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Amy Bacharach was elected to the City College Board of Trustees in 2014 and is running for re-election. In addition to serving on the board, she is a policy researcher specializing in the juvenile justice and collaborative justice, and she was previously an adjunct professor at Argosy University.
The college currently provides training in various fields, as well as internships with local employers. Bacharach says she wants to extend those collaborations to San Francisco’s public sector, training people for work in local government.
And she has said her primary goal is to create an alumni association that can serve as a vast professional network. “This will create so many more opportunities for our students, from funding to mentorships to job opportunities,” she said.
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Rafael Mandelman is deputy city attorney of Oakland, and the current president of the Board of Trustees for City College of San Francisco. Mandelman says he wants to gradually reduce the number of classes to reflect enrollment levels, while seeking state funds that would allow the college to slow or halt that reduction. Like the other candidates for the board, Mandelman supports making classes free to all San Francisco students — a proposal called “Free City College,” whose chief proponent has been Supervisor Jane Kim.
Mandelman has noted that one of this year’s ballot measures would give City Hall a new source of revenue, which “the Board of Supervisors has indicated it intends to use to fund Free City College.” That measure, Proposition W, would raise the real estate transfer tax on properties worth at least $5 million, and was also written by Kim.
“Free City College could significantly improve our enrollment situation,” Mandelman said, “so its implementation will be a priority, along with several other enrollment growth initiatives.”
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Alex Randolph, a current member of the Board of Trustees, was originally appointed by Mayor Ed Lee before being re-elected last year. He has held many government positions, including for former supervisor Bevan Dufty, who is running this year for a seat on the Board of Directors for Bay Area Rapid Transit.
Enrollment levels determine how much funding City College receives from the state, and Randolph has suggested raising enrollment by improving how the college markets itself throughout the city and to students currently attending middle school and high school. Randolph says he wants to strengthen the college’s relationship with the business community, “to continue City College’s history of success in providing resources to our students.”
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Tom Temprano, a freelance marketing specialist and owner of bar Virgil’s Sea Room, is running again for a seat on the Board of Trustees after a failed bid last year. He served as vice president of the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club in 2012, and as president in 2013 and 2014.
Temprano said that, if elected, he would advocate for cutting-edge instruction in coding and programming, biotechnology, healthcare and construction. He opposes aggressive cuts to classes. “The last thing that we should be doing at a time when we need increased enrollment is cutting the classes that our students want and need.”
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Shanell Williams is a recent graduate of City College of San Francisco. She was previously president of the student council, and she was elected student trustee.
Williams opposes balancing the college’s budget by relying heavily on cuts to workers, classes and services. “We need to build City College up, not break it down,” she said.
She said that, if elected, she would work to make the college more accessible to low-income and working-class families by increasing “the availability of childcare, as this is all too often a barrier to accessing higher education.”
Our methodology
The Public Press chose to count endorsements from organizations that backed multiple candidates or ballot measures, and that made those endorsements available online. We did not count endorsements from individuals.
Some organizations endorsed a first and second choice for candidates in some races. Those preferences are not represented here.
If you think we missed an important organization, please tell us. We’d love to hear from you.
Tracked Endorsements by Organization
Published: Oct. 18, 2016
