My name is Sabrina Fernandez business representative and ibew local secured im here to support the nomination of joel koppel for the Planning Commission. I want to also want to express my gratitude to the mayor for putting his name forth. I hope that you three will take his name forward to the full board. Theres been a lot of interesting and thoughtful comments today about joel and i think the welldeserved. Budgets from three gem proceeded me here at the podium but from all of you in terms your understanding of what the city needs in terms of if your commission. I think joel will round out the commission. Im going to share with you couple of things about joel probably others will not share. I worked in working with him very closely. In fact his office is next to mine at the local union. He is very dedicated hardworking individual. He goes the extra mile. As he said, he knows the hours and responsibilities that it is to be an effective Planning Commissioner. I will testify here for supervisor cohen i seen his work was in their wellworn. He is all the [inaudible] and will spend time out on his job to the does that as part of his job right now. Also one of things he did i mention hes a Founding Member of the committee on our citizenry task force on upcoming industries, cuttingedge technology for the industry. Hes very well is informed as to the issues regarding sustainability when it comes to the development and is a member of the San Francisco electrical workers minority caucus i can tell you what is not doing his day job is not on jobs looking in the interest of the Planning Commission, when hes not the Planning Commission meetings he will be on weekends and will Community Housing buildings in chinatown installing smoke detectors. He will be working in Committee Service with the many things but coworkers in the minority caucus does in volunteering our efforts and skills to the community. He will be continuing to be a great mentor to the members of our organization did i fully appreciate listening to my comments and i hope you for his name on to the full board. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. Laborers 5200 men and women in San Francisco marin and san mateo and his love for the 40,000 more than cultural. [inaudible] cannot be here today but am speaking on behalf of their behalf in favor of you moving the appointment of joel koppel four. We learned that obviously sabrina and kevin that the electrician is a Classy Organization that its been around for over 100 years. Its not often we stand together in total agreement but today delivers do. The reason that we stated it was because joel has demonstrated that hes a fossil , smart, engaged savvy person. To your point supervisor cohen, you do have to give the people the time. If to engage them. You have to listen to them enough to walk the site. To commit to this worker its already commitment just vehicles meeting. Journal is the kind of person is been a diving in and make a commitment to all of San Francisco. Im honored to just call him a brother and colleague and is without any reservation that we urge you strongly to move this forward. Thank you thank you commission. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. Can cleveland represented building owners and Managers Association commercial Real Estate Property owners and developers. I met joel several years ago when among personal and professional level. I think hell be a very fair and inclusive Planning Commission. Fossil did everything thats been said with his afternoon i was second that. Hes a good person. Hes a man of integrity. I think we need him on the Planning Commission and i appreciate the mayor 14 his name to you and appreciate him stepping up to the plate because beating a Planning Commissioner is no picnic. It is one Hard Commission to serve on. Overall for general Business Community and the Labor Community for somebody with his perspective and his experience and his fairness being appointed. So i urge you to support that. Thank you thank you. Next speaker, please. Eddie in support of joel koppel. Among other things commitment to the southeast has not gone unnoticed. We also appreciate the continued engagement of labor and local hiring as well. In the most actually with supervisor mar comments but Just Transition to a new economy and how that basically beads to three principles weve always believed guideline. Building green ensure the best practices are brought forward and building it will with hyvee garble building for community which is first and foremost identified by the supervisors in this committee thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Local 38 plumbers union. Joe told me earlier you do not need me to speak but i feel like i need to get up here just say a few words. The Building Trades is not have a representative on the Planning Commission since the godlike kevin hughes. [laughing] we think its important that we do have some and on their and truthfully, i cannot think of a better pick than jewel within the Building Trades. He is more than qualified and i think youll be godlike one day, two. So thank you for your consideration next speaker, please. High expectations. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is having your local 216. We are here to support our brother. Again already mentioned so much about him. We support that and not only that the kind person that he is. Its hard to see often. One of the things i believe in luck but i also believe in ability of a person. Hes able to do the work. Hes one of those people. That is able to do quite a bit of work. Please, support him. Give him the spot. Thank you thank you. Would you like me to have everyone stand in support the what i see they have come on that. Dd, if you like to plan to our audience . Thank you for being here again. Next speaker of current Planning Commissioner. Not that i need to add to much more singing tools prices but i cannot be more delighted to jolt nominated to me by fellow clinic commissioner i met joel couple years ago when i start on the commission could we had a great relationship even though we dont agree on everything did when i talked to told upgrade complete city and the need to balance jobs housing, business and arts and nonprofit he gets it. His can have a steep learning could but i look forward to serving with him. I just want to add my support. I know we were on Public Comment but i support her as well. Emacs thank you very much for being here commissioner richards. Any of the numbers of the public that was to speak on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] supervisor mar i like to move that we support joel koppel for the Planning Commission and that is been moved to the full board as a Committee Report for consideration on september 13, 2016 moved and seconded. The mets are you ready for this . Without objection. Congratulations. [gavel] [applause] mr. Clerk item 9, please item number nine, [reading ordinance] mdm. Chairman i like to note the agenda erroneously under vacancy number 12 supervisor that should be president of the board i was wondering if we had a 12 supervisor here. Thank you for being so patient here with us today during our long the rules committee meeting. We have two seeds two applicants is our clerk statement with beverly and i apologize if i mispronounce the last name pelican and if you want, and make your presentations. There will wait for the room to quiet down as well. Thank you, you may proceed a good afternoon, supervisors, on thatand i am the executive director for c5 children school. We located into facilities in this neighborhood right across mcallister street. In the state building. At the sf puc building. I feel very privileged to have for our program to be selected to be the operator of the sf puc because it is a very forward thinking and operating organization and it is been a real pleasure to have been there for four years. I could go before the Commission One of their Commission Meetings back in april 2012 when we were being approved for being selected to be the operator. So, was very informative and kind of interesting to me to see Office Activities of appointing the commissioners and the detailed information of course i did not have at that time. We serve about 150 children from infants off to kindergarten age. We are a nonprofit with the board of directors. Our organization was established about 31 years ago in the California State Building for Public Utilities commission by a group of employees who were parents there. That center operated for a number of years and then when we took over the building for the sf puc because that center. So we still continue to have two centers. I believe that my diverse background in educational management, my rich life experiences, the insights ive gained qualify me for being on the Planning Commission. Well, see back not quite as doesnt have it is important commission or advisory committee. I have attended those meetings for a number of years very faithfully and know and appreciate having a lot of colleagues that i work with to be a place where i think a lot of very positive and very good work is being done in San Francisco and my desire is to participate in a little more official manner. My overarching goal would be to work on creating an even more outstanding system of early care and education that serves all children and families in San Francisco. We are on the right path. We have a good system. Its just this a lot more to do. In order to be able to serve all children in San Francisco. I believe that my experience in government and in Public Education particularly including programs like head start provide me some insight and also we are program right now is recognized as an example or a program with conference of learning and development for children and i have a real passion for this. So, my hope is to in some smaller ways is to continue to need more families needs in the city of San Francisco to expand the number of businesses, business kinds of contacts and engagement with business in relation to early parent education. To develop new and diverse sources of funding, to address the need that is there for middle income families for care. I get calls every day for children, families wanted to the children in and just because of the high cost of doing business is not just in San Francisco but its everywhere for early care, and theyre being very little support. I mean there are supports and were very appreciative of that but to give you an example, we can provide about 10 of our population the some sort of scholarship. Thats about 15 children a year. And were talking about a difference per month in what any kind of subsidy of what parents can pay and our tuition is somewhere between 67, 800 depending on the age of the child. So, there still many people in San Francisco who dont have access to quality early care and education. I want to work on issues to improve the pay for people in early childhood. We work really hard. We go to school we get degrees and yet, that supports and being seen as a group of professionals is still lacking within our society. Were all very knowledgeable about that but one of the things we are working on in San Francisco is getting paid to be equitable to say Public School teachers are comparable to that. So that is important. I also just want to continue the collaboration that ive had, the opportunity to enjoy not in an official capacity with all my colleagues on seatac c pack so you appointed to that commission, i hope to bring innovation. I really want to work with businesses. I think that now is the time for us to grab hold of all the wonderful opportunities of the developments and the changes that are going on in San Francisco and applied that to how we can better serve families in terms of early care and education. Weve got to have it there within your talking today. Weve listened to all of the kinds of jobs that people do. People all parents, all people need to go to work everyday so they can contribute to the economy and that is what we are in the business for improving that situation. So, thank you thank you very much for your thorough presentation. We have any questions or comments from committee . Supervisor cohen tmax i did have a few questions but your presentation answered all of them. Thats probably one of the benefits of sitting in front of hours of other testimony but im excited. To see what you do. On the child Care Planning advisory council. They could. Supervisor mar i do want to say i think you have a great addition to see that. Could you talk briefly Young Children with special needs and disabilities because i know you had that experience as a mom also teaching and i like that you been a teacher at the high school level, administrator in a number of districts but specifically for cpack do we do enough to identify special needs early on and as a system. From birthfive even k12 system to we do enough and what can we doing in cback to me that those kids and families . I think we do a good job good i dont is ever enough. I think we always can improve. I think San Francisco has a good system for identifying in my experience of being at cfive weve had children who have acquired special interventions and ive been impressed and even more impressed over the last few years because the services, both with some of the Early Intervention now with the School District had been very good. So, speaking from a parental point of view, many years ago, children with disabilities were not entitled to attend school. So i think weve made tremendous progress in that area. I think we always have to keep looking at it because things change and if we can always keep changing with thatand to make sure that we are looking at children with special needs and i really love the terminology that is used in some of the schools in italy and is children with special rights. So that children all children have special rights but those children and particularly their parents who are under a lot of giraffes and coping with the situation. Thank you thank you very much. So at this time we will move on to grant dobson could good afternoon supervisor. Was it good evening . Im not sure. Im grant dobson and am currently working at the San Francisco office of care and education. I looked i oversee the Public Policy and legislation aspect of the work that. Also do a lot of work around the facilities in child care and Early Education facilities and that the city. Look at the Development Impact fees and use of those increasing access in building new programs and new sites around the city with Public Housing working with many departments, working with various other departments in the city. Around expanding childcare and Early Education opportunities throughout the city. Ive been involved with cpack for 10 years because prior to the best job i was the c have impact coordinator. Full circle for me to those on the other side of the fence supporting the work that c has impacted as a sappers in and out i would be seeing it from the other side good im kind of excited to have the opportunity to be a member of cpack a Senior Member of feedback and be able to vote and contribute in that way. To the work that cpack does. Before i joined the city 10 years ago i worked at the Tenderloin Childcare Center which is no Compass Children Center in the tenderloin. Work there for 13 years. Of the teacher in the classroom and i was a director or administrator and i bring that perspective to the work i carried on to the city as a provider as an educator myself. So, i feel like i straddled those two roles during my career. Currently, the office of the ece is charged with implementing the citywide plan early care and education after proposition c was passed in 2014. We are charged with a looking at the Lincoln Education for 05yearolds with all the city funding thats available. We are very lucky in San Francisco we have tremendous local investment in ece. So, i think what i bring is a Public Agency representative on cpack am able to work with the committee base members that providers for parents listening to the other voices a part of c have contact and shared mission and goals throughout the city both from the Public Agency side and the