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Children hospital oakland and [inaudible] try to as a consortium and group address the issues of increased developmental needs within the city and county particularly. I feel that i have the experience in history to continue to work with the challenges in support of kids and families within the city and county. First five is really essential to our city, not only to support children and families in their services but through various programs and platforms such as the frcs that we work diligently with and are always looking to expand the services. My other concern with the number of kids and fa...

[inaudible]. I also did like hearing from ms. Hall and her experience and i absolutely agree with supervisor avalos and that it could be a great forum for her to learn about how funding decisions are made and how it is that we can better bridge sources to communities that need it. In termser of looking at what this committee does, i know that a lot of the decisions that are made has to do around funding and how you allocate grants, so i do see how mr. Stafford could bring with his background with his strategic planning, background, some value to the community as well and someone who did not ap...

Position. When the board of supervisors created the position they put restrictions on what i could work on and do. If the board of supervisors would simply lift the restrictions i could do all of the items that the executive officer currently does. Once again the Clerks Office did check into this and they determined my base position can do all work that an executive officer of this body would be working on. Not necessarily of any commission but the work that this commission does and do all of that work. You wouldnt have to go through dhr at all and as far as theyre concerned by position is cov...

It up to Public Comment. Good afternoon again commissioners. Eric brook representing San Francisco green party and the local organization our city. First a technical point on all of this. I was under the impression and check with dhr on this that the executive position still exists but filled on an interim basis. Maybe i am wrong on that but good to make sure youre correct on that from the staffs perspective. I agree bringing it back in house because the next year is going to be really big for clean power sf and some other things and we need somebody that can be available five days a week, 50 ...

I just want to make sure that we have that discussion, so with that i will open it up to my colleagues. Commissioner avalos. Thank you chair campos. I would like to see it brought in house and i think a process for going through that. I think its important that when we have a position open up and go through a search as part of it. I think thats just the process i feel most comfortable with overall all, but thats the i talked about that a lot last year when we had major openings in the mta, in other departments in the city that its important that we just dont approve people, but we actually hav...