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 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 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 they are outdated and out moded and birdmsome.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 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 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 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 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 are at 55 percent. people familiar in the field know this early childhood work force, the funding going to that is to provide the services >> right we

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 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 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 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 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] 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 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? >> no mr. chair >> thank you everyone, we are adjourned. it is great

to be here in san francisco and particularly wonderful to be here add this memorial. bob mac donalds secretary of veteran affairs. it is my first trip oon and behalf of [inaudible] to the veterans of our country. we had a meeting this morning, we had mayor lee of course, our great host from the great city of san francisco. we had mayor liby shaft from oakland who couldabout join us for this consference and mayor sam [inaudible] is here from van jos and dave [inaudible]. we all met and discussed what we can do to eliminate veterans

homelessness. there is tru-minds work deeing done in the bay area for veterans. i visited the medical center in san francisco and palo alto and they were 2 of the ones i visited when i became secretary and later today i'll have the opportunity to visit our regional benefits office in oakland. the is a cor ligz of good will here in san francisco represented by the work that is being done in the bay area as well asthis memorial. this is sth first time we brought together mayors and county leaders in a single geographic area and i can tell you based on todays conversation we'll continue to do this all across the country as we work to eliminate veterans homelessness. we had a productive discussion and talked about the best practices were and what we needed to do to improve in the future and share what is work withing.

ultimately we talked about what is best for our veterans and agree there is a moral obligation to end veterans homelessness. as you know, president obama made a bold but attainable goal to ends veterans hometlessness by the oned thf year. he believers as i do that no one has fault for this country should have to fight to have a roof over their head. since 2010 we reduced veterans homelessness by 33 percent and a 43 percent decrease in veterans living on the street. we are pushing hard to eradicate veterans homelessness by the onedf this year. ending veterans homelessness doesn't mean we can prevent every veteran from a housing crisis in the future, but it does mean when and if a housing crisis occurs we have system in place to identify and quickly house all our veterans.

right now va is undergoing the largest reorganization in history. we are reorienting ourselves around veterans out comes and look at everything we do through had lens of the veteran. one of the strategies we are using is increasing use of strategic partnership. we haven't partnerships to be more important in the work and ending veterans homelessness. we have vital partnerships at federal, state and local level that allowed to make substantial progress to date and insure or future success. at the federal level the department of housing urban dwept and also the department of labor are great partners in terms of providing vouchers and other important resources. mayors from across the country have signed the first ladies mayors challenge to end veterans homelessness. as part of that challenge 570 mayors,

governors and other local officials have committed to ending veterans homelessness in their community. mayor lee made that commitment a long time goy and today the new mayor of oakland mayor shaft and mayor recardo agreed to join that challenge and pleased to is add them to the the grope. local non profit organizations like [inaudible] here in san francisco and others across the country have been the boots thereon ground we need to get the job done. it will take all us working together and committed to that same goal. with that, let me turn things over to each thof local leaders. i'm proud of the work they are doing, out standing work and proud to be their partner in ending veterans homelessness. let me first call on mayor ed lee. mayor lee >> thank you for that introduction secretary mac

dawnal and your leadership for our entire country. helly everybody, hpy earth day. i spent most of the morning talking about taking care of earth and climate change and i am so happy we are also simultaneously taking care of the very people we value on this earth. i want to just also welcome to the podium here spl visor jewelry christensen who is a graitpartner in the erftd as well as the entire board of supervisors. i want to thank bay area leaders today like mayor shaft, but also samlocardo and also the president of santa clara county board of supervisors, david cor tezy and representatives of the invaluable pu[inaudible] that is sauch strong partner. i want to welcome veteran affairs

qu we have sited roithd now in the memorial and it is such a bump setting. the sun came out when we were ready to announce this so i know is a blessing more and when we get this veterans memorial building done it will be more fwlessing, so thank you very much for doing all the great favor and finishing the seismic good project. san francisco, is a place that honors and cares for the brave men and women that serve and have served our united states armed services. in fact, we stand here today as a physical embodiment of our cities gratitude. it is also a symbol that our city honors veterans not just with words, but our own actions. i may have made that commitment when it was a challenge to me as a

mayor secretary, but when i came back i asked for a lot of help. i asked for the team work that has been representative of the sports teams as we talked earlier about. it is always this team work that puts the solution together. we started programs like veterans connect, veterans portal so the veterans are easily accessed and linked to housing and education and jobs and other social services. when the veterans rern from service the city provides them with the necessary fraining and education to get thore jobs in the 21 century and that is why we make a commitment to make sure the city college is accredited because that is where the veterans cluster back from service. late last year we housed 130 formally homeless veterans in a safe neighborhood

at 250 kerny street and last year i committed to president obama and first ladyo balma the challenge to end veterans homelessness by the end of this year. we are delivering action gaen for our veterans. we are housing veterans on the streets with mental illness and mental health challenges, substance abuse isues or hiv and aids and who have been homeless for over oo a year or 4 times in the past 3 years. we have done this by forging great partnerships with veterans affair, department of housing and urban development or hud, the veterans medical center, housing authority, numerous non profits and in specifically our [inaudible] shares and private sector partners and more and more partnerships with our real estate and property owners in the city. thanks to all of our

great partners. today i am proud to announce that san francisco has met this challenge by committing the resources necessary to house all our citiescrineicly homeless veterans by the end of this year. we have made housing veterans a priority by providing more local resources need to succeed. allocated additional funding for fiscal year 15/16 and 2017 and 8 budget so we can house all the homeless veterans by the end of the year. we'll continue to build on the success. we received over 200 new project based vouchers for the coming rear through huds vast program which combines rental assistance from hud with case management and clinical services provided by the u.s.

department of veteran affairs. this will be able to house more veterans and by wurging together will accomplish even more. we have got to continue thinking inovateively about this challenge. it is never about one city or county, it is about mayors and countys working together with the private sector, working together with housing providers with public housing to accomplish all this. here in san francisco, we have been proceed to open the cities first navigation center which identifies our homeless and gets them into rapid rehousing. we work with all the partners and today is a demonstration that we can't do alone and irk with in isiloss. the bulb of the meeting together with all the other mayor jz county representatives is how to get out of the silos iand into the collaboration we so need to

survive. our work is not done and as we know every day, more veterans tragicly fall into homelessness. we understand the incredible challenge we have in the bay area of how expensive it is to do the work necessary here, but we are not going to let that be our barrier. san francisco can and will do more for our homeless veterans and i look forward to working in partnership with oaklond, san jose and santa clara county foohouse our most needed veterans. with that i-i'll give it back to the secretary to introduce the rest of our speakers. thank you >> thank you mayor lee for your instrational words and commitment and also your ac. i would now like to introduce mayor samara dardyo san zose

>> i want to thank secretary mac donald for convening us t. it is meaningful when our leaders in washington convene local leaders to tackle challenges we all share and also want to thank mayor lee for hosting us and his leadership in san francisco and meeting the goal of insuring conicly homeless vets are housed in the city of san francisco. i just came into office 15 weeks ago and taking on the same challenge and we know we valot shorter run way to be able to meet that challenge, but it is important fortuse focus our energy and efforts because after all, our veterans risked aesk for us. and we can do better. we have over 700 homeless vets based on our last census in santsa clara county in 2013, i'm guessing the recent census will reveal we have even more homeless

vets. we know the cost of living is more challenging particularly for the poor and working poor and we have to do more. that is why i'm looking forward to a renewed collaboration with the va to see how we can better break down the silocal, share information to insure services are match would the veterans for mental helt, for alcohol and substance abuse, all the many needs as we try to get more of our vets off the streets and out of the creaks and under a roof. and for us in san jose we recognize the critical need of innovation. it is the largest city in the region and silicon valley we work with non profit like down [inaudible] engage homeless individuals and cleaning the streets and creaks they lived in in exchange for affordable housing and jobs and job

training and we are able to house over 84 # chronicly homeless individuals [inaudible] with the city and county of santa clara and non profit agencies. we have lot of work to do and look forward to working with all the county. dave [inaudible] is going to speak in a mopet to meet this important goal. we have to do better by our vets, they deserve it. thank you. >> thank you sam, indeed it is very inspiring after only 15 month to take on a challenge with a short run way ahead, but i commit to you and the people of san jos rks we'll be there every step of the way and help you meet that commitment. i would like to interdave [inaudible] the [inaudible] board of have supervisors >> thank you mr. secretary, it

is a honor to be here and unlike san francisco in the south bay area the county government and city government are separate entities but we entered into formal partnership with the city of san jose as a county sw and mayorlocardo have talked in a variety of forms about veteraness homelessness is a huge priority for us. as part of that commitment on the county side of things, i anounssed the formation of a 10 month task force in sapt opclara county on homeless that will specifically target veteran and children houmlessness in the countky and city of san jose t. is unthinkable that understood that stood for their cuntsry in the armed forces will sleep tonight under a overpass or creak bed without the services they are entitled to.