Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the September 15th, 2025 Rules Committee meeting.

I am your chair, Supervisor Shimon Walton.

I'm joined by Supervisor Cheryl and soon to be joined by President Mendelman.

Today's clerk is Victor Young, and we have Eugene Labadia with SFGov TV that will make sure that this meeting is broadcast, broadcasted on SFGov TV so that the public will be able to know how we conduct city business today.

Mr.

Clerk, do you have any announcements?

Yes, public comment will be taken on each item on this agenda when your item of interest comes up and public comment is called.

Please line up to speak on your right.

Alternative, you may submit public comment in writing, either of the following ways.

Email them to myself, the rules committee clerk at VICTOR.yo N G at SFgov.org.

If you submit public comment via email, it'll be included as part of the file.

You may also send your written comments via US mail to our office in City Hall when Dr.

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Room 244 San Francisco, California 94102.

Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices.

Documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk.

Items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors' agenda of September 23rd, 2025, unless otherwise stated.

That completes my initial announcements.

Thank you so much.

Please call item number one.

Yes, item number one is a motion appointing Crystal Hawkins, residency requirement waived.

Term ending March 19, 2028 to the Childcare Planning Advisory Council.

Thank you so much.

And of course, this is something my office was happy to do, and I believe Crystal is here.

So please come up and tell us why you want to serve.

Good morning.

My name is Crystal Hawkins.

I'm a licensed clinical social worker with close to two decades of mental health services.

I wonder if that's like our neighborhood, South Central LA.

And once I moved to the Bay, I realized that it very much so was, with a lot of community family history, but also being under-resourced and underserved.

So as my time with the San Francisco Unified School District, I believe a lot with the work of the council is doing that we are aligning policy.

We know policy informs funding, but how can we inform that policy to ensure that the children and the families in the community we serve are getting the equitable much-needed services they are?

I don't have children of my own, so it's an honor to do this work in partnership, not only with teachers who serve children and families, but also families who come with a cultural knowledge of funds as what's best for their babies as a result of the school district's ongoing significant disproportionality sanction over referral, suspension of expulsion of black students.

Eight years ago, I developed the Shoe Strings Children's Center, California's only social emotional and sensory integration program in the state of California in a school district.

And I'm proud to say that our program has been disrupting significant disproportionality, disrupting the preschool to prison pipeline, disrupting over-referring, over-identifying, and expulsion of black students followed by Latinx students.

So my hope is that I get the opportunity to do this work in partnership with CPAC so we can ensure that each and every family have exactly what they need to thrive.

Thank you, Ms.

Hawkins.

And I don't see any questions or statements by colleagues, so we will call for public comment on this item.

Yes, members of the public who wish to speak on this item should line up to speak at this time.

Each speaker will be allowed two minutes.

Are there any members of the public who'd like to speak on this matter?

There are no additional speakers.

Thank you.

Seeing no speakers.

Public comment is now closed.

And again, I just want to thank Ms.

Hawkins for being willing to bring her talents, her skill set uh to work on our our CPAC.

The work is very important, and we need someone, of course, with the qualifications, but also the dedication and commitment to achieving success for our young people here in San Francisco.

So with that, I will make a motion to move this item for our item forward with recommendation with the residency waiver required.

Yes, on that motion.

Vice Chair Cheryl.

Aye.

Cheryl, I, Member Mannerman.

Aye.

Madam and I, Chair Walton.

Aye.

Walton I that motion passes without objection.

Thank you.

Motion carries.