CCSF’s elected Board of Trustees vote tomorrow, Friday 5/6, at 4pm and appear ready to authorize 218 faculty layoffs that will close hundreds of fully enrolled classes, impact 20,544 students at minimum next semester alone, and plunge CCSF even further into a downward cycle of cuts, decline, & crisis. The Trustees are doing this despite projected budget surpluses through fiscal year 2023, and serious plans underway to bring a revenue measure to San Francisco voters in November to address the long-term problem of the State’s underfunding. See recent meetings with Mayor Breed’s office here.
Call or email trustees now and tell them to show true leadership and refuse to enact these unnecessary layoffs. Trustees must commit to rejecting layoffs and commit to collaborating with labor, faculty, staff, students, community members, and elected leaders to create a plan to bring revenue into the College.
President Brigitte Davila
President
415-531-9743
davila@sfsu.edu
Vice President John Rizzo
Vice-President
415-504-4845
jrizzo@ccsf.edu
Trustee Shanell Williams
415-375-1069
williams.shanell@gmail.com
Trustee Aliya Chisti
415-216-7303
achisti@ccsf.edu
Trustee Thea Selby
415-309-9410
thea@nextstepsmarketing.com
Trustee Alan Wong
415-818-3969
alankennywong@gmail.com
The SF Democratic Party has spoken out against the layoffs, leaders of SEIU 1021 & the SF Building Trades have spoken, CCSF’s students have spoken, including CCSF Student Trustee, Malinalli Villalobos, who has condemned the layoffs and you, our beloved CCSF community have spoken. It is time for the Board to change course, rescind the layoffs, and direct administration to fund CCSF departments at least at 21-22 levels to prevent further cuts.
SAMPLE EMAIL TO TRUSTEES:
Dear CCSF Trustees,
We are alarmed at the recent downsizing of City College of San Francisco, an institution that provides college classes, job training, language skills, and lifelong learning opportunities to our most underserved residents – students of color, immigrants, English language learners, people with disabilities, and the working poor. CCSF’s programs and services open a pathway to a living wage, a four-year degree, greater participation in our democracy, and enhanced quality of life.
In Fall of 2019, CCSF’s administration abruptly cut course offerings, shutting many students out of life-changing opportunities. In January 2022, Chancellor David Martin laid off 59 classified staff SEIU members, 98% of whom are women and people of color. In March, Chancellor Martin issued 58 layoff notices to full-time faculty, which in turn necessitates defacto layoffs for hundreds of part-time faculty and even deeper cuts to class offerings. To be clear, this is not a funding issue: CCSF’s current budget does not mandate layoffs.
We believe that affordable higher education, job training, and spaces for learning are cornerstones of our democratic values. And we believe that, as the City recovers from COVID, we need more, not fewer, educational opportunities. How can one of the richest cities in the world abdicate its responsibility to educate its residents?
We call on you, the City College Board of Trustees, to exercise the leadership this moment demands by refusing to enact these unnecessary layoffs and further cuts to the College.
In addition, we urge you to join with organized labor, faculty, staff, students, community members, and elected officials to implement a unified plan that will bring much-needed revenue to the College.
Please act to preserve and grow our college for San Franciscans — now, and in the future.
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