thank you for the invitation. but in the spirit of truncating, maybe i'll kind of dispense with a lot of the prepared slides and just go through some highlights. and some of this is actually material that was presented that i presented at the last city select, city school district select on this topic at the end of april. maybe i can sort of expedite especially since a lot of the community members that are here today might have heard that presentation as well. so, if we can just -- and, supervisor kim, i believe you did at the select committee meeting give a fantastic overview of the history of peef at that time. so, for that reason we'll go quickly through this as well. so, as has already been mentioned, the public education enrichment fund has been around

for just over ten years and the three third, two-thirds go to the school district, one-third goes to the preschool for all, the first five commission. and just the theme, just to restate, has been transformative. it was hard to know at that point what was going to happen to public education in the state and including in our city. a few years after peef resources started to ramp up, but the thought back then was we needed to do more to support and really invest in education of the students in the public schools. and little did we know how critical that those investments would become, especially in light of the gold recession that took place in 2008 that we're still recovering from. these are some of the achievements that have happened through peef.

these are such a partial list. there are so many critical things that have happened through these investments over the last ten years. i'll just go through these very quickly. so, here's a visual of what one of our school libraries looked like before the public education enrichment fund. there was no staff in this particular library. there were a lot of papers and not particularly well organized papers, basically a storage room. and these are two examples of school libraries that have been converted and are being well utilized by students in these stew schools. one is thurgood marshall high and will and the other one is [speaker not understood]. all of these schools have dedicated librarians, future librarians and this is true across the schools in san francisco. ~ two

we have invested in athletics especially at the secondary level. including everything from uniforms to facilities improvements, equipment, more transportation for competitions. in the physical education arena, significant improvements to staffing as well as budgets for each school, middle school and high school. equipment, teachers, professional development. very different investments in p-e than what was possible before peef. arts teachers, we have our arts education master plan. every student every day receives an art instruction. and there is a whole array of resources that go into all of our schools in the area of visual and performing arts. these are just a few examples. and in the area of learning

support, school district nurses, counselors, social workers, [speaker not understood] support services, very significant as supervisor kim mentioned. the array of services that students are accessing is incredibly different through the peef resources. these are some of the other investments that have been made possible through the third-third, especially the third-third translation, interpretive services more than doubled through peef resources. we've made a huge investment and at a critical time in supporting our high school students to meet the more rigorous graduation requirements that have been passed by the board of education to get their ge credits. the list goes on. all of these range in scale and the size of the investments, but have all made a significant impact. and this is, this is all validated by a very

comprehensive report that the city controller has released which comments on the performance measures of many of these investments as well as the scope and variety of the investments themselves. the peef removal process -- i'll go very quickly through those, which i think all the supervisors are familiar with. this has been taking place for more than a year and we are kind of happy to see that we're towards the end of this process at the stage 4 of finalizing the measure. thanks to your help, supervisors. there were a number of community outreach findings that were conducted through the [speaker not understood] city outreach campaign and many members of the community here are very familiar with these findings and i don't want to repeat anything that's already been said, but a lot of these we hope seem like common sense

good ideas to build strength and collaboration between service providers and the city and the school district. yes, so, this is all sort of along those same lines, specific policy proposals that fall along the lines of strengthening collaboration. with that's correct i just want to say thank you again. and i really want to thank a certain group of people that have been involved from the school district side. chris ar men trout, cathy foreman, a number of department heads, carl bryant is here. sueser sutter. there are many, many folks in the district. i'm just naming a few people that have been responsible for implementing and making good use of these critical resources that have been provided through peef. and i also want to thank members of the peef citizen's advisory council that are here.

supervisor kim is a founding member of that council from back in the day and they, all these people work tirelessly in the case of the cac members without pay, their own volunteer time. it's incredibly humbling to know they and so many other people that are here are so dedicated to serving our students and our schools. thank you very much. >> thank you. next up is, who did i say? barbara [speaker not understood] and [speaker not understood]. >> good afternoon, supervisors, and a special thank you to supervisor kim and yee and avalos, campos, supervisor mar and cohen for introducing legislation for the renewal of peef. i also want to acknowledge the first five commission who has overseen preschool for all for

the last five years. the staff worked hard to implement it. high quality education, one of our most important investments in the city, we are the only city in california that has a high-quality mixed delivery targeted universal preschool system. we have increased access most notably for filipino and african-american students. peef has also ensured our [speaker not understood] remains low for low-income family. the goal continues that [speaker not understood] kindergarten they read at grade level by third grade, that they have excellent school attendance, they stay in school, they graduate high school and beyond. and i hope we can achieve this in less than 25 years but i'm really glad we have 25 years to do it. preschool for all, this is the point i really want to make. preschool for all is [speaker not understood]. it's known by thousands of teachers and directors and city departments and childhood advocates and community stakeholders. it's also known throughout the

state and by other counties who are making efforts to replicate the model and achieve similar outcomes. we now have the opportunity to build on our successes with the re-authorization of peef and the children's fund. i'm glad that i'm standing here with barbara carlson and in the audience is carla brian who have been partners with me to achieve this. so, i also think it would be great to include 3 and 4 year olds in preschool. we know that children with 2 years of high quality preschool exponentially better than those that have one. again, we cannot accomplish this with the current allocation so i'm glad to hear that we're going to have more funding available. [speaker not understood] subsidized children to have access but we have to continue to invest in high-quality improvement efforts and professional development. i wasn't going to say this. forgive me, barbara. i love that we're investing in our young children and in child care and [speaker not understood] care, but if we wanted to be an even greater

city, we would need a targeted universal home visiting program, targeted universal health and developmental screening program, additional implemental subsidies that include middle -- low-income and middle income families and equality improvement initiative that build on the lessons we learn from pfa and state quality [speaker not understood]. so, thank you. >> thank you, ms. kumar. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm barbara carlson and i'm the director of the office of early current education and to supplement what laurel said, while early education opportunities have improved tremendously for the city's 4 year olds, significant opportunity gaps still remain for children aged 0 to 3. we're hlsd the legislation addresses those issues ~. if it is adopted, the office of early care and education first five san francisco will work closely to achieve a smooth transition of funds from the first five commission to the

office of early care and education. and finally, the office of early care and education welcomes the opportunity to work closely with first five, all of our other city agency partners, the school district, cpac and our community partners as well as the soon to be appointed office of early care and education community advisory council to develop a plan for our city's early care and education services. thank you for the opportunity to offer support for this important legislation. >> thank you, ms. carlson. thank you very much. candice [speaker not understood], chair of the [speaker not understood] advisory committee. >> thank you, supervisors. i want to recognize supervisor avalos and kim for your work in this process. to make sure we're creating a consensus measure in which everyone can support, i also

want to say all the other supervisors who i know all of you spent countless hours listening to the community and everyone to make sure that we're creating the best measure possible for our city. cpac as the appointed body through the board of education and the board of supervisors [speaker not understood] obviously, you know, we are very excited to see the improved, you know, i think the plans around better coordination alignment of our work and services for the [speaker not understood] youth in this city. obviously first and foremost we want to work closely with the city around how we really move thoughtfully in the direction of early care and education for all in our city along with in our services to our youth population as well. you know, definitely, i'm glad to see as we're phasing this new -- this increased [speaker not understood] phase in over two years through resources that will come immediately to

meet unmet needs. we obviously continue to have unmet needs in early care and education. we have well over 3,000 kids on the wait list who are eligible for subsidized child care. these are kids who are eligible from -- for subsidies because they are generally from low-income working families. i think we need to tackle that issue immediately. in terms of doing that, i think we have to look at balancing in terms of how we're serving all of our kids. we need to seriously look at data in terms of if we have [speaker not understood] population which is one-third of the population of k through 18. we need to look at equity in term of how we allocate resources to support the unmet need in that area. and find more balance. including the need for addressing the, you know, having adequate licensed child care facilities to serve those kids and qualified teachers in our classrooms.

cpac, we wanted to say we strongly support the consensus measure and we look forward to working with you to make sure that both the children's fund and peef is reauthorized. thank you. >> thank you. [speaker not understood]. >> i also want to echo my thanks to all members of the board of supervisors. just want to say that san francisco has a long-standing commitment to children and families. and back in 1991, the community came together under leadership of strong children advocates like margaret saul in our community to ensure that san francisco has dedicated funding for children services and created our department, the department of children youth and their family. and with that, we, i are very grateful for that. we are still extremely community driven as represented through the process of trying to get to this place today. we have within our charter

[speaker not understood] to have very open planning processes to assess needs throughout the community, throughout all 11 districts and 20 neighborhoods. we have [speaker not understood] to require community involvement around the planning allocation process for our policy. and then, of course, we are also mandated to administer those dollars. currently dcyf provides funding for services from both all the way up to age 24. the children's fund portion of our department is used to provide funding for services up to age 17 and then we use general fund to go up to age 24. as a result, we are looking forward to the re-authorization of those funds with perhaps a new age range to allow us to have full flexibility and access to the funds. currently we use our dollars to ensure that we have funding for

child care services at a school time program, teens, youth employment, violence prevention, family resource centers, [speaker not understood] health and wellness programs program we believe really meet the need of "er children and families throughout the city. we have programs in every neighborhood and we partner very closely with our school district as well as other city departments such as rec and park department, department of public health, human services agency, our police departments and, of course, the hundreds of nonprofit agencies some of which you are seeing in the chambers here. they are all throughout the city. so, we're grateful for their partnership and without them we cannot do this work. in closing i also want to thank the dcyf cac and their support for the work that we're doing. i also want to thank members of our children or families stakeholder council for their leadership in going out and

reaching our families and parents for the last several months to gather feedback for us to [speaker not understood] and develop the plans as we move forward. and, of course, i also want to thank the community for their participation and their support in this. i look forward to reauthorizing the funds, both the children's fund as well as public education and enrichment fund and i look forward for us as a city to create a more cohesive and aligned system which at the end of the day will benefit all of us. and speaking as aes are debt of san francisco with two children in public school, i look forward for these funds to support all of us that we together as a community can lift every child and every child will be able to succeed in the city. so, thank you. ~ resident >> thank you. any questions of the speakers? seeing none, okay. you know what i'd like to do is start the public comments period right now. but i'd like to bring up as the first speaker bob [speaker not

understood], superintendent of recreation and department of parks and recreation. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i actually had a powerpoint for you. you should have it in front of you. i won't go through it. i know we have a lot of people that want to get up here and speak and it's becoming a long day for everyone. i'd like to thank you all for taking this item forward, also for allowing me to speak. again, i promise to be brief. the recreation and park department has been and continues to be at the table regarding the peef, through conversations with the school district staff as well as superintendent karanza. after school through all through the expandled learning collaborative and children and youth fund. as the city's largest provider of children and family recreational services in the city, we believe it's imperative to invest in the children's future and look forward to our role in this area. our department offers 3500

recreation programs each year annually. we have 12 afterschool programs. we are actually starting -- have started an additional 13th at [speaker not understood] recreation center where we're serving hillcrest elementary, as well as potentially new one in chinatown that we will be starting shortly. we also have 83 summer camps that are located throughout the city at 48 different locations. we currently have over 15,000 kids enrolled in those programs. our programs range from early childhood development courses to city-wide senior programs, sports programs such as junior >> aye. giants, mission red girls basketball program. we have dance classes, zumba, yoga, adoptive classes for special needs kids as well. we also in our afterschool programs we've been working and participating as i said with the expanded learning

collaborative and we look to -- you guys spoke to quality and how we're going to get to ensure that there was some universal quality across the board. and we've taken advantage of some of the collaborative and dcyf's gracious invitations to train our staff as well and we've participated in that. we're also working on standardizing our curriculums across the board to ensure that what one kid gets on one side of the city another gets on the other. so, again, some of the other things that we're currently involved with, we have a lot of special programs that we're moving forward with and our healthy people healthy parks where we have walking classes that take place throughout the city. we also now are at 20 different locations throughout the city offering free zumba to families and children. we have asl immersion camp where people are learning american sign language. kids are learning at mission playground and a couple other locations. we have our mobile recreation

program which we're able to take into different communities throughout the city new opportunities for kids that may not just want your typical baseball, basketball, those type of activities, but they want to get into some of the alternative sports like rock climbing and skateboarding and bmx and those things. we also have a green agers program which serves 9 to 10th graders and they actually learn leadership and gardening skills. they take place at mclaren park , her ons head and bayview complexes. some of the things we're doing, targeting the teen population both in the programmatic side of things and employment, we have our late night basketball which we conduct at the recreation center, also hamilton recreation center. we also do our camp may 13 outdoor experience targeted at youth that are on probation or incarcerated and we do that

along with jpd and sfpd and many of our cbo partners. one of the best things about that program is we're able to actually bring the kids back who are in the program in the years prior to serve as leaders in training, mentors to the kids that are currently on probation. we also have approximately 300 to 350 recreation leaders who are in the inmate population aged 18 to 24 who actually work in the rec centers currently and providing programs. we also are working closely with the ipo program where we have a number of folks that are having their salaries paid by hsa but were actually -- they're working on rec and park properties and we're supervising their work. currently right now they're working up at mclaren park as well as glenn eagles golf course and learning a lot of those horticultural skill. one of the thing we're really

proud of, and i'll finish up, is our scholarship program. we had over $650,000 awarded alone in this summer just for summer camps. we've already allocated over a million dollars in scholarships for the entire year for our programs. one of the program that we have for the youth population which we receive funding from dcyf and are very thankful for that is our recreation program. we are able to hire 235 to 240 youth this summer. there's also a number of youth that we hire throughout the school year. so, it's been a really terrific program. sort of in conclusion, we're excited about the city's efforts to enhance the lives of our children and their families and look forward to the opportunity to be engaged in the dialogue about our department's important role in that work. within all three of these items, the peef, the children's

fund as well as the afterschool for [speaker not understood]. thank you very much. >> thank you. so, i'm going to call some speakers up now and we'll be giving two minutes. if you need two minutes. first one up is raquel cardenas. [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood] walters. [speaker not understood]. good afternoon, supervisors. i thank you for your support. i'm a mother of two children and both my children are in child care. here before you is my grandson making all this ruckus and i'm the one that takes care of him. although the pay isn't great, but the reward is much better. please support the increase. what we don't pay for now we will in the end. thank you very much. >> thank you. (applause) >> and thank you for bringing your grandchild. good afternoon.

thank you for giving us the opportunity to speak to you. monica walters from [speaker not understood] children's services. i'm here really just to say candice long emphasized the points that i wanted to make which is that we do have a very long wait list for our really early care education subsidy program. i think today it was 35 90 total. we are so excited about the opportunity to expand services through the additional dollars in the measure. and also the coordination that's going to occur so that we are sure that we have an equitable portion of the funding going to our 0 to 5 population. it's not about how you slice the pie now but we're making the pie bigger and it's really exciting. i want to thank you again for bringing our voices to the table and listening to us and taking such a great deal of good discernment in coming up with i think a measure that the public will support.

again, thank you very much and from the ec community we really appreciate everything that you're doing to make sure that our very youngest citizens, residents of san francisco get what they need. hi, i'm sandy black man, executive director of children's council, vice-chair of cpac and also very involved in the children's fund community coalition. i'd also like to echo what monica said and what candice said. at children's council every week we see hundreds of families that are looking for quality child care and subsidies to pay for child care . as monica and candice said, there are about 3600 families that are still on that waiting list for child care ~. we really, we really -- both children's fund and peef have made a tremendous difference, increasing access and quality in the early care and education system. we are really please today see

this consensus around an increase for children's fund and the other changes, the increased flexibility in peef, the removal of the trigger in peef, the increased sunset, the children and families council that will create increased alignment, and the proposal for the oversight committee. so, i want to thank you all for the tremendous amount of time that you've put into this and your support and we're really pleased that this re-authorization is going forward. thank you. >> thank you. [speaker not understood]. judith [speaker not understood]. donna cahill. nancy fuentes. rosie [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood]. hi, thank you. i thank you all for sponsoring this hearing and being open to the recommendation that is coming from the community about

the children's fund. so, i'd like to take you all back to 1999. i was 18 years old, turning on the verge of 19. some of you actually here in this room never thought about being a supervisor actually knew me at that time. i was appointed by then supervisor mark leno to be on the san francisco youth commission. at that time there were no district wide elections, closed to city-wide seats. so, i was appointed. while i was on the youth commission i became homeless and that's rough. so, i was 19 years old. actually working campaigning getting children's fund passed. john avalos [speaker not understood], people at coleman advocates. and i remember during this time campaigning, i remember writing legislation at city hall. i thought to myself, where am i going to sleep tonight? the reason why it was so bad, one was called the [speaker not understood]. i was on the waiting list of guerrero house run by catholic charities.

the other was [speaker not understood] the first supportive transitional youth housing in the [speaker not understood] in san francisco. those two saved my life. they allowed me to [speaker not understood] legislation that changed the facet of this city. the reason why we are now talking about transitional age youth. so, in thinking about that i was able to go to city college. i was able to go to mills college. i currently work at [speaker not understood] and i work inside the school district helping people with long-term futures. i urge you to include transitional age youth 18 to 24 and children's fund [speaker not understood]. thank you. >> thank you. (applause) hi, my name is rosie kennedy. i'm director of [speaker not understood] former child care provider. i know we stand on a lot of shoulders today that have already been mentioned, but i only have two minutes. so, but i did want to say when children are all right we all do better and we all benefit when children youth and family have the support when they need

it and the opportunities to be at their best. we also, the children are a priority. san francisco really, really needs to make a long-term sustained and very thoughtful investment. today tonight i really want to emphasize the infants and toddlers, the most stressful period for young families, working families is when they're raising their infants and todd letters. infants and their moms and dad's are not in important budget meetings. neither are they child care providers ~ most of the times. but what happens to them when they experience this every day has a profound and permanent impact not only on them, their family, but on the rest of us. and i wish to be a family to another family child care. i care for all ages and i soon learned that i was having the most impact for the program was having the most