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Almost finish!

I like the color of the panels that burnaz's crew installed. I don't think it really comes through in these shots, but it has a very rich tone.

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Here's the annex with neighbors:
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Bottom floors haven't changed much from the outside:

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Both cranes are gone now:
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And the first art has been installed on the exterior:
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Which wraps around the corner:
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So they've got a fancy new building, years in development, almost ready and

City College of San Francisco on brink of closure
Nanette Asimov
Updated 04:52 p.m., Wednesday, July 4, 2012

The poorly run City College of San Francisco has eight months to prove it should stay in business, yet must "make preparations for closure," evaluators ordered Tuesday.

The stunning verdict by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges could result in the closure of California's largest college and a fixture of higher education in one of the nation's wealthiest cities. It has 90,000 students.

Only accredited colleges can receive public funding under state law. But City College's failure to fix serious, long-standing problems of leadership and fiscal planning means that the accrediting commission could vote as early as next June to yank the school's all-important certification, said Barbara Beno, commission president.

That perilous judgment was conveyed Tuesday in a letter to Pamila Fisher, interim chancellor of City College, as the commission released its comprehensive review of the school. The college now has the burden of proof to "show cause" for why it should retain accreditation.

"Since the loss of accreditation would likely cause City College of San Francisco to close, during the 'show cause' period the College must make preparations for closure according to the Commission's Policy on Closing an Institution," Beno wrote Fisher.

In addition to proving why it should stay in business, City College must submit a "Closure Report" by March 15 . . . .
http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/City-College-of-San-Francisco-on-brink-of-closure-3682955.php

I have to call this about as un-F'ing-believable as anything I've come across in a long time. The San Francisco tradition of handing out important jobs to political hacks and on the basis of political correctness may finally bring unglued an important public institution and I am waiting to see if the political hacks running the town will respond in any effective way. Somehow, I am not sanguine.

so what was the decision on City College?

^^What do you mean? They've got until March 15, 2013 to fix enough things to keep the accreditation.

So they've got a fancy new building, years in development, almost ready and


http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/City-College-of-San-Francisco-on-brink-of-closure-3682955.php

I have to call this about as un-F'ing-believable as anything I've come across in a long time. The San Francisco tradition of handing out important jobs to political hacks and on the basis of political correctness may finally bring unglued an important public institution and I am waiting to see if the political hacks running the town will respond in any effective way. Somehow, I am not sanguine.

San Francisco's one of the worst run cities in the US. Its been a dumping ground for out of work political hacks from across the country & around the world since the 1980s. Meanwhile, the City corrupts state & federal agencies by planting its politicos in Sacramento & Washington. In turn, the city ends up stuck with disastourous boondoogles which provide patronage for pols & contracters but ultimately will end up bankrupting the City.

Of course by then, a new generation will be left holding the hat.

^^What do you mean? They've got until March 15, 2013 to fix enough things to keep the accreditation.

oh ok 2013, they have a year then...

cool thanks

CCSF risks bankruptcy, chancellor warns
Nanette Asimov
Updated 8:30 p.m., Tuesday, September 11, 2012

(09-11) 15:00 PDT San Francisco -- City College of San Francisco's finances are so precarious that the vast school of 86,000 students risks bankruptcy as it struggles to stay open and accredited, California Community College Chancellor Jack Scott told the system's Board of Governors Tuesday.

In addition, Scott said that if the City College trustees at tonight's meeting don't voluntarily request a "special trustee" to oversee their finances, then his office will impose one - and the elected trustees would lose decision-making authority. . . . .

The trustees had postponed the vote until tonight after opponents pressured them not to request a special trustee.

The question of whether to ask someone to come in is one of many actions the college trustees must make in the next several months as they try to prove to the regional Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges that they should stay in business.

The commission has given the college until March 15 to fix its major governance and fiscal problems. The college must also prepare a "closure report" by then.

During a blunt and often vehement presentation about City College to the Board of Governors just four days before he steps down as chancellor, Scott said "all hell will break loose" if college leaders are so influenced by opponents of austerity measures that they fail to take the necessary steps to ward off closure.

He likened the naysayers to belligerent drunks . . . .

A second, unexpected fiscal assessment will also be released by the accrediting commission in the next few days, The Chronicle has learned.

Following that, on September 27, interim Chancellor Pamila Fisher will present a preliminary plan of action, the result of groups working to address the 14 major deficiencies cited by the accrediting commission when it dropped its bomb on the college in July.

October 15 is the deadline for the plan to be sent to the accrediting commission - two weeks before Fisher quits. She was hired May 1 to replace Chancellor Don Griffin, who retired to battle a brain tumor. The college has abandoned its search for a permanent chancellor, and is seeking a new interim . . . .

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/CCSF-risks-bankruptcy-chancellor-warns-3857274.php

Yeah, I'm sure going to vote to give these clowns a big check. Bankruptcy sounds like what they need.

City College near bankruptcy, audit says
Nanette Asimov
Updated 3:16 p.m., Wednesday, September 19, 2012
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(09-19) 15:15 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- City College of San Francisco is perilously close to bankruptcy, in part because it employs nearly twice as many faculty as similar colleges and pays them better - yet educates no more students on average, says a new financial analysis of the state's largest public school.

The college got into trouble because, unlike other colleges, it failed to make the budget cuts necessary to keep up with reductions in state funding, never set aside money for its growing retirement obligations, and "has provided salary increases and generous benefits with no discernible means to pay for them," says the review by the state's Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team, authorized by state law to help public schools in financial trouble.

For example, employees receive 23 paid holidays beyond vacation and work less than 40 hours a week.

As City College fights to retain its accreditation and stay open, the new report flings back the curtain on a series of management errors that may doom the college of 86,000 students - or help it, if it's not too late . . . .

Employees consistently told the analysts that City College operates "based on power, influence and political influences rather than reason, logic and fairness," according to the report. "The emphasis has been on keeping people employed and ensuring that they receive benefits, which is a positive goal but should not usurp the purpose of any college district, which is to serve students" . . . .

http://www.sfgate.com/education/article/City-College-near-bankruptcy-audit-says-3875651.php

City College could serve as a metaphor for San Francisco city government as a whole.