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DESCRIPTION:Defend The Health & Safety of CCSF Students, Faculty & Staff HEAT 
 Action\n\nSF City College Ocean Campus Press Conference\n8/16/ 12:30 
 PM\n\nPhysical Distancing & Masks Required\n                                
    \nHEAT Demands City College of SF Administration Adopt and Share COVID 
 Safety Rules.\n\nWith increased concern over the highly infectious COVID 
 delta variant and the August 2 re-imposition of mandatory COVID 
 precautions, HEAT demands that  the City College of San Francisco (CCSF) 
 Administration adopt two COVID Safety Rules outlined in the attached 
 .\n\nHEAT, “Higher Education Action Team,” was formed two years ago to 
 keep City College of San Francisco as a Community College and to expand 
 educational opportunities especially for working-class and lower middle 
 class communities and for those interested in life-long learning.\n\nHEAT 
 demands a vaccine mandate for CCSF, as 29 other Community Colleges have 
 done, including Los Angeles and Sacramento. (See attached documentation at 
 bit.ly/HEAT-COVID)  On June 15, and again on July 25, CCSF Administrators 
 said they did not intend to impose a student or employee vaccination 
 requirement. On July 27, CCSF’s Interim Chancellor Dianna Gonzales 
 emailed the CCSF Trustees that they would receive an update “including 
 the possibility of a vaccine mandate” on August 26.  August 26 is two 
 weeks after classes begin, and two months late for students who could have 
 been fully protected before classes begin. Instead, Administrators have 
 said students and employees will require facial coverings and social 
 distancing. But as HEAT's Madeline Mueller wrote, "Yes, CCSF is 
 implementing  mask mandates, and with monitors at every building checking 
 masks, as the Administration  has proposed, could they also check 
 vaccination  status? A reasonable  vaccination mandate should be do-able. 
 There are three Walgreens within a mile of the CCSF main campus where 
 students quickly could get free walk-in COVID vaccinations. Or perhaps the 
 Mayor's newly-announced vaccination team could visit CCSF sites as classes 
 begin?"  \n\nHEAT demands safe buildings for CCSF. Details on CCSF's 
 compliance with CDC mandates have not been released to the faculty, 
 students or staff, including ventilation and physical plant issues which 
 have been problematic for years, like painted-shut windows and heavily-used 
 rooms that are frequently too cold or too hot. Few  have been able to enter 
 buildings. This lack of transparency is of significant concern since school 
 is starting on August 14th and there is a surge in COVID cases.\n\nHEAT is 
 concerned that the lack of adequate COVID safety rules and clear, open 
 discussion of safety preparations will discourage some potential students 
 from returning to in-person classes this Fall.  As HEAT's Rick Baum asked 
 CCSF Trustees, "Would you be comfortable going home to loved ones whose 
 health and well-being might unnecessarily be put at risk because of a 
 failure of CCSF Administration to institute reasonable policies that 
 minimize threats to peoples' health?"\n\nMoney should not be an issue since 
 the college received over $50 million in COVID relief funds and has access 
 to $845 million in facilities bond funds.\n\nCCSF has a mask requirement, 
 but current expert opinion is that non-vented N95s are really necessary for 
 safety from the Delta variant.  CCSF's building monitors could provide them 
 with COVID funds.\n\nThe COVID safety controversy occurs in the context of 
 10 years of attacks on City College budgets and operations by the State and 
 CCSF’s Trustees and top administration.  This year the proposed 
 elimination of over 160 full-time faculty positions (on top of the hundreds 
 of part-time positions already cut) and reductions in many programs were 
 averted only by substantial cuts to faculty salaries and the scheduling of 
 over 25% fewer classes than before the pandemic.\n\nFor further 
 information:\n\nHEAT\nhttps://www.ccsfheat.org\nSFCityCollegeHEAT(at)gmail.com\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/08/13/18844277.php
SUMMARY:SF City College: Defend Health & Safety of CCSF Students, Faculty & Staff HEAT Action
LOCATION:In front of Conlan Hall, Ocean Campus CCSF
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/08/13/18844277.php
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