From todays Public Comment you can really appreciate the unmet needs that exist here in our city. You can appreciate all the transitional age youth who came here to speak, to talk about their needs and how urgent they are. And the one point that i wanted to make to you all today because theres been a lot of talk about a phasein with regards to the increase and we do appreciate your consideration for the increase. The one thing that i want to urge you all to do is to not make them wait. Its to make sure that they dont have to wait because their needs exist now. There are families on wait listses for child care now. There are young people on wait lists for the jobs that my Organization Provides right now. I want to urge you to make sure that we dont have to wait because the one thing i want to make sure that we do in addressing these unmet needs and addressing the needs of transitional age youth is we dont rob peter to pay paul, that we make sure the resources that the families and child
So, what we do is we really emphasize that when youre developing, your Development Skills a cooking class can teach math skills. A volleyball game can teach english language skills. So, the emphasis really is on how do we how do we create environments where students have opportunities to develop their minds and their thinking skills, their problem solving skills. We can do that in a lot of enrichment activities. So, thats where were really looking at how there is co herence. Thank you. Supervisor mar in kevin trueth mentioned of the tollal excel funding there is [speaker not understood] funding in dcyf matching funds. Im wondering if the childrens amendment is strongly supported by the voters in november, how much additional funds might come in and if it goes up to 4 cents per 100 of assessed value, you know what that dcyf matching funds how much it would increase . Well, number one, if it doesnt increase up to 4 cents at that point i think the estimate is somewhere to the tunes of 14
Do you have Small Business from the Mental Health commission. We dont have dr. Sandra in the Child Division its more about Child Development i dont think we do in that way. Okay. Thank you. Any other pbts seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Heres another one we have qualified people and only two seats open. As you know, i was on the first 5 commissioner years and years and years ago. And i know that a good composition of the commission can really make a difference. And one of the pieces that i do care of k care about it the Mental Health piece because so much of what we did in the Early Education prior to the consultant we didnt have Mental Health and we knew i know first hand that we having centers in protecting areas like chinatown and tenderloin that we were in desperate need of having professionals in Mental Health that understood zero to 5. And that connection that we have now i really want to remain retain that so heres my preference i want to Mental Health worker in there and
Needs that exist here in our city. You can appreciate all the transitional age youth who came here to speak, to talk about their needs and how urgent they are. And the one point that i wanted to make to you all today because theres been a lot of talk about a phasein with regards to the increase and we do appreciate your consideration for the increase. The one thing that i want to urge you all to do is to not make them wait. Its to make sure that they dont have to wait because their needs exist now. There are families on wait listses for child care now. There are young people on wait lists for the jobs that my Organization Provides right now. I want to urge you to make sure that we dont have to wait because the one thing i want to make sure that we do in addressing these unmet needs and addressing the needs of transitional age youth is we dont rob peter to pay paul, that we make sure the resources that the families and children of this city deserve are there and available for them to pr
To invest in highquality improvement efforts and professional development. I wasnt going to say this. Forgive me, barbara. I love that were investing in our Young Children and in child care and [speaker not understood] care, but if we wanted to be an even greater city, we would need a targeted universal Home Visiting program, targeted universal health and developmental screening program, additional implemental subsidies that include middle lowincome and middle income families and equality Improvement Initiative that build on the lessons we learn from pfa and state quality [speaker not understood]. So, thank you. Thank you, ms. Kumar. Good afternoon, supervisors. Im Barbara Carlson and im the director of the office of early current education and to supplement what laurel said, while Early Education opportunities have improved tremendously for the citys 4 year olds, significant opportunity gaps still remain for children aged 0 to 3. Were hlsd the legislation addresses those issues ~. If