francisco general how's hospital and in my roll at the department of public department of transportation i've leading the projects so we've been working to make sure that our children are correcting connecting with the family research centers and working with the childhood development my goal is making sure that we are including those families from zero to 3 and making sure what we're doing really reflects how what we know with the importance of addressing demonstrate early and those first 3 years of life are important. personally i'm really excited about the opportunity to step outside of my career as a that you hadtion there's limited things to do and being able to

be an advocate and advisor is so important is really what i'm hoping to bring to the commission. >> okay. thank you. many questions. seeing none, thank you very much. any public comment on that item? come on up your i'm the executive director for programs in san francisco. i'm very lucky to have worked with both jamal dr. harris and dr. gibson and, of course, for 8 years with betty harris i really time to see pediatricians on the commission if dr. harris was appointed he'll follow a long tradition from dr. louie crane

and possibly jamal harris it's important to have the prospective of health and wellness we've worked hard to connect the pediatricians with our preliminary education i'd love to have him on the commission. i've worked with dr. gibson for a while and especially with the early education department that she's got a great perspective from a prenatal to third grade prospective she brings that kind of prospective there's a lot of things in the state around transitional kindergarten. that said i want to thank betty robertson hastings shooesz she's been a dedicated person to

family and children's she's got heart and a great voice, however, it's time for another opportunity unfortunately, i have not had any opportunity to meet ms. crews i don't know much about her >> do you have small business from the mental health commission. >> we don't have dr. sandra in the child division it's more about child development i don't think we do in that way. >> okay. thank you. any other pbts seeing none, public comment is closed.

here's another one we have qualified people and only two seats open. as you know, i was on the first 5 commissioner years and years and years ago. and i know that a good composition of the commission can really make a difference. and one of the pieces that i do care of k care about it the mental health piece because so much of what we did in the early education prior to the consultant we didn't have mental health and we knew i know first hand that we having centers in protecting areas like chinatown and tenderloin that we were in desperate need of having professionals in mental health that understood zero to 5. and that connection that we have

now i really want to remain retain that so here's my preference i want to mental health worker in there and we've spoken about on this committee time after time is there are qualified people in san francisco we should pick people from san francisco is so my preference is to nominate leah hugh's and dr. gibson >> supervisor campos. >> city that madam chair it's one of those things when you have plants and not enough seats thank all the people they bring things unique to the appointment and i also building that, you

know, that even though you may not if those of you who don't get appointed please be interested i want to say at the outset i appreciate the work of the commission but i don't know it's appropriate for the staff of the commission to come here and issue you have a right to an opinion but not appropriate for staff to make a recommendation and it's about who they think should be on the commission that's not the ruling role of staff i can do that but in terms of what i think it appropriate that's not the roll because when you're the main staff person for a commission you're there to work with everyone for the same reason that the police chief didn't come here to opine who is

on the police commission and the mta doesn't come with their staff to opine who's on the commission you have a right to our opinion but in terms of what is appropriate that's not appropriate. i want to be clear about that. because i think that the whole point of the process is that it's an equal process so people that may not have the opportunity to get to know staff have the same chance to make their case. that's the whole point of coming to the board before the rules committee. the second thing i'll say i do recognize there show cause some preference given to san francisco residents to some stent but i also want to highlight we're dealing with an affordability crisis in san

francisco. and that there are many people and teachers i'd like to say at the top of the list that would love to live in san francisco and who spend all their professional lives in san francisco. but simply can't afford to live in san francisco. i don't think that we should make that a barrier to people who want to continue to serve the city where they have dedicated their professional lives. i take a different prospective on that. so my preference would be to reappoint betty robertson harris i think you need to have continuity and you need independence in commissions and i know we have a letter from the

united educators of san francisco and i think that having the prospective of someone a teacher in the classroom is needed it's important for this commission and in terms of the other 3 applicants their previous expressive and either one of them would do is a great job so i don't want to single out anyone they were all expressive to me so that's where i am. >> thank you supervisor tang. >> thank you, supervisors and thanks to everyone that applied they all bring a great different kind of dpraugd background to the table thank you for taking the time to want to serve i see that as important as i've said i'm a product of the education system i grew up in 9 neighborhood and value all the

serves i've received with that said, i'm happy to support supervisor yee and appointing dr. gibb sob as the former promise of junior i also was intrigued by dr. harris you work and serve in a community i'd love to have that seat at the table i see we agree on with an candidate at least and dan i'm happy to support all the candidates they bring excellent qualities. >> supervisor campos would you like to offer a recommendation for a second person maybe we can figure out from there. >> so let me get this utility of the way we're in agreement with at least dr. gibson so i'll

move forward with a positive recommendation for seat 5. seat 5 and okay >> so that's and in terms of the other candidate again, i still believe we need o to reappoint betty robertson harris. >> so let's go with the first motion without objection that item passes. and again, i'm to reiterate my reasons for wanting a mental health worker on that particular commission. it's just what i've seen is from my many, many years of working in that field the importance of having that voice and personally, i don't want to lose if i don't know if we're going

to have a stalemate here >> supervisor tang. >> again, i would support any of the other 3 candidates i want to make a case for dr. harris having the equality how to provide services to all families in san francisco i like the prospective if working in that part of the community. >> why don't i do this. i think we have so - supervisor yee is that mean you're with leah crews >> yeah. >> so i guess i'll have to be the deciding vote again both excellent i have to say i was impressed by the idea of having the pediatricians prospective so

i will i'm a very close call i'm make a motion to move forward dr. harris with the understanding my preference would be to have reappoint ms. harris. >> so it's been started up now there's a motion you want to make a motion for dr. harris. >> all right. so making a motion to dr. harris to seat on the first commission with positive recommendation. >> with a residency waiver. >> i will make that unanimous so the motion passes congratulations to the two seats appointed and the other two please don't give us on us there will be seats available in years to come.

madam clerk i'd like to call item 8 through 11 together >> items 8, 9, 10 and 11 to renew the children's fund for the expiration date for 25 years and provide services for the transitional figuring out youth 18 to 24-year-old and rice the committee for the working group and create a children's oversight committee and renew the allocation and create a families and council appropriation plan and provide for a city reserve within a rainy day reserve. >> okay. when supervisor kim gets back in shields going to make some comments about the

rainy day fund. there's so for the item number ten we have made many, many little amendments. that will be presented today. there was really and i don't have the piece in front of me so i don't know what - i think the best thing is to do what i have to wait for supervisor kim before i, do anything and john gibner, deputy city attorney. i understand that tom and my office have been working with

your office and others on amendments today is that still putting the efficiency touches on those i can run out and see where that stands while you discuss the proposals but my understanding my understanding you plan on making a number of tweaks but i think at the end of the last meeting you called the consensus measure and within the rainy day funds into that measure so you have a single measure containing you'll your measures and continue until monday to pass it to the full board or make other amendments >> today we were hoping to get all those little tweaks and amendments to the consensus piece. and they were many, many

different people coming forward with potential amendments throughout the week. and that's why we really don't have a completed piece of piece of legislation in front of you right now. as soon as - so the idea we hear the rainy day fund first and make a motion to amend that into the consensus amendment but i'm still waiting for supervisor kim so if you can hold on for a few seconds. we're joined by supervisor avalos and now supervisor kim, supervisor kim we took our items 8 through 11 together i thought f that would be best to talk about the rainy day funds first and public comments.

>> great. well, thank you i know that i do have a couple of amendments to minor administer amendments probably the most major amendment is to actually incorporate a chart amendment that our office introduced. on readministration of the rainy day fund that was put forward by tom many years ago. it's an important source of funding supervisor yee and myself have been on the beneficiary end we've had tough years in the school district with huge state funding cuts the voters passed in several years ago gave the district flexibility in terms of the massive cuts inside the classroom that we had to make for the funding available to us we were able to temper some of

the cuts. throughout the years we've discovered some of the kickers on how the funding works and the major piece it in order to quality we have to send flips out to teachers that the funding is different from the state level they'll end up in teacher layoffs they've forced the district to do that we had the rainy day fund but we put a lot of instability and even we said we're confident in a month from now unfortunately, that incidentally stability will permeate and sometimes the teachers will look for other opportunities. so this amendment to the rainy day fund you but the u puts more

jurisdiction from the school district we'll divide the pot in half this rainy day is lighted by the city and county of san francisco we'll bifurcate this we can withdraw from the rainy day fund with the board of education without trig issues and the city will have our piece bifurcated keeping in mind the city is not in some ways protecting the rainy day fund it was brokered with the deputy city attorney i hope i did an adequate job of explaining that this is the amendment i'm putting forward to be

incorporating into the larger charter amendment >> any other comments before i go to public comment there. any public comments wow. so i was still hoping for the city attorney to bring the documents here. city attorney are there any documents and no, this is clearly something that you have to take note of for people that have come to our office thinking weighing we're going to get things done so for now - and yes >> public comment seen none, public comment is closed. . so we have the rainy day funds and what i'd like to do it make

a motion - oh, supervisor avalos >> i wanted to put in a good word for the city attorney for putting all those things together he's been getting information at the last minute and also want to put in a word that i'm fairly pleased with how those measures came together leary lecturer there was a lot of discussions what the funds should look like and how with longer period to ramp up to go into the four krevents of the property value i feel good about that thank you, chairman yee and look forward to working with you in the weeks to come come. >> john gibner, deputy city

attorney i went upstairs and checked in with tom supervisor campos said it's been worked on in the last few days he says he probably needs another 15 to 20 maintenance to pull it together i'll suggest you can discuss those items if you're not going to take up 15 minutes maybe take supervisor avalos measure i come back to this one and take the amendments that tom is working on and follow-up another amendment that folds in the rainy day fund. >> wow. we need two more minutes >> you know, i realize i didn't give an opportunity to our city deputy city attorney to speak

about the changes to the charter amendment on the rainy fund i know i did the best i could but maybe have him up to present. >> we can go take for a long time so take your time. >> i'll do the song and distance for 15 minutes thank you, supervisors for taking up the item and as supervisor kim said we did discuss that very careful with the city controller and myself representing the school district and certainly with supervisor kim the author he think it's an appropriate piece of protective it is your to make amendments to the charter that was passed in november of 2003 by the voter. we think it's a very good win-win set of improvements for the city.

and for the school district for the reasons that supervisor kim articulated. and we also are glad there is apparently an opportunity to incorporate those changes into the ballot initiative you're going to be discussing in 14 minutes. it's a little bit of an ad on to the consent of the other measures but they all have to do with the mature interests of the city, the school district and the families that we both serve thank you very much for being willing to take up the legislation supervisor kim. >> thank you. so we'll go ahead and postpone the rest of the discussion and move on to item 12 i believe

call item 12 >> it's the chapter amendment for the 2014 to require the special election and authorizing the board of education and the college district to make appointments to philosophical vacancies. >> so supervisor avalos would you like to go ahead. >> yes. thank you chair yee and all for being here and supporting or considering this charter amendment before us i want to thank my co-sponsors supervisor mar and others this charter amendment is about democracy i how we fill vacancies on the board of supervisors and the mayor's office that was originally about all elected office one of our most charged values is civic

praerpgs and duo to do that we have strong election that involve elections we have an issue of vacancies they come up every few years and often a vacancy in office we lose out on the ability of the people to be able to elect who comes into office and what happens if the person is selected and often that selection process didn't involve people going into the community or process that people have a board range of people that have involvement so this measure reverse a sense of democracy n in when there's a vacancy. we call it we have a nickname let's elect our elected officials act of 2014 we feel it's something that meets what san franciscans have been yes and no for and today, i have

amendments that holds a bit and have a more fully discussion hopefully on monday we'll continue this item until monday originally this measure was about all elected officials in the city and county of san francisco including from the public defender to the sears office we have narrowed it down to b be about vacancies and the board of supervisors and the mayor's office pr and i believe it's about the baffle power between the board of supervisors and the mayor's office the board of supervisors being the elective branch and the mary's the executive branch in the past we'll have vacancies in the board of supervisors and the mayor will make an appointment for those seats. when there was a vacancy in the mayor's office most relevance in

2011, the board went through a selection process to get someone to serve as the pro tem mayor it's not a common thing but we want to make sure we have a democratic process. having served on the board of supervisors during the time whether there was a vacancy in the mayor's office i can tell you it was not something i thought was quite the process we want to have for the public to see there was actually preseas in the meeting and people going into the rooms and discussing behind closed duress outside the public view i thought the balance of who was representing us say in the city and county we

need the translate. the original charter amendment will call for vacancies in a citywide offices f it will have the school board and the them to fill vacancies. the new draft narrows it to the board of supervisors so we'll have special elections from the board of supervisors and a special elect for the mayor's office there are other changes we'll align the dates of the election to align with state law and the elections under john who has agent elections we want to marry they coincide and the state law special election will be held between one hundred and