ms. alison to participate in the oversight committee with the children's serviced when my daughter was accepted into a center i participated and served as the head start policy council i've known alison for the past 3 years she actively participated in discusses and answered parents questions and listened to the views and wishes to improve the child services i was able to use her leadership to solve the issues related to childcare for example one the greatest concerns the cut off dates from preschooler would preventive them from getting services many children may not be able to receive the services if their third birthday was after september 1st alison lead the discussion and for childcare services to remain uninterrupted for families not only a executive director but a mother of two young children and worked hard serving low income families and children and knows how important a child's education is for low income families i can share my own journey i have two children my family gun pointed to the united states in 2008, ass after i was able to get the services the agency helped me through the

ms. alison cassady's director of domestic energy policy for the center for american progress. e have ms. emily hammond is professor of law at george washington university law school. and i'm going to call on my colleague mr. pitts of pennsylvania, to introduce one of our witnesses as well. >> i wonder i'm very pleased to introduce mr. scott martin, a county commissioner from lancaster county, pennsylvania, former chairman of the commission and also acted statewide association of county commissioners outstanding commissioner who i'm very pleased to travel down from pennsylvania to be with us today. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. mr. martin, they can bring with us. once again i want to thank all of you. we would look forward to your testimony and i'm sorry that there was such a delay in your testify. we had to reschedule a bit of mr. dolzer, i think you can the longest distance from bonn, germany, and i think you're in the german parliament at the time and you're a professor also add the university of bonn. so we generally appreciate your making this effort adequate to re

alison. >> i'm happy to support that she's well qualified in addition to ms. segal that is very impressive i'm happy to support that motion and sound like we don't have a resolution for seat 8. >> i could go either way i actually you know, i have a preference for tara from her background and also living 90 in the excelsior it is an area that will have good representation for the committee. >> i think they're both terrific i think i'll lean slightly towards maria but happy to support either one depending on supervisor tang they're both very, very strong candidates and will do well. >> through the chair after the interviews i was learning towards maria but i may second supervisor wiener's thoughts on maria. >> maria waters for seat 8 and seat 7 and anwar 9, 10 alison with the residency waiver and 11 can we. >> yep. >> if we have an eligibility issue with lee i'll be for tracey brown for the full board if we have to make an appointment i'll request her name go forward and have to get to that point. >> i don't think we need to forward additionally any qualified ap