Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20171206

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 meetings as needed to help us either solve problems or create opportunities in the Early Childhood system. You mentioned earlier in your presentations you talked about how many more children babies and infants are being served and so fourth which is sort of a quantitate tive analysis and and you cant say too much about that so how does this Program Structure really improve and sustain you know highquality education . Thank you supervisor for the question and i think did do that a Short Service and the update so with the infant learning Scholarship Funds weve actually brought best practice programs standards for quality learning and practice and which we developed for the city of preschool for all program and actually to all programs in the cityfunded network 05 and so with that change, there are some programs entered that we know are best practiced observing children using curriculum, for example, that are applied to the programs that are funded through the infanttoddler Early Learning Scholarship Fund but more importantly besides standards are opportunities for growth i am and provement and part of the Early Childhood system in San Francisco is the suite of Training Professional Development, professional learning communities and as well as Financial Assistance and specialized programs and to access Higher Education at the Community College level at city hall in San Francisco state and to bring best practices and childcare homes and the city for example reimburses the cost of College Courses and Child Development for the Early Childhood workforce so with the creation of the infanttoddler Early Learning Scholarship Fund those system of supports are broad end in terms of standards and Training Professional Development opportunities to all programs and professionals working in them 05 and thats a big upside. Speak a little bit about, because quality really involves having a stable workforce and you know, i remember seems like every ten years i have this discussion of what is the turnover rate in your center and oh, we lose 40 of our staff every year. If anybody is a parent, or have taken care of kids, one of the worse things when it comes to quality is having this sort of new face every two months and not having a stable sort of a provider and so we tried to address this decades ago and we keep on improving the way we do this but when we used to have cares and went directly to teachers salaries so we can maybe hopefully retain the educate tive workforce by providing a little bit more money than what they would normally get from when the center can afford how can this program work with that and whats the next us of what used to be and what will be and what impact that really have . Interview thank you for rigs the question about workforce compensation and turnover, the single biggest determine nant in Early Childhood quality of any age is really the consistency and quality of the educator and key to that really is experienced but also compensation and nation wide, the United States has a crisis we experience about a 33 turnover in the Early Education workforce annually and the basis we believe in data systems theyre imperfect and we see lower rates of turnover in San Francisco but still in the 20 range and recruiting, retaining and staffing classrooms is a challenge for us even with programs in place and with were taking a new approach to our past approachs and they were the cares program which were a stipended or bonus outside of regular bay and the see wages programs which were a portion of costs for Teaching Staff or assistance for a set number of problems we see the value of Early Education really being consistency of services and the way to get there is to increase pay and weve taken a new approach with Early Learning scholarships and advise us in San Francisco on a reimbursement rate model that takes in to account compensation so weve moved from specialized programs that are bonus programs so increased reimbursement rates to reflect the cost of personnel single biggest cost in Early Childhood and its 85 of the cost and to increase what programs are earning when they Service Child to more fairly compensate their staff and we have a huge way to go and wages are probably the single challenge in addition to access or cost for parents and the reimbursement rates initiated on july 1st with the infant toddler Early Learning Scholarship Fund in San Francisco are somewhere five and 26 higher than prior years based on the age of the child being served and the setting Family Childcare center o our approach is to sort of flip this script and not have reimbursement rates under and grow that overtime. Theres two things i hear when i talk about the cost of Early Education and care, the comments like this in maybe you could address this and so why 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 addition to compensation is professional development and San Francisco unified Early Education Program Brings best practice and to communitybased programs and collaboration with us and thats a huge value as well. Is it through the Family Research centers were getting professional development and i mean, where the Family Resource centers and also our early infanttoddler Early Learning centers, is this professional development is is it provided basically, i guess my question is that is there an entry that provides over all training and updates and all that stuff . The first five San Francisco are partner in the Early Childhood system is a resource and lead San Franciscos professional Development System for early educators and works in close collaboration with the office and San Francisco unified they have a unified set of strategies, theres city wide training, neighborhood based cohorts, communities beads on needs and interests. And the they do the work for us and for Family Childcare homes, which are a big part of our supply system and directs especially like district 11 we resource a Family Childcare Quality Network which brings coaching and practice to the Family Childcare homes and meets the Business Owner and his or her staff if they have them and where theyre at and helps them identify Quality Improvement goals and helps them set there own goals and meet them so that piece of the system is also there and that is actually held out of our office and stewarted by our resource and referal that work closely with the family sector. Thank you. I dont have any specific questions all my questions were asked and commented on. I want to say thank you supervisor yee for your leadership. Sounds like 40 years at a minimum and this issue is near and dear to my heart as you know , and weve had a lot of conversations about this and we work collectively in the last budget process to ensure there was additional money set aside working with you director jarrett and we appreciate that so anything and everything, the one question i had so anything and everything i can do to support you, you know im here for that and what is the over all amount of this Scholarship Fund . Maybe i missed that . Yeah, theres two pieces, so theres about 18 million of various local sources that go to infanttoddler access to local resources this particular fund created the category 4 fund theres a technical clean up but its capitalizeded at 5. 75 million as of this budget. I was clear with all the sources go to but i worked with a lot of folks in the audience and i appreciate you coming out today as well as yours and i know youve been involved in this issue as well. So thank you for calling this hearing today. Thank you. Thank you to your team for creating this program. I think its going to take us a long ways and im really looking forward to expanding this program and hopefully i have the support of my colleagues in this attempt. I think where we are with infant and toddlers, i can say almost 100 were probably leading the nation already did and wed like to lead the nation but to take them by the hand and make sure they get up to the level where we are but demonstrating that yes, if the federal doesnt chip in and the state doesnt chip in lets do it locally and hopefully, the state will follow suit with a new governor and that will be more supportive of this age bracket and maybe in a few more years when the federal might get turned around and support children that are where they are in investments. Ok. Thank you very much for this and what id like to do is make a motion to table the item. Motion to file. I mean file the item. Great. Great. Without objection we will file this item and in the future we need to call it back up well file this hearing. Thank you. Madam clerk call item number 4. Item number 4 is a hearing to consider a pointing four members to the housing technical Advisory Committee for terms expireing three months after the date the paroleer produces and the economic fee ability analysis and we currently have four seats and four applicants and john, whitney, fernando and shannon way who will require residency waiver. Great. So unless theres any initial comments from Committee Members theres hear from our first speaker, mr. John eberling, please come forward. Good after, im john, and i appreciate your support foray pointment to the second round of this committee to finish the job of updating our inclusionary ordinance to the city and i know the chair is familiar with the work and we want to get it done, thank you. Thank you for your bev tee and your concise application. [laughter] forty years nonprofit Affordable Housing professional. Any questions for mr. Eberling . No. Im make mental against at the end so next speaker well call forward is mr. Fernando marte. Thank you, i am with the council of Community Housing organizations and thank you very much for your consideration for the technical Advisory Committee i did not serve on the first round but i attended most of the meetings so i feel almost as though i was already a part of it. I think it was a very good process the way it was coordinated by the controller and also the followup negotiations that you were involved in and i look forward to being able to work with the set of folks. Thank you very much. Thank you. Any questions . Seeing none. Call of our next applicant. Mr. Whitney jones. Good afternoon supervisors, Whitney Jones the director of housing development. Ive been in chinatown cbc for 25 years and involved in the development of 2500 units of Affordable Housing. Served on the first version of the t. A. C. And look forward to serving on this one. Thank you for your support. Great. Thank you for your concise presentation and application. And the next speaker ms. Shannon way . My name is shannon way and im with a coalition of the hud approved counseling agencies which provides rental and pre purchase as well as foreclosure prevention and counseling and education and our member agencies provide the required home buyer certification for an ownership to purchase an ownership b. M. R. Unit and prior to thats been Successful Program and fryer that i was a realtor for ten years. I appreciate the consideration to be a part of this process and support and moving forward and wrapping up these pieces. Great, thank you. Any questions for ms. Way . Ok. Seeing none. Any members of the public wish to comment on item number 4 please come forward . Seeing none Public Comments closed. And ill just say before we make a motion, i did have the pleasure to work with all four of these members as part of the technical Advisory Committee and negotiations on inclusionary housing and i know ms. Way was not a member of the technical Advisory Committee but being deeply involved in the negotiations foreign conclusion ary housing, im in full support of her application and she did a tremendous job in that process and were reconveneing this body to begin the conversation about the inlieu fee primarily and to have a conversation a little bit further about the possibilitys of restarting or resubmiting ab 915 at the state level and having that conversation about the possibility of capturing the true value of the affordable inclusionary on bonus projects asper as pertained to the state level. This body has been involved in this almost as long as ive been alive but i appreciate your commitment to this because this is an issue that is so important for San Francisco and this is the, i believe the issue that defining issue and the crisis that this city faces so we appreciate your involvement and this and helping to commit to coming up with Real Sound Solutions that fall within the realm of feasibility and also pushing the boundaries of peoples Comfort Level to ensure we get the most value for every day San Francisco. Unless any any member wishes to comment on this entertain. Just a quick comment. I cant believe we have so much experience from the put together they have 100 years worth of experience and im more than happy to make a motion to a point first to as for a waiver, residents see a waiver for shannon way and and in to make a motion with the waiver for john for Whitney Jones for seat two and Fernando Martin for seat 3 and shannon way for seat 4. With a positive recommendation of the full board that item is ordered, congratulation and thank you for your commitment. Madam clerk call item number 5. Item number 5 is the hearing that consider a pointing one member term ending october 21st, 2019, to the local homeless coordinateing board theres one seat and two applicants with the applicants being kelly cutler and john roman. Please come forward. Hi supervisors, my name is kelly cutler im a h