Dear Ms. Lam,
Supervisor Mandelman suggested that we reach out to you about a follow-up to a February 22nd panel discussion "Making Sense of What's Happening at City College," sponsored by OWL, Older (and Wiser) Women's League, on which he participated.
We know that because of the coronavirus a lot of events are being cancelled and we can't schedule new ones. However, we'd like to start planning this for a later date because the panel discussion both indicated and generated a lot of interest.
I'm attaching the flyer from our February 22nd gathering so you can see some of the questions we have. We tried to create a balanced panel by having the president of the AFT 2121 Teachers Union, Jenny Worley, who supports the $2.7 million Emergency Bridge Fund, and Supervisor Mandelman, who opposes it. We also tried to get people from the CCSF Administration and the Board of Trustees, but among those who responded (Leslie Milloy, Ivy Lee, and John Ricco), no one was available on February 22. We did get a student, Jess Nguyen, who threw the balance off a little bit because she was a strong proponent of the $2.7 million Emergency Bridge Fund. I know that Mayor Breed vetoed it.
We San Franciscan voters regularly support City College bond measures, so we feel we have the right to information on how decisions are being made in its governance and financing.
What we want is not a rally but a fact-filled event at which more than one "side" is represented and San Franciscans can ask questions--perhaps at the Koret Auditorium. (We found it useful to have attendees write their questions on cards so that there were no 10-minute speeches.)
Could you help plan this?
Sincerely,
Tina Martin
OWL Board Member
(I am also cc'ing Melanie Grossman, the Vice-President of OWL, who co-moderated the panel on February 22.)
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