the office of ecc citizens' advisory committee will be a nine member body appointed by the mayor and the board of supervisors that will represent a cross section of parents, early care and education providers, experts, and advocates to help advise the director and the office to help our city expand our early care education for all, and to offer expertise in the areas of policy, planning, collaboration and strategic partnership. the development of this body was a collaborative effort with the staff at the office of early care and education, the child care planning and advisory committee, and other entities such as the department of children youth and family, san francisco first five and the san francisco unified school district, so i really want to give a lot of thanks for all the people that were a part of this important discussion including supervisors avalos and kim, and for some of you we already know it was supervisor avalos who pushed for developing this office before i got on board,. i was outside at the time trying to push so i want to give him a -- acknowledge his effort in r