As Trustee, I will work with the Board to advocate for the highest number of affordable housing units to be built in the Balboa Reservoir project (as a key stakeholder in the community) and direct the Chancellor or his designee to negotiate a contract to have units earmarked for our faculty, staff, and students. I will also work with the Board and Chancellor to identify sites to strategically develop in partnership with wraparound service providers to ensure our most underserved students have the supportive housing and a path to education and a career. For example, surface parking lot right across the street from the Mission Campus that could be purchased by City College for $3 Million and developed quickly using a BOOT strategy. While everyone is concerned about the Balboa Reservoir, I feel development on adjoining and City College-owned land will be a much more straightforward path to providing housing for our faculty, staff, and (most of all) students. With the high cost of education throughout the country and the exorbitant cost of housing in San Francisco, City College can seize the opportunity to become a truly urban campus and become revenue-neutral institution by expanding its service to the community with housing options.

1. Prioritize the $1.355 Billion Bond issue to build mixed-used buildings that incorporate affordable housing while taking care of retrofitting and building new (mixed-use) buildings throughout the campuses (not just at Ocean Campus).
2. Develop surplus property (like the Gough site) into affordable housing and expand its service to the community by housing faculty, staff, and students.
3. Partner with the City, BART, Muni, and last-mile transportation providers to full subsidize the transportation costs of our students (then faculty, and then staff).
4. Focus on getting as many units for faculty on the Balboa Reservoir project.

As Trustee, I will partner with the bicycle coalition and last-mile transportation companies to raise awareness, develop a concerted effort to drive less, and switch to zero-emissions vehicles. I will also partner with the City, SFMTA, BART, bike sharing, and last-mile transportation companies to provide all of our students, faculty, and staff free or heavily-reduced transportation to City College. I will instruct the Chancellor to work with the Deans to conduct a curriculum review that identifies which classes should be offered on different campuses to make sure every community has equitable access across the city and minimize the need to commute. Partner with bike sharing and last-mile transportation companies on free or subsidized passes for all students, staff, and faculty, to encourage alternative forms of transportation. Have bike share and last-mile companies encourage the use by students by donating to money for miles to the Associated Students student resource centers at the beginning of each semester. Partner with the bicycle coalition to schedule several “Bike to School” days to raise awareness. I also want to work with SFUSD, after school curriculum partners, retirement communities, assisted living facilities, and van transportation services (like Chariot) to expand our lifelong learning curriculum and create more after school programs for children on City College.

Yes, absolutely. As Trustee, I will work with the Board to advocate for the highest number of affordable housing units possible (no less than 1,500) and direct the Chancellor or his designee to negotiate a contract to have units earmarked for our faculty, staff, and students. While my opponents are claiming responsibility for the negotiation of 500 beds for students and 200 units for faculty and staff, in exchange for City College land, no agreement has been reached. It is important to note two of those Trustees have also worked to stop and stall the project with a resolution to take the land back from PUC and build the Performing Arts and Education Building. In my mind, with City College being such an important stakeholder in the project, the Trustees should use their position with the community to get the developers to include the units for faculty, staff, and students without a land transfer. The surrounding community is right to be concerned about increased congestion and lack of parking, so earmarking units for people who will be working and studying across the street makes perfect sense for all parties involved. In a worst-case scenario, City College should buy a number of units for faculty, staff, and students from the project and ameliorate the issues of affordable housing, congestion, and student dorms while creating a new line of revenue.

I want to explore the possibility of working with the Mayor’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD) to expand the FREE CITY program with a comprehensive curriculum of apprenticeships and nontraditional tech certifications that lead to good-paying local union jobs in the industries San Francisco needs the most. I want to work with our local labor unions to strengthen our world-class trade and hospitality training programs that lead to good union jobs, including the expansion of the CityBuild Academy model, the expansion of tech and biomedical certificate programs that make students career-ready with leading industries right here in San Francisco, I also want to partner with local companies, curriculum partners, and SFUSD to give students opportunities to learn from these great local union jobs, and have the opportunity to engage in non-traditional learning environments, like CityBuild Academy, coding bootcamps, hackathons, makerspaces, and shared classroom facilities across the city.

I have received broad support and endorsements from across the entire San Francisco Democratic political spectrum: from Nancy Pelosi, Scott Wiener, and London Breed, to David Campos, Jeff Adachi, and Shamann Walton, including three sitting City College Trustees (Alex Randolph, Tom Temprano, and Shanell Williams). Here’s a full list: VictorForSF.com/endorsements