Don't Kill Our Campus! CCSF Art Students Do Art & MusicTo Save Ft. Mason & Stop Sell-offs

Don't Kill Our Campus! CCSF Art Students Do Art & MusicTo Save Ft. Mason & Stop Privatization Of Balboa Reservoir

San Francisco City College art students from Ft. Mason held and class in front of SF City College to protest the possible closure of the Ft. Mason campus where they hold their classes.

They talked about what their program means to them and also the threatened privatization of the Balboa reservoir for the profits of Avalon and other developers for million dollar condos.

They also reported on the systemic violation of the Brown Act by the former Chancellor Rocha and his illegal $400,000 payoff by the CCSF Board of Trustees and BOT president Shanell Williams in secret meetings.
The president of the board of trustees Shanell Williams has said that the $400,000 payoff was completely proper even though it fragrantly violated transparency and the Brown Act.

The $400,000 would also have paid for the continued lease of the Ft. Mason campus which they will possibly be destroying.

Additional media:
Protest To Stop The Destruction of CCSF Through Elimination of ESL, Shuttering of Campuses, Privatization & Union Busting
https://youtu.be/GzGEZRrOWqY

Stop The Cuts! Hundreds of CCSF Students & Faculty Protest 300 Class Cuts AT BOT Meet-SF & CA Demos Lead The Attack On Public Education
https://youtu.be/7ohpgRD_cOg

CCSF Board Of Trustees At Meeting All Support Chancellor Rocha Cuts & Union Busting
https://youtu.be/2uwdqug6Ii4

AFT 2121 CCSF Faculty Speak Out On Rocha Budget Cuts & Public Education
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCjhCG0wunc

Students, Faculty & Community Demand STOP The CUTS At CCSF With Funeral
https://youtu.be/2caDc_WN60g

Shooting Yourself In The Foot & Increasing Executive Salaries At CCSF By Chancellor Rocha
https://youtu.be/3esO55xUlp8

Speak-out On Privatization of Balboa Reservoir For Developers Which Threatens SF City College
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbeRvY-HRhY

BUSTING up CCSF! CCSF Chancellor, Bd President & Bd Majority Wrecking City College
https://youtu.be/pizpoBQcQuQ

The Downsizing & Privatization Of CCSF "Vision 2025" & The Secret Illegal CCSF Board Meetings
https://youtu.be/JhDq_BakeQo

Privatization and Destruction of CCSF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnDjK5RAkes&t=2s

Build The PAEC NOW! Stop The Privatization & Developers Rip-off Scam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkGMe_w6JaU

Conflicts of Interest, CCSF & The Attack On Public Education Privatization With Kathy Carroll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux4mRloWBEA&t=3s

Public Education, Privatization, Corruption And The
Destruction Of Our Schools
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_eu5u70tTE

"Are You Out Of Your Minds"? AFT 2121 Faculty Challenge CCSF Board On Mark Rocha Appointment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEZpOS8p4gQ

This rally was sponsored by Higher Education Action Team HEAT.
https://ccsfheat.wordpress.com and endorsed by the
CCSF Collective
https://www.ccsfcollective.org
Production of Labor Video Project
http://www.laborvideo.org

Petition To Stop Privatization of Balboa Reservoir Threatening CCSF & Leading To Gentrification

A Resolution to Acquire the Balboa Reservoir Property for City College of San Francisco
Presented by the Defend City College Alliance (DCCA)*

PREAMBLE
The overwhelming support for the recent Prop A ($ 845 million facilities Bond for CCSF) shows San Francisco voters desire the development and growth of City College. The Balboa Reservoir is a critical element for CCSF use. The plan to privatize it in order to build some 1100 housing units mostly at market rate contradicts and undermines the public interest. The members of DCCA therefore recommend the following resolution. (Support materials for each whereas and resolve are in the links below)

RESOLUTION
1 WHEREAS, Proposition A, an $845 million Facilities bond measure for new and renovated buildings at City College of San Francisco, also included the authority to acquire land, and

2 WHEREAS, the voter elected Trustees of City College of San Francisco are responsible to the citizens of San Francisco for the protection of the institution, its students and employees from the effects of political intrusion including any encroaching privatization of a public college, and

3 WHEREAS, the Voters of San Francisco previously defeated two proposals for private housing development in the Balboa Reservoir (Proposition B in 1987 and L in 1988) and

4 WHEREAS, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (PUC) signed an agreement in 1991 turning over half of its reservoir property to CCSF and promising air rights over the other half which was considered to be required for needed future water safety for San Francisco, and

5 WHEREAS, the San Francisco Labor Council (SFLC) and the Coalition for San Francisco Neighborhoods (CSFN) have endorsed City College's plans for use of the full Balboa Reservoir property and presented resolutions to the San Francisco PUC and the City College Board of Trustees to prevent private development on the site, and

6 WHEREAS, the BOT has passed and later tabled resolutions to seek to secure the lower Balboa Reservoir in order to continue its 75 year use by CCSF for student access and needs which could include housing, and

7 WHEREAS, the Faculty Union (AFT 2121) passed a resolution that asked San Francisco PUC to transfer the reservoir property (public property) to City College of San Francisco, and urged the Board of Trustees and administration to advocate vigorously for the interests of the college and for the principle of public land for the public good, and

8 WHEREAS, the City College Participatory Governance Council (PGC), composed of appointed college representatives from administration, classified staff, faculty and students passed a resolution to recommend to then Chancellor Susan Lamb to ask the Board of Trustees to formally request that the PUC transfer ownership of the lower Balboa Reservoir parcel to CCSF, and

9 WHEREAS, City College has leased the Reservoir property continuously since 1946 and is the only entity that has made any improvement to the property, and

10 WHEREAS, real estate law and lease agreements require the PUC to allow City College of San Francisco right of first refusal to purchase the reservoir property, to wit,
“The right of the first refusal lease clause or addendum is legally-binding and gives City College the right to purchase the Balboa property if it goes up on the market. This means that if the PUC landlord decides to list the property for sale, they will have to accept the tenant’s reasonable offer if the tenant decides to make one”, and

11 WHEREAS, plans for privatizing the Balboa Reservoir land represents a willful contradiction and private undermining of the public interest as indicated by the support of Prop A, and evidence shows that building 1100 mostly market rate homes on the Balboa Reservoir site will make the San Francisco affordable housing crisis worse, and

12 WHEREAS, the Reservoir developers have not had valid feedback from appropriate and fully legal college representatives, but have continued their planning and promoting as though they have, and

13 WHEREAS, the environmental impact report on the private Balboa Reservoir Project identified three significant damaging environmental impacts that cannot be mitigated: construction noise, air pollution, and transportation problems that will go on for as long as a decade or more causing health and safety issues for neighbors, children, students, district employees, and disrupt classroom effectiveness for both Riordan High School and CCSF, and

14 WHEREAS, the developers ensured citizens that they would provide adequate parking and transit for City College students and this has not been provided for in their latest plans, therefore

BE IT RESOLVED, that the Defend City College Alliance (DCCA) urges the Board of Trustees initiate negotiations towards acquiring the Balboa Reservoir property from the Public Utilities Commission for City College of San Francisco to allow facility development, open public space (events, student shows, practice) employee and possibly student housing, state required parking, all critical elements for CCSF student success!

Respectfully Submitted,
Steven Brown and Madeline Mueller representing DCCA

*Defend City College Alliance is a group of CCSF faculty, students, staff, alumni, and community members who have organized for many years to help support the continued success of all City College students.


Support Materials/Links

Supports Preamble and Whereas #1
Prop A language
https://voterguide.sfelections.org/en/city-college-job-training-repair-and-earthquake-safety-measure

Support for Whereas #2
Trustees Duties-League of Community College Trustees Manual
https://www.ccleague.org/sites/default/files/trustees-resources/trusthdbk2018_final_.pdf
Code of Ethics-City College Board Policies
http://www.ccsf.edu/Policy/Manuals/1/bp1_18.pdf
Powers and duties of the board-City College Board Policies
http://www.ccsf.edu/Policy/Manuals/1/bp1_02.pdf
Conflict of interest-City College Board Policies
http://www.ccsf.edu/BOT/Board_Policies/1/BP1_19.pdf

Support for Whereas #3
Detailed history including previous propositions
https://sunnysidehistory.org/2018/04/08/ballot-battles-and-campus-claims-the-history-of-the-balboa-reservoir-1983-1991/

Support for Whereas #4
https://sfwater.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=10177
Land exchange
https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:48faabdc-55d9-426a-afa5-287f3d57c52b
The history of the reservoir
https://sunnysidehistory.org/2018/04/08/ballot-battles-and-campus-claims-the-history-of-the-balboa-reservoir-1983-1991/
Water study link
https://sfwater.org/index.aspx?page=466
Support for Whereas #5
Public land must stay in public hands
https://sfwater.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=14386
Coalition for San Francisco neighborhoods resolution
https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:dc4afdca-67ae-4a78-9dc9-7f9a35c2e4a7

Support for Whereas #6
July 28, 2016 BOT Resolution Item No. 160728-XI-223, Item approved
http://www.ccsf.edu/BOT/2016/July/28/223.pdf

Support for Whereas #7
https://www.aft2121.org/wp-content/uploads/BalboaReservoir-Reso-AFT2121.pdf

Support for Whereas #8
Resolution passed April 7, 2016. This is a link to the agenda:
http://www.ccsf.edu/PGC/2016/April_7/PGC%20agenda%20draft%204-7-16revised.pdf
Here is a link to it in the PGC archives:
http://www.ccsf.edu/PGC/2016/April_7/Resolution%20in%20support%20of%20request%20for%20Balboa%20Reservoir%20land%20from%20SF%20Public%20Utilities%20Commission%20to%20CCSF.pdf
There's also audio of the meeting that day in the PGC archives.

Support for Whereas #9 and #10
2009 California Government Code - Section 54220-54232 : Article 8. Surplus Land
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=GOV&division=2.&title=5.&part=1.&chapter=5.&article=8.

Support for Whereas #11
https://sfwater.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=14386
Evidence showing building more Market rate housing makes crisis worse.

Latest data shows you can’t bring prices down by building more housing.
https://48hills.org/2019/01/yimby-agenda-fail/
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SF keeps losing affordable housing
https://48hills.org/2018/12/sf-loses-affordable-housing/
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A new housing ‘compact’ looks a lot like a developer’s dream
https://48hills.org/2018/12/a-new-housing-compact-looks-a-lot-like-a-developers-dream/
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A great critique of the YIMBY mantra, “Build. Build. Build.”
https://www.salon.com/2018/11/ 04/despite-thorough-debunking- neoliberal-housing-politics-pr evail-in-the-bay-area/
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Five Reasons Why San Francisco Must Not Give Up Public Land for Market-Rate Development
https://truthout.org/articles/chasing-unicorns-5-reasons-why-san-francisco-is-delusional-giving-up-public-land-for-market-rate-development/
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Why Market Rate Housing Makes the Crisis Worse
https://48hills.org/2015/06/why-market-rate-housing-makes-the-crisis-worse/

Supports Whereas # 12
Facilities committee minutes that show lack of input from the College-there is also a recording of the meeting
https://www.ccsf.edu/dam/Organizational_Assets/Department/CPPC/2016-0921/CPPC%20Meeting%20Minutes%202016.0921_approved.pdf

Supports Whereas #13 and #14
"Parking is a state requirement for public institutions of Higher Learning"
https://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/fa/sf/title5regs.asp

Parking requirement-Education Code - EDC § 67301
http://aft1493.org/wp-content/uploads/accjc_gone_wild_v17_7-8-13.pdf the ball rolling
TDM Plan
https://default.sfplanning.org/plans-and-programs/planning-for-the-city/public-sites/balboareservoir/brcac_comments_TDM-042720.pdf
https://default.sfplanning.org/plans-and-programs/planning-for-the-city/public-sites/balboareservoir/balboareservoir_CAC_Presentation-021317_FINAL.pdf TDM Study

"and this plan has many flaws, ..."the realistic parking demand of City College greatly exceeds the 220 spaces referenced by the developer, who relies on the wrong Table in the Fehr & Peers TDM, fails to consider the construction of the PAEC, fails to consider the correct growth rate adopted by CCSF itself, and does not take into consideration that neither CCSF nor the Developer have made binding financial commitments to adopt any suggested TDM procedures. In addition, no plans have been made with respect to the almost total loss of parking for students, faculty and staff of CCSF during the almost 7 year construction period." Michael Ahrens

The realistic parking demand of City College
https://default.sfplanning.org/plans-and-programs/planning-for-the-city/public-sites/balboareservoir/brcac_comments_TDM-042720.pdf

Supports the Resolve
How to Kill a City: Defund Education – what city college could do
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1l8g_sALddPuFc_krJI4z_9BNy1CNo7w0Q3a9ISH3WSg/edit?ts=5ec83ce9#slide=id.g8744434824_0_30


CCSF Arts and Public Education is Under Threat!
https://www.change.org/p/keep-the-3-protect-civic-center-fo…
CCSF Collective started this petition to Catherine Stefani and 7 others
Convince SF Board of Supervisors and our college Board of Trustees not to sell public land to corporate real estate developers. They will vote on May 28 on whether or not they will shutdown Fort Mason and Civic Center campus.
CCSF Fort Mason Center and Civic Center face potential closures. The Fort Mason Center provides public access to studio spaces and equipment for community artists. Our Civic Center location serves Tenderloin residents and Older Learning Adults, and provides ESL classes to immigrant students.
Students and Faculty agree, we should not let developers privatize the Balboa Reservoir. We would be compromising students' physical access educational opportunities. Let's not further marginalized students forced to work part-time and live outside the city due to gentrification.
Please stop our city officials and wealthy corporations from capitalizing on the pandemic by evicting us. Please help protect this already marginalized community. Please help us convince the Board of Trustee and Board of Supervisors that we will only heal from this pandemic if we foster a community college that enriches our Bay Area with equitable access to art and education.
CCSF Arts and Public Education is Under Threat!
Save CCSF Fort Mason and CCSF Civic Center! No to privatizing the Balboa Reservoir.
UNITED ACTIONS:
Click here to sign our petition.
Write emails to KEEP THE 3 (list of emails here).
Make artwork and share!
Create your own action - let us know so we can either help participate or spread the word!
** Click here here to download graphics **
CCSF HEAT will be doing a car carava
CCSF Fort Mason
ISSUE: Board of Trustees may vote to shut down the campus (the lease ends in June, as written about in the SF Examiner).
In discussion of relocating to Mission, Ocean, or Chinatown Campus, due to “cost concerns”.
These cost comparisons do not have supporting documents.
The administration did not discuss this with the Facilities Committee (which consists of administration, classified, students, faculty).
KNOWN FOR: being an Arts Campus
“110 credit classes and three non-credit classes at Fort Mason” - SF Examiner
STUDENTS/COMMUNITY:
“326 students and 23 faculty for the current academic year” - SF Examiner
Those pursuing an Arts Education and still see the value in arts.
Example: Here are Art Dept students from Art Action CCSF that did an art protest gallery show protesting against Spring 2020 cuts, which cut 100 art-related sections (#ViciousClassCuts).
CCSF Collective also promoted the Arts during our Crescendo event, and at the Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area’s Resource Fair at the Asian Art Museum.
Supporting trans and gender-nonconforming models. create spaces (along with employment and even housing) and opportunities for Trans Models such as Alida Pepper (one of the founders of the Visibility Collective), along with Bay Area Models Guild.
SUPERVISOR IN CHARGE:
Catherine Stefani (District 2)
catherine.stefani [at] sfgov.org
ACTIONS:
Sign our petition.
Write emails (list of emails here and sample email here) - please do include Civic Center and the Balboa Reservoir too.
As shared by the Arts Department, and made by student-run account “CCSF Student Says”.
Make artwork!
Made by our member Karim
SF Poster Syndicate is also fighting to prevent San Francisco Art Institute from closing - in solidarity!
ARTICLES
2017, SF Examiner, “Rent hike prompts CCSF to plan on closing Fort Mason art campus”.
2017, KQED, “CCSF at Risk of Losing Art Classes at Fort Mason”.
“Fort Mason's Kinsey says the center has agreed to continue the current lease agreement on a month-to-month basis while it negotiates with the college over the terms of a new contract.
“This has been shocking for us as an organization,” said Kinsey. “We spend $2.5 million each year supporting arts nonprofits. City College is the largest beneficiary of our support programs, receiving over $600,000 in reduced rents. We want to keep giving City College these benefits. And we hope that we’re able to do so.”
2018, SF Examiner, “City College could be granted a 12-month extension at Fort Mason”.
“Some 80 percent of programs available at Fort Mason have an art focus, and the campus serves many retired professional artist and seniors, who for more than a year have remained in limbo regarding the campus’ future.
Last month, several students and supporters of the Fort Mason campus questioned City College administrators about updates on current lease negotiations.”
2019, SF Examiner, “Dozens of CCSF part-time instructors lose benefits, jobs after spring class cuts”.
“Toney shared concerns that the recent round of cuts could jeopardize the longevity of City College’s Fort Mason campus, where she taught a Saturday printmaking class. Toney said Fort Mason lost over one-third of its art classes.
City College has 11 campuses, including one that has operated out of the former U.S. Army post at Fort Mason for more than four decades. When a 2014 rental agreement with its nonprofit landlord, the Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture, expired in the spring 2017 semester, administrators initially indicated that they were moving toward a shutdown, the Examiner reported previously.
For the past several years, while lease negotiations with the Fort Mason foundation proceeded, faculty were told to “build up the enrollment” in order to keep City College at Fort Mason, Toney explained.
“We worked on that and achieved steady enrollment” said Toney, but despite that six out of 16 credit classes offered at Fort Mason have been cut.”
2. CCSF Civic Center
ISSUE:
Board of Trustees may vote to shut down the campus (the lease ends in June, as written about in the SF Examiner).
In discussion of relocating to Downtown & Chinatown, due to “cost concerns”.
These cost comparisons do not have supporting documents.
The administration did not discuss this with the Facilities Committee (which consists of administration, classified, students, faculty).
KNOWN FOR: ESL Classes
“five credit and 39 non-credit classes” - SF Examiner
STUDENTS/COMMUNITY:
Serves immigrant students (students taking literacy classes, with some working multiple jobs making public transportation a heavy added cost, as shared by ESL instructor Audrey Wallace)
Servers older adult students
Serves Tenderloin residents.
SUPERVISOR IN CHARGE:
Rafael Mandelman (District 8)
mandelmanstaff [at] sfgov.org

ACTIONS
Sign our petition.
Write emails (list of emails here) - please do include Fort Mason and the Balboa Reservoir too.
Create artwork and share!
Do you own action! Share with us so we can help promote/join too (ccsfcollective [at] gmail.com)
Balboa Reservoir Land Grab

ISSUE: Balboa Reservoir is public land that has been used by CCSF and should not be privatized - keep Balboa Reservoir for our community college! No to more development through AvalonBay.
The portrayal of 50% affordable housing for educators and students is broken down here.

KEY DATES:
Tentative May 22 date, discussions on Balboa Reservoir falling under the “Special Use District”.

On May 28, the Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (SEIR) certification hearing by the SF Planning Commission. Agenda for this will be posted on May 22 - Zoom link to be posted.
KNOWN FOR:
At 17 acres, largest piece of public land - currently a parking lot and community space.

STUDENTS/COMMUNITY:
Historically served CCSF:
In 1946, housed student veterans, a cafeteria, a library, classrooms, and 1000-seat auditorium for CCSF (which was then called SF Junior College) - became the “West Campus” until 1955, after the lease expired.
Held the 20th Annual Film Festival (for students in 1954 - 1955), where students shot film, photography, creating movies and art.
Became a parking lot around the late 1950s to early1960s. This “helped the college grow in enrollment, catering as it is did, and still does, to people who have other responsibilities like families and jobs”.

Is a community space:
Is the location for the annual “King of the Streets” San Francisco Lowrider Council show
Practice space for Riordan High School’s marching band
Practice space for Bay Area Motor Cycle training.
Historically also served the community, as a place for rollerskating, Gymkhana event (man-made obstacle course hosted in the 1960s), jogging, even had barracks and an auditorium for WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services) in the 1940s.
SUPERVISOR IN CHARGE:
Norman Yee (District 7)
Norman.Yee [at] sfgov.org
ACTIONS:
Sign our petition.
Write emails (list of emails here) - please do include Fort Mason and Civic Center too. Keep the 3!
Talking points here, shared by Public Lands for Public Good.
Create artwork and share!
Do you own action! Share with us so we can help promote/join too (ccsfcollective [at] gmail.com)


SFLC RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES AT CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO

https://sflaborcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/05-20-20-AFT-2121-Resolution.pdf

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WHEREAS, the African-American Studies Department of City College of San Francisco has served our campus community since 1970; and

WHEREAS, the African-American Studies Department has been without a permanent full-time position in its budget since its sole full-time instructor retired in the Spring of 2019; and

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WHEREAS, without a commitment from the college to fund a full-time replacement for African-American studies, the department has suffered in its ability to provide students with an impactful curriculum; and

WHEREAS, educational research has documented, when students historically denied the opportunity to see themselves in front of the classroom and their culture within the curriculum, their achievement is significantly higher when given that opportunity; and

WHEREAS, the Association of American College and Universities states “all students are better educated and better prepared for leadership, citizenship, and professional competitiveness in multicultural America and the global community when they are exposed to diverse perspectives in their classrooms;” and

WHEREAS, the history of San Francisco has been shaped by the labor and activism of African-Americans even as they face displacement from the City they have built; and

WHEREAS, as a labor union, the American Federation of Teachers 2121recognizes that the strength of our labor movement increases as we affirmatively fight racism in all its forms;

THREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the San Francisco Labor Council endorses the position of AFT 2121 to call on the Administration and Board of Trustees to immediately restore funding for a full-time position for replacement for the African-American Studies Department and to include this issue in endorsement interviews with candidates for Board of Trustees of City College of San Francisco.

Adopted by the Executive Committee of the San Francisco Labor Council on May 20, 2020.