Good morning today is july 23, 2015. Welcome to rules committee of San Francisco board of supervisors. My name is john avalos joined byicatey tang and to my left by mu lia cohen. The clerk is [inaudible] todays rules committee is graud cast by sfgtv staff. Thank you for your service. Madam clerk can you share your announcements please silence cell phone squz electroning devices. Complete speaker cards [inaudible] will be on sept 8. 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