Okay. Very good thank you madam clerk if you canplease call item 1 item 1 is hearing to consider finding one maybe [inaudible] children youth and families over site and Advisory Committee. There is one saet and 7 applicants. Great, 1 seat 7 applicants. We look at this as a challenging exercise how we find one qualified candidate out of several qualified can dts for one seat but well do our best. We had a number of people who presented before and may be here. Why dont we go down the list. First up is molly words. If each candidate wants to share a couple minutes of their interest in the seat and what they would like to accomplish on the seat. My name is molly [inaudible] and i am a person who grewp in San Francisco and currently live in San Francisco and the executive director of a organization called, raising a reader, which operates in the 3 county San Francisco alameda and con trucasta county. Im thrilled the childcare planning and Advisory Counsel put forward my name to serve on the over site and advisory cancel for children and Youth Programs. I have years of experience in education, in youth development, Youth Workforce Development and Building Community coalition arounds youth outcome. I worked at united way for several years managing children and Youth Programs and making grants to organizations in the bay area and for the last several years have been the foundsing exectival director of raising a reader in the bay area. My experience spans in working with children and youth in their families from birth now through young adulthood. I also have experience working on collaboration and Capacity Building for organizations and knroe the roll of the oversight and Advisory Committee is not just about manpageing the resources of the department of children youth and families i making sure those are spents on the most pressing needs fl youth in San Francisco, but that also that that Committee Works with the Service Provider working group, which i think is a critical part of the legislation in which im really excited about. In my experience you need the whole community to Work Together to keep an eye on the current needs so im proud to serve isthis capacity. Thank you and thank you for your work with raising a reader, great organization. I have done in the past a little work with them but most of all with having 2 kids reading is like one of the big est thijs we do as a family. It is amazing how it helped with my Kids Development in so many ways so thank you for your work on that. No other questions from the committee we can go to the next applicant, thank you. Thank you patricia seeingal. She was here and presented before. Gretchen aims. Gretchen. Good morning. Hello again. I spoke last time about my qualifications. Just want to say i respect whatever decision you make, i know it is a difficult decision, there are lot of applicants. Im interested in serving on the commit a because Early Childhood is a little underrepresented [inaudible] and not as much of a priority area financially yet that is where the children start. Knroe there a lot of us here to compete for this one position, im happy with the choice you make but one thing that may set me aside is im a passionate advocate for children and youth having worked with youth and teacher squz families director. I bring a great deal of sus temiccology and studying to get my doctorate at mills call squj teaching at San Francisco straight state. There are teachers in my classroom at state and one thing im hopeful about if i were seated on the position or the committee is i could use my civic participation to model for my students at state and show how government is working and use that as a learning tuntd as well. I know Authority Candidates are qualified but that is something that is maybe a little different about me. Thank you very much. Okay, next up i think tracey brown is not going be here today. Let rr go on to luis [inaudible] good morning supervisors. Good morning supervisor kate tang and john avalos. What i bring to had table is awareness of [inaudible] today in most of the communities many youth and children families are it was a difficult challenge to back3 4 f1 to the community my fathers was modered. I was thankful to receive the [inaudible] in the past i helped me become the man who i am today, completing the masters degree at the university of San Francisco. My undergrad is child psychology understanding the impact of Program Youth and violence. I think it is a important topic to be addressed is that voice or those victims of crime is not somehow not being brought to the committee. It is something that needs a lot of awareness and education. I also want to talk about the residency waver that i see on the agenda. I didnt leave San Francisco by choice. Im ainate native san franciscan and born and raised in San Francisco, unfochinately i cant live in San Francisco. We see that a lotf w xhern and youth and families having to migrate to other counties because they cant afford to live in San Francisco. That impacts the youth and the way they identify themselves. Are they seen as san franciscans or are there waver forms they have to go through to feel like they raback home. I commute every day to San Francisco for hour. [inaudible] i invest time in San Francisco by attending the university and schools and work for the district attorneys office. If given the opportunity ill work hard i be a strong voice for those victims of vimes as i see myself as a survivor, what neighborhoods have you lived in San Francisco . I grew up in the mission and hung out at park and rec on [inaudible] they used to have a boxing club. My son hangs out at the youth program. At one point i would catch the 54 and 9 to bay view and come back to the mission district. Grew up on army street, but hung out at [inaudible] my focus has never been on the specific district. I worked at the boys and girls club at [inaudible] i worked there for 5 years. The kids come down to escape the violence. Im fochinate and interview these young mens who are victimoffs crime not becoming pertrairts of crime so i see both asspects. Im a conflict mediator and [inaudible] victims offender dialogue so see if we can find [inaudible] between those 2 communities. Thank you. Next up, andy tang. [inaudible] supervisors. Thank you for this honor to present in front of you for the seat for the dcyf over site and Advisory Committee. As someone who has spent 21 years in the [inaudible] complex, i know the first hand of the detrimental pipeline from the immigration to the school to the prison and deportation pipeline. I expand [inaudible] but what i found myself is that when i got my education. When i was able to learn how to read and write and got my ged and College Degree in prison it created a opportunity for me to accept the responsibility fl my action squz have remorse for my victims and the harm i committed to family and victims. As a rument i decided to dedicate my life to serve as youth children z families so they dont have to fall in the same steps or fall through the cracks like i did as a immigrant to the country. Since 2007 i have been worked in Community Youth center of San Francisco starting as [inaudible] and a case manager. Now, i am a project director for Community Youth center and luckily i move forward for the [inaudible] throughout the years i have been working in the city of San Francisco. I serve the most vulnerable population not only for the asian population but for all population in the city of San Francisco dealing with violence prevention i street outreach and dealing with services for the perpetrator as well as the victim. I gonet how many times i went to General Hospital to help victims identify bodies or how many funerals for the African Americans shot down due to thoracism we still experience today. I dont know how many times i talk to the families and parents who lost the son squz daughters and they are crying for a systematic change. Dcys is a organization that is the leading for efront to help support the children youth and families to insure everyone in San Francisco to be able to provide the Necessary Services they need and continue of service that they need. So, as someone who has come up as a immigrants all the way to right now to dedicate my life to service of youth y have the experience and ecperatize to be able to be on this committee and the reez is because im a visionary. I have the vision of creating a Branch Office in the bay view Hunters Point because of the lack of services to the [inaudible] and also there is tension between African American and asian communities so as a result i want to create a program to promote racial harmony by creating multiyouth Leadership Programs and second, work with partners on the grass root level and Community Based organization of Law Enforcement to create the culture programs to celebrate culture as a means to celebrate culture. I created [inaudible] to allow residence to learn about everyones cultures and identity so they can live next to each other. I also created the bay view youth summit. For the last 4 years the young people have youth driven [inaudible] to talk about issues that directly impacted them. I created the api [inaudible] in the city of San Francisco where api organizations be able to engage childrens and families to come together and talk about cultural comitant needs and challenges they experience qu the main stream media doesnt know or main street population dont know. Out of the 58 thousand people in the city of San Francisco, 45 percent of the asian population are in the ucsf School District and 33 percent are participants in the dcyf budget so we see we have to have representation from the asian population to be able to provide that cultural [inaudible] to continue to support the vision of dcyf. If i get appointed i would bring 3 thing tooz the committee, number 1, you have unwavering commitment to be able to work with people to insure there is a continuous service. Number 2, i bring my experience as someone as a immigrant all the way to a Service Provider to be able to engage not only the api population but all communities in the city of San Francisco. Number flee, the relationship i built over the years is something that you cannot just ask anyone to come to the city of San Francisco, you cannot just build that in a year or 2, but what is importance is i have frust from the community and demonstrate myself. I think i am a qualified candidate for the position. I think that were thorough and appreciate your service in San Francisco and think you have great things to bring to the body as do all the other applicants here. Next up is ingred [inaudible] good morning supervisors. My name is ingred [inaudible] and im here to give background as to why i want to be on the dcyf oversight and Advisory Committee and know you have a hard choice this morning because you have talented and qualified can dts for this one seat. People like molly [inaudible] who works tirelessly on raising a reader. I respect the fact that you have a tough choice, but i give you a little background, i live in the Outer Mission and i currently oversee pr scol for all at first 5 San Francisco. First i could be considered a native of San Francisco. I was born in elsal vudor and came to the country when i was 3. I attended pr school in the mission along with my parents who actually had esl classes in [inaudible] community center. 2 decades later i came back and directed the same preSchool Program i attended, Head Start Program and yfs able to gain so much knowledge and experience working in back in my community and this is where i believe i had a epuffany of working with children and families, especially immigrant families and being laser focused on racial justice. The first in the nation funded by local funds and so now 10 years later the preschool initiative serves over 4 thousand children impt i am a key architect for the city [inaudible] as well as the states qualityerating and improvement system. Like many can dts here im also a fearless champion for children, but spingely for children of color and immigrant children because these are the vulnerable populations we know they have least access to high quality Early Learning experiences mpt im also a clab rairth. I believe in collective impact and think this sth way of the fuch squr the only way we can get our best thinking, a collective thinking to tackle societies difficult challenges. This is the only way how we can create the most impact around our fundsing decisions and our policies. I always looked for partnerships especially in communities where we know we would have the most impact and that is communities of color. To attest to that, every Head Start Program and every state pr School Program participates in proschool for all which is a testament that the vulnerable and low income children are participating in learning programs. When i started at first 5 we had a low percentage of preschool children among African American and latino and now we have 80 percent attending high quality preschool and being laser focused on the most vulnerable population is how we advance mptd these are a few examples why my commitment and my passion towards this work and anything i do i do it heart and i know i can bring unique contsbution tooz the committee. Im committed to our children. I want every child especially those most in need to have access to high quality experiences beginning at birth and now with prop c going all the way through age 24, which is wonderful in terms of providing wrap around service. This work is personal to me. I grew up in the mission and live in the Outer Mission and have 2 full grown daughters. They are wonderful and talented but i was also a single parent and they are these amazing [inaudible] that im very proud of. Now i have 2 incredible grand daughters im proud of. I know i can lend this perspective and experience and able to contribute to the Oversight Committee. This is the voice that i would lend to the group, so thank you. Thank you very much. So, there are no other applicants for the seat so we can open the up to public comment. [inaudible] hi, im Sandy Blackman and the executive director of childrens counsel and the chair of c pack in 2015 and so im here to urge you to appoint somebody who has experience and deep knowledge and experience working with families with Young Children in San Francisco. When we heardwhen we went through the hearing for seat ton, the first time you chose alson suzuki who brought that perspective and there are 3 aket percent of 018 year olds or 0 5 think it is important perspective to bring to the Oversight Committee and there are at least 4 qualified can dts in the group that you are considering who bring that expertise and experience. Ingred who you heard from, maly [inaudible] gretchen and patty seeingal. Who want to take one brief moment to just talk about patty seeingal and express her disappointment she wasnt able to be here today due to illness and remind you patty soolife long advocate for children and families having founded childrens counsel or childcare switch board is a first child Care Resource [inaudible] someone who got funding under jer a brown in the First Administration to create that across the state. Create childCare Resource and referl across the state. She is a life time advoqut for families and childrens and would very much like to serve on this committee if appointed. So thank you very much. Thank you. We have been here before. My name is molly brown and director with gnaw [inaudible] and the coach for the children and youth fundsing coalition. Thank you for your patient and consideration and persistence throughout the process. We have 5 nominees before you and let you know we endorse all 5. We think they bring a lot of tal tonight the table and your task is to try and find the right balance of candidates. I want to remind who we endorsed and that is gretchen [inaudible] we think they represent the best of what the city has to offer and would appreciate your support. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. [inaudible] work with children for [inaudible] i had a little girl that learned to clean walls and clean dishes and cook and she was only 1 years old when she did that and [inaudible] foster mother. The paperwork that they want me to do, they can read so they didnt consider that so that was in 1983. I love children and [inaudible] and sing songs. [inaudible] i want to know if i can try to get [inaudible] for some of these projects to help out with children. [inaudible] different angles in expressions with children and people that are not [inaudible] with children. They have to remind them what type of person they are and talk to the children about how the organization is and how they explained it to other people so you know exactly what to say in [inaudible] and how they [inaudible] and their expressions and this is very important with dogs and animals and trees and [inaudible] thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is [inaudible] executive director of Community Youth center of San Francisco and the Committee Member for the api counsel. I speak in support of [inaudible] for seat 10 position on the dcy oversight council. I have known [inaudible] and i met him in [inaudible] bringing his group up young asian and [inaudible] visit a program called ed squire and he is the only one that is bilingual and [inaudible] about if they make any wrong choices they will walk down the same path as him. We ask to keep the communication and witness his dedication and [inaudible] when he was released in 2007 and hired him as a outreach worker for Committee Response network for Asian Pacific islander committee. [inaudible] he works 9 to 5 and 9 or 24 7 to help out families and definitely i will see him a big loss for leaving dyc as the project director [inaudible] had however he will be in a different position and [inaudible] for the national highlight and continue the work [inaudible] great asset to serve for the city and county of San Francisco as the dcy oversight Advisory Counsel. Thank you thank you very much. Next speaker. My name is [inaudible] the organizer of [inaudible] i believe all the applicants are very well qualified. I know 3 of them, patty seeingal, [inaudible] gretchen aims, but we can only support one person so today im here to speak on behalf of patty seeingal and sad she can not be here. It is very difficult to get a doctors appointment. I have known patty for 20 year jz the founder of the organization i work for, parent voices and i wirk with parents with Young Children moving from welfare to work and the edge patty gives you is she is just retired so can give 100 percent time. I know the others here are very well committed but that is the edge patty gives and patty has proven just how capable she is in representing the low income families. Parents love here. I have a petition here. I think i providing a copy to supervisor avaloss office and letters from parents and will give it to you. Patty is a retired grandparent and she has dedicated more than 40 years of her life speaking for Young Children needing childcare. Children can not speak for them sevl squz we should look at the committee and see where we need the representation