Ballot created and Sandee Blechman was chosen, as a current chair of cpac and last year as a chair of our Public Policy committee, i am confident that she will represent cpac and be an asset to the committee. I wanted to note that half of our members of our committee are [inaudible] information shader will reach beyond cpac to our community at large. As i take minutes, these are shared with our lists that are sent out to over 500 people in our community. I thank you for your leadership and the Community Process in developing the office of early care and Education Citizen Advisory Committee and you appointing Sandee Blechman for seat number 9. Thank you, right on the bell. My name is lynn maris, im standing as director of the [inaudible] i wanted to strongly support fonda davidson to be on this committee, fonda has worked with me for the last 8 years but she has been a leader in Early Childhood education for 30 plus years. It is not an accident that fonda dividers and Cross Cultural Fam
A couple things, in terms of whether its appropriate to fund a capital need thats technically in a Enterprise Department with a general obligation i appreciate your acknowledgment that that is something weve done in the past and were planning to do it again in november by having a bond for muni, which is an Enterprise Department. I appreciate that acknowledgment. I guess my question is also, with streetlights, you made a comment about how this has somehow been an issue, but the fact is we have a Capital Asset that happens to be skidding inside the puc and Enterprise Department, but the department has been completely unable to care for this asset. Not because of lack of desire to care for it, but because they have no funds essentially to take care of these beyond a very basic maintenance program. I guess the question is how do we think about that when you have an asset in an Enterprise Department that has just deteriorated. And i would add to that, that i have heard from the puc particu
His commendation. Thank you president chiu. Today i am honoring a special person, michelle rutherford, a friend and advocate of the children of Family Services of San Francisco. Would you like to come up . I met michelle in 1997 when she was asked by our Human Services agency to lead the child Care Planning department. This was created as a offshoot of the welfare reform act, also known as tanf and it was amazing to have phetd met her at that time. As the program manager, michelle had an impressive record of bringing forth Innovative Solutions to whatever shes done. Her experience as a public schoolteacher, which i didnt know about, and social worker and public advocate add tremendous depth in her perspective. Michelle possesses a deep understanding that our youth benefit from having educators and caretakers continue to improve their skills through quality training and trainings. She brings together child care providers, educators, parents and policymakers to achieve common vision and
President of the board is taking part in those discussions, but now its to the board and were hearing about it for the first time and were having a conversation that is probably more appropriate to have in the planning committee. One thing im thinking about is is there a way to build up a structure so we can have these discussions in a place where they really should happen and hear where the board should be finalizing and adding to what should be in a bond. In my district, the issue of lighting the huge. I have very dark streets, i dont have a large commercial corridor that illuminates other parts of the district. Street crime is something thats real. Lighting is one way that we want to get to be able to resolve those issues. Im considering greatly thinking about how we can increase the lighting facilities we have. This could be a good process. Right now, the Capital Planning process is one thats very archaic. Supervisor wiener. Thank you. I just have a few follow up questions. First,
In particular, because i think we have to think about whether streetlights belong in an earthquake safety bond and the fact is, we have not been considering this over the last few years. That being said, if theres a majority of this body that want to think about it over the next week, i understand supervisor wieners motion is to amend it. To give some conversations to this, i think it would be entirely appropriate to think about it. I just have a lot of questions right now about whether this is something we should do at this moment. Thank you. Supervisor avalos. I would like to second the motion brought to us by supervisor wiener. I really welcome the establishment of it, which is done back in 2004, but i think theres a flaw in the process. Mr. Strong talked about the process, five meetings, that they had about discussion about the easter bond, but there was no Feedback Mechanism for the board. I mean, i think the president of the board is taking part in those discussions, but now its