i'm looking for wrbd to the hearing and having a robestest bust discondition about how to move this in the right direction so it doesn't take a increase in funding to meet those equitable needs but look at the existing pie of money and fight for additional money for the arts and make sure the process is fair and exwitable and reaching diverse communities throughout san francisco. i'm looking forward to hearing and asking questions and looking forward to public comment. i want to thank you the arts oregs i have worked with many many years including the asian specific cultural center and queer cultural center african american cultural center [inaudible] know there are challenges overthe year specifically with the native american cultural center, but they are still in the mix and we continue to make sure we don't leave a community out. they are all important and all make a difference so this is quhault this is about and looking forward to this discussion >> mr. chair i want to make another point too that i think we are also addressing this iges aat a critical time for san francisco. kyed

appreciate your presentation for being here and look forward to continuing discondition. last up and not least michele rutherford is here from the office of early childhood and education. colleagues this is the last presentation today. thank you for sticking with us. >> i think we are ready to go. >> good afternoon supervisors. [inaudible] deputy director of the new office of early care and education and representing the office today because barbary carlson the director is iowa. we want to thaj supervisor mar for setting the stage of our presentationism we want to answer your questions today and because the office is new give you a framework of what we are irk working on and what our thinking is and respond to the questions. we are excited about the office and what san francisco can do in the field of early care and education. really our main focus is on accessible, affordable and quality fraall san francisco families, but certainly with attention to those children who need it most. like in marieas presentation on dcys, the [inaudible] included in prop c and part of the t