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individuals themselves. so i won't go through all the different seats at this point, but we worked it out with the mayor's office and with the superintendents' office and committee members. the major changes would be basically just renumbering the community members so that it would make a little more sense. so all the amendments will be -- did i pass this out yet? >> just a quick question. so we are reducing the numbers down to 14. are they all going to be appointees by the mayor? >> yes. >> and then the other potential amendments coming forward. thank you.
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>> then we also included some language to specify that the board of supervisors, the board of education and superintendent may also recommend members to the mayor just to assure they were inclusive of who could recommend and who could not recommend. we felt this was a collaborative effort and wanted to provide this opportunity. as far as section 102.5, the government's piece, the council will meet at least 3 times a fiscal year and we added that to the extent feasible that these meetings be spread out through the year. we also, we are also havinging the mayor make appointments by shifting the deadline to june 30, 2015, and on page 9,
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section 102.6, functions and duties, we made suggestions for initial working groups to cover the areas of education and health, safety and housing. we are also recommending that the working groups consider data driven issues such at closing the achievement gap and pursuing economic mobility, improving transit history and safety and increasing housing. again, it was important for all of us that we decided that whatever plans or decisions we came up with should be data driven. these decisions were made to help shape the decision of the council, but the council itself will ultimately decide on what working groups they would like to form. then some, real quickly, some additional amendments. upon further review i would like to
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also make these other ones. on page 10, lines 5 to 7, i would like to propose changing the following: right now it states upon the recommendation of the mayor and the superintendent, the council may invite additional city and school district staff and community members to participate in the working groups. so just to clarify, we changed it to the mayor may invite additional city and school district staff and community members to participate in the working groups. it's important to include expert advocates and other leaders in the working group level that are not on the council. this will allow a more streamlined way for non-appointed community members or staff to get involved without having to receive full
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approval of the council. then on page 9, line 4, i would like to propose striking the following language for c and basically that says the mayor's appointment of public members shall take effect 30 days after transmittal of the mayor's notice of appointment to the board of supervisors. the board of supervisors may hold a public hearing on the public members appointed by the mayor to the council. so i would be asking that we strike that as an amendment. i feel it would be prohibitive for the mayor to make initial appointments. we want to move quickly on this, we're a little behind right now. the intention of this language was to allow for more public balanced appointment approach. however, if we strike this i
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think we'll be fine. so those are some of the highlights of the amendments and most of it really is about clarification and again to strengthen the notion of what this council should be made of and do. so any questions about that? >> supervisor tang. >> i think you clarified some of the questions i did have, but i think overall the changes you are making are good, especially when sometimes you have core issues it's good to cut down the number of members. although people want to participate i think it can be good to do that. i think your change on page 9, part c in terms of 30 days i think you probably want to move more quickly on appointments so they can begin to do this work as part of the council. so overall i do feel i am
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comfortable with these changes. >> thank you. >> i'm fine with the amendments too. if there are no other comments from the committee we can go on to public comment. any member of the public who would like to come forward, please approach the podium. and if you are lining up, please line up behind the gentleman with the hat by the wall. >> hi supervisors, (inaudible) i'm also representing the children's funding community coalition. we've been really active in the development of this trailing legislation. i really want to thank supervisor yee and jen lo to the proposition of having more seats as part of the public seats of the council. we're disappointed that it came at the expense of some other community seats. we understand there are a limited number of
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seats. we felt it was really important for there to be a robust youth voice on this council. we're really excited for this body to get started. better coordination among agencies is something that came up repeatedly in our stake holder meetings in the lead up to prop c, so we're really excited that parents, youth, and public officials get to sit at the table in an interagency and cross systems way so we're optimistic that that can happen and look forward to the council getting off the ground. >> very good, thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors, (inaudible) mejia with transitional youth san francisco here to speak today on behalf of the children's fund community coalition. again, thank you, supervisor and your staff and everyone else who has been a part of this process for being inclusive and open to feedback and recommendations along the way. i have to also echo the
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last comment of appreciating the inclusion of young people from the perspective of tsf, this is something of value we hold closely is to be inclusive of young people with lived experiences and the issues we are working to address as a city. so that's going to be key moving forward. just a couple of last pieces of feedback from the coalition. we just want to emphasize, we appreciate that the mayor and the superintendent are going to be chairing this and we want to emphasize we want to have their continued leadership in championing the efforts to make sure there is follow through from various departments in terms of the goals that are going to be set forth in order to really make sure these things happen. the other is just, you know, being clear about the outcomes and the benchmarks and the goals of what this council is set forth doing and especially when it comes to setting clear
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measurement for how we're going to be able to track success and that we actually had progress, you know, come out of this effort. and the last, i know this is just a little thing, but in the language it's just, you know, emphasizes children and families and we would like to, you know, be clear that it also is inclusive of youth and if that could be something that's clear in the language as well. but other than that, thank you very much, we are excited and look forward to staying engaged and making sure that this is a meaningful effort and a meaningful time spent. so thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hi, good afternoon, supervisors, my name is erica maybaum and i am the coordinator of the california child care advisory council,
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cccac i want to thank you for your commitment to having an open community process for the development of this legislation. i attended at least three meetings, i think there was a couple i was unable to attend and in between those meetings supervisor avalos' office was always open to receiving email and other communication from ccac we support this council and look forward to being a resource available to the council, its members and the work of the council. and i do want to also note and appreciate some of the last amendments that were made that include the use of data in informing the decisions and the service coordination. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors, it's good to see all of you here and i want to
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echo erica maybaum's words -- (inaudible) killday speaking on behalf of providers, early childhood education providers throughout the city. erica just spoke to some of the hard work you have put into it, supervisor yee, jen lo, avalos, and i wanted to address that. but i wanted to speak to the spirit and intention of this city and speak to early childhood community's hope for breaking down those silos that so often get in the way of common interest that is we all have for family, youth and early childhood education and look forward to this committee being a place where departments and the unified school district and the early childhood family and youth community can really move forward with bringing early childhood and development
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into the community. i want to say thank you for this. >> great, thank you very much. >> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is rosa chen, i am a youth commissioner. i want to thank you for the decision to include youth voice in the our children, our family council. we are especially excited to see you include our recommendation to include one youth commissioner, one student advisory committee member and one youth seat. my colleagues and i, we have worked a lot of, very hard and we have a lot of training on how the city and the school district really sets their budget. i am confident and grateful for everything that we have done and at the same time i want to say that i'm confident that the youth commissioner and the student
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advisory committee member will definitely make an impact on the decisions and the insightful comments they will have on making impact on the children who are living in our district and our city. and i also want to give a recommendation that maybe we can have tsf to kind of help in selecting the tuc, since they really worked very hard with a lot of youth who are t youth. i want to say thank you for considering and adding in youth seats to make sure that youth voice is really heard in our city. i want to thank supervisor yee for really continuing to include the youth commission and other stake holders and including the youth in the council. so thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you, i just wanted to say -- hydra mendosa, mayor's
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advisor who has been working with supervisor yee and jen lo and supervisor avalos. this is really an ideal council because these are the two entities that work informally side by side and this is our opportunity to bring them together. i wanted to take this opportunity to thank supervisor yee and supervisor avalos for the leadership role you took in helping pass prop c which gives us the opportunity to create this our children, our families council. the mayor is excited about institutional liezing the relationship we already have with sfusd in doing what's right for our youngest members and their families. the council will enable us to have a structure we have never had, including bringing together the department heads whose work deeply impacts
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children and their families but have not been at the table necessarily including the city administrator, housing, mta, planning. these are not normally the departments you would see in our discussions when it relates to our families but have deep impacts how we get our families around, the housing availability for them and many of the deep infrastructures provided by our city. we are deeply grateful for this chance to create a policy agenda for our young people and we look forward to a collaborative council now and for many many years to come. thank you all for your deep, committed and dedicated work to this council and particularly to you, supervisor yee, and to your aid, jen lo. >> thank you, commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell. if there are no other member s of the public who are here we can close public comment and we have this item live before us. i believe we have some
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amendments to accept. do you want to have any other closing comments? >> no, again, i want to thank the public for coming out and supporting this notion of a council and the amendments that we put forth. to me it's one of the most important things i could do as a member of the board of supervisors to form, help mold and form this council and see us as a city, you know, working to the to address the issues that we need to address to, you know, make the lives of all our children and our families a better place for them to live and to grow and to be successful and we want everybody to be successful, not just a few. thank you very much for supporting. >> thank you, supervisor yee, for all your work on this measure. supervisor tang. >> thank you, i'm really excited to see the outcome of this council and i'm happy to make a motion then to accept all the amendments that
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supervisor yee delineated earlier on, which we have a copy here, and then if there's no objection afterwards then move forward with a positive recommendation to the full board. >> great, and that motion is seconded by supervisor cohen and we'll take that without objection. madam clerk, do we have any other items before us? >> that concludes our business for today. >> before we adjourn i'd like to thank sfgtv staff for their work broadcasting, jessie larson and herb paretti thank you. (meeting adjourned). -
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(laughter) because when i first started working at the department of public works one evening i thought sitting that new mrirm watching tv and do you know how windy it gets over here. >> yeah. >> you do i mean you must come from as you sit here now gates. >> no one from distancing gates so this is o'connor's school right so that wind had one of those doggy hats this one in particular this one right here used to be a restaurant across the street okay that restaurant over there and that wind blew the heads off yeah. i got this call the doggy had fallen and so they said you need to
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come and you need to get it to off the street and do something with it thanks to the neighborhood you guys radical and said we should save the head the can you go i didn't head that responsibility was given to us at the department of public works and at a time the head of our department was our mayor and our mayor and he make sure that we got the money and everything we needed to get the doggy head fixed and back to this new location so how about a big hand for the mayor for his leadership (clapping.) the other thing he did was the day the head came back in 2005 was valentine's day isn't that special. >> yeah. i didn't. >> i'm sure you're getting ready for valentine's day coming
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up. >> yeah. >> without further ado i'm going to introduce the mayor he'll tell you about the doggie diner and welcome our mayor give him a big handed. >> mohammed explicit tell you that night what the doggy head was fallen guess who called him yes because i was awning were around to make sure that everything was done that was the job of public works to make sure that everything gets done and everything is safe i want to say thank you to mohammed to help us to secure that medium area so all of our wonderful sdts students from u low can be here in the middle of the street humidities can you be in the middle of the student street and be safe just when we have
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valentine's day we'll celebrate this with the doggie diner head i'm really, really glad and also glad to share that with our supervisor supervisor katie tang she's here work relay really, really hard representing you all that live around here and working with me and mohammed and paychecks to make those streets safety just up a couple of blocks we put in new lighting light when you and your parents and friends categorize cross the street it is heavy traffic we don't have straddles to slow down the traffic guess what happens yeah. one of those days you'll be the supervisor and the head of public works or you can even be - >> the - >> i was gagging going to say
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the doggie diner head you said the mayor it's pretty sure i'm kind of in the little time crush so overwhelming o to have to leave i'm going to have someone to welcome important in san francisco guess what. >> kaing. >> investigated you've got them trained i'm going up to the airport to let this person know who i met with you students i'll be greeting president obama he's coming in and i'm going to tell him it was really tough to decide between the students of u low or making it on time for the airport for him it's important thank you for being good students and being here in the middle of the street with me it's safe don't do this
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amendment thank you for celebrating valentine's day week with doggie diner i hope you and your teachers and parent can also know that the city is working for you when with you grew up i want you to remember to celebrate the doggie diner but my age in two years okay 3 thank you have a great valentine's day you enjoy user and have a good weekend and enjoy yourselves we have cookies and refreshments afterward thank you very much enjoy. >> thank you (clapping.) okay. a the history you guys how many 6 you have history class okay so the doggie diner head has been around since 1966 okay 1966 all over america and
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gradually you started to losses him i want to thank and give you a big applause because he's made that a hobby to collect and safe history so we have those heads from former restaurant please give them a loud applause for the history. >> (clapping.) can we get a picture of the mayor. >> come on (laughter) okay. so the next person i'm going to introduce is someone a friend of mine but someone who really takes care of the this district she's got quite a few a amount of real estate she's reb8 for that our baechdz and some of our parks and all the sunset
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area making sure that the grass gets water and the trash gets picked up and all the graffiti is removed and the district gets it's share of what san francisco gets please welcome sxhaurng. >> hello boys and girls are h how are you guys you look lovely in your hats i tried to give one to the mayor to give to president obama we saw some of our classrooms and i travel here almost everyday so i will make sure that if the doggie diner head falls down every this i'll report it to mohammed so we want to make sure we celebrate con in san francisco it is the only way designated as san francisco
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please remember this moment and come to visit to make sure he's okay and since it's valentine's day coming up i hope he has a boyfriend or girl to celebrate do you think he has one. >> yeah. >> we hope you have a really fun day we have today some things to color by hate ashbury has. >> let's have a show of hands i need to thank all the people that make this event happen rachel borden and rachel and her team she's got all the refreshments and everything and alison for special projects and ashley from katz i didn't see
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