fonda davidson, please come forward. thank you for sharing your time. >> so, good afternoon and thank you for hearing about my interest in qualifications to serve as a committee member on the community action committee for the new office of early education. my name is fonda davidson, i serve as an executive director at the cross cultural family sent e we serve over 350 children at 11 child development centers in various neighborhoods in san francisco. we serve -- we have four centers in visitation valley and what w we'll soon be opening a new center at the 50 raymond community building within the next few weeks. >> [inaudible]. >> we have two centers in the tenderloin, the western adashing, a center in haze valley castro and two site ins the richmond valley neighborhood districts. four of our centers serve children 0-3 and our other centers serve 0 to preschool. throughout the past years, i've had the opportunity to serve son a number of initiatives and advisory committees pertaining to early education, some of which are

name is lynn maris, i'm standing as director of the [inaudible] i wanted to strongly support fonda davidson to be on this committee, fonda has worked with me for the last 8 years but she has been a leader in early childhood education for 30 plus years. it is not an accident that fonda dividers and cross cultural family centers have taken on some of the centers in the city who have been in crisis and the city and the state department of education have called on fonda to serve this city and the title five families who go to those centers. she is one of the best leaders in this city in early childhood education. it's been an honor to have [inaudible] as part of the model centers and we will continue to support her in all the work she does in all of the neighborhoods in this city. >> thank you. >> thank you very much, are there any other members of the public who would like to comment? no? anyone else who wants to come up, come up here by the wall too. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisor tang and chair avalos, i'm barbara [inaudible] director of the [inaudible] education, i want to thank y