Why No Response from the CCSF Administration?

Here's a plea I sent to the Board of Trustees at CCSF on Monday at noon--right after the MLK Jr. Day march.  Not one person has responded so far.

• Dear Board of Trustees,

 

Both Ivy Lee and Leslie Milloy made an effort to help OWL, Older Women's League, to find a speaker to represent the administration on a panel our organization is having on Saturday, February 22, from 10:00 am to noon to help us understand better how City College is funded, how decisions are made, and why trustees supported the recent class cuts.  We got word that no one from the administration was available.

Today, like hundreds of San Franciscans, I read the editorial in the SF Chronicle reluctantly supporting Proposition A, and of course we know City College desperately needs improvement of its facilities.  When I interviewed Dr. Philip Day for a newsletter when he had just arrived in 1998, I asked him what, if anything, alarmed him about City College when he first saw the Ocean Campus, and he said, "The facilities.  I'd never seen a first-grade institution with such poor facilities."  On the occasions when I had a group of teachers from Korea and China, they commented, as politely as they could, on how much better their facilities were than ours.  

So, at the risk of appearing relentless, I'm going to make one more appeal for someone from the administration to appear on our panel, which will give you a chance to state your case.  At this point, we have a commitment from Jenny Worley, President of AFT 2121, and of Rafael Mandelman, who was a trustee for 6 years and is now a San Francisco Supervisor.

We would like to have a trustee and a CCSF student, and I have sent a couple of messages to Bryan Daley, but so far I've gotten no response. 

I remember when Shanell Williams was a student trustee.  I went to a fund-raiser for her.  I've done that, in fact, for others of you. I've worked beside Thea Selby on outreach for CCSF at Sunday Streets and marched with John Rizzo.

I really think it would help your cause if you found someone to represent the administration on our panel.  

In hopes of getting an affirmative response, for which we'd be very grateful,

Tina Martin, OWL board member and instructor at CCSF from 1982-2014