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New facilities head faces daunting challenge with aging campus

NEWS PROFILE By Victor Tence victortence@gmail.com It's not every day you start your new job with a backlog of 4,000 trouble tickets, stepping into a role where your predecessor was missing-in-action for months. But that's exactly what Rueben Smith did in January when

Facilities Master Plan to be 'rebooted'

Facilities Master Plan to be 'rebooted'

By Abraham Davis abrahamdfrankfurter@gmail.com Administration officials are moving forward with a “reboot” of the Facilities Master Plan, a 10-year roadmap for facilities projects, and is in the final selection process of recommending a firm for program management teams. At the Feb. 22 board of trustees meeting, Rueben Smith,

Board endorces Frida Way rename

NEWS BRIEF By Bethaney Lee blee@theguardsman.com The board of trustees voted unanimously at their Feb. 22 meeting to express their support for renaming Phelan Avenue, which runs along Ocean Campus, to Frida Kahlo Way. The avenue, named after the father of former Mayor James Phelan, has become associated

Settlement reached in Child Development Center lawsuit

Special to the Guardsman NEWS BRIEF By Kira George kirargeorge@gmail.com A settlement agreement in City College’s 4-year-old lawsuit against the contractor and subcontractors who built the Child Development Center was announced last month. The announcement was made at the Feb. 22 board of trustees meeting by general

Broken boiler shuts down cafeteria

NEWS BRIEF By Victor Tence The Ocean Campus cafeteria in Smith Hall was unexpectedly forced to suspend all food services on Tuesday, Feb. 27 due to an equipment failure that resulted in a lack of hot water in the kitchens. The following day they reopened with a limited menu as

The water leak that never seemed to end

The water leak that never seemed to end

Text and photography by Michael Menaster In December 2017 on the Ocean Campus, an outdoor water leak broke out on the southwest edge of the Multi-Use Building (MUB). What began as a bubbling puddle developed into large areas of standing water that flowed into the MUB parking lot and into

Prop. W funds have yet to reach City College

By Michael Toren More than two months after the end of the Fall 2017 semester, City College has yet to be paid the $4.1 million it says it is owed by San Francisco to subsidize the cost of Free City students. At issue is language in the Memorandum of