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Rules Committee advances several board appointments; Balboa Park CAC seat confirmed over dissent
Summary
The San Francisco Rules Committee on May 26, 2016 moved multiple advisory-board appointments to the full Board and approved a contested Balboa Park Station advisory seat by a 2–1 roll call; the meeting included candidate presentations on child care, homelessness and mental‑health experience.
The San Francisco Rules Committee on Thursday advanced a package of appointments to city advisory bodies and voted 2–1 to confirm a contested Balboa Park Station Community Advisory Committee seat.
Chair Katie Tang convened the committee and the clerk reminded the room that items acted on would be placed on the Board of Supervisors agenda on June 7, 2016. The panel heard presentations from applicants for multiple advisory bodies, including the Child Care Planning and Advisory Council, the Local Homeless Coordinating Board, the Assessment Appeals Board, the Pedestrian Safety Advisory Committee, the Mental Health Board and the Balboa Park Station Community Advisory Committee.
Kelly Dotson, identified on the agenda as the lone applicant for the District 1 seat on the Child Care Planning and Advisory Council, described nearly 20 years working in early childhood and school‑age care and said parents and aftercare staff need more funding and training. "There's so much to be done for funding and training for school age care," Dotson told the committee, saying she wanted…
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