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are out. it is disruptive for a child. [inaudible] getting a 12 month eligibility period is something we are pushing for. to improve access and poier tuization for homeless families. [inaudible] we are working with the department of education around their plan response to the federal child care development rules. we submitted public comment and have a deep interest in how those rules work fundamentally. the more that is improved, the easier the other wurk we have to do will be to support our families and providers. this next slide
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is just a example of the san francisco preschool center rates. the top blue line is based on the 85 percent of the market so that is what the federal fwidelines are that if you vavoumper you should be able to access 85 percent of your market, however, states across the country don't always implement. they do the survey and konet always implement those rate increases. in california we have a voucher system and state contracted system and so the state contracted system lagged far behind the voucher rate, so the top line in 2011 in the absence of state publishing their rates that they studied, we conducted a local rate study and that jump between 2010 and 2011 shows what the vole controllers
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office with the planning office fts able to determine. we know the rates have gone up since this time and will conduct another study next year. this has been our number one advocacy tool that the contracts can take and show this is how far apart they are and basically you can see if you look down at the green line that is what our providers get paid now by the state, it is basically 50 cents on the dollar. a lot of the investments we are trying to invest quality now have moved to just a operating support for our providers because they are so threatened with not being able to make the ends meet and make the cost. the profile of the providers veryies. some provide preschool only and some have larger operations and some get rent from the city in terms
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of where they are loidated so it is very different but we are aware of all the profiles of how the providers are trying to survooiv. for most of them they can't clarj enough to pay for the cost of infant care, they pay for 234fants are preschool enrollment and sometimes they have school age care and pay for preschoolers infants with school age enrollment >> supervisor yee. >> 1573 is pretty much market rate? >> in 2011 >> yeah. >> it is 85 percent of the market >> if people were to get that we probably can actually meet-we will probably need help
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with minimum wage in these centers if these centers operate state funded or get 1500 per child. i guess in converse as we move further along and the state isn't giving much of a increase and still giving pretty much about 800 dollars per month per child, and some of this you may or may not know, regardless of the rate you get unlike other fields where you can get maybe fewer dollars, but serve more kids and [inaudible] license cared you are bound by regulations to serve the same number of kids >> in certain ratios
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>> that adds to the inability to many-i bring this up because the minimum wage effort that we see in the city rsh what happens when they are stuck at 800 per child when they should get 1500 and barely make the wages now and we are helping as a city improve [inaudible] city wages >> so, i wish i had the perfect answer to your question. we are really mindful of that issue and we are working with the department of ed and womens caucus and wp the last year we were able to increase the rate by 5 percent. it needs to increase by 5 percent every year until it is much closer to market and we also work it w
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the feds about their guidance around rates and what rates should look like because california has a very different rate system than other places. there are things within the budget that we propose to do, but i think the big picture solution would be to get a regional rate. if we were able it get a regional rate binch marked to our region we would see adjustments to allow to close that gap and do local investments more strategically than just filling the gap with the states short fall >> i guess what are we doing as a city? in regards to reaching out to the state and saying we need it change this. i know we have been trying for a while, but is this a priority
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of the city lobbyist? >> it is a priority now. the city lobbyist got us on the ajunda for repealing the sunset of the pilot for one example. we with are working with department of ed debbie mac mans who runs early education department at cde and has invited us to submit information we have on minimum wage. quite frankly because of the wages we have extensive information and analysis we conductsed on the c wages sites of which the title 5 providers are a huge subset of that program and so we will be providing that report to the state and using it to make our case. i think what is different today than 3 years ago or 4 years ago is suddenly san francisco has [inaudible] we used to be alone in the fight, now it is all of the
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center providers up and down the state especially on the coast. all the higher cost and there is a lot of operators giving up their contracts or not going after expansion dollars because they can't afford to use the dollars. in some ways our strategies here are support the providers to aloam to use the state dollars so we can mxmize what we bring in, but that doesn't proclude us from advocateing strongly for rate increases and some of that is aligning with the feds around the new federal block grant regulations and guidelines and tribeing to leverage that opportunity as well >> it is great to hear because as you know if it wasn't for the fact that the city has stepped up our efforts to support these organizations
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to continue to service it would probably close down and they are serving the lowest income children in the city. it is in our self interest therein city it make it happen because we [inaudible] >> we welcome support from the board and sure you laer from the providers. they are partners and it isn't us gaens them, we rin them together and supervisor i know you are very aware of and have been a great leader in this area so thank you. any other questions about the rates? i didn't bring up the infant rates because that would send you all off, but it is a even greater problem. so, examples of in term its of your
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question around population grouth and we are strug wlg those projection on population growth in a precise way because it is one thing to talk about population grogetd with programming and subsidize and another to talk about bilgding sites and infrastructure. we know there is grouth, we are exappearanceing growth and continued to experience child growth especially among 0-2 year olds so that's something we have been working on and we have one of the most inoviteive modms for child care facilities in the country jeand we have a number of different projucts and strategies we use with low income investment funds and in
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partnership with the mayors now with ipic and mayors office community development housing and community development and other cities departments we work to create new centers and try to keep up the pace. in our 15/16 budget that include 3.3 million pr support. some is targeted for the market octaveia [inaudible] and then the draw down of the city wide developer fee and then some of the local public education enrichment fund. i would say that these funds primarily are to grow new slots or sell the slots that are at risk of being lost and we continue to have pressure for lack of capital for ren ovation and repairs and
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that is a big problem for us. in our work with the mayors office of housing and communethy development, we are tracking the housing pipeline of all the housing built and looking where we can build-this is a strategy we use where we build up the housing to shell and finish thauf shell with developer fee dialers and build the site to match a preselected that is competitively build operator who is the right for the location and mix of population. there ranumber of places in toub we have binl doing thatd and also look at added family child care. space is such a problem and you need so much indoor and out door space for child care that continues to be a challenge so where we can build that and do it feasible is where we do and
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t and where family chile care makes the most sense. one thing i would say in that planning that look at this neighborhood by neighborhood and demand and we want to be very careful about not building care and driving family child care providers out of business but we know where we have short falls of center base care and pick up the slack with family child care and look at that as a system in terms of meeting family needs. this is the a tracker for you to see the growth in licensed sent acapacity since 1998 to this year. this is really a result of lots of different efforts that are made, but the facility fund tracking and more recently
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a policy that any city property has to include a feasibility study. that gives a opportunity to work clously with the state and feds do where they build a facility and think about thew include child care. we vacouple sites we are looking at for that pipeline as well. we have to be able to operate these so whether they are subsidize or partially subsidize that is dependent on the neighborhoods mix and what makes sense for the right operators. >> i also want to mention in termoffs timing we will lose people soon so want to mention to to you so if there are important sides in this to highlight those. >> if anybody wants this specific to their-this is broken done by zip code and we have all that for you. just
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aroun the population grouth in the years budget we are proposing a local rate increase adjustment so we are not eating into our enrollment because every time the rate went up it meant we provide care for fewer children so we are trying to keep windup the rate increases around the voucher rate. we look at growth and pfa enrollment and then we lost all most 10 million in state funds and we are all most back to having those funds restored so that was a lot of contraction and expansion. the city back filled? of that to help the providers keep classrooms open and now that we are back in better budget times--we will plan and monitor and align around population growth and
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child numbers. this shows-you may have seen this, this shows the preschool for all projections for 15 and 16 and 16, 17. in turnls of systems building again, we are work with citizens advasery committee and have a goal of stream lining investment and continue to improve ece work force support. we really took our local dollars in the budget this year and redirected them to cover this expaction of the state reinvestment and also head start moved from san francisco state to non profit which impacted the c wages budget and wanted to make
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surthose teachers and classrooms and centers were covered. i talked about path ways and supports and the registry. we have a family child care quality network that we are developing and it include 250 family child care providers. they all benefit from helt and melthal health consultation and c wages program and participating quality assessment. that is about-there are 700 providers in town and this is a subset of those provider and that is staff to network. it is a strategy particularfry infant and toddlers and we connected all the vouchers were going to places where we invested the quality dollars so this was one of the strategies to make sure
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where we vend for vouchers. thathe low income kids get the benefit of the quality investment. we are look at data cyst mg integration for [inaudible] we want to use technology to find solutions to stream line their business practices. they are outdated and out moded and birdmsome. we are interested in [inaudible] they will all change next year as we come windup the plan so that is just for reference >> i think it is great to see that next year. thank you very much. supervisor yee >> 2 areas of concern i
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heard, one of them being the minimum wage impact and the [inaudible] it will cause. i'm not sure what the actual budget will look like in terms of trying to mitigate that impact. the other one would be in your circle it shows the pie chart shows that [inaudible] service 1 thousand infants probably through the [inaudible] i'm curious is there thinking of how to increase the capacity of san francisco in terms of helping with infant care piece? >> i think it is going be challenging in that we have the fixed amound from peef, but the charge to serve 0-5. weal prr
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conduct a fiscal analysis about where we invest and the charge of the advisory committee and office and the plan that is reviewed by the board is how do we do thoot more strustrategicically and what resources are available to expand it. leverage as much from azwe can from the state and locally have ag0-5 continuum [inaudible] have agfull continual of support. if you can't get into care it is-you can't have access to quality >> i think that is where a strong portnership with dcys spaebl with the funds coming through that can help with 0-3. it would be a good thing. can
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you talk me about minimum wage >> we are concerned and work with the mayors budget and the mayors budget office is taking a comprehensive view on minimum wage and submitted the numbers for the c wages programs where is where we have there most nrfgz information about what the wageerize for teachers. the minimum wage change goes into effect tomorrow or friday. for a provider if you are a 100 percent contracted state program you don't have a way-it isn't like a restaurant where you raise your cocktail price. for our providers there is no where to go to get the money and they are coming to us. we have done estimates on the impact of the minimum wage, but
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that is really for just the staff that would be impacted by the minimum-lifting the minimum wage and it increases ovthe years as we move toward 15 dollars. the non c sites their choice to increase fees for fmlies which is contrary to the goalotches having care be affordable for families, but those are some of the challenges, jrfxz i want to thank you for presentation and make one more comment. on the first slide of page 2 of the presentation, the pie chart, the first pie chart, we have be careful how you represent where it says early childhood work force and subsidies because if someone who isn't familiar with the field were to look at this they would think only services
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need the teachers [inaudi that is a twebl.7 million dollar investment and it is meaningful, but not enough. any other questions >> thank you very much for your presentation. call eeshs that was our last presentation. i'll open up to public dahmsant. if anyone wishes to comment on the item please step forward. i don't know who is left, but come up as you can [inaudible] c mac members voted to support a request for additional funding to support title 5 providers on our rates and as michele showed on the graphs we have a huge disparity in the rates. the city of san francisco, the last dupal years through the title 5 provider gave a 12 percent operating grant so we could keep our doors open while we pursued the goal of changing sacramento to
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change. that operating grant sunsets june 30 and we are asking to put fwo million in the budget to support on going operating grants. that isn't enough we need a additional 2 million to get that life line because we have a rate problem and work force problems and access problem. we have 3 thousand children in san francisco still waiting for subsidized care. to lose providers because we can't keep our doors open because the rates are a issue is even worse. i ask you to consider that c pack request. we visited with most of you aurd and know you are aware of our pritorties >> thank you very much. next speaker, please zrkss thank you mr. sue and [inaudible] good afternoon supervisors. i'll
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here tarepresent the clern and youth fund coalition. the coalition is 30 plus member agencies and dedicated network of service providers and that work to insure all children and families youth get the support they need to 35 in our city. we are dmited to insuring equity and giving priority to children and youths with the highest need. empower ing parents youth and stag holders to give implication in the [inaudible] building public trust for transparency and accountability of meeting the needs of dhern, youth and families. last negative san francisco voters improve a increase in the fund to address needs in the community. the increase in the fund unfolds over 4 years beginning fiscal year 15/16 with 4 million to be added to the fund. therefore
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the children and youth fund urges the mayor and board of supervisor tooz macmize children and youth resources to address unmet needs through grant program development,xpansion and improve. the resources should nolt be diverted to cover increase in minimum wage. the mayor made comment to address fiscal praesher [inaudible] while the children and yooth fund community youth [inaudible] supports the cost of doing business increase for dc [inaudible] the city should invest in the children to support strong agency doing quality work with young peopling in need. giving budget predictions of [inaudible] 1.5 million to support [inaudible] that will divert half tho2 million of the
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4 million increase in the children fund next year. [inaudible] thank yous. next speaker, please >> good afternoon supervisors my name is johny swarts and the executive director of [inaudible] here to represent the tay [inaudible] is group of director representing non profit providers in san francisco. we envision a support system to have access to education, employment housing helt services they need it be successful. pleny are active members of the children youth funnel [inaudible] insure disconduct [inaudible] we want to thank many of you who partdnered with us to advocate for inclusion of taservice tooz be part of the fujd. giveren the expertise and [inaudible]
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working to build effective [inaudible] we believe we is a unique perspective in setting priorities for services. increase in the fund unfolds over 4 years with 4 million to be added because we work the w the paubulation we are advocateing for critical gaps in dhirfbly system and i'm going give you an attachment with more details. we want to advocate the service gap ainalitysis we rented last year and is sound [inaudible] the mayors office and yeneral fund allocation meet the critical needs of disconnected ta. [inaudible] highlight specific taservice gaps and propose service delivery opportunities that can immediately begin to address the gaps. thank you again i'll provide those details to you >> any other member of the public wish to comment? seeing
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none comment is closed. colleagues thank you for sticking this out and all the detarmt heads for being here as we continue to march down budget season. i think it is pretty evidence families is a priority at the board and want to do watt we can to support them. any other comment or question i would love to make a motion to file item 1 >> i want to thank you everyone for coming out and this hearing highlights there is nor to discuss and in the interest oof time i'll save questions and comment but i would like to make that motion on behalf of supervisor farrell to thaibl the hearing >> we vasecond by supervisor yee and take that without objection. matdm clerk do we have any other business in front of us?
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