yee, who did a really great job of focusing on child care and making sure we have support and resources. as a result, san francisco has been able to do some transformative work and i'm really proud of it. we knew that there was a need to recruit and retain early childhooded educators and we have been able to provide increase in salaries with subsidies that lead to over 1600 early educators receiving raises of $12 thousand, which helps us with not only recruitment, it helps with retention. we have been able to double the number of child care slots going from 6,000 to 12,000 child care slots providing over 50,000 child care subsidies over the past 5 years, because of this office. we have been able to reduce this significant wait list by over 70% because of our investments. and also, we have been able to help rehabilitate and create new child care facilities. so far, 40 new and rehabilitated child care facilities, including 17 this year. san francisco is really investing in our efforts around early childhood education and i have been over all over the city cutting ribbons on new facilities