attended, head start program and yfs able to gain so much knowledge and experience working in back in my community and this is where i believe i had a epuffany of working with children and families, especially immigrant families and being laser focused on racial justice. the first in the nation funded by local funds and so now 10 years later the preschool initiative serves over 4 thousand children impt i am a key architect for the city [inaudible] as well as the states qualityerating and improvement system. like many can dts here i'm also a fearless champion for children, but spingely for children of color and immigrant children because these are the

vulnerable populations we know they have least access to high quality early learning experiences mpt i'm also a clab rairth. i believe in collective impact and think this sth way of the fuch squr the only way we can get our best thinking, a collective thinking to tackle societies difficult challenges. this is the only way how we can create the most impact around our fundsing decisions and our policies. i always looked for partnerships especially in communities where we know we would have the most impact and that is communities of color. to attest to that, every head start program and every state pr school program participates in proschool for all which is a testament that the vulnerable and low income children are participating in learning programs. when i started at first 5 we had a low percentage

of preschool children among african american and latino and now we have 80 percent attending high quality preschool and being laser focused on the most vulnerable population is how we advance mptd these are a few examples why my commitment and my passion towards this work and anything i do i do it heart and i know i can bring unique contsbution tooz the committee. i'm committed to our children. i want every child especially those most in need to have access to high quality experiences beginning at birth and now with prop c going all the way through age 24, which is wonderful in terms of providing wrap around service. this work is personal to me. i grew up in the mission and live in the outer mission and have 2

full grown daughters. they are wonderful and talented but i was also a single parent and they are these amazing [inaudible] that i'm very proud of. now i have 2 incredible grand daughters i'm proud of. i know i can lend this perspective and experience and able to contribute to the oversight committee. this is the voice that i would lend to the group, so thank you. >> thank you very much. so, there are no other applicants for the seat so we can open the up to public comment. >> [inaudible]

>> hi, i'm sandy blackman and the executive director of childrens counsel and the chair of c pack in 2015 and so i'm here to urge you to appoint somebody who has experience and deep knowledge and experience working with families with young children in san francisco. when we heard-when we went through the hearing for seat ton, the first time you chose alson suzuki who brought that perspective and there are 3 aket percent of 0-18 year olds or 0- 5 think it is

important perspective to bring to the oversight committee and there are at least 4 qualified can dts in the group that you are considering who bring that expertise and experience. ingred who you heard from, maly [inaudible] gretchen and patty seeingal. who want to take one brief moment to just talk about patty seeingal and express her disappointment she wasn't able to be here today due to illness and remind you patty soolife long advocate for children and families having founded childrens counsel or childcare switch board is a first child care resource [inaudible] someone who got funding under jer a brown in the first administration to create that across the state. create childcare resource and referl

across the state. she is a life time advoqut for families and childrens and would very much like to serve on this committee if appointed. so thank you very much. >> thank you. we have been here before. my name is molly brown and director with gnaw [inaudible] and the coach for the children and youth fundsing coalition. thank you for your patient and consideration and persistence throughout the process. we have 5 nominees before you and let you know we endorse all 5. we think they bring a lot of tal tonight the table and your task is to try and find the right balance of candidates. i want to remind who we endorsed and that is gretchen [inaudible] we think they represent the best of what

the city has to offer and would appreciate your support. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> [inaudible] work with children for [inaudible] i had a little girl that learned to clean walls and clean dishes and cook and she was only 1 years old when she did that and [inaudible] foster mother. the paperwork that they want me to do, they can read so they didn't consider that so that was in 1983. i love children

and [inaudible] and sing songs. [inaudible] i want to know if i can try to get [inaudible] for some of these projects to help out with children. [inaudible] different angles in expressions with children and people that are not [inaudible] with children. they have to remind them what type of person they are and talk to the children about how the organization is and how they -explained it to other people so

you know exactly what to say in [inaudible] and how they [inaudible] and their expressions and this is very important with dogs and animals and trees and [inaudible] >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is [inaudible] executive director of community youth center of san francisco and the committee member for the api counsel. i speak in support of [inaudible] for seat 10 position on the dcy oversight council. i have known [inaudible] and i met him in [inaudible] bringing his group up young asian and [inaudible] visit a program

called ed squire and he is the only one that is bilingual and [inaudible] about if they make any wrong choices they will walk down the same path as him. we ask to keep the communication and witness his dedication and [inaudible] when he was released in 2007 and hired him as a outreach worker for committee response network for asian pacific islander committee. [inaudible] he works 9 to 5 and 9 or 24/7 to help out families and definitely i will see him a big loss for leaving dyc as the project director [inaudible] had however he will be in a different position and [inaudible] for the national

highlight and continue the work [inaudible] great asset to serve for the city and county of san francisco as the dcy oversight advisory counsel. thank you >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> my name is [inaudible] the organizer of [inaudible] i believe all the applicants are very well qualified. i know 3 of them, patty seeingal, [inaudible] gretchen aims, but we can only support one person so today i'm here to speak on behalf of patty seeingal and sad she can not be here. it is very difficult to get a doctors appointment. i have known patty for 20 year jz the founder of the organization i work for, parent voices and i wirk with parents with young children moving from welfare to work and the edge patty gives you is she is just retired so can give 100 percent time. i

know the others here are very well committed but that is the edge patty gives and patty has proven just how capable she is in representing the low income families. parents love here. i have a petition here. i think i providing a copy to supervisor avaloss office and letters from parents and will give it to you. patty is a retired grandparent and she has dedicated more than 40 years of her life speaking for young children needing childcare. children can not speak for them sevl squz we should look at the committee and see where we need the representation. 35 percent of children 0-18 are in the age range and believe patty will represent the low income well. >> thank you very much. seeing

other members we'll close public comment and we'll decide on the item. so, i had originally had all these seats up, the board appointed seat for the ovsight and advisory committee early june. at that testimony we had reviewed many can dts themselves before here and we forwarded alson lee suzuki to the full board and forwarded my comments at the time is i wanted to support tracey brown and there was a real responsibility that alson lee suzuki's application wouldn't qualify because she is a part of a orgz that received fundsing through first 5 through dcyf and that is under the rules of who is on the committee and would not qualify her and that was determined she

isn't qualified based on the rules set up. i indicated at that testimony if alson lee suzukeee was not going to be able to serve, that i would work around supporting tracey brown. that is where i would like to be able to support for the oversight committee. i would like to put it out there that is my first choice for the seat based on the qualifications and also what i indicated in june. colleagues i hope you might able to consider tracey brown, she soostrong candidate and has years of experience serving in non profit organization and children and fam ilies in the mission and has children across san francisco and raised children in the city and knows about the life cycle of services and be a strong

candidate for the committee. >> thank you very much chair avalos. i was one of those who recommended alson lee suzuki and sad to hear she can't qualify based on the constraights placed by the memberoffs the committee. i remember mrs. brown and have no issues. when i supported alson suzuki i was considered diversity on the committee and taking a look that folks we appointed throughout the board so one person that stands out today who would be able to fulfill that is eddy [inaudible] and based on my smeerns working with him i believe he is wonderful candidate. we have to answer questions about the funding and serving as a cyc consultant who received funding through the

city. i'm also bias to [inaudible] had a great conversation with her. i think everyone is very qualified, those were 2 people i'm leaner towards but happy to find a consensus with this committee. >> thank you. supervisor cohen >> not sure if we'll have consensus. i want to acknowledge being a representativeo of the bay view valley neighborhoods allows me a opportunity to work with many of the applicants before us both directly and hands on and indirectly. also i want to acknowledge i spent time serving on the first 5 board so had a great opportunity to get to know and understand the leadership within that organization as well the volen tears and staff members that work to provide quality

preschool for everyone. i'm here today to support luis [inaudible] i think that i like the element of having a latino voice on the body and also very interested and attracted to the fact he is a native san franciscan. with that said, it is a very difficult decision to come to particularly because i have worked clously with eddy and know him in a very i think deep way. i probably know better than luis quite honestly. i have come to weigh this option and think luis brings a insight and cultural awareness that is report to the advisory oversight committee. there it is. >> okay. sounds like we are

deadlocked. so, what i would like to be able to propose-i didn't hear anyone supporting tracey besides myself and i also am pretty much torn between luis [inaudible] and eddy zang both of whom i believe will be great people with very similar backgrounds to serve on the oac. and um diversity was important to me and thought with the seats up by the board of supervisors, there was a lack of someone preserving from the latino community with bilingual spanish and from the asian community who spoke cant neez or mandarin and that is still lacking and that is the seat that is lacking. the

mayors office is past the deadline sfr making their appointments for this body. it is unfochinate. we thought we could look at the overall diversity of the mayor's appointments were to compare to and make a decision on and that isn't the case. even though it is pass thd legal deadline the mayors office is waiting to see who we appoint before they decide. i expect candidates who are not necessarily appointed today whos names are in the mayors office have a chance to be appointed by the mayor as well so whatever we don't decide today can be accomplished in that office and that is up to their decision making. what i'm in a round about way of doing, i will support mrs. zang and my appallgies to mr. [inaudible] who i believe served san francisco very very well and continues to do so and who i

have known for a long time for his work in the community as well. it is hoard hard not to support you luis, but i do want to support eddy moving forward and that we might [inaudible] we have a motion from other committee members i'll be happy to support that >> i apology earlier that i would be fine supporting [inaudible] given i think as supervisor cohen mentioned the experience with the and back ground with [inaudible] violence prevention. i'm okay with mr. aroacha or mr. zang. i want to ask the city attorney to answer the question about the funding provided to cy c and if that poses a conflict

>> cyc, if dcyf is a funding decision maker for cyc then yes, that would be a conflict. i think that is the-i think the issue here is timing, is that right? >> from my understand i think that mr. zang is going to be serving on a fellowship. i don't know if we wanteds to come up but based on the application information i saw he is on board as a consultant and not full time employee. >> yes, i'm transitioning to my fellowship from the [inaudible] foundation so i'm a fellow beginning sep tember 1 so that is in line with the beginning of the oversight committee, the actual beginning of the at that

point in the meeting. >> and then i think i saw something that said you remain on board as a cyr consultant- >> the conceltant comes from the general fund i believe. correct me if i'm wrong. it isn't dcyf money it is general fund money. >> not funding that is a grant from dcyf to cyc. >> no it is the fund raising done through gala and donations and it is a very small percentage-i'm only doing 5 hours so it isn't that much money. i'll show why i want to be a consultant because i help

build the brarch office in the bay view and we just now built a foundation to create services out there so i don't want to just leave like that, i want to be able to make sure there is a transsquigz help so that is why i'm willing to be a consultant otherwise i would just focus on my fellowship. >> thank you. >> deputy city attorney john gibner, the test for qual fiication doesn't turn on whether a particular counselrr is paid through dcyf funding it is are they employee who receives dcyf funding and it sounds here mr. zang isn't a employee but a consultant hired for a handful of hours for the organization so that isn't a conflict because he isn't a employee at the time if he is

appointed in september. >> thank you for the clarification. >> there is something i want to acknowledge, when we think of early childhood education we think about women. i think naturally because of being mothers and stair typically being considered to be more of the nurtureing of the 2 genders, i am excited that both luis andiedy are interested serving. i know these gentlemen and they are excellent fathers and family men. i can support eddy at the time if it will bring consensus around this deliberation. i'm relucted to support in this role because i'm selfish skn want him to continue what he is doing in the bay view. he provided a fantastic service to not just bay view but also

visitation valley and been a liaison connecting the youth around cultural awareness and bringing them to democratic process how local government and non profit works intersects with being a young person growing up and creating a strong sense of sieving par pisitation. supervisors why don't we make a motion to recommend eddy shall face zang to this body. also i think-do we need to take a motion for residency waver? okay. so, there is 2 motions i would like to put out there. if we can agree on that. >> i second that motion. >> we are unanimous on that. the motion-go ahead. >> the motion-[inaudible] the

motion is to support eddy zang for the seat on the seat 7 on the oac for dcyf and ifcludes a residency requirement and we take that without objection. congratulation jz thank you everyone for your intrest in serving and your work. >> yes, please keep up the good work. >> next item, please. >> item 2 is a hearing to consider appointing one member to the bicycle advisory committee [inaudible] there is one seat and one applicant. >> this is a committee report. is mr. wells here, mr. paul wells? >> thank you very much. thank you supervisors tang, avalos

and cohen for previous consideration and the opportunity today. i am long time cyclist in san francisco resident of potrero hill for quite some time. in my media career we have done things in the city for bicycleing and that includes the great san francisco bike adventure, which was in the early 90's sponsored by then krqru now alice and [inaudible] we went across the city. this predates crittle critical [inaudible] biceling around the city back in south of market when soma was filled with freight train tracks i had my rear bike go into the track and it made a left. i torn my

rotator ruch going to bicycle to work day and had a back and knee operation so i'm not on my bicycle but besides the reasons for joining the bicycle advisory committee i also hope to get back on my bike more and lose weight. i'm really pleased at the growth of safe bike lanes or designated bike lanes in the city. the painting of them in green. i'm in contact with bert hill the chairman of the committee and put me on the monday night meeting and agenda so get to meet everyone else and hope to listen and see what the agenda is and how people take positions with my other representatives. i'm very please today represent district 10 and also want to thank lisa and summer and an dria bruce in your office for your help in

getting this moving, so we can do it before the summer is out and it will start raining and won't be on my bike so much. >> we hope it starts raining. >> yes, i hear-bicycleing to work is something i have done. it is curt tailed by a few mishaps. i remember bicycle coalitions coexist early sloge squn would as a member of the committee take a balanced approach. we do need to coexist. a bicycle can be just as dangerous as any other vehicle. pedestrian, bicycleest and people in motor vehicles have a shared responsibility to obey traffic laws. we are very laissez faire about bike squz there

isn't a bike requirement knowing the rules of the road for bicycleest. i have seen in the latest bike coalition news letter which i receive, they are up in arms about the changes in the park station police department in what they are categorizing as a crack down on bicycleest and this is the very thing my experience with all phases and different non profits and phases with city government and people involved hope come into play and help out and mateigate and find some sort of cohesiveness and a middle ground between divergent parties so we move forward because as we move forward and more people take to their bikes we'll have to have more responsibility taken about where the bicycles are going, how they are going and on all phases