Attenance and Public Comment still providing Remote Access via telephoneism the board recognize the equitable Public Access is essential and taken Public Comment as follows first Public Comment will be taken on each item on this agenda. Those attended in person are allowed to speak first and then well take those who are waiting on the telephone line. For those watching channel 26, 28, 78 or 99, and sfgovtv the call in number is streaming across the screen. The number is 4156550001. Then enter meeting id24950 ath 03athy 49 then press and pound again. Connected you hear a etmooing discussion but you are muted squl and listening moted. When item comes up those joining in person should line up to speak and on the telephone dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. If you are on the telephone please remember to turn down the tv and all listening devices. As indicated we will take pubplic comment in person and go to the telephone linem you may submit in writing email to myself the rules Committee Clerk at inaudible at it will be forwarded to the supervisor jz included as part of the official file. You may also send written comment by u. S. Postal service to our office at city hall Carlton B Goodlett place, r5078 244 San Francisco california 94102. Arrangements have bip made to chinese interpretation and i would like to differ to agnus inaudible to provide announcement in chinese. [speaking chinese] thank you mr. Clerk. That completes our initial announcements. Thank you. Could you please read the first item . Yes, item 1 motion finding Tiffany Carter proposal to apply for grants and contracts administered by it office of economic Work Force Development and seek assistance from oewd related to the growth of the restaurant she owns and benefit the mission of sf block wall street and black wall Street Foundation are not incompatible with the activities of the Small Business commission she is a member subject to conditions. At the last meeting we made a slight amendment which required a one week continuance, otherwise nothing changed and i do not have additional amendments. Any members of the public when would like to testify on item number 1 . Yes, members of the public who wish to speak and in person can line up to speak at this time. For thoest listening remote ly call 4156550001 and enter meeting idea and pound and pound again. Once connected press star 3 to enter the speaker line. Those in the queue please wait until the system states you run muted. We do not have anyone in person. We have two people on the line for Public Comment. Can we have the first caller, please . So, supervisors the last time i spoke on this item and the only thing i have to say is that, the candidate when i attendeded the Small Business commission seems not to be very informed on what really is happening in our city, and i am literallythis candidate has been chosen because of her close connection to the politician. Maybe the mayor or some other politician and we need better candidates on the Small Business commission to represent san franciscans. I understand that thes convoluted inaudible determination regarding statement of activities is something that i havent seen before, and it is such inaudible muddy the waters. Thank you very much. Thank you. Can we have our next caller . Next item. Sorry about that. Sorry, we did notcould you repeat yourself please . Okay. They want to speak on a different item. That was the last of the Public Commenters. Alright, Public Comment on item 1 is closed and colleagues if no comments or objections i will make a motion to send this item with recommendation to the full board. On that motion please. [roll call] the motion passes to recommend the item as Committee Report. Next item, please. Next on the agenda is item 2 ordinance amending the administrative campaign government code to establish Early Childhood successor to the office of Early Education and first 5 San Francisco inaudible successor to office of early care and education and update the responsibilities of the Children Family first commission. Thank you mr. Young. We are joined by supervisor melgar. The cosponsor of this piece of legislation that is sponsored by mayor breed. Supervisor melgar, the floor is yours. Thank you so much chair peskin and colleagues for hearing this item. To formally establish the department of Early Childhood, as you know this department for posed and formed through the budget process last year to hurj the office of early care and education with the first 5 commission. This new department will be tasked with having a unified vision,ition mission, strategy and outcome framework to serve the youngest residents 0to 5 and families. San francisco has made monumental strides advancing our goals for universal early care and education, especially in the passage of the Early Education for all initiative known as baby prop c to bring dedicated to dollars to clear long waiting list, uplift wages for the dedicated educators and build a lasting infrastructure hope some day means every young child will have access without the family having to jump through hoops and waiting for years sometimes for their child to get a slot. We need to make sure that this funding fulfills the initant of voters. The first 5 commission through state funding also plays a crucial role in supporting families of Young Children through parentsing courses, Family Resource centers and Early Intervention services that pretty much guarantees they will be successful later. The legislation provides guidance on the governance of the new department, the first 5 commission will retain a state mandated duties and will continue to oversee state tax dollars to support families and Young Children. They will not expand the authority under prop c funds but will be able to provide recommendations. The legislation also einvolves the existing advizry committee to Early Childhood over site and Advisory Committee to offer guidance to the department the mayor the board of supervisor on the Strategic Plan and provide recommendations on the budget and spending plan. I feel this effort is a visionary step having a combined comprehensive departmental leverage maximize our resources. And also be bold where the state and federal government have failed us. The first 5 years of a childs life determine their longterm outcomes so it is critical to focus dedicated attention to the population. I want to thank mayor breed and her team for their forward thinking and proposal to establish this dedicatEd Department and for their collaboration throughout the process. I also want to thank the current director of the office of early care and education and inaudible and her staff jenny lam for collaboration and Diverse Coalition of stakeholders including early care educators and advocates and the first 5 community who have been actively engaged in this process. Given this is a new department, i expect us to have many more discussions about it had way to support the staff the mission and critically maximize the impact of limited funding we have reserved to support children 05. There are still outstanding questions we need to address but this is all natural as part of any merger. I think wethere will be a more aligned Strategic Plan then the one we started and we still need to flush out more details in the coming year. We also will need trailing legislation to address some emerging needs and goals to insure the success of this department and families we serve. This ordinance today is a start. It will establish some foundational guidelines about the governance structure and oversight of the newly form Ed Department and designate specific roles for the first 5 commission and oversight and Advisory Committee that will help guide the department. I do have some miner nonsubstantive amendment frz the committee to consider proposed by the clerk of the board per our board rules. These changes are under section 86. 3, membership of the organization of the San Francisco children and Family First Commission on page 10 line 12 adding the linethe Commission Meet at least 4 times each calendar year. On page 12 linegs to 11 adding the line, any member in seats 3 and 5 through 9 who fail to attend at least half the meetings held in a calendar year shall be deemed to have resigned from the commission. Page 13, 6, department provide administrative support to the commission. And under article 13, Early ChildhoodCommunity Oversight and Advisory Committee, section 5. 133 membership and organization on page 16 line 20, add after any success iser to the division recommended by the superintendent of schools to the mayor. Adding to the mayor. With that, through the chair, i believe that we have a brief presentation from the director ingred inaudible who is joining us this morning on herbirthday. Happy birthday. Dont mean to embarrass you but proud of you and thank you for being here. Thank you for your leadership on this. It has been an honor working with you and office staff. It is a pleasure. Thank you also to the mayor who has also started us on this path several years ago. Seeing lots of things that could be the potential for Early Childhood and so our presentation today is going to be a lot of the things you just mentioned supervisor melgar so good morning supervisor peskin, chan and mendelman and thank you for indulgeing us to provide a overview of what the department of Early Childhood is capable of doing and also being able to see the beyond. Knowing that this again has started many years ago and finally we are here. After a long awaited process. So, the San Francisco department of Early Childhood and i believe we have presentation slides. They are being displayed. You can see it on it screen. Okay. Great. The San Francisco department of early y childhood is like i said and how supervisor melgar krirebed a culmination of many things and san franciscans also recognizing the best way to insure strong future for our city is for our youngest children to have a Early Childhood experience that positively contribute to the growth learning and wellbeing and this is at the core of what we will be doing. Next slide. This process started many many decades ago. Actually, when the state of california put a proposition which was to tax tobacco. To dedicate funding berth to 5 in the state of california. And every county was to receive a allocation from that. San francisco as the city and county receives a tax allocation from this tobacco tax bill and it is administered through the children and families commission. In 2004 several years ago San Francisco lead the way in being able to establish the first universal preschool system in the whole not only state of california but the nation and so we started again this road many many years ago. In 2013 late mayor lee established the office of early care and education being able to bring together the resources with the vision for every child to be able to have access to early care and education in the city. Next slide. We were not done yet. In 2018, baby prop c passed which was just incredible. This is the most i would say ambitious opportunity that the city has had and because of that mayor london breed asked not only first 5 but oece to come together and align and coordinate. Again with the vision of being able to share these resources with children and families all throughout the city. But making it much better. Much better coordinated, much better access and so in 2022 this is what we are doing. First 5 united to become department of Early Childhood, also known as dec. Where we are integrating not only the state but also coordinated municipalities funded system of service and support that strengthen families and improve child out comes. Next slide. And without saying this is a unprecedented opportunity to invest and build a robust Early Childhood system on a scale that has not been seen anywhere else in the nation. We are leading the nation with bold vision but also with a system and structure that supports it. Next slide. And thats why the ordinance has core principals. One not only does it establish department of Early Childhood that focus very specific on birth to 5 that we bring together the state the is San Francisco children and Family Commission with membership powers and duty as well as citizen Advisory Committee with membership and duties having a structure and system to do this and also a plan. Strategic plan that brings together the vision in a way that creates the strategies to be able to expand opportunities not only for these policy bodies to come together, but also with parents and the community to insure that we have strategies investment that drive towards impact. Next slide. And our role as the department of Early Childhood it really is about not only investing but also reviewing and evaluating what we invest in. And we also have to listen to the families, parents throughout San Francisco which we have been doing and as we do this making sure that we are advancing equity as part of the core. Next slide. Part of our Strategic Planning has been to engage the community in many different ways, many many meetings have had. We invest and partner with early child professionals. We are doing this as part of the values making sure we have the public and community engaged. That is why we continue with the advisory structures and able to see a representation of Cross Section of childhood professions and applying lessens learned from the last 15 plus years of the earlythe universal preschool ist ism in San Francisco. As we build our system for a universal system for all children. Next slide. All most done. And as the department of Early Childhood, this is where everything comes to light, especially for children and families in the city. We want to make sure we are equitable by prioritizing those children especially with the greatest need and for this opportunity. We want to be collective bringing together the city Diverse Services and resources. Especially to uplifting family voices, creating a community all the adults who care for and about Young Children. And as supervisor melgar mentioned, this is about being comprehensive taoism we too, we want to be sure we are taking the whole family approach and for all members who live in the communities and people who care for them and for making sure there are no gaps and missing links in families and supporting every system of care. One of the major Ambitious Goals is to create a universal system and part of that to make sure that we are also taking lessons learned. We already have a universal preschool system that guarantees pretty much a preschool for every child. We have especially for latino and African American children, we have 92 of preschool participation. That took several years to do but we have been able to do it and we are going to be applying the same lessons as we build this universal system from birth to 5. As we do this, we have to make sure that we make sure that children who are receiving this care is of the highest quality. That means that we have to support programs and educaors to deliver the best possible care to children and we are implementing the stallary to 21 an hour and have over 1 million for recruitment and benefits for teacher. We know this is a National Crisis and San Francisco is not an anomaly. And in the coming years, low and moderate income families will have unparalleled access to affordable childhood programming by making those investments very visiby and providing market rates and child wednesday and Early Intervention and this is very apparent in our spending plan and clear in our investments and identifying and investing childrens healthy development. We are supporting the families and a bright and Better Future for all of our families. Thank you. We would be remiss if not acknowledging supervisor melga