Board backs resolution calling for free San Francisco City College

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors today voted 10-1 in favor of a resolution calling for the city to make enrollment in City College of San Francisco free to residents and city workers… Kim today said that making higher education free was a way to make the city more affordable for residents and strengthen the city’s workforce and middle class… the plan is expected to cost around $12.6 million in its first year. She is proposing to pay for it with a November ballot measure that would raise the transfer tax on all property sales valued at more than $5 million and create a new 3 percent tax bracket for properties worth $25 million or more.

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by Bay City News, KRON 4.

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