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Theoretically, the college could be absorbed by another neighboring district, but its size makes that option improbable. Therefore, losing accreditation would likely mean one of the largest public education institutions in the nation would close, and some 85,000 students would be displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson and City College’s other elected trustees were stripped of all governance power Monday when the chancellor of California Community Colleges, Brice Harris, and the board of governors \u003ca href=\"http://californiacommunitycolleges.cccco.edu/videoblog.aspx\">transferred oversight\u003c/a> to a state-appointed special trustee, Robert Agrella, who has been advising the college since the accreditation crisis began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Special Trustee Bob Agrella gets paid $1,000 a day,” City College Student Trustee Shanell Williams said. “He’s been with our college since we first heard of the accreditation. But what has he done to help the college?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Argella did not return calls or emails seeking comment, but Harris said the “extraordinary powers” granted to the special trustee were necessary to reform City College before next July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This allows, I think, for a single individual with a real clarity of focus to get an awful lot of changes made in a very short period of time,\" Harris said. He added that finding a permanent replacement for interim City College Chancellor Thelma Scott-Skillman is a high priority for the school’s new leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Assemblyman Tom Ammiano voiced an angry view of the state and accrediting commission’s actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have not the right to say to us that the people we elected, whether we love them or not, are not our representatives,” he told the crowd outside the Department of Education. “That is tyranny. That encourages a revolution here in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal intervention is possible, although the Department of Education has made no public steps challenging the ACCJC’s authority. The accrediting commission is itself up for review by the department late this year. The California Federation of Teachers and the American Federation of Teachers Local 2121 filed a complaint against the commission with federal authorities in late April, alleging conflicts of interest and abuses of authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Department of Education spokeswoman confirmed that the ACCJC was directed to respond to the \u003ca href=\"http://cft.org/images/cc/docs/Third_Party_Comment.pdf\">complaint\u003c/a> by July 8, but she did not confirm by press time whether the department had actually received a response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Chancellor Harris said colleges in other parts of the country have gone through similar periods of widespread sanctions, and he doesn’t believe the ACCJC is running wild. State intervention, he said, is intended to save the school, not “preside over its closure” or force the college to “turn its back on the populations that need it the most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It won’t surprise me if there is a narrowing of some of the options that the college is currently able to provide simply to ensure that at some point the college’s expenses line up with their revenues,” Harris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Rizzo, the now powerless president of the City College Board of Trustees, said the school had a plan to fully fund reserves for nine years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“City College is really in a fiscally good place,” he said. “The books are balanced. There’s extra money for a fully funded, ample reserve. These liabilities are being paid back. There’s no charges or allegations of corruption, no defaulting of payments or loans, nothing like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson, Ammiano and others at the rally no longer think accreditation is about standards at City College. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>by Jon Brooks and Lisa Pickoff-White\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102532\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-102532\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/5433_transform-2.jpg\" alt=\"CCSF (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"357\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CCSF (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Citing slow progress in enacting recommendations to correct deficiencies, the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges has voted to terminate City College of San Francisco's accreditation effective July 31, 2014. However, the college can ask for a review and has the right to appeal. Should CCSF fail in challenging the decision, it would no longer be able to receive public funds and probably be forced to shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now CCSF, which services more than 85,000 students, remains accredited. Almost 2,700 people work at the school, which consists of nine campuses and more than 100 instructional sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school was \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/07/05/why-the-city-college-of-san-francisco-might-close/\" target=\"_blank\">put on notice\u003c/a> a year ago that it would lose its accreditation unless it addressed 14 serious fiscal and management issues. From the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/CCSF-will-lose-accreditation-in-2014-4645783.php\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle\u003c/a> today...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>[The commission] cited a broken system of governance and fiscal planning in which a skeletal crew of administrators and bickering employees failed to make necessary budget cuts, even as state funding dried up. Over the years, the college constructed sparkling buildings while neglecting such basic needs as computers and campus maintenance, the commission said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But the commission today said the college had \"addressed just two of 14 recommendations for change and corrected few of the deficiencies\" cited in its dictate to the school to \"show cause \" why accreditation should not be withdrawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brice W. 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And the students of San Francisco need to know that while we're going through this process, they have a place they can go to college.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris said the college would work to address the remaining problems concerning the commission and then appeal the revocation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said that the college will need assistance from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think state intervention is going to be absolutely necessary,\" Lee said. \"I don’t think that our City College got into this predicament overnight, and I don’t think given the time that we have – several months – of the continued effort here the same structure is going to be able to do it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CCSF Interim Chancellor Thelma Scott-Skillman said during the call, \"I'm not surprised by too much of anything, but I am deeply concerned. ... 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brice W. Harris, the chancellor of California Community Colleges, said during a teleconference that he'll appoint a special trustee to run the school as it appeals the loss of accreditation. The trustee will have the power to close or consolidate CCSF's nine campuses.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n\"The trustee does have the ability to look at facilities and program reduction and collapsing centers one to another. And I think in order for this college to match up its expenses with its revenue streams, some of those things are absolutely going to have to happen,\" Harris said. \"I think probably the most important thing to acknowledge is that the college is still open, accredited and accepting students for the fall term. This process of review and appeal is a long one. And the students of San Francisco need to know that while we're going through this process, they have a place they can go to college.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris said the college would work to address the remaining problems concerning the commission and then appeal the revocation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said that the college will need assistance from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think state intervention is going to be absolutely necessary,\" Lee said. \"I don’t think that our City College got into this predicament overnight, and I don’t think given the time that we have – several months – of the continued effort here the same structure is going to be able to do it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CCSF Interim Chancellor Thelma Scott-Skillman said during the call, \"I'm not surprised by too much of anything, but I am deeply concerned. ... It (is) going to take more time to address all of the items that were cited as deficiencies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/CCSF-will-lose-accreditation-in-2014-4645783.php\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle\u003c/a> is quoting John Rizzo, president of the City College Board of Trustees, as saying the decision is \"shocking and outrageous, given the massive changes we've made.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've reorganized every level of the management structure, in every department. We've cut pay. We've funded the reserve for nine years. This is really bad for San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alisa Messer, president of the American Federation of Teachers, Local 2121, which represents CCSF faculty, said \"We will ensure that City College will survive and be available.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Joshua Johnson talked to CCSF engineering instructor Wendy Kaufmyn this morning, before the decision was released. \"It's to the disadvantage to the communities that we have traditionally served,\" she said. \"We have served immigrant communities, poor communities, communities of colors, workers. These are the people that really need us, and they are being shut out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee echoed those comments today in the conference call, saying it was \"imperative that City College remain open for business.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those students are not just ordinary students -- they're special students,\" Lee said. \"They're returning veterans in the military. They're also people in their mid-careers trying to catch up in our economy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students at CCSF were surprised to hear the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm really upset about it. I'm glad that I'm taking summer classes and getting my prerequisites out of the way,\" said Felicia Colon. \"I'm worried about it. How am I going to do it? I'm in nursing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just last week, the Chronicle \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/education/article/CCSF-drops-crisis-spokesman-days-before-verdict-4628128.php\" target=\"_blank\">speculated\u003c/a> that CCSF would not suffer the ultimate fate in the accreditation crisis, based on the college's dropping of its crisis spokesman. The only other public community college in California to lose its accreditation was Compton College in 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca title=\"View Press Release: Commission to Terminate City College of San Francisco's Accreditation on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/151597052/Press-Release-Commission-to-Terminate-City-College-of-San-Francisco-s-Accreditation\">Press Release: Commission to Terminate City College of San Francisco's Accreditation\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.scribd.com/embeds/151597052/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>By Charla Bear\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s tough for Teresa Villicana, a student at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccsf.edu/NEW/\">City College of San Francisco\u003c/a>, to focus on her studies right now. She’s got a more pressing concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 408px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" \" src=\"https://newsimage.kqed.org/filestore/4/2/6/5_d15256a1b80b662/4265scr_3eaf1ad48db8875.jpg?v=2013-03-14+17%3A20%3A38\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"272\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students marched from several city college campuses, to Mission High school to ask students to join them on their march to city hall, where they went inside and chanted. They then held a rally outside, with several hundred people. 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A is the parcel tax measure to financially support City College that was passed by local voters last November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The college has had to make significant changes in the seven months since the accreditation agency put it on notice. The commission cited the college for poor financial management, run down facilities and an inability to gauge student performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“We have an institution that has grown to unsustainable levels.” – City College spokesman Larry Kamer\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The report due Friday shows the school has slashed budgets, changed how it measures student learning and how it overhauled its mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CCSF has been around since 1935. This is the most seismic event we’ve ever gone through,” City College spokesman Larry Kamer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kamer says he’s “cautiously optimistic” the accreditor’s decision will be positive when it comes down this summer. But he adds there’s still a lot of hard work to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t get around our fiscal challenge,” Kamer said. “We have an institution that has grown to unsustainable levels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The college hasn’t been able to resolve one of the commission’s biggest concerns—that roughly 92 percent of its budget goes to salaries, benefits and retirement, leaving only 8 percent for all remaining operations and site maintenance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The college’s board of trustees approved a $187 million 2012-13 budget. About $97 million of that total comes from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Not Just a City College Problem\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CCSF is \u003ca href=\"http://www.accjc.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/ACCJC-Memo-to-Field-w-Jan-2013-Commission-Actions_REVISED_3-7-13.pdf\">not the only community college in the state\u003c/a> in danger of shutting down. 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(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A group of exhausted City College students ended a nightlong sit-in this morning after being assured that the beleaguered school’s chancellor would meet with them Monday and hold a series of town hall forums about the looming loss of accreditation threatening the school with closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A crowd of about 100, many of whom are members of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.saveccsf.org/\">Save CCSF Coalition\u003c/a>, marched into the school’s administration building Thursday intending to deliver four demands to interim Chancellor Thelma Scott-Skillman. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>by Erica Perez, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/education/story/city-college-spends-92-percent-budget/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The accreditation commission that has threatened to sanction City College of San Francisco has cited the fact that 92 percent of the college’s spending goes to salaries and benefits as a main factor in its financial problems – and community college district officials attribute the high percentage to a history of generous pay and benefits for employees, including faculty, staff and administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/BayCitizenLogo6.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/BayCitizenLogo6.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-71910\">\u003c/a>While higher education observers say many community college districts have scaled back benefits for retirees in the last 20 years, City College has not, for the most part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office does not track districts' spending on salaries and benefits as a percentage of total expenditures in a way that is easily compared, making it difficult to say where City College's spending ranks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This analysis is something we don’t do and have not done before because it is an area we don’t administer or regulate,\" Fred Harris, assistant vice chancellor of college finance and facilities planning for the chancellor's office, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, while the chancellor's office keeps an eye on districts that are operating close to the fiscal edge, City College of San Francisco was not one of the districts the chancellor's office considered to be in fiscal crisis. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris said he was uncomfortable with City College's spending on salaries and benefits because, on average, these costs eat up roughly 85 percent of spending at community college districts in California. But he said it's an issue of local control that the chancellor's office doesn't manage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s extreme, but the district has made that decision, and for us to go in and say, 'You’re wrong,' is not necessarily our primary mission,\" he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larry Kamer, a consultant hired by the district who is also serving as college spokesman, said City College of San Francisco has always had a big heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_71987\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 235px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/citycollegesf.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-71987\" title=\"citycollegesf\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/citycollegesf.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"230\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City College of San Francisco\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s always paid its instructors well. It has always put teaching and student services at the top of the list of priorities,” Kamer said. “There are a couple issues that we’ll have to look at, though, including how generous we can be moving forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges has threatened to pull the college's accreditation if it does not make critical improvements to its finances, planning, assessment of student learning and more. Colleges must be accredited in order for students to get federal financial aid; without that ability, City College would be all but forced to close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 92 percent figure is just one piece of the commission's criticism of City College of San Francisco, but the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccsf.edu/Offices/Research_Planning/pdf/CCSFEvalReport16May2012.pdf\">commission’s report\u003c/a> [PDF] notes the figure is at the center of the institution’s financial problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of that spending level, the college has little wiggle room to fund its future liabilities, including $36 million in other post-employment benefits. And the district has been operating at a deficit – expenditures are estimated to exceed revenues by $5.9 million this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Wolf, former executive director of the accrediting commission and co-founder of The Campaign for College Opportunity, said spending 92 percent on salary and benefits puts a district’s instructional health at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s everything wrong with 92 percent going to salary and benefits,” Wolf said. “You cannot run a coherent college spending your money that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The accreditation commission that has threatened to sanction City College of San Francisco has cited the fact that 92 percent of the college’s spending goes to salaries and benefits as a main factor in its financial problems – and community college district officials attribute the high percentage to a history of generous pay and benefits for employees, including faculty, staff and administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While higher education observers say many community college districts have scaled back benefits for retirees in the last 20 years, City College has not, for the most part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office does not track districts' spending on salaries and benefits as a percentage of total expenditures in a way that is easily compared, making it difficult to say where City College's spending ranks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This analysis is something we don’t do and have not done before because it is an area we don’t administer or regulate,\" Fred Harris, assistant vice chancellor of college finance and facilities planning for the chancellor's office, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, while the chancellor's office keeps an eye on districts that are operating close to the fiscal edge, City College of San Francisco was not one of the districts the chancellor's office considered to be in fiscal crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris said he was uncomfortable with City College's spending on salaries and benefits because, on average, these costs eat up roughly 85 percent of spending at community college districts in California. But he said it's an issue of local control that the chancellor's office doesn't manage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s extreme, but the district has made that decision, and for us to go in and say, 'You’re wrong,' is not necessarily our primary mission,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larry Kamer, a consultant hired by the district who is also serving as college spokesman, said City College of San Francisco has always had a big heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s always paid its instructors well. It has always put teaching and student services at the top of the list of priorities,” Kamer said. “There are a couple issues that we’ll have to look at, though, including how generous we can be moving forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges has threatened to pull the college's accreditation if it does not make critical improvements to its finances, planning, assessment of student learning and more. Colleges must be accredited in order for students to get federal financial aid; without that ability, City College would be all but forced to close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 92 percent figure is just one piece of the commission's criticism of City College of San Francisco, but the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccsf.edu/Offices/Research_Planning/pdf/CCSFEvalReport16May2012.pdf\">commission’s report\u003c/a> [PDF] notes the figure is at the center of the institution’s financial problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of that spending level, the college has little wiggle room to fund its future liabilities, including $36 million in other post-employment benefits. And the district has been operating at a deficit – expenditures are estimated to exceed revenues by $5.9 million this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Wolf, former executive director of the accrediting commission and co-founder of The Campaign for College Opportunity, said spending 92 percent on salary and benefits puts a district’s instructional health at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s everything wrong with 92 percent going to salary and benefits,” Wolf said. “You cannot run a coherent college spending your money that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spending that way limits funds for new computers and other technology. Physics and chemistry labs need new technologies so students gain skills needed in the workplace, for example. It also hinders a college’s ability to start new instructional programs, not to mention pay the bills, Wolf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All smart managers know that once you get above 85 (percent), you begin to run into serious quality problems,” Wolf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the other end of the spectrum, salaries and benefits at the Kern Community College District in California’s Central Valley make up an estimated 78 percent of the district’s total spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kern Community College District has three colleges but is smaller than the San Francisco Community College District, with 37,000 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kern’s chief financial officer, Tom Burke, said that for at least the last decade, the board of trustees has set a goal of keeping salaries and benefits below 80 percent of expenditures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After spending an estimated $84 million on salaries and benefits, Kern spends the next biggest chunk – $11 million – on services, utilities and operating expenditures, a category that includes not just the gas and electric bill, but also the cost of maintaining the district’s technology, software licenses, and infrastructure and buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By comparison, San Francisco, with 90,000 students and nine primary campuses, spends $10.8 million in that cost category.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kern has scaled back health benefits over time. There’s a cap on how much the district will pay for benefits, and the employee has to cover any premium costs above the cap. Faculty members, for example, have a cap of $1,140 for the current plan year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also a two-tiered retiree health benefit system at Kern. Retirees who were hired before June 1988 are eligible for lifetime health benefits. For those hired after 1988, employees who have worked for the district for 15 years are eligible for retirement health benefits until they hit age 65, when they have to go to Medicare, Burke said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At City College of San Francisco, full-time academic employees who have worked for the district for five years and have reached age 55 are eligible for lifetime district-paid health benefits when they retire. Steven Hale, employee relations manager for the district, said the majority of retirees worked at the college for much longer terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Non-academic employees hired before January 2009 are eligible for full lifetime retiree health benefits if they reach age 50 and have worked five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because non-academic employees are part of the San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System, they are subject to a 2008 city charter amendment that scaled back the benefits a bit for employees hired after 2009. To get the full employer contribution, these retirees must have worked for the district for 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those non-academic employees who have worked 10 to 15 years, the college covers half of the full retirement benefit, Hale said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Geoffrey Kischuk, an actuary who has consulted with City College of San Francisco and several other community college districts to help analyze their retiree health liabilities, said City College’s benefits are unusually generous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the districts in the Bay Area have changed their benefits or eliminated their benefits, in some cases more than 20 years ago,” said Kischuk, who is president of Total Compensation Systems Inc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A chancellor’s office spokesman also said districts that offer lifetime health benefits to retirees would probably be in the minority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At City College of San Francisco, health benefits for current retirees cost $6.7 million in 2011-12, according to the district’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccsf.edu/NEW/content/dam/Organizational_Assets/Department/budget/FY1213_tenative_budget_070912.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">budget [PDF]\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trustee Steve Ngo said that’s an area the district has to re-examine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You would have to construct a new regime that would bend that cost curve down in such a way that gets the district in, I believe, a fiscally healthier position. That requires negotiations with our units,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City College of San Francisco also has been more generous with its adjunct instructors and part-time staff than its counterparts around the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, part-time instructors who have taught at least two semesters and are assigned to teach seven and a half hours or more of class per week are eligible for the same health and dental coverage as full-time faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, part-time classified employees who work more than a certain number of hours per year and for several years in a row can receive full-time benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kern, by contrast, provides part-time employees who work at least half-time with a portion of the benefits based proportionally on the number of hours they work, Burke said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karen Saginor, president of the Academic Senate for City College of San Francisco, agreed that it’s a problem that 92 percent of the district's spending goes to salaries and benefits. But she noted that faculty members have made efforts to save money on supplies and materials, and they have gotten grants to help pay for new technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I bring in my own pens. We print double-sided on paper. We’re very careful about turning off the lights and (not) wasting water,” Saginor said. “There’s so much that we’ve done to try to save money – the more money you have to spend on other stuff, the fewer classes you have for students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. Learn more at www.baycitizen.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, while the chancellor's office keeps an eye on districts that are operating close to the fiscal edge, City College of San Francisco was not one of the districts the chancellor's office considered to be in fiscal crisis. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris said he was uncomfortable with City College's spending on salaries and benefits because, on average, these costs eat up roughly 85 percent of spending at community college districts in California. But he said it's an issue of local control that the chancellor's office doesn't manage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s extreme, but the district has made that decision, and for us to go in and say, 'You’re wrong,' is not necessarily our primary mission,\" he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larry Kamer, a consultant hired by the district who is also serving as college spokesman, said City College of San Francisco has always had a big heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_71987\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 235px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/citycollegesf.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-71987\" title=\"citycollegesf\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/citycollegesf.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"230\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City College of San Francisco\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s always paid its instructors well. It has always put teaching and student services at the top of the list of priorities,” Kamer said. “There are a couple issues that we’ll have to look at, though, including how generous we can be moving forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges has threatened to pull the college's accreditation if it does not make critical improvements to its finances, planning, assessment of student learning and more. Colleges must be accredited in order for students to get federal financial aid; without that ability, City College would be all but forced to close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 92 percent figure is just one piece of the commission's criticism of City College of San Francisco, but the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccsf.edu/Offices/Research_Planning/pdf/CCSFEvalReport16May2012.pdf\">commission’s report\u003c/a> [PDF] notes the figure is at the center of the institution’s financial problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of that spending level, the college has little wiggle room to fund its future liabilities, including $36 million in other post-employment benefits. And the district has been operating at a deficit – expenditures are estimated to exceed revenues by $5.9 million this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Wolf, former executive director of the accrediting commission and co-founder of The Campaign for College Opportunity, said spending 92 percent on salary and benefits puts a district’s instructional health at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s everything wrong with 92 percent going to salary and benefits,” Wolf said. “You cannot run a coherent college spending your money that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The accreditation commission that has threatened to sanction City College of San Francisco has cited the fact that 92 percent of the college’s spending goes to salaries and benefits as a main factor in its financial problems – and community college district officials attribute the high percentage to a history of generous pay and benefits for employees, including faculty, staff and administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While higher education observers say many community college districts have scaled back benefits for retirees in the last 20 years, City College has not, for the most part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office does not track districts' spending on salaries and benefits as a percentage of total expenditures in a way that is easily compared, making it difficult to say where City College's spending ranks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This analysis is something we don’t do and have not done before because it is an area we don’t administer or regulate,\" Fred Harris, assistant vice chancellor of college finance and facilities planning for the chancellor's office, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, while the chancellor's office keeps an eye on districts that are operating close to the fiscal edge, City College of San Francisco was not one of the districts the chancellor's office considered to be in fiscal crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris said he was uncomfortable with City College's spending on salaries and benefits because, on average, these costs eat up roughly 85 percent of spending at community college districts in California. But he said it's an issue of local control that the chancellor's office doesn't manage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s extreme, but the district has made that decision, and for us to go in and say, 'You’re wrong,' is not necessarily our primary mission,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larry Kamer, a consultant hired by the district who is also serving as college spokesman, said City College of San Francisco has always had a big heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s always paid its instructors well. It has always put teaching and student services at the top of the list of priorities,” Kamer said. “There are a couple issues that we’ll have to look at, though, including how generous we can be moving forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges has threatened to pull the college's accreditation if it does not make critical improvements to its finances, planning, assessment of student learning and more. Colleges must be accredited in order for students to get federal financial aid; without that ability, City College would be all but forced to close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 92 percent figure is just one piece of the commission's criticism of City College of San Francisco, but the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccsf.edu/Offices/Research_Planning/pdf/CCSFEvalReport16May2012.pdf\">commission’s report\u003c/a> [PDF] notes the figure is at the center of the institution’s financial problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of that spending level, the college has little wiggle room to fund its future liabilities, including $36 million in other post-employment benefits. And the district has been operating at a deficit – expenditures are estimated to exceed revenues by $5.9 million this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Wolf, former executive director of the accrediting commission and co-founder of The Campaign for College Opportunity, said spending 92 percent on salary and benefits puts a district’s instructional health at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s everything wrong with 92 percent going to salary and benefits,” Wolf said. “You cannot run a coherent college spending your money that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spending that way limits funds for new computers and other technology. Physics and chemistry labs need new technologies so students gain skills needed in the workplace, for example. It also hinders a college’s ability to start new instructional programs, not to mention pay the bills, Wolf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All smart managers know that once you get above 85 (percent), you begin to run into serious quality problems,” Wolf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the other end of the spectrum, salaries and benefits at the Kern Community College District in California’s Central Valley make up an estimated 78 percent of the district’s total spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kern Community College District has three colleges but is smaller than the San Francisco Community College District, with 37,000 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kern’s chief financial officer, Tom Burke, said that for at least the last decade, the board of trustees has set a goal of keeping salaries and benefits below 80 percent of expenditures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After spending an estimated $84 million on salaries and benefits, Kern spends the next biggest chunk – $11 million – on services, utilities and operating expenditures, a category that includes not just the gas and electric bill, but also the cost of maintaining the district’s technology, software licenses, and infrastructure and buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By comparison, San Francisco, with 90,000 students and nine primary campuses, spends $10.8 million in that cost category.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kern has scaled back health benefits over time. There’s a cap on how much the district will pay for benefits, and the employee has to cover any premium costs above the cap. Faculty members, for example, have a cap of $1,140 for the current plan year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also a two-tiered retiree health benefit system at Kern. Retirees who were hired before June 1988 are eligible for lifetime health benefits. For those hired after 1988, employees who have worked for the district for 15 years are eligible for retirement health benefits until they hit age 65, when they have to go to Medicare, Burke said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At City College of San Francisco, full-time academic employees who have worked for the district for five years and have reached age 55 are eligible for lifetime district-paid health benefits when they retire. Steven Hale, employee relations manager for the district, said the majority of retirees worked at the college for much longer terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Non-academic employees hired before January 2009 are eligible for full lifetime retiree health benefits if they reach age 50 and have worked five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because non-academic employees are part of the San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System, they are subject to a 2008 city charter amendment that scaled back the benefits a bit for employees hired after 2009. 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That requires negotiations with our units,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City College of San Francisco also has been more generous with its adjunct instructors and part-time staff than its counterparts around the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, part-time instructors who have taught at least two semesters and are assigned to teach seven and a half hours or more of class per week are eligible for the same health and dental coverage as full-time faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, part-time classified employees who work more than a certain number of hours per year and for several years in a row can receive full-time benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kern, by contrast, provides part-time employees who work at least half-time with a portion of the benefits based proportionally on the number of hours they work, Burke said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karen Saginor, president of the Academic Senate for City College of San Francisco, agreed that it’s a problem that 92 percent of the district's spending goes to salaries and benefits. 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That was the message Tuesday from the school’s board and interim Chancellor Pamila Fisher, who met in public for the first time since last week’s revelation that the 90,000-student school is so poorly run that it could lose its accreditation and close next year.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2012/07/supervisors-criticize-mayor-ed-lee-frisk-policy#ixzz20KOGy9U3\">Supervisors criticize Mayor Ed Lee, stop and frisk policy\u003c/a> (SF Examiner)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Mayor Ed Lee came under attack Tuesday for suggesting that San Francisco police officers should employ some form of “stop and frisk” tactics to combat gun violence. 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Milpitas-based Soladigm, which makes energy-efficient glass for commercial buildings, raised $55 million. Campbell-based Coulomb Technologies, which makes networked electric vehicle charging stations, raised $47.5 million. In North America, California led the way with $831 million in investments, followed by Massachusetts with $157 million, and Texas with $57 million.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/oakland-tribune/ci_21051135/sand-spill-block-lanes-eastbound-bay-bridge\">Bay Bridge lower deck blocked by sand spill\u003c/a> (Oakland Tribune)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Eastbound lanes of the lower deck of the Bay Bridge were covered in sand and gravel this morning after CHP investigators believe a dump truck dropped it on the roadway and drove away. 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