Thank you for your leadership. [applause] from the board of supervisors, president aaron peskin, supervisor myrna melgar, supervisor rafael mandelman. Thank you for being here. [applause] i would like to recognize our police commissioners, commissioner walker, commissioner yee and commissioner benedicto. Thank you commissioners. [applause] i would like to also recognize the mayors chief of staff, shawn elseburn and also i like to thank from the mayors team, ivy lee and martha for making sure everything is perfect. [applause] thank you martha for getting us all organized. I see in the crowd as well, rodney fraung from the chamber of commerce, thank you rodney for all your support. What is exciting about this ceremony every quarter is the list of sponsors continues to grow and we cannot have this event unless we have sponsors willing to step up and support us. First i like to start out with the bxp team. Steve colvin, rod dale, of course our former chief of police greg sur and deputy chi
you please call items 6 and 7 together. clerk: item 6, seek final approval on first appearance, audit report for the fiscal year ended june 30, 2019. item 7, internal accounting report for the six months ending sept 1 seember 1, 2019. thank you, chair haney, for allowing me to present this. the report for 2019, it was a clean audit. they had no recommendations or adjustments. this item is up for action. i d also like to present the quarterly financial statements for the six months ending december 31, 2018. in terms of revenues, we have collected $1.2 million of revenues for grant funded sources for timma. we have also incurred $383,000 for expenditures for the first six months. both amounts are within the timma budget, and with that, i m happy to answer any questions. and item number 6 is an action item, item 7 is an info item. chair haney: great. thank you. any questions or comments from colleagues? seeing none, any members of the public that would like to speak on c
Then lastly, we all know that research that the money we invest in our young kids is basically pays humongous dividends at the end of the day. The last person that gave Public Comments asked a question, did you get to hear that . I think you have answers for that, would you like to address the issue of how do you monitor this business of these programs . Interview thank you supervisor. Again director of the office early care and education and in response to the question what committees are oversight do we have for this work of oec generally and im pleased to say we have a ninemember Citizens Advisory Committee seated half by the mayor and half by the board of supervisors of qualified parents and practitioners to help advise our work and provide accountability and Program Improvements for the City Investments and Early Childhood to make sure that theyre working as well as they can for both parents and programs. They meet by monthly and where data informed and also advise outside of meet
Due just have more kids when you have the teacher, like some afternoon programs in the past depending on the structure you could have 30, 50 kids it doesnt matter and so that could lower the cost and just charge the parents more. Right, followup on the question, first it has to do with the ratio of the number of educators to children and talk about quality, thats a really important component of quality to have the right level of supervision and support at a health and safety measure and also the level support to facilitate learning to be september 11th. We support the handful very small number of facilities that have infant toddler care and i believe it to be two and we support that work and theyre primarily a preschool provider given the way they organize the history but they do support infant and toddler care toddlers and some of their classrooms and theyre part of our system and they receive city funding and they are also great contribute ors and that question about quality in addit
Increasing the numbers that we serve, the facilities will be there. And today i would ask for a continuance of this particular item. It was my fault that it was confusing where things were at. The initiative was presented by signatures and with this one. First i want to recognize ivy lee from supervisor kims office. I just wanted to give you an opportunity also to present on behalf of supervisor kim who couldnt be with us today but is also the lead sponsor on this initiative. Thank you so much, chair cohen. And thank you, supervisors, for your time today on this issue. You know, i just want to speak from a very personal point of view. About this measure. I have three kids of my own. And victory and i were both nonprofit attorneys. We made 90,000 between the two of us and we had three kids all in child care at the same time. It was a real struggle. And it was a part of it was part of the reason that i gave up work for about three years in other words to take care of the kids because my