IN BECAUSE I AM LIKE, JESUS CHRIST, 19 WELL, THIS IS A LOT OF MONEY. I GAVE IN ON THAT ISSUE AND 20 THAT ISSUE HIT ME AT HOME. AND I GAVE IN ON THAT ISSUE. 21 IF WE ARE CLOSING DOWN A CHILD CARE FACILITY IN 22 BAYVIEW, WHICH I AGREED TO, HOW ARE WE PAYING $50,000 FOR 23 A PR PERSON? HOW DO YOU JUSTIFY THAT? 24 AND THEN GO TO THE CITY VOTERS AND SAY, WELL, WE 25 ARE BROKE. WE NEED MORE TAX MONEY. WELL, YOU GUYS FOUND FEBRUARY 23, 2012 186 1 $50,000 TO HIRE A PR FIRM. WE ARE CLOSING DOWN CLASSES. 2 STUDENTS ARE BEING DENIED ACCESS. $50,000 PAYS FOR 3 CLASSES. 4 I JUST WANT YOU TO IDENTIFY WHAT -- WHERE IS 5 THIS MONEY COMING FROM? AND WHAT WE ARE GOING TO CUT TO 6 PAY FOR THIS BECAUSE LITERALLY WE HAVE TO CUT SOMETHING TO 7 PAY FOR IT. THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT OF DEFICIT SPENDING. 8 YOU HAVE TO CUT SOMETHING. SO WHAT ARE WE GOING TO CUT? 9 I AM A LITTLE CONFUSED. I JUST WANT SOME 10 CLARITY ON THAT, AND I AM HAPPY TO VOTE FOR IT. IDENTIFY 11 WHAT WE CAN CUT. AND THEN I AM HAPPY TO VOTE FOR IT. 12 BUT YOU CAN'T TELL ME THAT WE HAVEN'T ALL HAD 13 STUFF THAT WE WANTED TO LOSE. AND THIS IS SOMETHING 14 THAT -- THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT I SEE AS SUPER, SUPER 15 PERTINENT. 16 IT'S SOMETHING THAT I FEEL THAT ADMINISTRATION 17 CAN ACTUALLY HANDLE. AND I THINK RIGHT NOW WE NEED TO 18 ADDRESS CUTS NOT ADDRESS MORE SPENDING RIGHT NOW. 19 AND I'M SORRY THIS DOES NOT IDENTIFY ONE SINGLE 20 FUNDING SOURCE, THE FOUNDATION, OR ANYBODY. WE HAVEN'T 21 EVEN ASKED THE FOUNDATION, MAYBE THEY CAN PAY FOR IT. IF 22 YOU SAID THE FOUNDATION AGREED TO PAY FOR IT, I WOULD BE 23 LIKE, SURE LET'S DO IT. 24 THERE'S NO FUNDING SOURCE THAT'S BEEN IDENTIFIED 25 FOR THIS MONEY, AND THAT'S MY PROBLEM WITH IT. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 187 1 TRUSTEE BERG: WELL, LOOK, ALL WE ARE DOING IS 2 IDENTIFYING THE POSITION. WE ARE NOT HIRING ANYBODY. WE 3 DON'T HAVE MONEY RIGHT NOW TO HIRE THAT PERSON. WE ARE 4 JUST ESTABLISHING -- FOR THE FUTURE, WE ARE ESTABLISHING A 5 POSITION WHICH I THINK WILL BE EXTRAORDINARILY IMPORTANT 6 TO THIS DISTRICT IF WE WANT TO MOVE FORWARD. 7 AND QUITE FRANKLY, MAYBE OUR BOARD SHOULD DO 8 SOME HEAVY DUTY FUNDRAISING OR MAYBE WE SHOULD CHIP IN 9 SOME MONEY INDIVIDUALLY LIKE SOME OF US HAVE ALREADY DONE 10 FOR OUR COLLEGE BECAUSE IT IS HURTING. 11 SO I THINK THAT MAYBE WE COULD LOOK FROM 12 OURSELVES OR WE CAN FIND THE MONEY OURSELVES. WE COULD 13 RAISE THE MONEY. WE ALL HAVE CONTACTS, EVERY ONE OF US. 14 WE ARE ELECTED OFFICIALS. WE HAVE CONTACTS. WHY DON'T WE 15 TRY HITTING UP OUR CONTACTS? 16 YOU KNOW, PERSONALLY, I GIVE A LOT OF MONEY TO 17 THIS COLLEGE, A LOT. I FUND CLASSES WITH MY OWN MONEY. 18 MAYBE SOME OF YOU WOULD LIKE TO TRY DOING THAT TOO. 19 TRUSTEE JACKSON: WELL, I'M SORRY, TRUSTEE BERG, 20 SOME OF US AREN'T AS FORTUNATE AS YOU ARE IN TERMS OF 21 FINANCIAL RESOURCES. 22 TRUSTEE BERG: OH, EXCUSE ME, I AM NOT GOING TO 23 GO THERE WITH YOU. I'M NOT GOING THERE WITH YOU, AND I 24 WANT THAT STOPPED. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WE ARE GETTING OFF THE FEBRUARY 23, 2012 188 1 MESSAGE, OFF THE TOPIC. 2 TRUSTEE WONG: CALL FOR THE QUESTION. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YOU KNOW, I SUPPORT THIS 4 MEASURE, BUT I WILL SUPPORT SENDING IT TO THE BUDGET 5 COMMITTEE BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT I AM BEING CONSISTENT 6 HERE. 7 I BELIEVE S6 ALSO SHOULD HAVE GONE TO COMMITTEE. 8 AND THE REASON IS IT WAS, YOU KNOW, ASSIGNED BY 9 TRUSTEES -- IT TASKS THE CHANCELLOR TO COME UP WITH A 10 COMPREHENSIVE COLLEGE WIDE POLICY. 11 SO HE IS GOING TO TAKE HIS TIME AND STAFF TIME 12 OFF OF SOMETHING ELSE TO DEVELOP THIS POLICY. AND THAT IS 13 SOMETHING THAT SHOULD HAVE GONE TO COMMITTEE. SO I AM -- 14 EVEN THOUGH I SUPPORT THIS, I AM VOTING TO SEND IT TO 15 COMMITTEE TO BE CONSISTENT. BOTH OF THOSE SHOULD HAVE 16 GONE TO COMMITTEE. 17 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: WE'VE ALREADY VOTED ON 18 S6. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH, I KNOW, BUT I AM JUST 20 SAYING -- I AM JUST SAYING THAT -- EXPLAINING WHY I AM 21 DOING THIS, WHY I AM VOTING TO SEND IT TO COMMITTEE. 22 WE HAVE SOME PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ONE. SO WE 23 HAVE AARON HOLMBERG. 24 MR. HOLMBERG: HI. MY NAME IS AARON HOLMBERG. 25 I WORK IN BROADCASTING. I AM THE ONE THAT PUT YOU GUYS ON FEBRUARY 23, 2012 189 1 THE INTERNET RIGHT NOW, SO BE NICE. 2 I JUST WANTED TO MENTION THAT I THINK WE 3 DEFINITELY NEED A PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER. MANY OF US 4 FROM ACROSS FUNCTIONAL AREAS IN THIS COLLEGE HAVE DONE OUR 5 BEST TO CHIP IN TO HELP WITH THE VACANCY OF NOT HAVING 6 SOMEONE TO DO THIS JOB, INCLUDING WHAT I HAVE DONE MYSELF 7 IS WORKING A LOT ON THE COLLEGE WEBSITE MANAGING AND 8 MANIPULATING AND STANDARDIZING OUR MESSAGE ONLINE, WHERE 9 SO MANY OF OUR -- NOT ONLY OUR STUDENTS, BUT OUR VOTERS. 10 PEOPLE THAT WILL VOTE FOR THIS PARCEL TAX. 11 THE CHALLENGES WHEN HIRING AN OUTSIDE FIRM, 12 PLEASE THINK ABOUT THE IMAGE OF OUR VOTERS THINKING ABOUT 13 VOTING FOR A PARCEL TAX THAT ARE HIRING SOMEBODY, AN 14 OUTSIDE FIRM, INSTEAD OF SOMEONE INTERNALLY. AND JUST 15 PERHAPS THAT SHOULD BE A FACTOR IN YOUR CONSIDERATION. 16 I, OF COURSE, WOULD PREFER IT BE A CLASSIFIED 17 PERSON, BUT I AM SURE YOU WILL DO WHAT'S BEST FOR THE 18 COLLEGE. BUT WE DEFINITELY NEED MESSAGE CONTROL 19 SOMEONE -- PROFESSIONAL QUALITY AND HOW WE ARE GOING TO 20 PAY FOR IT, I SUGGEST MAGIC. 21 BUT IT FEELS LIKE NOT ONLY THE PARCEL TAX, BUT 22 THE INFORMATION SECURITY ISSUE THAT JAMES ROGERS' 23 MENTIONED. WE NEED SOMEBODY. AND ALL OF YOU -- YOU ALL 24 HAVE TALKED TO THE PRESS TOO, BUT WE ALSO NEED SOMEONE 25 THAT CAN HANDLE THE PROBLEMS AS WELL AS THE GOOD STUFF. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 190 1 THANKS. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 3 KAREN SAGINOR. 4 MS. SAGINOR: I'VE BEEN CALLED A LOT BY 5 NEWSPAPER REPORTERS LATELY. I MEAN THIS IS WHERE WE ARE. 6 I AM ENDING UP BEING THE SPOKESPERSON FOR THE COLLEGE 7 SOMETIMES. AND I DON'T KNOW IF THAT SCARES YOU, BUT IT 8 MAYBE -- 9 YOU KNOW, I DON'T WANT TO SPEND A DIME ON 10 ANYTHING OTHER THAN CLASSES. BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I 11 HEARD WAS HOW COULD WE TELL THE VOTERS THAT WE ARE 12 SPENDING MONEY ON THIS, WHEN WE ARE NOT SPENDING MONEY -- 13 THE PROBLEM IS WITHOUT THIS PERSON, IT'S HARD TO TELL THE 14 VOTERS ANYTHING. WE ARE NOT GETTING A MESSAGE ACROSS TO 15 THE VOTERS, AND IT'S YOUR DECISION. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 17 JOE FITZGERALD. 18 MR. FITZGERALD: HI, AGAIN. 19 THINKING ON WHO TO HIRE OR WHO MIGHT HAVE 20 CONTACTS TO HIRE, I'M SURE YOU GUYS ALL HAVE YOUR 21 CONTACTS, BUT I JUST WANTED TO PUT ONE IDEA OUT THERE, 22 ESPECIALLY IF YOU WANT TO HIRE SOMEONE THAT'S CONNECTED TO 23 THE COLLEGE, AS AARON IS SAYING, WHICH IS A GREAT POINT. 24 I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW KAT ANDERSON. 25 I BELIEVE SHE IS EITHER ON THE FOUNDATION OR SHE'S AN FEBRUARY 23, 2012 191 1 ORGANIZER FOR IT. 2 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: I DO. 3 MR. FITZGERALD: YOU DO KNOW HER. SHE IS ONE OF 4 THE MEMBERS IN CHARGE OF THE FOG CITY JOURNAL. SO SHE IS 5 ACTUALLY NOW BECOMING A MEDIA PROFESSIONAL WITH A LOT OF 6 MEDIA CONTACTS. SHE IS WORKING WITH THE GUARDSMAN NOW. 7 WE ARE GOING TO INTERN FOR HER. 8 BUT SHE KNOWS A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE NEWS GUILD 9 AND THE FREELANCERS GUILD. SHE HAS A LOT OF MEDIA 10 CONTACTS NOW. AND SO IF YOU GUYS ARE LOOKING FOR MEDIA 11 PROFESSIONALS TO DO OUTREACH AND THAT KIND OF THING, SHE 12 MAY BE A PERSON TO TALK TO OR EVEN SOMEONE TO CONSIDER. 13 TRUSTEE WONG: SHE RAN FOR SUPERVISOR. 14 MR. FITZGERALD: YEAH, EXACTLY. THAT ONE. 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, IS THERE FURTHER PUBLIC 16 COMMENT? 17 FILL OUT A CARD WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE. 18 MS. ARACK: YEAH, I DID. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, YOU DID? 20 MS. ARACK: BUT I DON'T THINK YOU CAN READ IT. 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, I'M SORRY. 22 MS. ARACK: YEAH I DID, BUT I DON'T THINK YOU 23 COULD READ IT. 24 MY NAME IS PATRICIA ARACK, AND I WORK IN THE 25 OFFICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION. I AM THE EDITOR OF CITY FEBRUARY 23, 2012 192 1 CURRENTS. I AM THERE ON A PART-TIME BASIS. I WAS 2 THERE -- THE FIRST YEAR I WAS THERE, MARTHA WAS THERE. 3 THE LAST TWO YEARS SHE HAS BEEN GONE. SO I KNOW WHAT IT 4 WAS LIKE WHEN SHE WAS THERE. WHEN WE HAD SOMEBODY REALLY 5 DOING THIS JOB, AND WHAT IT'S LIKE NOW. 6 IN FACT GOHAR AND I WERE TALKING ABOUT THIS THIS 7 AFTERNOON. SHE WAS ASKING ME ABOUT WHAT KIND OF 8 QUALIFICATIONS WE SHOULD ASK FOR THIS PERSON OR THIS 9 CONSULTANT OR THIS FIRM OR WHOMEVER WE MIGHT HIRE. 10 I THINK THIS IS AN ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL IDEA. I 11 AGREE WITH YOU TOTALLY BECAUSE I'VE SEEN THE DIFFERENCE 12 JUST IN THAT OFFICE. AND I WILL GIVE YOU A COUPLE OF 13 EXAMPLES. 14 WHEN WE HAD THIS MEDIA LEAK OVER THE SECURITY 15 FLAP, THE WORM, THIS -- ON MY GOOGLE ALERTS, I GOT ONLINE 16 NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES, PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS ALL OVER THE 17 WORLD WITH ARTICLES ABOUT CITY COLLEGE AND HOW INEPT AND 18 NEGLIGENT THEY WERE AND HOW, YOU KNOW, LIKE THEY WERE 19 IDIOTS. THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE DOING. 20 HAVING A PROFESSIONAL PR PERSON, COULD HAVE 21 PERHAPS CORRECTED SOME OF THE MISINFORMATION AND NOT MADE 22 US NOT HAVE QUITE SUCH A BLACK EYE. 23 AND YOU TALK ABOUT MONEY BEING WELL SPENT, WHEN 24 WE GO OUT TO ASK PEOPLE TO VOTE IN A PARCEL TAX, AND WHAT 25 THEY REMEMBER IS THAT -- FEBRUARY 23, 2012 193 1 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 2 MS. ARACK: -- HORRIBLE STORY ABOUT -- 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 4 MR. ARENAS: -- THE SECURITY. COULD I JUST SAY 5 ONE MORE THING? 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TO FINISH THE SENTENCE. 7 MR. ARENAS: YEAH, DMI, THE DMI PROGRAM BEST 8 PROGRAM IN THE COUNTRY. WE SENT OUT TWO PRESS RELEASES. 9 NOBODY PICKED IT UP. 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I HAVE TO ASK YOU TO STOP. 11 I'M SORRY. 12 MS. ARACK: OKAY. BUT, YOU KNOW, A PROFESSIONAL 13 COULD HAVE HELPED US OUT A LOT IN BOTH OF THOSE CASES. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I JUST GOT A CARD FOR B6. 15 WE'VE ALREADY TAKEN UP B6. DID YOU MEAN B3? 16 MS. PODENSKI: THE ONE THAT WE ARE TALKING 17 ABOUT. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THIS IS B3. 19 MS. PODENSKI: OKAY. 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: FRANCINE PODENSKI. 21 MS. PODENSKI: SORRY ABOUT THE NUMBER. FRANCINE 22 PODENSKI, FROM THE BROADCAST ELECTRONIC MEDIA ARTS 23 DEPARTMENT AND ALSO THE CHAIR OF THE COLLEGE 24 COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE. 25 AND I WOULD HOPE THAT YOU WOULD CONSIDER PASSING FEBRUARY 23, 2012 194 1 THIS. I KNOW IT'S UNUSUAL, BUT I THINK THE IDEA OF 2 PASSING THIS TONIGHT AND THEN SENDING IT TO COMMITTEE AND 3 THEN ALL OF YOU GO OUT AND RAISE MONEY FOR THIS. I CANNOT 4 TELL YOU THE AMOUNT OF TIME THAT EVERYONE HAS VOLUNTEERED. 5 BUT THE PROBLEM IS THERE'S NO ONE PERSON WHO 6 HOLDS IT ALTOGETHER. WE HAVE A WHOLE BUNCH OF PEOPLE 7 TRYING THEIR BEST TO TRY TO REPRESENT THIS COLLEGE. AND I 8 DO THINK THE MOST RECENT NOT SO GOOD PRESS WOULD HAVE BEEN 9 BETTER MANAGED. AND ALSO SOME OF OUR EXCEPTIONAL 10 ACCOMPLISHMENTS, AND DMI IS ONE OF THOSE EXAMPLES. 11 WE HAVE BEEN PRODUCING IN OUR DEPARTMENT 12 PROMOTIONS ABOUT DIFFERENT OF THE OUTSTANDING 13 ACCOMPLISHMENTS, BUT WE HAVE NO ONE TO GO OUT AND PLACE 14 THEM ANYWHERE. THERE'S NO TIME. SO THERE'S NOBODY TO DO 15 IT. 16 I BELIEVE THAT IT WOULD BE REALLY IMPORTANT FOR 17 YOU TO CONSIDER THIS UNUSUAL REQUEST. AND I AGREE THAT 18 THE MONEY IS AN ISSUE. AND I AGREE WITH AARON THAT MAGIC 19 NEEDS TO BE CALLED UPON. AND I THINK THAT IT WOULD BE A 20 GOOD THING TO DO. I JUST ENCOURAGE YOU TO RECONSIDER. 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: KATIE GELARDI. 22 MS. GELARDI: NOT FOR THIS. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ARE YOU SPEAKING ON ANOTHER 24 ITEM? 25 MS. GELARDI: YES, I WAS. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 195 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I'M SORRY. WHICH ITEM? 2 MS. GELARDI: THE REQUEST TO SPEAK AT THE END. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OH, AT THE END. OH, OKAY. 4 I'M SORRY. 5 OKAY, ANY FURTHER PUBLIC COMMENT? 6 YES, IS THERE? 7 MS. EVANS: I'M SORRY ABOUT THIS CARD THING. I 8 JUST WANTED TO TELL YOU -- OKAY, B6, IS THAT WHAT IT IS? 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: B3. 10 MS. EVANS: OKAY, B3, I'LL BE BACK TO THAT 11 AGAIN, OKAY. 12 BUT ANYWAY, LISTEN, THIS IS WHAT I WANTED TO 13 SAY, NOT TO BE INVOLVED IN EVERYTHING, BUT JUST TO LET YOU 14 GUYS KNOW WE HAVE -- YOU KNOW WHAT I LOVE ABOUT BEING A 15 CUSTODIAN IT'S LIKE YOU ARE EVERYWHERE, RIGHT? 16 SO YOU GUYS HAVE THE GREATEST FOOTBALL TEAM. 17 NO. 1 NURSING GROUP IN THE COUNTRY. NO. 1 RADIOLOGY TEAM. 18 YOU'VE GOT THE BEST -- WHAT IS THAT SPEECH -- TOP SPEECH 19 HONORS. 20 TRUSTEE WONG: DEBATE TEAM. 21 MS. EVANS: IS THAT WHAT IS THAT. 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I DIDN'T KNOW THAT. 23 MS. EVANS: I MEAN YOU'VE GOT ALL THESE GREAT 24 STUDENTS HERE AND GREAT FACULTY. I DON'T KNOW HOW COME 25 YOU CAN'T ALL WORK TOGETHER. DON'T SPEND MONEY. YOU FEBRUARY 23, 2012 196 1 KNOW, GET YOUR -- I MEAN THEY ARE ALL HERE RIGHT IN FRONT 2 OF YOU. AND I AM TELLING YOU YOU'VE GOT GREAT PEOPLE. 3 THERE'S SCOUTS THAT ARE JUST POURING IN THE 4 SCHOOL. I EVEN KNOW SOME OF THEM BY NAME. AND I THOUGHT 5 WOW, THIS IS GREAT. I MEAN IT'S BEAUTIFUL. AND THE NO. 1 6 BASKETBALL TEAM IN THE COUNTRY. WE DON'T HAVE LIN, BUT 7 WE'VE GOT EVERYBODY ELSE. JEREMY LIN. 8 BUT ANYWAY, I AM JUST SAYING WE HAVE SOME MUCH 9 TALENT HERE, WHY CAN'T WE SHOWCASE WHAT WE HAVE? 10 AND SEE, I AM GOING TO TELL YOU WHAT I FOUND 11 OUT. PEOPLE DO HAVE MONEY. BUT THEY WANT TO BE ON THE A 12 TEAM. THEY DON'T WANT TO BE ON THE B TEAM. WE WANT TO BE 13 AN A TEAM. THAT'S WHAT WE ARE. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 15 MS. EVANS: THAT'S HOW WE LOBBY AND GET PEOPLE 16 TO SEE VISUALLY. YOU SEE SOME PEOPLE DON'T LIKE FOR YOU 17 TO TALK TO THEM BECAUSE THAT BUGS THEM, BUT MOST PEOPLE 18 LIKE VISION AND SEE VISUAL. AND THEY SAY, OH, LOOK AT 19 THAT. LET'S GIVE THEM SOME MONEY. SEE. 20 THAT'S HOW COME MACY'S IS RICH. IT'S NOT 21 BECAUSE THEY'VE GOT THE BEST STUFF, BUT THEY KNOW HOW TO 22 SHOWCASE IT. 23 (TIMER SOUNDS.) 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 25 ANY OTHER PUBLIC COMMENT? FEBRUARY 23, 2012 197 1 OKAY, WE WILL CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENT. 2 SO THE MOTION ON THE TABLE, TRUSTEES, IS TO SEND 3 B3 TO THE BUDGET COMMITTEE. 4 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AND, TRUSTEE RIZZO, I JUST 5 WANT TO SAY IF THE REST OF THE TRUSTEES ARE IN A 6 AGREEANCE, I WILL DROP MY OBJECTIONS TO THIS. I WILL DROP 7 MY OBJECTIONS. THE REST OF THE TRUSTEES ARE ON BOARD WITH 8 THIS, SO I WILL JUST WITH MY OBJECTION. 9 ARE YOU WITHDRAWING YOUR MOTION THEN? 10 TRUSTEE JACKSON: IT'S FINE. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. MOTION IS WITHDRAWN. 12 TRUSTEE NGO. 13 TRUSTEE NGO: YEAH, I DON'T WANT TO REINFORCE 14 ANOTHER POINT I MADE. BUT TO BE CLEAR, I DO THINK THAT 15 GIVEN WHERE WE ARE AND GIVEN THE TONE AND THE ANGST AT THE 16 COLLEGE IN THE CURRENT YEAR, I STILL DON'T THINK IT IS A 17 WISE THING FOR US TO SPEND MONEY AS WE ARE ASKING PEOPLE 18 TO CONCEDE WAGES. IT'S JUST NOT A VERY -- I THINK FAIR, 19 AND IT'S LITTLE TONE DEAF IN MY OPINION. 20 NOW THAT DOESN'T SPEAK TO THE MERITS OF THE 21 ISSUE. I THINK TRUSTEE JACKSON IS CORRECT. I THINK HE IS 22 RAISING A VERY FAIR POINT WHICH IS WHEN WE ACTUALLY TAKE 23 IT UNDER CONSIDERATION AND MORE DEPTH, WE SHOULD ASK THE 24 ADMINISTRATION TO BE FIND SAVINGS IN THE 2012-2013 BUDGET 25 THAT CAN JUSTIFY AN EXPENDITURE LIKE THIS. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 198 1 I KNOW THERE'S WAYS IN THE ADMINISTRATION. I 2 KNOW THERE'S WAYS IN MANY OF THE LINE ITEMS THAT WE ARE 3 LOOKING AT FOR 2012-2013. SO I THINK IT'S FAIR TO SAY, AT 4 LEAST FOR ME, THAT IT WOULD BE A LITTLE -- THERE'S A 5 LITTLE BIT OF VISCANCE IN MY MIND FOR US TO HARK AND RAISE 6 HELL IN SOME WAYS ABOUT THE BUDGET THIS YEAR, ASK FOR 7 CONCESSIONS, AND THEN JUST KIND OF GLEEFULLY MOVE TO ADOPT 8 THIS EXPENDITURE. 9 AGAIN, I THINK WE CAN FIND WAYS TO GET A NET 10 SAVINGS AND VALUE IN THE 2012-2013 CYCLE. I'M NOT -- I 11 DON'T GIVE UP ON THAT IDEA. I THINK THE IDEA IS GOOD ON 12 THE MERITS, BUT WE SHOULD DO IT IN A WAY THAT'S CONSISTENT 13 WITH OUR CURRENT BUDGET POSTURE. AND WE CAN TAKE IT UP IN 14 EARNEST. 15 THE FISCAL YEAR IS ENDING SOON. AND I DON'T 16 THINK IT -- I DON'T THINK IT'S SUCH AN EMERGENCY THAT WE 17 HAVE TO ADOPT IT NOW. AND I THINK WE SHOULD ACTUALLY LOOK 18 AT CLOSELY. 19 THERE ARE NO SACRED COWS, BUT EVERY TIME WE 20 BRING BACK SOMETHING, IT'S SACRED ALL OF A SUDDEN. IT'S 21 NOT. IT'S NOT SACRED. NONE OF THESE THINGS ARE SACRED. 22 SO MY URGING IS FOR US TO EITHER DENY THE 23 RESOLUTION, VOTE IT DOWN, OR REFER IT TO THE 2012-2013 24 CYCLE, WHICH I THINK IT SHOULD BE TAKEN UP BY THE 25 COMMITTEE. AND WE SHOULD REALLY SIT DOWN AND FIGURE OUT FEBRUARY 23, 2012 199 1 WHERE THE MONEY IS GOING TO COME FROM. 2 AND I DO BELIEVE THERE IS MONEY THERE FOR US TO 3 JUSTIFY A POSITION FOR THIS. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: DO YOU HAVE THE MOTION OR 5 SOMETHING IN THERE? 6 TRUSTEE NGO: THERE'S NO MOTION. I AM JUST 7 GOING TO VOTE AGAINST IT IN ITS CURRENT YEAR THE WAY IT'S 8 PHRASED. 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 10 TRUSTEE NGO: THE WAY IT'S WRITTEN. 11 TRUSTEE BERG: THE STUDENT TRUSTEE. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, TRUSTEE BERG. 13 TRUSTEE NGO: I AM JUST URGING THEM TO MOVE IT. 14 TRUSTEE BERG: I DON'T WANT TO BELABOR THIS. 15 IT'S VERY LATE. WE ALL WANT TO GO HOME. WE ARE ALL 16 TIRED. I SUSPECT THAT IF WE HAVE A GOOD PERSON IN THAT 17 POSITION, THAT PERSON IS GOING TO EARN HIS OR HER OWN 18 MONEY. WE WILL BRING THAT MONEY IN. I HAVE NO DOUBTS. 19 THAT'S WHAT THESE PR PEOPLE ARE FOR. THAT'S 20 WHAT THEY DO. THAT'S WHAT THEY KNOW. IF YOU EVER WORKED 21 IN THE REAL WORLD, YOU KNOW THAT A PR PERSON BRINGS IN HIS 22 OR HER OWN MONEY. AND FOR WHATEVER COMPANY OR CORPORATION 23 THEY ARE WORKING FOR, THEY BRING IN MONEY. 24 TRUSTEE NGO: I DON'T DISAGREE WITH THAT, 25 TRUSTEE BERG. I JUST THINK THAT WE SHOULD, GIVEN WHAT FEBRUARY 23, 2012 200 1 HAPPENED TONIGHT AND THE TENURE OF THE CONVERSATION WE'VE 2 BEEN HAVING WITH OUR CONSTITUENT GROUPS AND STUDENTS, I 3 DON'T KNOW WHAT THE BIG DIFFERENCE IS IF YOU MOVE IT TO 4 JULY 1. 5 TRUSTEE JACKSON: CAN WE JUST MOVE IT LIKE A 6 COUPLE OF MONTHS. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YOU WANT TO START IT IN JULY? 8 TRUSTEE JACKSON: JUST START JULY 1ST, INSTEAD 9 OF APRIL 1ST. 10 TRUSTEE BERG: THAT'S FINE. 11 TRUSTEE JACKSON: THAT WAY THE BUDGET 12 COMMITTEE -- 13 TRUSTEE BERG: I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH CHANGING 14 IT TO JULY 1ST. THAT'S FINE. 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: JULY THROUGH DECEMBER. 16 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: SURE. 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THE SAME PERIOD. 18 TRUSTEE NGO: I STILL THINK WE SHOULD HAVE 19 ADMINISTRATION FIND THAT SAVINGS AND PAY FOR IT. 20 TRUSTEE JACKSON: I AGREE. 21 TRUSTEE NGO: I DON'T THINK IT SHOULD BE A 22 STRAIGHT UP ADD ON TO OUR EXPENDITURES. AND IF WE JUST 23 TABLE IT -- IF WE JUST TABLE IT AND IF THERE'S PLAN FOR 24 JULY 1, THEN WE -- WE'VE DONE OUR JOB. WE ARE GOING TO 25 FIND AN EXCELLENT PR PERSON THAT TRUSTEE BERG IS FEBRUARY 23, 2012 201 1 ANTICIPATING. AND WE WOULD HAVE FOUND -- WE WOULD 2 HUNKERED DOWN ON THE BUDGET AND FOUND SOME REAL SAVINGS IN 3 THE ADMINISTRATION FOR THAT MONEY. 4 IT'S -- I JUST CAN'T -- WE CAN'T ASK FOR WAGE 5 CONCESSIONS AND THEN ALL OF SUDDEN, YOU KNOW, WITH SOME 6 MAGIC THINK THAT IT'S OKAY TO PAY $50,000 FOR THIS 7 POSITION IN THIS CURRENT YEAR. I JUST -- I CAN'T DO THAT. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, BUT WE MOVING IT JULY 9 WOULD NOT BE IN THIS CURRENT YEAR. IT WOULD BE IN THE 10 NEXT YEAR. 11 TRUSTEE NGO: I UNDERSTAND THAT. WHAT I AM 12 SAYING IS THAT I WANT TO FIND A NET SAVINGS FOR THE 50K. 13 I DON'T WANT TO ADD AN EXPENDITURE GOING INTO 2012-2013 14 WITHOUT ANY SAVINGS ANYWHERE. AND WE CAN DO IT. I AM 15 CONFIDENT WE CAN FIND A NET SAVINGS TO JUSTIFY THE 16 POSITION IN THE CURRENT -- IN THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR, BUT WE 17 ARE GOING TO HAVE TO DO THE WORK TO DO IT. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, SO WE ARE EITHER GOING 19 TO VOTE ON THIS AS IS OR SOMEONE CAN MOVE TO CHANGE THE 20 DATES. 21 WHAT IS THE BOARD'S PLEASURE? 22 TRUSTEE JACKSON: I MOVE THAT WE CHANGE THE 23 PERIOD FROM JULY -- FROM "APRIL 1ST" TO "JULY 1ST" 24 THROUGH -- AND CHANGE "SEPTEMBER 30TH" TO "DECEMBER 31ST." 25 AND THEN I ALSO, YOU KNOW -- SO THAT'S ONE PART. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 202 1 AND I ALSO WANT TO ADD IN THE SECTION WHERE WE FIND A NET 2 SAVINGS SOMEWHERE ELSE IN THE BUDGET AND JUST HAVE 3 ADMINISTRATION FIND THAT NET SAVINGS. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 5 TRUSTEE BERG: THIS IS WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO. 6 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 7 TRUSTEE BERG: I WOULD LIKE TO ESTABLISH THIS 8 POSITION. YOU HAVE TO ESTABLISH THE POSITION BEFORE YOU 9 CAN FUND IT. SO I LIKE TO GET THIS POSITION ESTABLISHED 10 MINUS THE FUNDS. AND THEN WE WILL FUND IT AS TIME -- AS 11 WE GO INTO THE NEXT BUDGET YEAR, WE WILL FUND THE 12 POSITION. BUT THE POSITION HAS TO BE THERE OR YOU CAN'T 13 FUND IT. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: BUT THIS SAYS, "SOLICIT OR 15 RECEIVE BIDS." 16 TRUSTEE BERG: WELL, YEAH, YOU WILL DO THAT AS 17 SOON AS YOU ESTABLISH THE POSITION. YOU WILL DO THAT. 18 AND YOU HAVE TO ESTABLISH THE POSITION. YOU DON'T HAVE TO 19 HAVE ANYBODY IN THAT POSITION, BUT YOU DO HAVE TO HAVE THE 20 POSITION BEFORE YOU CAN FUND IT. 21 TRUSTEE NGO: POINT OF INFORMATION. 22 TRUSTEE BERG: YES. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE NGO. 24 TRUSTEE NGO: TRUSTEE BERG, THAT POSITION, I 25 BELIEVE, IS IN THE ORG CHART ALREADY. IT'S JUST VACANT. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 203 1 TRUSTEE BERG: I THOUGHT THAT WAS REMOVED WHEN 2 WE LOST THE PERSON WE HAD. IS IT STILL THERE? 3 TRUSTEE NGO: THE LAST CHART I SAW WAS THAT IT 4 WAS VACANT, BUT IT'S STILL THERE. 5 TRUSTEE BERG: IT'S NOT THERE. IT WAS REMOVED 6 WHEN THE LAST PERSON WHO HELD THE POSITION LEFT. 7 TRUSTEE NGO: I DON'T -- 8 TRUSTEE BERG: WHAT? IT'S WHAT? IT'S THERE, 9 BUT INACTIVE. 10 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: IT'S INACTIVE. 11 TRUSTEE NGO: IT'S VACANT. IT'S THERE. 12 TRUSTEE BERG: SO AS LONG AS THERE'S A POSITION 13 THERE THAT CAN GET FUNDED, THEN THAT'S OKAY. THEN IT'S 14 ESTABLISHED. YEAH, GO AHEAD. GO ON. 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: CHANCELLOR. 16 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: I DON'T BELIEVE THIS IS THE 17 SAME SITUATION. I THINK THE ONE THAT'S THERE IS AN 18 ADMINISTRATIVE POSITION WITH A CERTAIN VERY LARGE SALARY 19 AND SO FORTH. THIS IS A DIFFERENT THING. THIS IS ABOUT 20 CONTRACTING FOR SERVICES. 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, WAS THAT A MOTION TO 22 CHANGE IT TO JULY THROUGH DECEMBER? 23 TRUSTEE JACKSON: YEAH. 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THERE A SECOND FOR THAT 25 MOTION? FEBRUARY 23, 2012 204 1 TRUSTEE BERG: WHAT'S THE MOTION? 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THE MOTION WAS TO CHANGE THE 3 PERIOD FROM "APRIL THROUGH SEPTEMBER" TO "JULY THROUGH 4 DECEMBER." 5 TRUSTEE BERG: THAT'S FINE. JUST AMEND IT. 6 MOVE AN AMENDMENT. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE JACKSON MOVED IT, SO 8 YOU ARE GOING TO SECOND IT, TRUSTEE BERG. 9 TRUSTEE BERG: YEAH, THAT'S FINE. I DON'T CARE. 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, SO NOW WE CAN VOTE ON 11 THIS AMENDMENT. 12 IS THERE PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE AMENDMENT? 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. IS THERE ANY FURTHER 14 DISCUSSION ON THE BOARD? 15 STUDENTS TRUSTEE, YOUR VOTE ON THE AMENDMENT. 16 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): NAY. 17 PRESIDENT RIZZO: NAY, OKAY. 18 ALL THOSE IN -- 19 TRUSTEE BERG: CAN YOU STATE THE AMENDMENT, 20 PLEASE. 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THE AMENDMENT IS TO CHANGE THE 22 PERIOD FROM "APRIL 1ST THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30TH" TO CHANGE 23 THAT TO "JULY 1ST THROUGH DECEMBER 31ST" TO BASICALLY MOVE 24 IT INTO THE NEXT YEAR, FISCAL YEAR. 25 FURTHER DISCUSSION? FEBRUARY 23, 2012 205 1 WE HAD IT. WE HAD A VOTE FROM THE STUDENT 2 TRUSTEE. 3 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 4 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 5 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: AYE. 6 TRUSTEE JACKSON: NAY. 7 TRUSTEE MARKS: NAY. 8 TRUSTEE NGO: NAY. 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 10 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, MOTIONER IS NOT VOTING 12 FOR IT. IT FAILS. 13 ALL THOSE OPPOSED? 14 I GUESS THAT'S EVERYONE ELSE. 15 OKAY, THAT FAILS THEN. 16 SO NOW WE HAVE THE ORIGINAL MOTION, WHICH WE'LL 17 TAKE A VOTE ON. 18 TRUSTEE MARKS: COULD WE TAKE A ROLL CALL VOTE? 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, A ROLL CALL VOTE WILL 20 MAKE IT EASY. 21 STUDENT TRUSTEE, ON THE ORIGINAL -- 22 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, COUNSEL, CAN YOU CALL 24 THE ROLL FOR EACH -- 25 COUNSEL DICKEY: I AM HAPPY TO DO THAT, BUT I AM FEBRUARY 23, 2012 206 1 NOT CERTAIN I UNDERSTAND WHAT THE ORIGINAL MOTION IS. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL RIGHT. I'LL DO IT. 3 TRUSTEE WONG. 4 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE BERG. 6 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE GRIER. 8 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: AYE. 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE JACKSON. 10 TRUSTEE JACKSON: NAY. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE NGO. 12 TRUSTEE NGO: NAY. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE MARKS. 14 TRUSTEE MARKS: NAY. 15 AND I WILL VOTE "YES." 16 OKAY, B3 IS APPROVED. 17 LET'S GO TO THE NEXT ONE. OKAY, SORRY, I GOT 18 IT, B4. NO, B4 -- 19 TRUSTEE WONG: B5. 20 PRESIDENT RIZZO: -- WAS CONSENT. 21 IT'S B5. 22 COUNSEL DICKEY: B5 IS AN "AUTHORIZATION TO 23 ENTER INTO A SPECIAL SERVICE AGREEMENT WITH SCHOOL AND 24 COLLEGE LEGAL SERVICES OF CALIFORNIA, NOT TO EXCEED 25 $50,000." FEBRUARY 23, 2012 207 1 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, IS THERE A MOTION FOR 2 B5? 3 MOTION? 4 TRUSTEE NGO: SO MOVED. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE NGO. 6 SECOND? 7 TRUSTEE JACKSON: SECOND. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE JACKSON. 9 DISCUSSION? 10 IS THAT FOR THIS ONE? 11 PUBLIC COMMENT? 12 NO PUBLIC COMMENT. 13 STUDENT TRUSTEE. 14 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 16 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 17 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: AYE. 18 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 19 TRUSTEE MARKS: AYE. 20 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 22 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 24 B5 IS APPROVED. 25 B6, WE DID. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 208 1 C3. 2 TRUSTEE WONG: SO MOVED. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE WONG. 4 TRUSTEE JACKSON: SECOND. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: SECONDED BY TRUSTEE JACKSON. 6 IT'S SIMPLY ENTITLED, "ACCEPTANCE OF GIFTS." 7 TRUSTEE WONG. 8 TRUSTEE WONG: YEAH, I JUST WANT TO TAKE THIS 9 OPPORTUNITY, AGAIN, ACTUALLY LAST MONTH THE BOARD DID 10 ACCEPT QUITE A BIT OF MONEY FROM A FUNDRAISER THAT WAS 11 HELD ON DECEMBER THE 16TH. AND IT WAS HELD IN CHINATOWN 12 TO RAISE STARTUP MONEY FOR THE NEW CHINATOWN/NORTH BEACH 13 CAMPUS. 14 AND THE REASON WHY I DO WANT TO SPEAK, 15 UNFORTUNATELY, I WAS NOT WELL AT THE JANUARY MEETING, BUT 16 THESE ARE ADDITIONAL FUNDS. AND I DO WANT TO SPEAK SIMPLY 17 BECAUSE I THINK IN THE HISTORY OF THE CHINESE COMMUNITY, 18 WE HAVE NEVER HAD A FUNDRAISER THAT HAD RAISED SO MUCH 19 MONEY IN ONE NIGHT FOR EDUCATION. I BELIEVE THAT ONE 20 NIGHT, WITH THIS HELP OF MANY IN OUR COMMUNITY AND BEYOND, 21 WE RAISED APPROXIMATELY $450,000. 22 AND MANY OF THE STUDENTS WERE OUT IN THE 23 STREETS. AND EVEN THE STUDENTS WERE DONATING $10, $15 OR 24 WHATEVER. ABOUT 400 PEOPLE ATTENDED THIS FUNDRAISING 25 EVENT. AND IT WAS ONLY BASED ON THE POSSIBILITY THAT THE FEBRUARY 23, 2012 209 1 STARTUP MONEY FOR THE NEW CHINATOWN/NORTH BEACH CAMPUS 2 MIGHT NOT BE SUFFICIENT OR WE MAY NOT HAVE THE BEST 3 QUALITY FURNITURE AND MAINTENANCE THAT WE NEEDED. 4 AND THE COMMUNITY FELT SO STRONGLY ABOUT THIS 5 BECAUSE FOR 30 YEARS, AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, THE 6 CHINATOWN/NORTH BEACH CAMPUS HAS BEEN A DREAM. IT HAS 7 BEEN A PRIORITY OF THIS BOARD GOING ON 18 YEARS NOW. IT 8 WILL BE OPENING UP IN A FEW MONTHS AND FOR THE COMMUNITY 9 SAY, WHAT, YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BUY THE BEST FURNITURE 10 AFTER WE WAITED 30 YEARS FOR THIS CAMPUS OR YOU ARE NOT 11 GOING TO UPDATE COMPUTERS EVERY YEAR. 12 I SAID, THE BUDGET THE WAY IT IS IN SACRAMENTO 13 RIGHT NOW, THERE ARE NO SACRED COWS AS WAS SAID. THE 14 COMMUNITY GOT TOGETHER AND RAISED THE MONEY. I THINK MANY 15 OF YOU KNOW, AND I AM SPEAKING TO THE CAMERA NOW, BECAUSE 16 MY AUNT LILY, I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS, BUT I HAD DINNER WITH 17 HER AND SHE WATCHES THE BROADCAST. 18 WELL, AUNT LILY, AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, DONATED 19 $400,000 ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO. AND, AUNT LILY, YOU STARTED 20 THE BALL ROLLING, THANK YOU SO MUCH, AUNT LILY. I KNOW 21 YOU ARE WATCHING. SHE IS 92 YEARS OLD. SHE STILL ATTENDS 22 THE MISSION CAMPUS CLASSES. 92 YEARS OLD, SO THINK ABOUT 23 IT. AND WHEN SHE FOUND OUT THAT THE MISSION CAMPUS NEEDED 24 SOME EXTRA MONEY FOR PAPER OR WHATEVER, SHE DONATED 25 ANOTHER $1,000. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 210 1 AND SO I THINK ALL OF THIS IS ABOUT -- AND WE 2 TALKING ABOUT WHERE THE MONEY IS GOING TO COME FROM, WHERE 3 THE MONEY IS GOING TO COME FROM. I THINK THE NEW PARADIGM 4 IS THAT IT'S GOING TO HAVE TO COME FROM THE COMMUNITIES. 5 WE CAN'T EXPECT SACRAMENTO TO START TAKING CARE 6 OF ALL OF US IF WE DON'T TAKE CARE OF OURSELVES FIRST, 7 WHICH MEANS WE, AS TRUSTEES, AND ALL OF YOU OUT THERE NEED 8 TO GO OUT INTO OUR COMMUNITIES BECAUSE EDUCATION IS 9 IMPORTANT FIRST AND LAST CHANCE FOR SO MANY PEOPLE. 10 RIGHT, DORETHA. 11 MS. EVANS: THAT'S RIGHT, BABY. 12 TRUSTEE WONG: THAT'S RIGHT. 13 SO I JUST WANTED TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SAY 14 THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU AGAIN. 15 ALSO ONE INDIVIDUAL, WHO PASSED ON LAST WEEK, 16 DONATED $50,000 AT THE FUNDRAISER. HER NAME MAY LOUIE. 17 SHE PASSED ON LAST WEEK. AND I WOULD LIKE FOR US TO 18 ADJOURN IN HER MEMORY, MR. PRESIDENT. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: CERTAINLY. 20 TRUSTEE WONG: SO I JUST WANTED TO TAKE THIS 21 OPPORTUNITY, AGAIN, I THINK WE ARE ACCEPTING CLOSE TO 22 $100,000 HERE. JUST TO AGAIN, THANK EVERYBODY. 23 I MEAN THE CITY COLLEGE COMMUNITY CAME OUT IN 24 FORCE. WE HAD 400 PEOPLE THERE AT LEAST, SO THANK YOU SO 25 MUCH. ALL OF YOU. ASU, AFT, ALL OF YOU, ADMINISTRATORS FEBRUARY 23, 2012 211 1 AND ALL OF YOU, SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND, OF COURSE, 2 MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. 3 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THERE FURTHER -- 4 TRUSTEE WONG: I CALL FOR THE QUESTION. 5 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, IS THERE FURTHER 6 COMMENT? 7 IS THERE PUBLIC COMMENT? 8 STUDENT TRUSTEE. 9 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 11 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 12 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: AYE. 13 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 14 TRUSTEE MARKS: AYE. 15 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 17 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: NO CONTROVERSY THERE. THAT'S 19 GOOD. 20 TRUSTEE WONG: IT'S HAPPY MONEY GO LAST NIGHT. 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: INSTEAD OF SPENDING IT. YES, 22 I LIKE THAT. 23 P1, COUNSEL. 24 COUNSEL DICKEY: P1 IS ENTITLED, "NOTICE OF 25 INTENTION TO AMEND THE SFCCD POLICY MANUAL BY ADDING BOARD FEBRUARY 23, 2012 212 1 POLICY BP 7001, ADOPTION OF ANNUAL BUDGET, REQUIREMENTS 2 FIRST READING." 3 TRUSTEE BERG: I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE THIS TO THE 4 POLICY COMMITTEE. I THINK IT SHOULD BE VETTED BY THE 5 POLICY COMMITTEE BEFORE IT GOES ON THE BOARD. AND WE HAVE 6 A BUNCH OF THINGS WE NEED TO GET DONE AND CLEANED UP 7 BEFORE ACCREDITATION BECAUSE WE ARE GOING TO GET DINGED, 8 UNLESS WE GET THIS POLICY CLEANED UP. SO THIS NEEDS TO GO 9 BEFORE THE POLICY COMMITTEE AND THEN COME FORWARD TO THE 10 BOARD. 11 AND IT WOULD BE -- THE POLICY COMMITTEE NEEDS TO 12 REACTIVATE BECAUSE WE HAVE TO REALLY START LOOKING AT SOME 13 OF THESE POLICIES THAT HAVE TO BE REVISED. I KNOW 14 SOMEBODY IS WORKING ON THEM NOW, AND WE NEED TO LOOK THOSE 15 OVER IN THE POLICY COMMITTEE. 16 SO I WOULD LIKE TO -- I WOULD LIKE TO SEND THIS 17 TO POLICY COMMITTEE BEFORE AND NOT VOTE ON IT TONIGHT. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ARE YOU MOVING THAT? 19 TRUSTEE BERG: YES. 20 TRUSTEE NGO: I WILL SECOND THAT. 21 PRESIDENT RIZZO: IS THERE A SECOND? 22 TRUSTEE NGO: I WILL SECOND IT. 23 POINT OF ORDER. 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH. 25 TRUSTEE NGO: SO THIS IS THE FIRST READING, I DO FEBRUARY 23, 2012 213 1 EXPECT IT TO GO TO POLICY COMMITTEE. I DON'T KNOW IF 2 THERE'S A VOTE THAT YOU NEED TO TAKE TONIGHT. 3 TRUSTEE BERG: WELL, IT USUALLY GOES TO POLICY 4 BEFORE IT COMES FOR A FIRST READING. IT'S VETTED AT THE 5 POLICY COMMITTEE -- 6 TRUSTEE NGO: THAT'S -- 7 TRUSTEE BERG: -- AND THEN BROUGHT UP FOR THE 8 FIRST READING. 9 TRUSTEE NGO: THAT'S FINE. I DON'T OPPOSE THAT. 10 I JUST HOPE IF YOU CAN GET -- WILL YOU BE MEETING IN THE 11 NEXT MONTH? 12 TRUSTEE BERG: WE ARE GOING TO DO THAT. 13 TRUSTEE NGO: OKAY. GOOD. 14 TRUSTEE BERG: WE'VE GOT WORK TO DO. 15 TRUSTEE NGO: I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE IT UP, 16 OBVIOUSLY, IN BUDGET AS WELL. ALTHOUGH -- 17 TRUSTEE BERG: THAT'S FINE. 18 TRUSTEE NGO: I KNOW, TRUSTEE BERG, YOU ARE ALSO 19 ON BUDGET, ALONG WITH DR. GRIER. 20 TRUSTEE BERG: OKAY. 21 TRUSTEE NGO: WE DID RAISE THIS ISSUE AT BUDGET 22 COMMITTEE. WE DIDN'T HAVE THE LANGUAGE BEFORE US, BUT 23 BECAUSE YOU SIT ON THE BUDGET COMMITTEE AS WELL, I'M NOT 24 SURE WHO ELSE DOES, BUT MAYBE WE CAN HAVE A JOINT 25 COMMITTEE TO -- FEBRUARY 23, 2012 214 1 TRUSTEE BERG: THAT'S FINE. 2 TRUSTEE NGO: -- REVIEW IT. 3 TRUSTEE BERG: THAT'S FINE WITH ME. 4 TRUSTEE NGO: SO WE ARE EFFICIENT WITH OUR TIME. 5 AND MAY I SUGGEST THAT WE TAKE IT UP AT 6 MARCH 7TH AT THE MARCH 7TH BUDGET MEETING. 7 TRUSTEE BERG: THAT'S FINE. OKAY. LET ME LOOK 8 AT MY CALENDAR. 9 TRUSTEE NGO: YEAH, IT CAN BE A JOINT POLICY AND 10 BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETING. SINCE WE ARE GOING TO HAVE ALL 11 THE BOARD MEMBERS THERE ANYWAY. AND I WOULD LIKE TO 12 INTRODUCE IT. 13 TRUSTEE BERG: WHAT TIME ON MARCH 7TH? 14 TRUSTEE NGO: 5:30. 15 TRUSTEE BERG: WHEN? 16 TRUSTEE NGO: 5:30 I THINK FOR NOW. 17 TRUSTEE BERG: 5:30. 18 TRUSTEE NGO: YEAH. 19 TRUSTEE BERG: I THINK THAT THERE'S -- YOU ARE 20 GOING TO HAVE YOUR SPECIAL MEETING. 21 TRUSTEE NGO: YEAH. 22 PRESIDENT RIZZO: YEAH. 23 TRUSTEE BERG: SO WE WILL TAKE IT UP AT THAT 24 SAME MEETING, OKAY. 25 TRUSTEE NGO: THAT'S WHY I WAS SUGGESTING IT. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 215 1 SO THIS POLICY CODIFIES ESSENTIALLY THE PRACTICE 2 WE'VE ASKED THE DISTRICT TO UTILIZE AND HOW THE BUDGET IS 3 PRESENTED TO US. THESE AREN'T -- THESE AREN'T ROCKET 4 SCIENCE PROVISIONS. THEY ARE VERY COMMONSENSE PROVISIONS 5 THAT REQUIRE A LITTLE BIT MORE READINGS JUST FORMALLY OR 6 CODIFYING THE TWO READING REQUIREMENT THAT WE UTILIZE IN 7 PRACTICE LAST YEAR, WHICH I THOUGHT WAS VERY USEFUL, A 8 VERY TRANSPARENT PROCESS. AND ALL IT REALLY DOES TOO IS 9 ENSURES THAT AS TRUSTEE GRIER AND TRUSTEE JACKSON HAVE 10 BEEN SUCH ADVOCATES FOR IS THAT WE LOOK AT BUDGETS BY 11 CAMPUS AND TO ENSURE THAT THERE IS EQUITY ACROSS THE 12 CAMPUSES AND IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS. THAT IS NOT A COMPLEX 13 PROVISION. 14 IN FACT IT'S BEEN ASKED FOR BY MEMBERS OF THIS 15 BOARD FOR YEARS NOW. AND I AM EXPECTING THAT IT SHOULD BE 16 APPROVED. 17 IT ALSO ASKS FOR A LITTLE MORE TRANSPARENCY IN 18 THE SUBACCOUNTS. AND THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE FINANCE 19 FOLKS HAVE STATED THAT THEY ARE CAPABLE OF DOING THAT. SO 20 ALL OF THIS IS REALLY FOR THE BOARD TO ENSURE THAT WE HAVE 21 TRANSPARENT PROCESS, TO ENSURE THAT THE PUBLIC KNOWS THE 22 BUDGET, THE ULTIMATE POLICY DOCUMENT THAT WE ARE PRODUCING 23 AND VOTING ON, AND HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TO EVERY 24 SINGLE DETAIL IF THEY WISH. 25 AND I URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO TAKE IT UP IN FEBRUARY 23, 2012 216 1 COMMITTEE IN EARNEST. AND I LOOK FORWARD TO HAVING US 2 DEBATE IT AT THE FULL BOARD IN THE COMING MONTHS. THANK 3 YOU. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: FURTHER DISCUSSION? 5 IS THERE PUBLIC COMMENT? 6 OKAY, THE MOTION IS TO SEND IT TO THE BUDGET 7 COMMITTEE. 8 STUDENT TRUSTEE. 9 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 10 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 11 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 12 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: AYE. 13 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 14 TRUSTEE MARKS: AYE. 15 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 17 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 18 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 19 OKAY, THAT IS FORWARDED. AND THE TWO CHAIRS 20 WILL WORK THAT OUT. 21 IT LOOKS LIKE S4. 22 COUNSEL DICKEY: YES, S4 IS "APPROVAL OF 23 INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL PLAN 2011-2012." 24 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, IS THERE A MOTION? 25 TRUSTEE NGO: SO MOVED. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 217 1 TRUSTEE JACKSON: SECOND. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MOVED BY TRUSTEE NGO; SECONDED 3 BY TRUSTEE JACKSON. 4 DISCUSSION? 5 OKAY, PUBLIC COMMENT? 6 STUDENT TRUSTEE. 7 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG (ADVISORY): AYE. 8 PRESIDENT RIZZO: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? 9 TRUSTEE BERG: AYE. 10 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: AYE. 11 TRUSTEE JACKSON: AYE. 12 TRUSTEE MARKS: AYE. 13 TRUSTEE NGO: AYE. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: AYE. 15 TRUSTEE WONG: AYE. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OPPOSED? 17 OKAY, S4 IS APPROVED. 18 LET'S SEE I THINK THAT IS -- THAT TAKES CARE OF 19 OUR RESOLUTIONS AGENDA, WHICH TAKES US TO BOARD OF 20 TRUSTEES' REPORTS. 21 TRUSTEE FANG, DO YOU HAVE A REPORT? 22 STUDENT TRUSTEE FANG: I ACTUALLY HAD A REALLY 23 LONG REPORT. I AM SERIOUS THIS TIME, BUT I AM GOING TO 24 REDUCE IT TO JUST ONE THING AT THIS POINT. 25 IT'S BEEN THE SECOND MONTH IN A ROW THAT STUDENT FEBRUARY 23, 2012 218 1 LEADERS -- I MEAN CAMPUS EITHER VICE PRESIDENT OR AN 2 ELECTED OFFICER OF VARIOUS DIFFERENT STUDENT COUNCILS, 3 THEY ARE HERE WAITING, WISHING, HOPING, PRAYING THAT THEY 4 CAN SPEAK BEFORE THEY HAVE TO GO TO BED OR STUDY FOR THEIR 5 TESTS. AND IT HAS NOT BEEN HAPPENING. AND IT'S BEEN ONLY 6 GETTING WORSE AND WORSE. 7 I REALLY DO HOPE THAT IF OUR BOARD HERE DOES 8 ALSO WANT TO LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF THE STUDENTS, PLEASE 9 HAVE THOSE CONSTITUTE AT LEAST BE MINDFUL THAT THEY DO 10 NEED TO DO OTHER THINGS. AND THEY ARE STUDENTS WHO ARE 11 TRYING TO GET THROUGH THEIR STUDYING. HAVE THEM SPEAK 12 EARLIER. THANK YOU. 13 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 14 TRUSTEE WONG. 15 TRUSTEE WONG: YEAH, I AM GOING TO KEEP MY 16 REPORT SHORT ALSO. I KNOW THAT LAST -- AT THE LAST 17 MEETING WHEN I WAS NOT WELL ENOUGH TO ATTEND, RODGER SCOTT 18 SAID A POEM IN HONOR OF WALTER JOHNSON, OUR CHAMPION, OUR 19 LABOR CHAMPION WHO PASSED ON. AND I KNOW WE ADJOURNED IN 20 HIS MEMORY, I BELIEVE, IN JANUARY. 21 AND YOU KNOW WE -- PEOPLE CALLED HIM GOD BECAUSE 22 OF HIS DEEP BARITONE VOICE. AND HE ALWAYS TOLD IT LIKE IT 23 IS. AND I HAVE TO SAY THAT WHEN I STARTED -- WHEN I 24 DECIDED TO RUN FOR COLLEGE BOARD, I WENT TO HIM IN 1993 25 AND SAT DOWN WITH HIM, AND HE GAVE ME ADVICE. SO HE WAS FEBRUARY 23, 2012 219 1 ONE OF MY MENTORS. 2 AND I HAVE TO SAY ALSO THAT SEVERAL YEARS AGO, 3 DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN WE WERE AT THE CHINATOWN CAMPUS AND 4 WE HAD TO VOTE ON THREE MAJOR RESOLUTIONS AUTHORIZING THE 5 CONSTRUCTION OF THE CHINATOWN CAMPUS? DO YOU REMEMBER 6 THAT? 7 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: YES. 8 TRUSTEE BERG: YES. 9 TRUSTEE WONG: AND IT WENT ON TO 1:00 A.M. 10 TRUSTEE BERG: YES. 11 TRUSTEE WONG: WALTER JOHNSON WHO WAS VERY, VERY 12 ILL AT THAT TIME, WHO WAS HALF HIS SIZE IN TERMS OF LOSING 13 ALL THAT WEIGHT, SAT AT THAT MEETING. AND HE WAS HELD UP 14 ON ONE SIDE BY JUDGE JULIE TANG AND HELD UP ON THE OTHER 15 SIDE BY JUDGE LILLIAN SING. AND I SAID, WALTER, YOU DON'T 16 HAVE TO STAY. 17 AND HE SAID, I AM STAYING. AND I AM GOING TO 18 STARE EACH OF THE TRUSTEES IN THE EYES TO MAKE SURE THEY 19 VOTE FOR THIS CAMPUS. 20 BECAUSE AT THAT TIME THERE WAS SOME CONCERNS 21 ABOUT HOW THE VOTES WERE GOING TO COME DOWN. THAT IS 22 WALTER JOHNSON. THAT WAS WALTER JOHNSON. THAT EPITOMIZES 23 THAT KIND OF COMMITMENT AND DEDICATION TO WHAT HE BELIEVED 24 IN. 25 SO I JUST HAVE TO SAY THIS ABOUT WALTER JOHNSON. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 220 1 I LOVE HIM DEARLY. WE ARE ALL GOING TO MISS HIM. WHAT A 2 ROLE MODEL. 3 AND ALSO MARLENE TRAN, WHO WAS OUR FORMER 4 EMPLOYEE, WAS SELECTED BY THE GENERAL HOSPITAL IN THEIR 5 HEART AND SOUL PROGRAM, WHERE THEY SELECT FOUR OR FIVE SAN 6 FRANCISCANS WHO HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE IN SAN FRANCISCO. 7 AND MARLENE TRAN, WHO MANY OF YOU ALL KNOW FROM VISITACION 8 VALLEY, WAS RECOGNIZED AND HONORED. SO I JUST WANT TO SAY 9 CONGRATULATIONS TO MARLENE. AND WE SHOULDN'T LET THAT 10 PASS WITHOUT RECOGNIZING HER GREAT HONOR. 11 SO THAT'S IT, MR. PRESIDENT. 12 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 13 TRUSTEE BERG. 14 TRUSTEE BERG: I JUST WANT TO TELL EVERYBODY AND 15 REMIND EVERYBODY THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS IS MEETING IN 16 SACRAMENTO MARCH 5TH AND MARCH 6TH FOR ANYBODY WHO MIGHT 17 BE INTERESTED. I DON'T HAVE ANY CHOICE. 18 TRUSTEE WONG: YOU'LL BE THERE. 19 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE BERG IS GOING TO 20 OCCUPY THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS. 21 TRUSTEE BERG: YOU CAN ALL COME. THAT WOULD BE 22 GOOD. 23 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: THEY WOULD EXPECT IT FROM 24 US. 25 TRUSTEE BERG: THEY WOULD EXPECT IT FROM US. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 221 1 YOU ARE RIGHT. 2 PRESIDENT RIZZO: TRUSTEE GRIER, VICE PRESIDENT 3 GRIER. 4 VICE PRESIDENT GRIER: OH, YOU KNOW IT'S VERY 5 DIFFICULT TO GIVE A REPORT AT 11:45 AND WITH A HORRIBLE 6 COLD, SO I PASS. 7 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 8 TRUSTEE JACKSON. 9 TRUSTEE JACKSON: I SECOND VICE PRESIDENT 10 GRIER'S REMARKS. 11 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 12 TRUSTEE NGO. 13 TRUSTEE NGO: YES, SIMPLY THAT I HAVE FORWARDED 14 TO THE CHANCELLOR FOUR POLICY RESOLUTIONS FOR 15 CONSIDERATION BY THIS BODY CONCERNING THE -- A COUPLE OF 16 THINGS. 17 IT REINTRODUCES THE ANNUAL SUNSHINE AND ETHICS 18 TRAINING FOR CERTAIN ADMINISTRATORS. I THINK IT IS A GOOD 19 PRACTICE TO HAVE AN ANNUAL TRAINING. IT REINTRODUCES THE 20 STATEMENT OF ECONOMIC INTEREST THAT HAVE TO BE FILED BY 21 SPECIFIC ADMINISTRATORS AND OTHERS THAT THE ACCREDITATION 22 FOLKS EXPECT FOR US TO IMPLEMENT OR HAVE ADOPTED. 23 THOSE TWO POLICIES WERE DELAYED IN PART BECAUSE 24 WE NEEDED TO PUT IN PLACE THE SIGNATURE MATRIX, THE 25 AUTHORIZATION MATRIX TO DETERMINE WHO HAD AUTHORITY TO FEBRUARY 23, 2012 222 1 SIGN AND APPROVE INVOICES AND CHECKS OR OTHERWISE ENCUMBER 2 THE DISTRICT TO THIRD PARTIES, SO IT WILL TIE IN WITH THAT 3 POLICY AND S RESOLUTION. 4 THE OTHER TWO POLICIES, ONE OF THEM IS 5 REINTRODUCED AS WELL. IT CALLS FOR DISCLOSURE OF 6 ADMINISTRATOR DONATIONS TO BOARD MEMBERS. WHENEVER A 7 RESOLUTION IS BEFORE THE BOARD THAT SEEKS TO APPOINT THAT 8 ADMINISTRATOR OR PROMOTE THEM, I AM REINTRODUCING THAT. 9 AND THE LAST P RESOLUTION CONCERNS THE WAY 10 ADMINISTRATOR REAPPOINTMENTS ARE PRESENTED TO THE BOARD. 11 I AM ASKING THAT THE BOARD OR THE ADMINISTRATION DO NOT OR 12 THAT IT IS PROHIBITED FROM PRESENTING ESSENTIALLY 13 OMNIBUS -- AN OMNIBUS RESOLUTION TO INCLUDE MULTIPLE 14 ADMINISTRATORS WHICH IN PRACTICE AS WE HAVE SEEN MADE IT 15 VERY DIFFICULT TO TAKE ISSUE OR RAISE CONCERNS ABOUT THE 16 SPECIFIC ADMINISTRATORS AND THEIR PERFORMANCE AND WHETHER 17 OR NOT THEY SHOULD BE REAPPOINTED. 18 I THINK BRINGING THEM UP AND PRESENTING THEM TO 19 THE BOARD IN THAT FASHION MAKES IT VERY HARD FOR US TO 20 DEAL WITH LEGITIMATE ISSUES AROUND LEADERSHIP AND 21 ACCOUNTABILITY AND PERFORMANCE BECAUSE WE ARE NOT ALLOWED 22 TO DISCUSS PERSONNEL ISSUES IN OPEN SESSION. 23 SO WHEN THEY ARE PRESENTED BY -- PRESENTED IN A 24 SINGLE RESOLUTION PER ADMINISTRATOR, IT MAKES IT MORE 25 PRACTICAL FOR US TO RAISE ISSUES AND THEN TO TAKE THOSE FEBRUARY 23, 2012 223 1 ISSUES OFF THE AGENDA IF NEED BE IF THERE ARE CONCERNS, 2 LEGITIMATE PERSONNEL CONCERNS OR PERFORMANCE CONCERNS. 3 THOSE ARE THE FOUR RESOLUTIONS. I URGE THE 4 CHAIR TO FORWARD THEM TO WHATEVER COMMITTEE HE DEEMS 5 APPROPRIATE. AND I KNOW THAT WE HAVE A 30-DAY RULE FOR 6 THOSE POLICIES TO GET BACK TO US. IT'S A SELF-EXECUTING 7 RULE. AND I HOPE THAT WE CAN TAKE IT UP IN THE FIRST 8 READING IN MARCH. 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: I WOULD SEND IT TO THE POLICY 10 COMMITTEE. AND IF THERE'S TIME, THAT WE TAKE IT UP AT THE 11 JOINT POLICY COMMITTEE. PERHAPS WE COULD TAKE IT UP 12 THERE. 13 TRUSTEE NGO: THANK YOU. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY, I HAVE IF MY COMPUTER 15 BATTERY -- THE ONLY THING I HAVE IS I JUST WANT TO READ 16 OUT BOARD COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS. THEY ARE SLIGHTLY 17 TWEAKED. MOST ARE THE SAME. 18 AUDIT COMMITTEE: TRUSTEE NGO, CHAIR; TRUSTEE 19 WONG AND MYSELF. 20 FACILITIES INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE: 21 TRUSTEES GRIER AND JACKSON, AND I WILL CHAIR. AND ALSO 22 KEEPING TRUSTEE FANG AS AN ALTERNATE. 23 INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS: TRUSTEE MARKS, 24 CHAIR; TRUSTEE NGO AND TRUSTEE JACKSON. 25 PLANNING AND BUDGET: TRUSTEES NGO, BERG, GRIER FEBRUARY 23, 2012 224 1 JACKSON AND MYSELF. THAT'S THE SAME. 2 POLICY IMPLEMENTATION: TRUSTEE BERG, CHAIR; 3 TRUSTEE MARKS, AND MYSELF, AND TRUSTEE FANG. 4 AND THE SPECIAL JOINT COMMITTEE WITH THE BOARD 5 OF EDUCATION: TRUSTEE JACKSON IS GOING TO BE THE CO-CHAIR 6 WITH THE SCHOOL BOARD COMMISSIONERS. TRUSTEES BERG AND 7 MARKS ARE ON THAT. AND TRUSTEE GRIER IS AN ALTERNATE. 8 AND THAT -- AND I AM GOING TO CONTINUE AS THE 9 LIAISON TO THE FOUNDATION. 10 AND MY BATTERY IS JUST DONE, SO JUST IN TIME. 11 OKAY, THAT'S THE TRUSTEES' REPORT. 12 CHANCELLOR AND STAFF REPORTS. 13 CHANCELLOR, IS THERE A REPORT? 14 CHANCELLOR GRIFFIN: NO. 15 PRESIDENT RIZZO: NO REPORT. 16 CLOSED SESSION ANNOUNCEMENTS. 17 COUNSEL, ARE THERE ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM CLOSED 18 SESSION? 19 COUNSEL DICKEY: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES MET IN 20 CLOSED SESSION AT 5:00 O'CLOCK TODAY TO DISCUSS THE ITEMS 21 THAT WERE LISTED IN THE CLOSED AGENDA POSTED 72 HOURS 22 BEFOREHAND. THERE ARE NO REPORTABLE ACTIONS TAKEN. 23 PRESIDENT RIZZO: OKAY. 24 COUNSEL DICKEY: SO THAT CONCLUDES MY REPORT. 25 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. FEBRUARY 23, 2012 225 1 REQUESTS TO SPEAK. WE HAVE TWO REQUESTS HERE. 2 THE FIRST ONE IS KATIE GELARDI. 3 MS. GELARDI: THANK YOU, JEFFREY FANG, FOR YOUR 4 REPORT. IT'S IN TUNE FOR WHAT I HAVE TO SAY HERE. 5 CLEARLY, WE CAN AGREE THAT AS A COMMUNITY 6 STUDENTS ARE OUR PRIORITY, OKAY. AND WE CAN AGREE IT'S 7 IMPORTANT TO HEAR FROM STUDENTS OF THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND 8 CONCERNS FOR EACH OF THE CAMPUSES. 9 DUE TO THE ENORMOUS RESPONSIBILITY OF THE BOARD 10 OF TRUSTEES, THE MEETINGS RUN LATE. AND AS WE AGREE, I 11 RESPECTFULLY REQUEST THAT ALL FUTURE BOARD OF TRUSTEE 12 MEETINGS TAKE ITEM NO. 8, THE REPORT OF THE CONSTITUENT 13 GROUPS TO BE HEARD AFTER ITEM 4, APPROVAL OF MINUTES. 14 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. 15 MS. GELARDI: THANK YOU. 16 PRESIDENT RIZZO: MADELINE MUELLER. 17 MS. MUELLER: I WILL BE THE CABOOSE BEFORE WE 18 TURN INTO PUMPKINS. 19 I AM JUST HERE -- HELLO, HOW ARE YOU? 20 MADELINE MUELLER. I AM HERE IN MY HAT AS THE 21 VICE PRESIDENT OF THE DEPARTMENT CHAIR COUNCIL. 22 JUST TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE DID HAVE AN EMERGENCY 23 NEGOTIATING MEETING TODAY A 24-HOUR CALL AT 2:00 O'CLOCK, 24 AND WE DID VOTE -- THERE WERE OVER 50 OF US OF THE 63 25 CHAIRS -- UNANIMOUSLY TO MEET WHATEVER THE REQUEST IS FOR FEBRUARY 23, 2012 226 1 OUR PROPORTION OF THE CUTS BETWEEN NOW AND THE END OF THIS 2 FISCAL PERIOD. AND WE DID SO IN SOLIDARITY WITH 3 CONCESSIONS BEING MADE BY OTHER COLLEGE GROUPS. 4 PRESIDENT RIZZO: THANK YOU. WE ALL APPRECIATE 5 THAT. 6 OKAY, IF THERE'S NO MORE REQUESTS TO SPEAK, WE 7 WILL ADJOURN IN THE MEMORY OF MAY LOUIE. 8 (A MOMENT OF SILENCE OBSERVED.) 9 PRESIDENT RIZZO: WE ARE ADJOURNED. 10 (MEETING ADJOURNED AT 11:50 P.M.) 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 FEBRUARY 23, 2012 CERTIFICATE OF REPORTER I, THE UNDERSIGNED, A DULY AUTHORIZED CERTIFIED SHORTHAND REPORTER, DO HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THE FOREGOING PROCEEDINGS WERE TAKEN DOWN BY ME IN STENOTYPE AND THEREAFTER TRANSCRIBED INTO TYPEWRITING BY COMPUTER, UNDER MY DIRECTION AND SUPERVISION, AND THAT THIS TRANSCRIPT IS A TRUE RECORD OF THE SAID PROCEEDINGS. DATED: MARCH 9, 2012 ______________________________ MICHELE M. SHEA, CSR NO. 11345 STATE OF CALIFORNIA