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DESCRIPTION:Press Release: CCSF Artists Unite To Save Ft. Mason Campus And Oppose 
 Balboa Reservoir Privatization\n\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\n\nWho: Older Adult 
 students, artists, art lovers, art models, Balboa Plan opponents\nWhat: 
 Life drawing class with life models \nWhy: Opposing closure of Ft. Mason 
 Art Campus and Balboa Reservoir Project\nWhen: Friday, May 22, Noon - 
 2pm\nWhere: Balboa Reservoir  parking area between the MUB building at 50 
 Phelan Ave. and Archbishop Riordan High School, 175 Phelan Ave.\n\nContact 
 Person\nccsfheat(at)gmail.com\n\nSan Francisco 5/20/20\nLife Model Art 
 Rally - Awareness Raising for CCSF Arts Program at Ft. Mason\nArtists, 
 students, and the SF Older Adults art community are desperately working to 
 stop the  closure of the CCSF Campus at Fort Mason, the former army 
 barracks turned art center that has been a City College Arts campus since 
 the 90’s. They will hold an Awareness Raising Drawing Session with life 
 models at the Balboa Reservoir  parking area between the MUB building at 50 
 Phelan Ave. and Archbishop Riordan High School, 175 Phelan Ave.,  Friday, 
 May 22, at 12 noon - 2pm.  They are demonstrating in support of keeping the 
 well equipped art campus open, rather than making a hasty, ill-informed 
 decision to close it, during this chaotic time of the pandemic. They will 
 be joined by the opponents of the Balboa Reservoir Plan.\n \nCity College 
 Interim Chancellor Dianna Gonzales and the Board of Trustees called for a 
 vote to extend the lease for 3 months at the last Board of Trustees 
 "Special Meeting," May 5, 2020.  Several of the trustees  said they needed 
 more information and more community input and were successful in delaying 
 the vote until the May 28th meeting.\n \n“Announcing the closure of 
 beloved city institution during a pandemic, and then calling for an 
 immediate vote is beyond cowardly, because it doesn’t allow for the 
 necessary community input that the CCSF administration says is central to 
 the college's values. It’s a breach of the duty that the Board of 
 Trustee’s has sworn to uphold as fiduciaries of City College as a 
 community institution.” Said Marilee Hearn, an OLAD (Older Adults)  
 sculpture student at CCSF and one of the organizers of the 
 opposition.\n\nIn agreeing to delay their decision the BOT said they would 
 take the time to hear community input to better evaluate the decision and 
 its impact on the community.  Opponents of the closure say the time is 
 short and the pandemic is making it all the more difficult to do 
 traditional outreach. “Understandably, there are a lot of more pressing 
 things on many peoples’ minds right now," said Konrad Dunton, a City 
 College art instructor for the last 6 years, “but that is all the more 
 reason this vital decision cannot be rushed through right now. Now more 
 than ever we are realizing the vital need for art, connection and 
 community, and we are going to need that now more than ever whenever things 
 reopen.”\n\nThis will be a safe art session, following pandemic 
 regulations of keeping distances and wearing masks. “We are older and 
 need to take measures to be safe; we are gathering because this issue holds 
 such importance to the quality of our lives,” says Jean Cherie from the 
 Older Adults Sculpture Class at Ft. Mason. Organizers are asking people to 
 attend the"class" with their art materials and also to submit public 
 comments before the next BOT meeting. \n\n There will be a follow-up zoom 
 call on Saturday, 05/23/2020, 3-5pm. It will be an in-depth teach-in on the 
 Balboa Reservoir--in relation to publiclandsforpublicgood.org\n###\n\nWho: 
 Older Adult students, artists, art lovers, art models, Balboa Plan 
 opponents\nWhat: Life drawing class with life models \nWhy: Opposing 
 closure of Ft. Mason Art Campus and Balboa Reservoir Project\nWhen: Friday, 
 May 22, Noon - 2pm\nWhere: Balboa Reservoir  parking area between the MUB 
 building at 50 Phelan Ave. and Archbishop Riordan High School, 175 Phelan 
 Ave.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/21/18833158.php
SUMMARY:CCSF Artists Unite To Save Ft. Mason Campus And Oppose Balboa Reservoir Privatization
LOCATION:Balboa Reservoir  parking area between the MUB building at 50 Phelan Ave. 
 and Archbishop Riordan High School, 175 Phelan Ave.\nSan Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/21/18833158.php
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