and william rivas. >>> hi, my name is donna cahill. i'm the executive director of holy family day hill, earliest education center founded in 1900. i'm also a member of the board of the child care provider association. and i think i speak on behalf of probably everybody in this room and city when i say [speaker not understood] when i say how moving it was to hear supervisors yee, avalos and kim emphasize the expansion of early childhood education. those words have been long awaited by all of us and it's heart warming to see all of you try to coalesce around a consensus. i've been in my position a little over 17 years. i do not want to go back to the days of pre-peef. and in order to be able to serve the children and the behaviors that are manifested by them, we need these dollars and we need the expansion. as it has already been said, we need the expansion to support the unmet needs. and we also ask for a fair, equitable and transparent distribution of these funds. thank you. >>> hello, my name is [speaker not understood] and i'm the pr

donna cahill. nancy fuentes. rosie [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood]. >>> hi, thank you. i thank you all for sponsoring this hearing and being open to the recommendation that is coming from the community about the children's fund. so, i'd like to take you all back to 1999. i was 18 years old, turning on the verge of 19. some of you actually here in this room never thought about being a supervisor actually knew me at that time. i was appointed by then supervisor mark leno to be on the san francisco youth commission. at that time there were no district wide elections, closed to city-wide seats. so, i was appointed. while i was on the youth commission i became homeless and that's rough. so, i was 19 years old. actually working campaigning getting children's fund passed. john avalos [speaker not understood], people at coleman advocates. and i remember during this time campaigning, i remember writing legislation at city hall. i thought to myself, where am i going to sleep tonight? the reason why it was so bad, one was called the [sp