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Board directs Office of Early Care and Education to draft five-year spending plan to implement Prop C
Summary
Supervisor Yee introduced implementing legislation for the voter-approved Early Care and Education for All initiative (Prop C). The ordinance directs the Office of Early Care and Education to develop a five‑year spending plan and community engagement process; the board passed the item on first reading.
Supervisor Yee presented implementing legislation following the June passage of Proposition C, the Early Care and Education for All initiative. Yee said the ordinance directs the Office of Early Care and Education to create an initial five-year spending plan and a community engagement process and to return to the board within nine months with the plan for approval.
"This legislation before you today directs the office of early care and education to create the initial 5 year spending plan and a process for community engagement in the creation of the plan," Supervisor Yee said. He described the measure's origins in volunteer signature drives and said passage represents "the largest local investment nationwide" in early education.
Yee also noted that the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) have filed suit seeking to overturn the voter measure; he said that challenge did not change the board's intent to move implementation forward. "We will not allow the largest commercial landlords to use their money and power to take away your votes," Yee said. The ordinance passed first reading without objection.
Why it matters: Prop C provides a locally generated revenue stream to expand early care and education; the implementing legislation creates the procedures and community engagement steps the city will use to allocate funds and produce a five-year plan.
Next steps: The Office of Early Care and Education will submit the procedures and, within nine months, a proposed five-year spending plan for board approval.
