Of me will not attend. Suzanne giraudo, please. Good afternoon, supervisors to understand a little bit about who i am i have been on the commission, i am a practicing child and adolescent psychologist and i am director of the Child Development center at california Pacific Medical center, were the largest provider of Child Development services in San Francisco and in northern california. Last year, serving, we had over 20 thousand visitors of children in the birth to 18 age range. I have an increased concern with birth to 5 services. Since currently, one in 68 children are now diagnosed on the autism spectrum. At our Pilot Program at nems that we started in july, we screened 2000 children under the age of 5 and 16 of these children were in the high risk range needing further services, assessment and treatment. First five needs to continue the work in both developmental and Mental Health services for kids. What first five has done since developmental and Behavioral Services have signific
Are bigger yet the federal Government Cut 16 of cdbg this year and 20 of our [inaudible] fund, we had to deal with that fact because some people are not going the get their grants. What we did this last month was to take a compelling argument to the mayor and it will come to you hopefully too to backfill that lost funding, its essential to Keep Community development stable because the other option is to cut those critical grants to the ground. I would say that its a critical time to do that because were seeing widening disparities in wealth and it is a time when the federal government is giving back, we have to add more and this is a critical time to do that. We crafted a letter and it was framed around that, supervisor avalos, in a time of prosperity, the last thing we can do is start cutting critical Community Development grants, so unfortunately in so many ways, it falls to local government. That is whats happening at the federal and state level, its a retrenchment that is dishearte
[inaudible]. I also did like hearing from ms. Hall and her experience and i absolutely agree with supervisor avalos and that it could be a great forum for her to learn about how funding decisions are made and how it is that we can better bridge sources to communities that need it. In termser of looking at what this committee does, i know that a lot of the decisions that are made has to do around funding and how you allocate grants, so i do see how mr. Stafford could bring with his background with his strategic planning, background, some value to the community as well and someone who did not appear us before, mr. Loftman, i really liked his background and what he brought to the table. He did reach out to our office and i know he couldnt make it because he was out of the country but hes someone who has expertise in Affordable Housing finance, he works for the oakland housing authority, so i think he brings a good perspective to the committee, so i would have liked to be able to appoint h
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