Laura from [inaudible] San Francisco. I am glad were at this point and moving ahead and i look forward to the Strategic Planning process. Thank you. Good afternoon supervisors. Candace wong from the child care advisory planning council. I think you summarized it commissioner yee and thanked everyone else but i want it to thank you for your leadership and pulling the folks together and the Mayors Office and all members of the board of supervisors, members in the community and the School District and city departments and everyone to put together a very comprehensive piece of legislation and i think its appropriate that the first action were taken after the 74point 4 passage of this legislation for the initiative that the first action were taking is in support of basically establishing the office of early care and education Citizens Advisory Committee. Its a long time in coming. Its taken more than five or more years i think to get to this point and i think its appropriate that were final
Good afternoon. Welcome to our special rules Committee Meeting for wednesday december 3, 2014. I am supervisor norman yee and chairing this meeting. I am joined by supervisor tang and supervisor campos. The clerk today is alyssa samara. The committee would like to acknowledge the staff of sfg tv. Who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online, so happy post thanksgiving. Madam clerk are there any announcements . Yes, please make sure to silent cell phones and Electronic Devices and speaker cards to be part of the file somebody committed to thed clerk and will be on the december 9 board of supervisors agenda innocence otherwise stated. Okay. Can we have item number one. Item number one is an amendment to amend the administrative code to establish the duties of the office of early care and education and create the office of early care and education Citizens Advisory Committee. Thank you. So let me speak a little bit on this item. Our city establis
Support of the office of ece. Thank you. [calling speaker names] all right. Hi i am santa blackman and the executive director of Childrens Council of San Francisco and the vice chair of cpac and i want to thank the supervisors for their support of prop c and commissioner yee in particular for his leadership on prop c and this trailing legislation establishing the office of early care and education. And i also want to express my appreciation to him for including those in the child care and Early Childhood sector with input as we have been defining how the cac should be constituted and i believe it was a good representation of voices from the community, parents, providers, and people with expertise. Theres one clarification i just want to suggest that we look at and i havent focused on this sort of made my reputation for in this case picking but i want to make sure its not clear in the legislation. For each seat they lose it by no longer being in the status and i think it needs to be cle
So forth to make sure that whatever we ask for in this ordinance that we will be able to accomplish it. The other thing that was asked for amendment was the issue of whether or not the mayors appointment should go through to board confirmation process, and originally when i had put it in there i thought it was a good idea just to bring more bring just highlight the office more, highlight the cac and so forth in a very public way, but after further discussion about this issue and also realizing that that generally speaking for cacs the mayors appointments really doesnt go through the rules committee and after talking to people from there i said okay maybe we could forgo this process and still highlight our efforts. I think maybe it was important for me because this issue is really important for me, so i am always taking trying to find any opportunity to talk about this issue because i dont feel we talk about it enough in this city, so one of the amendments that is not in the package wou
Good afternoon. Welcome to our special rules Committee Meeting for wednesday december 3, 2014. I am supervisor norman yee and chairing this meeting. I am joined by supervisor tang and supervisor campos. The clerk today is alyssa samara. The committee would like to acknowledge the staff of sfg tv. Who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online, so happy post thanksgiving. Madam clerk are there any announcements . Yes, please make sure to silent cell phones and Electronic Devices and speaker cards to be part of the file somebody committed to thed clerk and will be on the december 9 board of supervisors agenda innocence otherwise stated. Okay. Can we have item number one. Item number one is an amendment to amend the administrative code to establish the duties of the office of early care and education and create the office of early care and education Citizens Advisory Committee. Thank you. So let me speak a little bit on this item. Our city establis