San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe board was alerted to Messina\u2019s actions in early September by her executive assistant, Mary Grace Esteban. In a letter to Esteban, Board President Aliya Chisti wrote that CCSF would hire an outside investigator to \u201cconduct a prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation into the allegations,\u201d the San Francisco Chronicle reported.<\/p>\n
Chisti declined a request for comment from Inside Higher Ed, citing employee privacy concerns. Neither Esteban nor Messina responded to a request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to the Chronicle, Esteban alleged that Messina receives a monthly stipend without board approval, collects a salary that \u201cappears to be in excess of the salary approved by the board,\u201d has not properly accounted for her used vacation time, did not send travel requests to the board, mischaracterized payments she made to a former finance official and instructed Esteban to track attendance in an atypical way.<\/p>\n
Esteban also alleged that she was told to use her CCSF credit card to pay for a group lunch for staff, the Chronicle reported. Esteban later relayed the incident to human resources and was told not to use her card for those purposes. Later, the original calendar invitation was changed and Messina reprimanded Esteban, according to the Chronicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Messina\u2019s three-year contract, which included a $350,000 annual salary and $25,000 for relocation, was approved in June 2025. Meeting minutes<\/a> show that after her contract was approved, Messina \u201caddressed the board, expressing gratitude and emphasizing shared goals of caring for students and the community, while acknowledging the importance of accountability in her new role.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City College of San Francisco Chancellor Kimberlee S. Messina allegedly collected more than her board-approved salary of $350,000.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[5676,15,584,8527,1286,100,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-482604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-career","tag-education","tag-events","tag-higher","tag-jobs","tag-news","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}