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          GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE. 
          UH, IT'S 4 0 4, SO WE'LL GET STARTED. 
          A QUORUM BEING PRESENT. 
          I WANTED TO CALL THIS AFTERNOON'S JUNE 29TH, 2020 SIXTH JOINT ROUNDTABLE, WORKING MEETING WITH THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE TO ORDER. 
          THE CALL OF THE MEETING IS TO DISCUSS THE CAMBRIDGE PRESCHOOL PROGRAM, INCLUDING MEANS TESTING AND PROGRAM EXPANSION AS OUTLINED IN CITY MATTERS. 
          AGENDA ITEM 2026 DASH 92. 
          ORIGINALLY REFERRED TO THE HUMAN SERVICES AND VETERANS COMMITTEE. 
          THE FIRST ORDER OF 
          [ROLL CALL]
BUSINESS IS A ROLL CALL OF ALL THE MEMBERS. 
          PRESENT, PLEASE. 
          COUNCILLOR ZUBIE. 
          PRESENT. 
          PRESENT, VICE MAYOR. 
          PRESENT. 
          PRESENT. 
          COUNCILOR FLAHERTY. 
          PRESENT. 
          PRESENT. 
          COUNCILOR MCGOVERN. 
          PRESENT. 
          COUNSELOR NOLAN. 
          PRESENT, COUNCILLOR SIMMONS. 
          PRESENT. 
          PRESENT. 
          COUNCILOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          PRESENT. 
          PRESENT. 
          COUNCILOR ZUI. 
          PRESENT. 
          PRESENT. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          PRESENT. 
          PRESENT. 
          VICE CHAIR. 
          DOOBY. 
          PRESENT. 
          PRESENT. 
          MEMBER DEPALO SANTOS. 
          PRESENT. 
          PRESENT. 
          MEMBER HARDING. 
          ABSENT. 
          MEMBER HUDSON. 
          ABSENT. 
          MEMBER JAKE KUMAR. 
          PRESENT. 
          PRESENT. 
          MEMBER SIDIKI WAS, I THINK THAT WAS HUDSON. 
          YES. 
          SORRY, THAT WAS ELIZABETH HUDSON. 
          CLERK. 
          OKAY. 
          MEMBER HUDSON IS PRESENT. 
          MEM MEMBER JAKE KUMAR. 
          ABSENT. 
          I THINK HE'S TRYING TO GET BACK IN THE ZOOM. 
          OKAY. 
          MEMBER SIDIKI, PRESENT CHAIR WEINSTEIN ABSENT. 
          SO, CHAIR WEINSTEIN, UM, IS JUST GOING TO BE JOINING LATE. 
          UM, HE HAD A PRIOR COMMITMENT, BUT HE'LL BE JOINING WHEN HE CAN. 
          AND THEN I KNOW THAT MEMBER JAYMAR WAS ONLINE. 
          UH, AND WE'LL TRY. 
          MEMBER JAYMAR IS ON NOW. 
          OKAY. 
          MEMBER JAYMAR. 
          I'LL GO TO THE CLERK MEMBER JAYMAR. 
          PRESENT. 
          PRESENT. 
          AND YOU HAVE FIVE MEMBERS RECORDED AS PRESENT. 
          AND TWO RECORDED IS ABSENT PER CHAPTER TWO OF THE ACTS OF 2025, ADOPTED BY MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL COURT AND APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR. 
          THE CITY IS AUTHORIZED TO USE REMOTE PARTICIPATION AT MEETINGS OF THE CAMBRIDGE CITY COUNCIL. 
          YOU CAN ALSO VIEW THE MEETING VIA, VIA THE CITY'S OPEN MEETING PORTAL OR ON THE CITY'S CABLE CHANNEL 22. 
          PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE AUDIO AND VIDEO RECORDS THIS MEETING AND MAKES IT AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC FOR FUTURE REVIEWING. 
          IN ADDITION, THIRD PARTIES MAY ALSO BE AUDIO AND VIDEO RECORDING THIS MEETING. 
          SO AS FAR AS THE AGENDA, UH, WE WILL HAVE A DISCUSSION IN YOUR MATERIALS IN FRONT OF YOU. 
          WE HAVE A 
          [COMMUNICATIONS FROM OTHER CITY OFFICERS]
COMMUNICATION RECEIVED FROM CHERYL OLSON, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CAMBRIDGE FROM THE CAMBRIDGE OFFICE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD, TRANSMITTING A PRESENTATION, UM, ABOUT THE CAMBRIDGE PRESCHOOL PROGRAM. 
          SO, UH, SHE WILL BE PRESENTING, UM, WE'LL DO REALLY QUICK OR OPENING AND INTRODUCTIONS JUST SO THAT WE'RE ALL CITY COUNCIL KNOWS WHO EACH OTHER IS. 
          BUT THE FOLKS HERE JUST AS A, UH, A REMINDER, UH, WE CAN HEAR, WE CAN HAVE YOUR INTRODUCTIONS, AS I SAID. 
          THEN WE'LL HAVE A PRESENTATION AND THEN WE'LL OPEN IT UP, UM, FOR DISCUSSION. 
          AND I'LL JUST SAY THAT AS THE CALL SAYS, THIS WAS ORIGINALLY REFERRED TO THE HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE, BUT WE'RE HAVING A JOINT ROUNDTABLE, UH, WITH THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE, UM, TO INVOLVE THEM. 
          UM, UH, AND WE'VE DONE THESE ROUNDTABLES, UH, JOINT ROUNDTABLES IN THE PAST. 
          AND AS WE ALL KNOW, THIS HAS BEEN A LONG, YOU KNOW, LONG WORKED ON PRIORITY FOR THE CITY. 
          UH, AND IMPLEMENTING THE CPP PROGRAM, UH, WAS A HUGE, UH, INITIATIVE THAT TOOK MULTIPLE, MULTIPLE, UH, YEARS. 
          AND WE JUST FINISHED YEAR TWO OF THE PROGRAM. 
          AND THE COUNCIL CONTINUES TO HAVE A HUGE INTEREST IN EVALUATING, UM, THIS PROGRAM AND PLAYING A ROLE IN ITS FUTURE, UM, AS SHOWN IN THE COUNCIL'S RECENT PRIORITY SETTING PROCESS IN THE FINANCE COMMITTEE. 
          SO, WITH THAT, I'LL TOSS IT TO SUPERINTENDENT. 
          UM, YOU CAN INTRODUCE YOURSELF. 
          YES. 
          C GO AHEAD, COUNCILLOR SIMMONS. 
          UH, THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR. 
          POINT INFORMATION. 
          ARE WE GONNA BE EXERCISING THE RULES THAT WE USE DURING OUR OWN MEETINGS, WHICH EACH PERSON FROM THE ELECTED SIDE HAS FIVE MINUTES TO HOLD THE FLOOR? BECAUSE IF THAT'S THE CASE, THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE MAY NOT KNOW THAT. 
          AND YOU MAY WANNA JUST TELL THEM IF THAT'S HOW WE'RE GOING TO PROCEED. 
          I WASN'T PLANNING TO, BUT I THINK WE'RE GOING TO DO A TWO. 
          WE'LL STILL DO TWO QUESTIONS. 
          OKAY. 
          VERY GOOD. 
          YEAH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          SO WITH THAT, UM, I'LL PASS IT TO THE TEAM OVER HERE AT INTRODUCE THEMSELVES. 
          UH, IAN HUANG, CITY MANAGER, DAVID MURPHY, SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 
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CHERYL OLSON, OFFICER EARLY CHILDHOOD. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON. 
          JOSEPH CINI, ASSISTANT, UH, ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER, HUMAN SERVICES. 
          GREAT. 
          AND JUST A REMINDER, THERE'S NO VOTES IN THE ROUND TABLE. 
          THIS IS SOLELY A DISCUSSION. 
          WE'LL BE OVER, UH, WE START AT 4 0 4. 
          WE'LL STAND, WE'LL END BY 6 0 4. 
          THEN WE'LL CONTINUE THE FUND. 
          SO WITH THAT, WE CAN CONTINUE AND SHOW THE PRESENTATION. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON. 
          WE'LL GO AHEAD AND JUMP RIGHT IN. 
          UH, BEFORE WE DO SO, AS WE'RE PULLING UP THE SLIDES, I JUST WANNA ACKNOWLEDGE A COUPLE OF MY COLLEAGUES, UM, NICOLE JOHNSON NEGRON IN THE BACK. 
          SHE IS OUR CPP PROGRAM MANAGER. 
          SHE IS INSTRUMENTAL IN KEEPING THIS. 
          NICOLE, CAN YOU, CAN YOU STAND ? SHE KEEPS OUR CPP TRAINS RUNNING AND KEEPS THE PROGRAM HIGH QUALITY. 
          WE ALSO HAVE LIZ BAROCK, SHE'S OUR PROGRAM QUALITY DIRECTOR. 
          LIZ IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE COACHING, MENTORING, ALL THAT TYPE OF WORK TO SUPPORT EDUCATORS NOT ONLY WITHIN THE CPP PROGRAM, BUT EDUCATORS ACROSS THE CITY AS WELL. 
          UM, AND TWO ADDITIONAL COLLEAGUES, MATT AND LEO, I WANNA CALL OUT AS WELL. 
          IF YOU COULD JUST WAVE FROM, UM, FROM IAN'S STRATEGY TEAM. 
          THEY WERE REALLY INCREDIBLY HELPFUL IN TERMS OF PUTTING THESE SLIDES TOGETHER TONIGHT. 
          OKAY. 
          WE CAN GO AHEAD TOO. 
          PLEASE DO. 
          I, I WOULD JUST ADD MAYOR THAT, UH, DR. HEATHER FRANCIS, OUR CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICER, IS JOINING US REMOTELY, I THINK PERHAPS NEEDS A PROMOTION TO PANELISTS, BUT IS ALSO, WE'RE WORKING ON THAT RIGHT NOW. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          APPRECIATE IT. 
          THANKS. 
          OKAY, I THINK WE CAN GO TO SLIDE THREE. 
          ALRIGHT, WE'LL STOP RIGHT THERE FOR NOW. 
          SO THIS JUST GIVES AN OVERVIEW OF HOW WE'LL SPEND OUR TIME TOGETHER THIS AFTERNOON. 
          I AM GONNA SPEND A FEW MINUTES TALKING ABOUT THE BACKGROUND AND THE HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF CPP. 
          MANY OF YOU ARE AWARE OF THAT. 
          UM, BUT FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE NOT, WE'LL, WE'LL SPEND A MOMENT WITH THAT. 
          AND THEN WE'LL TALK ABOUT THE STATUS OF CPP NOW. 
          SO I'LL GIVE YOU AN OVERVIEW OF HOW CPP IS DOING NOW THAT WE HAVE JUST FINISHED OUR SECOND YEAR OF IMPLEMENTATION. 
          UM, WE'LL ALSO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE REMAINING NEEDS IN THE EARLY CHILDHOOD LANDSCAPE ACROSS THE CITY. 
          AND, UH, PER THE COUNCIL'S REQUEST, WE'LL SPEND SOME TIME TALKING ABOUT POSSIBLE POLICY DECISIONS IN THE FUTURE, INCLUDING POSSIBLY MEANS TESTING, UM, AND ALSO SOME, SOME CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING EXPANSION. 
          WE CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. 
          OKAY. 
          SO BEFORE WE JUMP INTO THE MAIN CONTENT OF THE EVENING, THERE WERE A COUPLE THINGS, A FEW THINGS THAT CAME UP IN OUR LAST CPP ROUND TABLE JUST A LITTLE OVER A YEAR AGO, UH, THAT I JUST WANTED TO ADDRESS BEFORE WE JUMP IN. 
          THERE WAS A QUESTION RAISED ABOUT THE INCLUSION IN CPP OF FAITH AFFILIATED, UH, PRESCHOOLS. 
          AND AS MANY OF YOU HAVE PROBABLY SEEN, THE CITY'S LAW DEPARTMENT LOOKED AT THAT AND ISSUED A MEMO AND DETERMINED THAT, UM, THERE THEY'RE NOT VIOLATING ANY LAWS BY INCLUDING FAITH AFFILIATED PRESCHOOLS IN CPP AND THE COURTS WOULD SUPPORT THAT. 
          UH, QUESTIONS ALSO CAME UP ABOUT SUPPORT FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY-BASED PRESCHOOL PROVIDERS, AND SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE CITY'S PARTNERSHIP WITH LARGER CORPORATE PRESCHOOL, UM, ORGANIZATIONS AS WELL. 
          AND IN RESPONSE TO THAT FEEDBACK, WE'VE TAKEN A NUMBER OF STEPS OVER THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF, UM, OR SO TO MINIMIZE THE FOR-PROFIT FOOTPRINT. 
          SO WE STILL DO HAVE SOME FOR-PROFIT PROVIDERS IN THE CITY, BUT THE NUMBER OF CLASSROOMS THAT ARE IN FOR-PROFIT PROVIDERS HAS BEEN REDUCED SIGNIFICANTLY, UM, IN ALIGNMENT WITH OUR, OUR WANTING TO, TO SUPPORT THE, THE LOCAL NONPROFIT COMMUNITY IN THE CITY. 
          SIMILARLY, EARLY AFTER THE LAUNCH OF CPP QUESTIONS WERE RAISED ABOUT EMPTY SEATS. 
          AND SO THERE WERE A NUMBER OF EMPTY SEATS, UM, IN CPP CLASSROOMS ACROSS THE CITY. 
          AND AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, THAT HAS A FINANCIAL IMPACT, UM, PROVIDERS. 
          SO WE DID QUITE A, QUITE A BIT OF WORK IN THAT FIRST YEAR, AGAIN, WORKING WITH THE STRATEGY TEAM AS WELL, TO COME UP WITH A FORMULA TO HELP US BETTER PREDICT HOW MANY SEATS WE'RE GONNA NEED FROM YEAR TO YEAR. 
          AND THEN BASED ON THAT FORMULA, THAT'S THE NUMBER OF SEATS WE PUT IN THE SYSTEM. 
          QUICK QUESTION. 
          COULD YOU SAY WHAT CPP IS JUST FOR PEOPLE THAT MAY MEMBERS, THEY'RE NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE JARGON. 
          SO COUNCILLOR SIMMONS WAS ASKING ABOUT CPP CAMBRIDGE PRESCHOOL PROGRAM. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          YES. 
          CAMBRIDGE PRESCHOOL PROGRAM, CPP, AND YOU MIGHT ALSO HEAR ME SAY OEC. 
          THAT'S THE OFFICE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD. 
          OKAY. 
          OKAY. 
          SO MINIMIZING THE EMPTY SEATS. 
          SO USING THIS FORMULA, UM, WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO, FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS IN A ROW NOW, HAVE IT SO THAT WE HAVE JUST ENOUGH EMPTY SEATS IN THE SYSTEM TO STILL ALLOW FOR FAMILY CHOICE, BUT REALLY MINIMIZING THE NUMBER OF, OF, OF EMPTY SEATS IN THE SYSTEM SO THAT, UH, OUR, OUR PROVIDERS ARE NOT TAKING A FINANCIAL HIT. 
          UM, QUESTION WAS ALSO RAISED ABOUT QUALITY. 
          WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT THAT IN A FUTURE SLIDE, SO I'M GONNA SKIP THAT ONE FOR NOW. 
          WE CAN GO AHEAD TO THE NEXT SLIDE. 
          ALL RIGHT, SO THIS SLIDE JUST PROVIDES AN OVERVIEW OF OUR CURRENT WORK. 
          IN A MOMENT, WE'LL TALK AGAIN ABOUT THE, THE HISTORY AND THE EVOLUTION OF CPP, BUT THIS GIVES YOU A 
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SENSE OF THE WORK OF OUR OFFICE. 
          CURRENTLY. 
          OFFICE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD WAS CREATED TO STRENGTHEN THE EARLY CHILDHOOD ECOSYSTEM. 
          IT IS QUITE NEW AS AN OFFICE, I BELIEVE WE ARE IN GOING INTO OUR FIFTH YEAR. 
          UM, AND CPP ALSO, LIKE I SAID, WE JUST FINISHED OUR SECOND YEAR OF IMPLEMENTATION, SO THAT ALSO IS QUITE NEW. 
          AND SO YOU'LL SEE OUR VISION AND MISSION, UM, BOTH TO ENSURE ACCESS TO HIGH QUALITY PRESCHOOL FOR CHILDREN ACROSS THE CITY, REGARDLESS OF INCOME. 
          UM, BUT THEN ALSO ON THE MISSION SIDE TO CONNECT THEIR ECOSYSTEM TO ADVOCATE, UM, AND ADVANCE THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ACROSS THE SYSTEM. 
          AND SO YOU'LL SEE IN THE LITTLE BOX BELOW THERE, UH, CPP IS A BIG PART OF THE WORK OF OUR OFFICE, BUT IT IS NOT THE ONLY THING THAT OUR OFFICE DOES. 
          UM, OUR OFFICE ALSO SUPPORTS, UH, PROGRAM QUALITY, AS I MENTIONED, THAT IS A LOT OF THE WORK THAT LIZ'S TEAM AND ALSO MY COLLEAGUE, UM, EMILY CAJAS, WHO LEADS OUR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT TEAM. 
          UH, THEY DO COACHING FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS ACROSS THE CITY, MENTORING FOR PROGRAM DIRECTORS, WHICH IS REALLY UNIQUE. 
          I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH ANY OTHER CITY THAT HAS THAT TYPE OF RESOURCE OFFERED. 
          UM, AND ALSO PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAININGS AND SESSIONS THAT HAPPEN THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. 
          AND THOSE ARE AVAILABLE TO ANY EARLY CHILDHOOD PROFESSIONAL ACROSS THE CITY. 
          IT IS NOT LIMITED TO JUST CPP. 
          AND THEN OUR FAMILY ENGAGEMENT WORK, WHICH AS YOU MIGHT IMAGINE FOCUSES ON MAKING SURE THAT ALL CHILDREN IN THE CITY, UM, AND THEIR FAMILIES EXPERIENCE HIGH QUALITY FAMILY ENGAGEMENT SERVICES. 
          THEY ALSO WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH OUR PARTNERS AT CENTER FOR FAMILIES. 
          SO WHEN THERE ARE FAMILIES WHO MIGHT BENEFIT FROM CASE MANAGEMENT, AN ADDITIONAL LEVEL OF SUPPORT, UM, THEY MAKE SURE THAT THOSE FAMILIES ARE CONNECTED TO THE RESOURCES, UH, THAT MIGHT BE HELPFUL. 
          ON THE RIGHT. 
          GOING TO CPP SPECIFICALLY, YOU'LL SEE THE GOALS THERE. 
          EXPANDING ACCESS TO PRESCHOOL TO MAKE SURE THAT A FAMILY'S INCOME DOES NOT DETERMINE THEIR ACCESS TO HIGH QUALITY PRESCHOOL. 
          UM, AND THEN OF COURSE TO ENHANCE PRESCHOOL QUALITY WITHIN CPP. 
          SO IN THE ELIGIBILITY BOX, THE LITTLE GREEN STARS ARE THE STARS THAT REFERENCE CHILDREN WHO ARE GUARANTEED A-C-P-P-C. 
          SO ALL FOUR YEAR OLDS IN THE CITY ARE GUARANTEED A-C-P-P-C. 
          ALL THREE-YEAR-OLDS THAT HAVE PRIORITY STATUS, WHICH IS INCOME BASED, ARE ALSO GUARANTEED A SEAT. 
          WE DO NOT TURN AWAY ANY 3-YEAR-OLD, UM, THAT HAS PRIORITY STATUS. 
          THREE YEAR OLDS WITH NON-PRIORITY STATUS. 
          WE ALSO REFER TO THEM SOMETIMES AS GENERAL THREE YEAR OLDS. 
          THOSE ARE THREE YEAR OLDS WHOSE FAMILIES ARE ABOVE 65% OF A MI. 
          THEY ARE, THEY HAVE ACCESS TO CPP, BUT THOSE SEATS ARE LIMITED. 
          UM, SO THERE IS NOT A GUARANTEE THAT GENERAL THREE YEAR OLDS WILL HAVE A-C-P-P-C. 
          AND THEN IN THAT MIDDLE BOX YOU'LL SEE THE PRIORITY STATUS. 
          MOST OF OUR FAMILIES QUALIFY FOR PRIORITY STATUS BASED ON A MI INCOME. 
          SO IF THEY'RE AT 65% OF A MI OR BELOW A MI STANDS FOR AREA MEDIAN INCOME, WHICH MANY OF YOU I'M SURE ARE FAMILIAR WITH. 
          UM, THEY QUALIFY FOR PRIORITY STATUS OR FOR STUDENTS IN CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS IF THEY'RE ELIGIBLE FOR FREE AND REDUCED PRICE LUNCH. 
          SOME FAMILIES ALSO QUALIFY IF THEY'RE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS OR HAVE A CHILD IN FOSTER CARE. 
          AND THEN SEAT MATCHING, I THINK YOU ALL ARE PROBABLY FAMILIAR WITH THAT SYSTEM. 
          THERE'S A SINGLE APPLICATION. 
          SO FAMILIES APPLY THROUGH THE SINGLE ONE STOP SHOP WHERE THEY HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN ABOUT ALL OF THE DIFFERENT PRESCHOOL OPTIONS ACROSS THE SYSTEM. 
          THEY CAN RANK PROGRAMS AND SO THEY CAN SELECT A MINIMUM OF SIX, A MAXIMUM OF 10, AND THEN THEY RANK THEM IN ORDER OF PREFERENCE. 
          UM, AND THEN WE PARTNER WITH, UH, A COMPANY CALLED BRIDGE CARE. 
          THEY OPERATE AN ALGORITHM, UM, THAT IS DESIGNED TO MATCH FAMILIES BASED ON THEIR CHOICES. 
          AND NOW BRIDGE CARE SPECIALIZES IN EARLY CHILDHOOD SYSTEMS. THEY DO THIS WORK FOR OTHER CITIES ACROSS THE, UM, OTHER, OTHER CITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY AS WELL. 
          WE CAN MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ONE. 
          ALRIGHT, SO MAYOR SIDIKI TOUCHED ON THIS A MOMENT AGO. 
          I ALSO WANNA SPEND JUST A MOMENT TALKING ABOUT THE HISTORY. 
          AS YOU ALL KNOW, THE CITY HAS A LONG STANDING AND DEEP COMMITMENT TO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, UM, WITH A BLUE RIBBON COMMITTEE CONVENING, I BELIEVE MORE THAN A DECADE AGO, I BELIEVE COUNSELOR MCGOVERN, UM, WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN THAT WORK, FOLLOWED BY AN EARLY CHILDHOOD TASK FORCE IN 2015. 
          AND THE EARLY CHILDHOOD TASK FORCE ISSUED RECOMMENDATIONS INCLUDING A UNIVERSAL, UM, PRE-K SYSTEM, THE BIRTH TO THREE PARTNERSHIP WAS CREATED AFTER THAT TO PURSUE THESE RECOMMENDATIONS. 
          AND IN 2019, THE BIRTH TO THREE PARTNERSHIP PRESENTED VARIOUS UPK MODEL OPTIONS TO THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 
          AND THE CITY COUNCIL AND SCHOOL COMMITTEE VOTED TO PURSUE A UNIVERSAL MODEL BASED ON A MIXED DELIVERY SYSTEM. 
          AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT MORE JUST A MINUTE ABOUT WHAT A MIXED DELIVERY SYSTEM MEANS. 
          AND THEN IN 2022, THE B THREE PARTNERSHIP WAS CONVERTED TO OUR OFFICE, THE OFFICE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD, AND THEN CPP LAUNCHED IN 2024. 
          CAN GO AHEAD TO THE NEXT ONE. 
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CAN I JUST THROUGH YOU MAY JUST ONE QUICK QUESTION. 
          COUNSELOR NOLAN JUST IT, THIS IS TERRIFIC, BUT THERE WAS ALSO A WHOLE TASK FORCE IN 2021 THAT WAS COMPRISED OF SOME SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND CITY COUNCIL. 
          SO IT WOULD BE REALLY GOOD FOR THE FUTURE TO ENSURE THAT'S LISTED BECAUSE IT WAS OUT OF THAT. 
          I KNOW THAT, UM, IT WAS A DIRECTOR GRANT. 
          YEAH. 
          SO THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE MEMBER WILSON WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN THAT AS WELL. 
          GOT IT. 
          SO JUST LET'S MAKE SURE WE INCLUDE THAT AS WELL. 
          WILL DO. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          AND ON THIS SLIDE YOU'LL SEE JUST ANOTHER WAY OF PRESENTING THE CITY'S COMMITMENT. 
          THIS LOOKS AT THE FINANCIAL COMMITMENTS OF THE CITY TO EARLY CHILDHOOD. 
          AND AS YOU CAN SEE HERE, UM, THE CITY'S SIGNIFICANT FINANCIAL COMMITMENT TO YOUNG CHILDREN IN THE CITY STARTED LONG BEFORE CPP WAS CREATED. 
          THERE WERE PRESCHOOL CLASSROOMS AVAILABLE, UM, IN CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS THROUGH THE JK PROGRAM, UM, AND IN OUR DHSP PRESCHOOLS AS WELL. 
          AND THOSE OF COURSE PROCEEDED, UM, UH, THE, THE CAMBRIDGE PRESCHOOL PROGRAM CENTER FOR FAMILIES HAS FOR MANY, MANY YEARS BEEN OFFERING PROGRAMMING, UH, FOR VERY YOUNG CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES, AS HAS THE AGENDA FOR CHILDREN'S LITERACY. 
          AND THEN YOU'LL SEE SOME SIGNIFICANT JUMPS HERE WITH THE EXPANSION OF JK FOR ONE. 
          UM, LAST, THEN ALSO THE EXPANSION OF DHSP PRESCHOOLS, AND THEN IN 2024, UH, THE LAUNCH OF THE CPP PROGRAM OF THIS BUDGET. 
          UH, THE AMOUNT OF FUNDING THAT GOES TO OUR COMMUNITY-BASED PRESCHOOL PROVIDERS, WHICH ARE ALSO SOMETIMES CALLED PRIVATE PRESCHOOL PROVIDERS, IS ABOUT 12 MILLION PER YEAR. 
          UM, AND THEN THE REST OF THE MONEY IS ACCOUNTED FOR IN THE DHSP PRESCHOOLS, THE CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, PRESCHOOLS, UH, SOME OF OUR OFFICE, AND THEN SOME OF THESE OTHER INITIATIVES AS WELL. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          ALRIGHT, SO WE'LL TAKE A MOMENT JUST TO TALK ABOUT UNIVERSAL PRE PRE-K IN GENERAL. 
          UM, I WAS NOT HERE WHEN THIS DECISION WAS MADE, UH, BUT I DO, I DO KNOW THAT THIS WAS PART OF THE EQUATION AND THIS IS PART OF THE CONSIDERATION THAT OTHER CITIES LOOK AT ALSO WHEN THEY'RE DEBATING VARIOUS PRESCHOOL MODELS. 
          SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE KNOW ABOUT UNIVERSAL MODELS IS THAT CHILDREN DO BETTER ACADEMICALLY IN DIFFERENT TERMS OF THEIR DEVELOPMENTAL OUTCOMES AND THEIR LEARNING OUTCOMES WHEN THEY ARE IN UNIVERSAL MODELS. 
          AND THAT'S TRUE NOT ONLY FOR LOWER INCOME CHILDREN, BUT ALSO FOR MIDDLE INCOME CHILDREN AS WELL. 
          SO FOR REASONS THAT ARE NOT FULLY CLEAR, CHILDREN DO TEND TO DO BETTER IN TERMS OF THEIR LEARNING OUTCOMES WHEN THEY'RE IN A UNIVERSAL MODEL. 
          WE ALSO KNOW, OF COURSE, THIS IS NOT A SURPRISE THAT FAMILIES DO BETTER WHEN THEY'RE IN A UNIVERSAL MODEL, PARTICULARLY FAMILIES THAT HAVE INCOMES THAT WOULD PROBABLY BE JUST ABOVE THE THRESHOLD FOR A MEANS TESTED MODEL, A UNIVERSAL MODEL, PARTICULARLY WHEN IT GIVES THEM ACCESS TO EXTENDED DAYCARE. 
          AND SUMMER CARE HAS TREMENDOUS BENEFITS IN TERMS OF ECONOMIC MOBILITY, WORKFORCE PARTICIPATION IN THAT TYPE OF THING. 
          AND THEN IN TERMS OF THE LONG TERM COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS, THERE HAVE BEEN NUMEROUS STUDIES GOING BACK MORE THAN 50 YEARS, REALLY, REALLY ON THE IMPACT, UM, OF PRE-K. 
          AND WHAT WE KNOW IS THAT HIGH QUALITY PRE-K HAS A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON CHILDREN'S LEARNING OUTCOMES. 
          SOME STUDIES LOOK AT THAT, LOOK AT THE COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS. 
          THE BENEFIT RANGES FROM A LOW OF MAYBE $2 FOR EVERY DOLLAR INVESTED TO AS MANY AS $16 FOR EVERY, UM, EVERY DOLLAR INVESTMENT INVESTED. 
          SO WE KNOW THAT IT PAYS OFF IN A NUMBER OF OUTCOMES. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          AND I WANNA TAKE A MOMENT TO TALK ABOUT QUALITY AS WELL, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT THIS WAS ALSO A REALLY BIG PUSH FOR THE COUNCIL AND THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE MANY YEARS AGO, THAT THE PRIORITY WAS NOT JUST ACCESS TO PRE-K SEATS, BUT ACCESS TO HIGH QUALITY SEATS AND MAKING SURE THAT THE CITY'S INVESTMENT IS SUPPORTING, UM, QUALITY ACROSS OUR PRESCHOOL PROVIDERS AS WELL. 
          WHEN WE LOOK AT NATIONAL DATA, WE KNOW THAT QUALITY MATTERS. 
          AND WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE LEARNING BENEFITS AND THE ACADEMIC AND DEVELOPMENTAL BENEFITS OF PRESCHOOL, WE ONLY SEE THOSE BENEFITS WHEN, WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HIGH QUALITY PROGRAMS. SO CHILDREN THAT ARE IN PROGRAMS THAT DO NOT MEET HIGH QUALITY STANDARDS DO NOT SHOW THE SAME TYPE OF LEARNING OUTCOMES. 
          UM, THERE HAVE BEEN SOME STUDIES, THERE WAS ONE A COUPLE YEARS AGO THAT CAUSED QUITE A STIR IN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE IN THEIR UPK PROGRAM THAT ACTUALLY SHOWED THAT CHILDREN WERE DOING MORE POORLY, UM, IN SOME OF THEIR PROGRAMS, AND THAT WAS DIRECTLY CONNECTED TO QUALITY. 
          SO ALL THAT TO SAY QUALITY REALLY MATTERS. 
          AND IF WE ARE INVESTING IN MAKING SURE THAT, UM, THAT OUR DOLLARS ARE GOING TOWARDS MAKING SURE THAT CHILDREN BENEFIT IN THE LONG RUN, UH, THE, THE FOCUS ON QUALITY IS REALLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE OF THIS, WE JUST THIS YEAR LAUNCHED A NEW QUALITY MONITORING SYSTEM AS PART OF CPP. 
          MY COLLEAGUES BEHIND ME PLAYED A A, A HUGE ROLE IN THIS LAUNCH. 
          AND SO THIS IS DESIGNED TO MAKE SURE THAT ON AN ONGOING BASIS, ONCE PROGRAMS BECOME PART OF THE CPP SYSTEM, WE ARE MONITORING THEM ANNUALLY TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY CONTINUE TO MEET OUR HIGH QUALITY STANDARDS, UM, YEAR OVER YEAR. 
          SOME OF THE TOOLS THAT WE USE FOR THIS 
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IS A TOOL CALLED THE CLASS ASSESSMENT THAT IS A NATIONALLY NORMED AND VALIDATED ASSESSMENT THAT'S USED ALL OVER THE COUNTRY TO MEASURE THE QUALITY OF EARLY CHILDHOOD CLASSROOMS. IT'S CONSIDERED THE GOLD STANDARD IN EARLY CHILDHOOD CLASSROOM QUALITY ASSESSMENT. 
          WE ALSO, UH, DO OUR OWN CLASSROOM OBSERVATIONS, UM, BY OUR OWN OEC STAFF. 
          WE GATHER FEEDBACK IN A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT WAYS, INCLUDING SURVEYS, UM, TRANSFER REQUESTS, THE FAMILY ADVISORY BOARD, WHICH I'LL MENTION IN JUST A MOMENT. 
          UH, AND THEN WE COLLECT DOCUMENTS FROM THE PROGRAMS ON AN ANNUAL BASIS. 
          SO WE PUT ALL THESE THINGS TOGETHER AS THE YEAR GOES ON TO REALLY PAINT A PICTURE OF THE QUALITY FOR PROGRAMS. IF PROGRAMS START TO FALL SHORT ON ANY OF THE METRICS THAT WE'RE USING, WE DO HAVE A PROCESS WHERE THEY WOULD BE PUT ON A QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PLAN. 
          AND OUR OFFICE PARTNERS REALLY CLOSELY WITH THEM. 
          THROUGH THAT PLAN, WE ESTABLISHED REALLY CLEAR GOALS AND METRICS FOR HOW WE'RE GONNA TRACK THEIR GROWTH, AND THERE'S A PERIOD AT WHICH WE EXPECT THEM TO HAVE MET THOSE, THOSE GOALS. 
          SO WE, WE, WE TRACK THAT AS WELL. 
          AND THEN FINALLY LAST YEAR WE LAUNCHED, I THINK IT WAS CPPS FIRST YEAR, UH, WE LAUNCHED THE CPP PROGRAM ADVISORY BOARD, AND THAT'S COMPRISED OF PROGRAM DIRECTORS FROM ACROSS THE CITY. 
          UH, THE GOAL OF THAT BOARD REALLY IS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE HEARING FROM OUR PARTNERS ACROSS THE COMMUNITY ON AN ONGOING BASIS. 
          THEY MEET MONTHLY AND THEY GIVE US FEEDBACK ON HOW WE'RE DOING AND THEY HELP US THINK THROUGH POLICY DECISIONS, PROGRAMMATIC DECISIONS, THAT TYPE OF THING. 
          AND SO ALL OF THE DECISION WE MAKE, UM, ARE REALLY VERY MUCH INFLUENCED BY, UM, THE FEEDBACK THAT WE GET FROM THE PROGRAM ADVISORY BOARD. 
          SIMILARLY, THIS YEAR WE LAUNCHED THE FAMILY ADVISORY BOARD, WHICH IS COMPRISED OF FAMILIES ACROSS THE CPP SYSTEM. 
          UM, AND THEY SERVE A VERY SIMILAR FUNCTION. 
          THEY MEET MONTHLY, UH, THEY GIVE US FEEDBACK, THEY TELL US HOW, HOW WE'RE DOING. 
          UM, THEY POINT OUT SOME THINGS THAT WE MIGHT BE MISSING AND MIGHT NOT HAVE CONSIDERED, AND THEY ALSO WEIGH IN ON OUR POLICY AND PROGRAMMING DECISIONS. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SO WE'LL SPEND THE NEXT COUPLE OF MINUTES JUST GIVING YOU AN OVERVIEW OF, OF HOW CCP PCPP IS DOING RIGHT NOW AND THE FAMILIES WE'RE SERVING. 
          WE CAN GO AHEAD. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          SO AS YOU'LL SEE HERE, THIS SHOWS YOU STATISTICS FROM OUR MOST RECENT MATCH. 
          SO JUST TO GIVE YOU A SENSE OF THE TIMELINE, MOST FAMILIES APPLY IN THE FALL. 
          THE APPLICATION PERIOD RUNS FROM OCTOBER 1ST TILL NOVEMBER 15TH. 
          UM, AND THEN IN THE WINTER, WE DO A MATCH BASED ON THOSE APPLICATIONS. 
          SO AS YOU'LL SEE HERE, VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT THIS, THESE STATISTICS LOOK LIKE LAST YEAR, THE VAST MAJORITY OF FAMILIES ARE MATCHED WITH ONE OF THEIR TOP THREE CHOICES. 
          SO 92% OF ALL APPLICANTS WERE MATCHED WITH ONE OF THEIR TOP THREE CHOICES. 
          AND THEN WHEN WE ISOLATE THE PRIORITY APPLICANTS AND LOOK AT THAT GROUP ALONE, AN IMPRESSIVE 97% ARE MATCHED WITH ONE OF THEIR TOP THREE CHOICES. 
          SO THE VAST MAJORITY OF FAMILIES GET ONE OF THEIR TOP RANKED CHOICES, UM, ON THE RIGHT, PROBABLY NOT A SURPRISE. 
          YOU'LL SEE THE FACTORS THAT FAMILIES, UM, ARE CONSIDERING WHEN THEY'RE CHOOSING LOCATION. 
          UM, PROXIMITY TO HOME OR WORK IS A BIG ONE. 
          AVAILABILITY OF AFTERSCHOOL CARE, SUMMER CARE IS ANOTHER BIG ONE. 
          AND THEN CURRICULUM, UM, AND LANGUAGE USE. 
          SOME FAMILIES ARE LOOKING FOR IMMERSION, LANGUAGE IMMERSION MODELS AND THAT TYPE OF THING. 
          WE CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. 
          AND THIS GIVES YOU A PICTURE OF THE DEMOGRAPHICS AND HOW THIS LOOKS ACROSS THE, THE SYSTEM. 
          UM, I WANNA MENTION HERE THAT WHEN I'M, I TALKED A FEW MINUTES AGO ABOUT THE MIXED DELIVERY SYSTEM. 
          THAT SIMPLY MEANS THAT WE HAVE PRESCHOOL SEATS ACROSS A VARIETY OF SECTORS. 
          AND IN CAMBRIDGE, THOSE THREE SECTORS ARE THE CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM, UM, THE DHSP UH PROGRAMS, AND ALSO OUR COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS. 
          AND AS YOU'LL SEE ON THIS SLIDE, OUR CPP STUDENTS ARE ROUGHLY DISTRIBUTED EVENLY ACROSS THOSE THREE SECTORS. 
          SO I THINK THIS REFLECTS A REALLY HEALTHY MIXED DELIVERY SYSTEM. 
          UH, YOU'LL SEE SOME GROWTH IN THE DHSP ENROLLMENT FROM YEAR ONE TO YEAR TWO. 
          THAT WAS DUE TO THE EXPANSION OF CLASSROOMS, A NUMBER OF CLASSROOMS OPENED IN THIS PAST SCHOOL YEAR, AND THAT ACCOUNTS FOR THAT GROWTH. 
          UM, MODEST GROWTH IN THE COMMUNITY-BASED SECTOR FROM YEAR ONE AND TO YEAR TWO. 
          AND THEN THAT HAS HELD RELATIVELY STEADY SINCE THEN THEM. 
          AND THEN ON THE RIGHT YOU'LL SEE THE PRIORITY AND THE GENERAL APPLICANTS, AGAIN, I WANNA CLARIFY THAT ALL PRIORITY STUDENTS ARE SERVED. 
          SO WHEN YOU SEE THE 44% HERE, THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT 44% OF PRIORITY APPLICANTS ARE SERVED. 
          WE SERVE ALL PRIORITY APPLICANTS. 
          WHAT IT MEANS IS THAT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE WHOLE UNIVERSE OF CPP STUDENTS LAST YEAR, 44% WERE COMPRISED OF PRIORITY KIDS AND FAMILIES. 
          56 OF GENERAL. 
          UH, YOU'LL SEE THAT NUMBER WENT DOWN SLIGHTLY IN THIS LAST APPLICATION CYCLE TO 40%. 
          THAT WILL PROBABLY INCREASE AGAIN, A NUMBER OF FAMILIES CONTINUE TO 
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ENROLL THROUGH THE SPRING AND SUMMER AS WE GET READY TO LAUNCH THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR. 
          SO THAT PERCENTAGE MAY GO UP A LITTLE BIT, BUT THERE WAS A SLIGHT DECLINE, UM, IN THIS LAST CYCLE. 
          GO AHEAD. 
          SO DOES THAT MEAN, UH, CAN YOU SPEAK INTO THE MIC? SORRY. 
          OF THE GENERAL APPLICANT, THE GENERAL APPLICANTS, UM, THAT PERCENTAGE, 56%. 
          DOES THAT EQUATE TO, THAT'S A PERCENTAGE OF APPLICANTS WHO WERE ACCEPTED OVERALL. 
          SO 50 PER 56% OF THE PEOPLE BEING SERVED ARE GENERAL APPLICANTS? YES. 
          THROUGH YOU MADAM MAYOR. 
          THAT THAT IS CORRECT. 
          SO TO GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE, WHEN WE JUST CLOSED OUT THIS SCHOOL YEAR, WE HAD, UM, 858 CPP STUDENTS. 
          56% OF THOSE WERE GENERAL FROM, FROM GENERAL INCOME FAMILIES. 
          44% OF THOSE WERE PRIORITY. 
          AND IF YOU HAD TO ESTIMATE FOR YOU MADAM MAYOR, WHAT'S THE NUMBER OF, UH, GENERAL APPLICANTS WHO WERE TURNED AWAY? YES, THROUGH YOU MADAM MAYOR. 
          SO THE ONLY GENERAL APPLICANTS WHO WERE TURNED AWAY, OR THOSE GENERAL THREE-YEAR-OLDS, ALL FOUR YEAR OLDS ARE SERVED REGARDLESS OF INCOME THIS YEAR AT THE CLOSE OF THE SCHOOL YEAR, WHICH AGAIN, I THINK WAS TWO WEEKS AGO NOW. 
          UM, LOOKING AT THE CPP YEAR, IT WAS 67. 
          OH, THAT'S RIGHT. 
          SO THERE WERE 67 GENERAL THREE YEAR OLDS WHO DID NOT RECEIVE A SEAT. 
          A NUMBER OF THOSE MAY RECEIVE A SEAT AS THE SUMMER, SOME FAMILIES MOVE AWAY AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          SO THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF MOVEMENT CONTINUED AS WE APPROACH THE SCHOOL YEAR. 
          UM, BUT IT'S PROBABLY NOT A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF MOVEMENT, BUT CURRENTLY IT IS 67 STUDENTS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALL RIGHT, WE'LL GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. 
          THIS SLIDE SHOWS THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF THE STUDENTS THAT WE'RE SERVING. 
          UM, AND AS YOU WILL SEE HERE, THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF CPP LARGELY RESEMBLE THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF THE CITY. 
          WE COMPARE THIS WITH CPS DATA, UM, AND IT'S PRETTY CLOSE TO THAT AS WELL. 
          THERE IS ALSO A QUESTION ON THE CPP APPLICATION THAT IS NOT REFLECTED HERE, UM, THAT ASKS PARENTS TO INDICATE WHETHER OR NOT THEY'RE ALSO FROM HISPANIC OR LATINO ETHNIC ORIGIN. 
          UM, THE PERCENTAGE OF FAMILIES THAT INDICATED AS SUCH WERE 11% FOR CPP COMPARED WITH WHAT I BELIEVE IS 14%, UM, IN IN CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
          WE CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. 
          AND THIS SLIDE JUST GIVES YOU A SENSE OF TRENDS OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS OF CPP ENROLLMENT. 
          UH, THE FIRST YEAR IS A LITTLE BIT OF AN AN ANOMALY, SO I WOULD TAKE THAT ONE WITH A GRAIN OF SALT. 
          IT WAS THE FIRST YEAR THERE WERE A LOT OF FAMILIES WHO STILL WEREN'T AWARE OF THE PROGRAM, WEREN'T QUITE SURE HOW IT WAS WORKING. 
          THE TIMELINE WAS ALSO A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT. 
          SO THAT APPLICATION AND MATCH PERIOD HAPPENED QUITE A BIT LATER THAN WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS. 
          SO YOU'LL SEE THAT AT MATCH THAT YEAR, THERE WERE 649 CHILDREN. 
          THOSE NUMBERS DID INCREASE SIGNIFICANTLY AFTER THAT AS MORE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES CONTINUED TO TRICKLE IN OVER THE SPRING AND THE SUMMER MONTHS. 
          THE MIDDLE COLUMN IS THE SCHOOL YEAR THAT THAT JUST ENDED AGAIN, UH, THE 7 89 THAT WAS AT MATCH. 
          SO AT THE WINTER MATCH LAST YEAR, THERE WERE 789 CHILDREN WHO WERE MATCHED AND THEN ENROLLED. 
          WHEN WE ENDED THE SCHOOL YEAR, THAT WAS 858 AGAIN. 
          SO YOU'LL SEE THAT EVEN AFTER MATCH. 
          WE DO HAVE MORE FAMILIES THAT CONTINUE TO ENROLL OVER THE SPRING, SUMMER, AND EVEN COURSE OF THE SCHOOL YEAR. 
          UH, THOSE FAMILIES DO TEND TO BE SLIGHTLY DISPROPORTIONATELY PRIORITY FAMILIES. 
          SO PRIORITY FAMILIES ARE MORE LIKELY THE GENERAL FAMILIES TO APPLY, UM, AFTER THE MATCH. 
          AND SO ANOTHER THING YOU'LL SEE HERE AGAIN, IS JUST THE, THE CBO SECTOR HAS REMAINED PRETTY STABLE OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS. 
          DHSP AFTER THAT INITIAL BOOST, UM, HAS REMAINED PRETTY STABLE AS WELL. 
          AND I JUST, THERE'S, UH, I WANNA WELCOME CHAIR WEINSTEIN AND THEN, UH, VICE CHAIR DOOBY HAD A QUESTION. 
          VICE CHAIR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I JUST HAD A QUICK, QUICK CLARIFYING QUESTION ABOUT THE, THE 8 58. 
          HOW MANY ARE THREE YEAR OLDS AND HOW MANY ARE FOUR YEAR OLDS? THANK YOU. 
          THROUGH, THROUGH YOU MADAM MAYOR. 
          YEAH, THAT IS A GOOD QUESTION. 
          I'M GONNA HAVE TO GET BACK TO YOU ON THE EXACT NUMBER. 
          UM, I BELIEVE THE NUMBER OF THREES IS IN THE 300 RANGE, BUT I CAN PRODUCE THAT EXACT NUMBER AND I BELIEVE IT'S IN THE MEMO AS WELL. 
          OKAY, THANK YOU. 
          YES. 
          REMEMBER, UH, COUNCILLOR ZUZI, JUST A QUICK QUESTION ABOUT THE SLIDE. 
          SO, UH, THROUGH YOU, UH, CHAIR SIDIKI. 
          SO, UM, FEWER, FEWER FAMILIES OR FEWER STUDENTS HAVE MATCHED IN IN THE WINTER. 
          SO WHY, WHY DO YOU THINK IT WENT DOWN BY ABOUT 20 STUDENTS? AND ARE YOU ANTICIPATING THAT IT'LL BOUNCE BACK UP TO 
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858 OR SO? THANK YOU THROUGH YOU MAD MAYOR? THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. 
          SO WE'RE REALLY NOT SURE WHY THAT NUMBER WENT DOWN A LITTLE BIT. 
          WE KNOW THAT GENERALLY SPEAKING, UM, BIRTH RATES HAVE DECLINED THE NUMBER OF YOUNG CHILDREN, NOT JUST HERE IN CAMBRIDGE, BUT THIS IS TRUE IN, IN MANY PLACES ACROSS THE CITY, UM, HAS DECLINED. 
          WE'RE ALSO NOT SURE OF THE IMPACT OF SOME OF THE FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION'S POLICIES ON UNIVERSITY ENROLLMENT. 
          SOME OF OUR FAMILIES, UM, ARE GRAD STUDENTS WHO ARE HERE, UH, TO ATTEND UNIVERSITY. 
          UH, SO THAT MAY BE A FACTOR AS WELL. 
          UH, WE'RE REALLY NOT SURE WHAT ACCOUNTS FOR THAT DECLINE. 
          WE DO ANTICIPATE AS THE SUMMER GOES ON, WE'LL SEE AN INCREASE. 
          UM, BUT I'M NOT SURE IF IT'LL GET US BACK TO WHERE WE WERE AT THE SAME TIME LAST YEAR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          WE CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. 
          SO, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DO TO COLLECT FEEDBACK AND SORT OF EVALUATE HOW OUR SYSTEM IS DOING, UM, IS FAMILY SURVEY. 
          AND SO WE DO THIS FAMILY SURVEY ANNUALLY TO GET A SENSE OF HOW OUR FAMILIES ARE FEELING ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCE WITH CPP. 
          AND YOU WILL SEE HERE THAT THE VAST, UH, NUMBER OF FAMILIES, UH, RESPOND POSITIVELY AND RESPOND THAT THEY ARE EITHER VERY SATISFIED OR SATISFIED WITH THEIR CHILD'S CPP PRESCHOOL EXPERIENCE IN GENERAL. 
          UH, WHEN THEY'RE ASKED ABOUT THE EXTENT TO WHICH THEY THINK THAT THEIR PRESCHOOL SUPPORTS THEIR CHILD'S SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT, VERY SIMILAR PERCENTAGES ABOVE 90%, UM, RESPOND THAT THEY ARE VERY, THAT IT IS EXCELLENT OR GOOD IN RESPONSE TO THAT QUESTION. 
          UM, SO VERY POSITIVE FEEDBACK IN OUR GOING INTO OUR THIRD YEAR OF IMPLEMENTATION. 
          THE NEXT SLIDE, AND WE WON'T READ THESE TO YOU, BUT I HOPE THAT YOU'LL GO AHEAD AND TAKE THE TIME TO READ THEM. 
          IT GIVES, UM, A, A, A PRETTY GOOD SNAPSHOT OF MUCH OF THE FEEDBACK THAT WE'VE BEEN RECEIVING FROM FAMILIES REGARDING CPP AND THEN THE NEXT SLIDE. 
          WE ALSO LOOK REALLY CLOSELY AT THE FAMILY FEEDBACK TO IDENTIFY AREAS FOR GROWTH. 
          AND SOME OF THE FEEDBACK THAT YOU'LL SEE HERE REFLECTS SOME OF THE GROWTH AREAS THAT HAVE BECOME CLEAR IN THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF IMPLEMENTATION, PARTICULARLY FROM YEAR ONE TO YEAR TWO, UH, WE REALIZED THERE WAS WORK TO BE DONE IN TERMS OF HELPING FAMILIES UNDERSTAND WHAT IS INHERENTLY A VERY COMPLEX SYSTEM. 
          SO ONE OF THE WONDERFUL THINGS ABOUT CPP IS PARENTS CAN MAKE CHOICES FROM AMONG A LARGE VARIETY OF PRESCHOOL OPTIONS, BUT WITH THAT MEANS IT'S CHALLENGING TO MAKE SURE THAT FAMILIES UNDERSTAND ALL THE OPTIONS THAT THEY HAVE AVAILABLE TO THEM FROM YEAR ONE TO YEAR TWO. 
          ONE OF THE THINGS, UH, JUST TO GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE, WAS SOME FAMILIES DIDN'T REALIZE THAT THEIR PROGRAM, UM, MIGHT NOT HAVE OFFERED EXTENDED DAY OR IT OFFERED EXTENDED DAY, BUT THEY WEREN'T AWARE OF THE COSTS. 
          UH, THERE WAS SOME FEEDBACK FROM FAMILIES WHO HAD APPLIED TO A PROGRAM IN ONE OF OUR CO-LOCATED PROGRAMS. SO AS YOU KNOW, WE'VE HAD SOME SCHOOLS THAT HAVE A-D-H-S-P PRESCHOOL CLASSROOM AND A CPS PRESCHOOL CLASSROOM IN THE SAME BUILDING. 
          AND SOMETIMES SOME FAMILIES THAT THEY DIDN'T REALIZE THAT AND IT, IT WASN'T THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY THOUGHT THEY MIGHT HAVE BEEN GETTING INTO ONE PROGRAM AND THEN THEY REALIZED IT WAS ANOTHER ONE. 
          SO OUR CPP TEAM DID A LOT OF WORK OVER THE, OVER THE LAST YEAR TO REALLY CLARIFY IN THE APPLICATION PROCESS, TO MAKE IT MUCH HARDER FOR FAMILIES TO, TO NOT MISS THESE KEY PIECES OF INFORMATION. 
          UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE NOTICED IN THIS LAST MATCH IS THAT THE NUMBER OF TRANSFER REQUESTS AFTER THE MATCH WENT DOWN SIGNIFICANTLY. 
          SO WE HAD MUCH, MANY FEWER FAMILIES SAYING, I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND, I DIDN'T REALIZE, AND THEREFORE REQUESTING A TRANSFER. 
          SO WE'RE MAKING PROGRESS ON THAT, STILL WORK TO BE DONE, UM, BUT CERTAINLY MAKING PROGRESS AND MAKING SURE THAT FAMILIES HAVE THE INFORMATION THAT THEY NEED, UH, TO MAKE THEIR DECISIONS. 
          AND SOME OF THIS ALSO IS THE INTERSECTION OF CPP POLICY, UM, AND, AND CPS POLICY. 
          I THINK FAMILIES, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT COMES UP HERE ALSO IS THE MATRICULATION POLICY AND MAKING SURE THAT FAMILIES UNDERSTAND THE IMPLICATIONS OF THAT WHEN THEY ARE CHOOSING, UM, CHOOSING A PROGRAM. 
          WE CAN GO AHEAD. 
          ALRIGHT, SO WE'RE, WE'LL SHIFT GEAR NOW AND TALK ABOUT THE BIRTH TO FIVE LANDSCAPE MORE BROADLY, UM, AND SOME OF THE SUPPORTS THAT WE'RE PROVIDING AND ALSO SOME OF THE REMAINING AREAS OF NEED. 
          WE CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. 
          OKAY. 
          SO ON THIS ONE, THE GOAL HERE WITH THIS SLIDE IS TO GIVE A SENSE OF HOW COMPREHENSIVE OUR COVERAGE IS AND FOR WHICH GROUPS IN THE CITY. 
          UM, AND AS YOU'LL SEE IN THE GREEN HERE, IN SOME WAYS, CPP IS ALREADY IN A WAY A MEANS TESTED PROGRAM. 
          AND THAT FAMILY INCOME IS TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION IN THE EXTENT OF SUPPORTS THAT ARE PROVIDED TO FAMILIES. 
          WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS, ALL FAMILIES THAT ARE IN CPP HAVE ACCESS TO FREE PRESCHOOL 6.5 HOUR SCHOOL DAY. 
          SO IT'S A SCHOOL DAY, 
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SCHOOL YEAR PROGRAM PRIORITIES. 
          FAMILIES ARE GUARANTEED ACCESS ALSO TO EXTENDED DAY AND TO SUMMER CARE. 
          SO FAMILIES CAN MAKE THOSE CHOICES AS THEY'RE COMPLETING THEIR APPLICATION. 
          AND FAMILIES THAT HAVE THAT PRIORITY STATUS HAVE ACCESS TO A MUCH MORE REALLY FULL COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM OF, OF NOT JUST PRESCHOOL, BUT CHILDCARE SUPPORTS AS WELL. 
          SO YOU'LL SEE THAT IN THE GREEN FOR FOUR YEAR OLDS AND FOR THREE YEAR OLDS WHO HAVE PRIORITY STATUS, THAT IS A GUARANTEED SEAT AND IT IS GUARANTEED ACCESS TO EXTENDED DAY AND SUMMER CARE IF THE FAMILY NEEDS THAT SUPPORT. 
          FOR GENERAL FAMILIES, IF WE'RE LOOKING AT THE 4-YEAR-OLD YEAR, FOUR YEAR OLDS, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, UM, HAVE GUARANTEED ACCESS TO A PRESCHOOL SEAT. 
          NO 4-YEAR-OLD IS TURNED AWAY FROM CPP, BUT FAMILIES WHO NEED EXTENDED DAY OR SUMMER CARE, THEY DO, UH, BEAR THE COST OF THAT, UM, ON THEIR OWN FOR THREE YEAR OLDS. 
          THREE YEAR OLDS HAVE ACCESS TO CPP, BUT THE SEATS ARE LIMITED, SO THEY'RE NOT GUARANTEED A SEAT. 
          AND AS I MENTIONED A MOMENT AGO THIS YEAR, WE HAD SO FAR 67 3 YEAR OLDS WHO APPLIED, UM, GENERAL THREES WHO, WHO APPLIED AND WERE NOT MATCHED WITH A SEAT. 
          AND THEN IF YOU LOOK AT THE INFANT TODDLER SECTOR, BIRTH TO TWO YEARS OLD, CHILDREN WHO ARE NOT YET ELIGIBLE FOR THREE, UH, FOR CPP, THERE'S NO FREE ACCESS TO CHILDCARE. 
          SO AT THIS POINT THERE'S VERY LIMITED, UH, CHILDCARE SUPPORTS FOR FAMILIES AND PARTICULARLY LOW INCOME FAMILIES IN THIS AGE RANGE. 
          UH, THE CITY DOES INVEST IN SUPPORTS FOR THESE FAMILIES THROUGH THE CENTER FOR FAMILIES PROGRAMMING, UM, AGENDA FOR CHILDREN PROGRAMMING, AND THOSE INCLUDE PROGRAMS LIKE BABY UNIVERSITY, LET'S TALK CAMBRIDGE DADS AND SOME OTHER REALLY AMAZING OPPORTUNITIES FOR FAMILIES OF VERY YOUNG CHILDREN. 
          WE CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. 
          SO WE'LL DIG A LITTLE DEEPER INTO THE INFANT TODDLER SECTOR. 
          AS I MENTIONED ON THE LEFT, THESE ARE SUPPORTS THAT YOU, THAT THE CITY ALREADY PROVIDES TO THESE FAMILIES, INCLUDING CHILDCARE, RESOURCE AND REFERRAL. 
          SO WE HAVE A STAFF MEMBER WITHIN OUR OFFICE THAT DOES CHILDCARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL WORK. 
          SHE PARTNERS REALLY CLOSELY WITH OUR COLLEAGUES IN FIND IT, UM, WHO ALSO HELP FAMILIES WHO ARE LOOKING FOR CARE. 
          ONE OF THE CHALLENGES THAT THEY FREQUENTLY BUMP UP AGAINST IS PARTICULARLY FOR FAMILIES, UM, WHO ARE BELOW THAT INCOME THRESHOLD. 
          THERE'S, THERE'S LIMITED ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE CHILDCARE, UM, BUT THEY DO SUPPORT FAMILIES IN, IN ACCESSING BOTH CHILDCARE AND ANY OTHER RESOURCES. 
          AND THEN SOME OF THE OTHER RESOURCES THAT, THAT I MENTIONED AS WELL, SOME OF THE WORK THAT OUR OFFICE HAS BEEN DOING TO TAKE A REALLY CLOSE LOOK AT THE INFANT TODDLER SECTOR IN PARTICULAR, UH, WE PARTNERED WITH INTERNS FROM THE HAR HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT OVER THE LAST YEAR, AND THEY SPENT ALMOST A FULL YEAR REALLY ANALYZING THE LANDSCAPE OF INFANT TODDLER CARE HERE IN CAMBRIDGE. 
          UM, AND THEY WERE LOOKING AT CHILD AT ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE CHILDCARE IN PARTICULAR. 
          UM, AND THEY ISSUED A REPORT, A REALLY COMPREHENSIVE REPORT, WHICH WE'D BE HAPPY, UH, TO MAKE AVAILABLE TO YOU, UM, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT. 
          SO THAT'S A VERY HELPFUL RESOURCE. 
          AND THEN THERE IS A WORKING GROUP THAT HAS BEEN CONVENING FOR THE LAST YEAR AS WELL. 
          UM, AND THAT IS LED BY, UH, ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES IN OFFICE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD, ALSO MICHELLE GODFREY, CENTER FOR FAMILIES AND JAN BAILEY AT THE AGENDA OF FOR CHILDREN'S LITERACY AND A NUMBER OF OTHER STAKEHOLDERS ACROSS THE CITY. 
          AND THEY HAVE BEEN LOOKING NOT JUST AT CHILDCARE ACCESS, BUT ALSO JUST FAMILY NEEDS WITHIN THIS INFANT TODDLER SECTOR IN GENERAL. 
          AND SO THROUGH THIS SUMMER, THEY WILL BE ISSUING, UM, A SET OF GENERAL FOCUS AREAS OR RECOMMENDATIONS JUST BASED ON THEIR FINDINGS. 
          UM, THEY, THEY CLOSED A SURVEY IN MAY AND WE EXPECT TO BE GETTING THE FINDINGS FROM THAT SURVEY VERY SOON, I THINK. 
          UM, OR EARLY NEXT MONTH. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          SO, SOME OF WHAT YOU'LL SEE IN THE HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL REPORT, UM, IS THAT IN CAMBRIDGE, LIKE IN MUCH OF THE COUNTRY, ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE HIGH QUALITY CHILDCARE IS A TREMENDOUS NEED. 
          UM, MASSACHUSETTS ONE STUDY FOUND IS THE MOST EXPENSIVE STATE FOR INFANT TODDLER CARE IN THE COUNTRY, STRAINING MAINE, MANY YOUNG FAMILIES. 
          UM, AND IN CAMBRIDGE, INFANT TODDLER CARE IS ABOUT THREE TIMES MORE EXPENSIVE THAN WHAT, UH, THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES IDENTIFIES AS WHAT THE AMOUNT THAT FAMILIES SHOULD NOT HAVE TO PAY MORE. 
          AND THAT'S 7%. 
          SO ACCORDING TO HHS FAMILIES SHOULD NOT HAVE TO PAY MORE THAN 7% OF THEIR ANNUAL INCOME, UM, ON CHILDCARE. 
          AND IN CAMBRIDGE FOR WORKING FAMILIES, THAT ACCOUNTS FOR ABOUT 20% OF THE INCOME. 
          SO IT'S FAR HIGHER THAN THE RECOMMENDED AMOUNT. 
          WHAT WE ALSO SEE HERE IN CAMBRIDGE IS THAT MANY FAMILIES, UM, THAT ARE IN THE WORKFORCE OR THAT WANT TO BE IN THE WORKFORCE PREFER CHILDCARE, UH, TO PROVIDE FULL-TIME PARENTAL CARE OR EXTENDED FAMILY CARE, NEIGHBOR CARE, SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 
          ONLY 13% OF CAMBRIDGE RESIDENTS VIEW THEIR CURRENT CHILDCARE ARRANGEMENT AS IDEAL. 
          UM, AND 30% REPORT PROVIDING FULL-TIME CARE, 
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WHICH IS MUCH HIGHER THAN, THAN WHAT THE GENERAL, UM, POPULATION, UH, WOULD LIKE TO SEE. 
          AS YOU'LL SEE IN THAT LOWER, UM, LOWER RIGHT QUADRANT, UM, 33% OF LOWER INCOME FAMILIES IN PARTICULAR REPORT WANTING A LOT MORE CHILDCARE SO THAT THEY CAN ACCESS THE WORKFORCE OR HIGHER EDUCATION COMPARED WITH JUST 4% OF HIGHER INCOME FAMILIES THAT REPORT WANTING MORE CARE. 
          SO THAT GIVES YOU JUST A, A, A PICTURE OF THE, THE DISCREPANCIES AND THE THE NEEDS FOR, FOR ADDITIONAL CHILDCARE SUPPORT IN THE COMMUNITY. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          ALRIGHT, DO A COUPLE MORE SLIDES ON SOME POSSIBLE OPTIONS FOR MOVING FORWARD. 
          WE CAN GO AHEAD. 
          SO THIS IS ONE WAY TO LOOK AT WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE FUTURE OF, OF CPP OR THE CITY SUPPORT FOR, UM, FAMILIES IN THE BIRTH TO FIVE, UH, SECTOR MORE BROADLY. 
          THERE'S A FEW DIFFERENT WAYS THAT WE CAN LOOK AT IT. 
          WE CAN LOOK AT IT BY AGE, WHICH IS WHAT I THINK OF AS SORT OF A HORIZONTAL APPROACH GOING LEFT TO RIGHT ON THIS SLIDE. 
          AND THAT WOULD BE FOCUSING ON THE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES THAT WE ALREADY SERVE THROUGH CPP. 
          SO AS WE LOOK AT THE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES WE ALREADY SERVE, WE KNOW THAT FAMILIES THAT ARE IN THE 65 TO MAYBE 85 TO A HUNDRED PERCENT A MI RANGE MAY STILL BE SQUEEZED WHEN IT COMES TO BEING ABLE TO AFFORD EXTENDED DAYCARE AND SUMMER CARE. 
          SO THESE ARE FAMILIES FOR WHOM CPP DOES NOT COVER THOSE ADDITIONAL FOR, UH, EXPENSES. 
          AND SO FOR FAMILIES IN THE WORKFORCE OR WHO WANT TO BE IN THE WORKFORCE, THAT CAN BE A SIGNIFICANT EXPENSE UPWARDS OF $15,000 FOR EXTENDED, UM, JUST FOR THE EXTENDED DAY. 
          SO FOR FAMILIES IN THAT 65% A MI TO 85 OR EVEN A HUNDRED PERCENT A MI, WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE ADDITIONAL NEEDS THERE AS WELL. 
          OR WE CAN TAKE A MORE VERTICAL APPROACH AND THINK ABOUT THE BIRTH TO FIVE SECTOR BY CREATING A MUCH MORE COMPREHENSIVE VISION OF HOW WE'RE SUPPORTING THIS SECTOR. 
          SO THIS COULD LOOK LIKE POLICY OPTIONS TO SUPPORT PRI UH, PRIORITY FAMILIES. 
          UM, IT COULD BE SOMETHING THAT LOOKS LIKE CPP IN TERMS OF TUITION SUPPORT. 
          IT LIKELY WOULD NEED TO BE MORE COMPLEX THAN THAT. 
          UM, IN TERMS OF AT THIS POINT IN TIME, IT'S NOT CLEAR THAT THERE ARE EVEN ENOUGH CENTERS AND ENOUGH INFANT TODDLER SEATS IN THE CITY TO ABSORB INFANTS AND TODDLERS, EVEN IF, UM, MONEY WAS NOT AN OPTION IN TERMS OF PAYING THAT TUITION. 
          THERE'S OTHER WAYS IN TERMS OF SUPPORTING THE WORKFORCE, INFANT TODDLER PROVIDING STABILIZATION FUNDS, THAT TYPE OF THING. 
          SO WE COULD LOOK REALLY COMPREHENSIVELY AT, AT SOME DIFFERENT POLICY OPTIONS TO SUPPORT THAT SECTOR. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          THIS GIVES YOU A SENSE OF WHAT SOME OTHER CITIES AND STATES ARE DOING. 
          UM, SOME CITIES AND STATES RECENTLY, AS YOU MAY HAVE HEARD, ARE MAKING SOME REALLY BOLD MOVES IN TERMS OF UNIVERSAL CHILDCARE. 
          UH, MAYOR ANI, UM, ALONG WITH, UM, GOVERNOR HOKO IN NEW YORK, UM, IS MOVING TOWARDS UNIVERSAL CHILDCARE. 
          SO FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS THEY'VE HAD UNIVERSAL PRE-K AS WELL. 
          UM, AND NOW THEY ARE MOVING TOWARDS UNIVERSAL CHILDCARE TO MAKE SURE THAT FAMILIES HAVE SUPPORT BIRTH THROUGH FIVE. 
          UM, ALONG WITH THIS, SIMILAR TO WHAT I WAS MENTIONING ABOUT CAMBRIDGE, PART OF THIS WORK IS MAKING SURE THAT THERE'S ENOUGH SUPPLY OF SEATS. 
          SO THEY'RE ALSO TAKING POLICY STEP STEPS TO SUPPORT PROVIDERS AND PARTICULARLY, PARTICULARLY PROVIDERS IN LOW INCOME COMMUNITIES TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY CAN ABSORB, UM, A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF OF VERY YOUNG CHILDREN, INFANTS AND TODDLERS. 
          UM, NEW MEXICO SIMILARLY, UM, IS MOVING TOWARDS UNIVERSAL CHILDCARE REGARDLESS OF INCOME BIRTH TO FIVE AS WELL. 
          THAT IS ALSO COUPLED WITH OTHER POLICY MOVES LIKE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, UM, AND SOME STABILIZATION FUNDS AS WELL FOR THE SECTOR. 
          UH, CITY OF HARTFORD RECENTLY PRESENTED A PROPOSAL FOR UNIVERSAL CHILDCARE. 
          THE SOON TO BE, UH, NEWLY ELECTED MAYOR OF DC ALSO HAS INDICATED THAT SHE WOULD LIKE TO DO THE SAME. 
          AND SOME OTHERS IN CITIES OF IN STATES AS WELL ARE LOOKING TOWARDS OR HAVE ALREADY INVESTED FUNDS IN THIS SECTOR IN TERMS OF FOR, UH, FOR AN EXAMPLE, UH, PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS TO USE CITY BUILDINGS TO RE AND RENOVATE THEM SO THAT CHIL INFANT AND TODDLER CENTERS CAN OPERATE IN THOSE SPACES, WHICH REDUCE THE COSTS OF INFANT TODDLER CARE BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE TO PAY THE INFRASTRUCTURE, THEY DON'T HAVE TO PAY FOR RENT AND THAT TYPE OF THING. 
          SO THERE'S A LOT OF REALLY CREATIVE POLICY SOLUTIONS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW TO, TO FIND WAYS TO SUPPORT THIS SECTOR. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          AND FINALLY, WE WERE ASKED, UM, BY THE COUNCIL TO LOOK AT MEANS TESTING. 
          UM, AND SO AS YOU'LL SEE IN THE MEMO THAT THAT YOU HAVE, UH, WITH YOU AT THE TABLE, UH, WE DID SOME ANALYSIS ON THIS. 
          AGAIN, I AM APPRECIATIVE OF OUR COLLEAGUES, UM, IN THIS STRATEGY TEAM WHO HELPED WITH, WITH THIS ANALYSIS. 
          AS I MENTIONED BEFORE, WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE SOME REALLY GOOD REASONS TO CHOOSE A UNIVERSAL MODEL. 
          WE KNOW THAT CHILDREN DO BETTER, CHILDREN'S OUTCOMES TEND TO BE BETTER, UM, IN A USE UNIVERSAL 
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MODEL, AND ALSO FAMILY IMPACT ON, ON FAMILY WELLBEING AND ECONOMIC MOBILITY AS WELL. 
          THERE WOULD BE BENEFITS OBVIOUSLY TO MEANS TESTING IN TERMS OF SOME COST SAVINGS, BUT THERE ARE ALSO SIGNIFICANT DOWNSIDES. 
          A UH, A MEANS TESTED MODEL IS MORE COMPLEX TO ADMINISTER. 
          SO THERE WOULD BE ADDITIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE COSTS THAT GO ALONG WITH THAT. 
          IT WOULD BE A SIGNIFICANT DEPARTURE FROM THE CITY'S LONGSTANDING COMMITMENT, UM, TO UNIVERSAL PRE-K. 
          AND WHEN WE LOOKED AT THE, THE COST MODELING, WE LOOKED AT A FEW DIFFERENT OPTIONS TO FIGURE OUT HOW MUCH MONEY WOULD BE SAVED. 
          FOR EXAMPLE, WE LOOKED AT WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF WE IMPLEMENTED BASICALLY THE SAME MODEL IS THE MODEL THAT THE DHSP PROGRAMS CURRENTLY USE AND WE, AND A SLIDING FEE SCALE. 
          AND IF WE IMPLEMENTED THAT SLIDING FEE WITH CPP, WE LOOKED AT THAT AS WELL, BUT WE SAID, OKAY, WHAT IF WE USE THAT SAME MODEL, BUT WE DIDN'T CHARGE ANY FEES OF FAMILIES THAT ARE AT A HUNDRED PERCENT A MI OR BELOW. 
          AND THEN WE SAID, WHAT IF WE DIDN'T CHARGE ANY FEES OF FAMILIES THAT ARE AT 200% A MI OR BELOW? SO WITH THESE ANALYSIS, WE LANDED IN THE BALLPARK WITH THE, IF WE WERE TO USE THE MOST AGGRESSIVE MEANS TESTING MODEL, WE WOULD BE IN THE BALLPARK OF PROBABLY UNDER $6 MILLION IN COST SAVINGS. 
          COUPLE CAVEATS WITH THAT IS THAT ONE, WE WOULD THEN NEED TO SUBTRACT SOME INFRASTRUCTURE COSTS. 
          WE WOULD NEED SOME ADDITIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE TO IMPLEMENT THIS MODEL. 
          THAT WOULD PROBABLY BE IN THE 400 TO $500,000 RANGE. 
          UM, WE WOULD HAVE TO CONSIDER CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
          UM, IT WOULD NOT BE SIMPLE TO CHARGE FEES OF FAMILIES ATTENDING A PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM. 
          SO THEN IF WE SUBTRACTED THE MONEY OF FAMILIES THAT ARE ENROLLED IN CPS, THEN THAT, THAT WOULD COME DOWN AS WELL, PROBABLY TO ABOUT THE BALLPARK OF $4 MILLION. 
          UM, AND IMPORTANT TO NOTE, IF WE WERE TO IMPLEMENT THAT SLIDING FEE SCALE, WE WOULD BE IMPOSING ADDITIONAL NEW COSTS ON FAMILIES THAT ARE IN THE 65% A MI RANGE TO 85 TO A HUNDRED PERCENT A MI RANGE. 
          SO AGAIN, I JUST WANNA STRESS THAT THESE ARE FAMILIES THAT ARE ALREADY IN SOME CASES FEELING SQUEEZED BY HAVING TO PAY FOR EXTENDED DAY AND SUMMER CARE, COST OF HOUSING, ALL OF THESE OTHER THINGS. 
          SO TO ADD AN ADDITIONAL COST FOR THESE FAMILIES, UM, WOULD, WOULD NOT BE INSIGNIFICANT. 
          UM, SO THEN IF WE WERE TO LOOK AT THE MODEL WHERE WE SAID HOLD HARMLESS, THE FAMILIES THAT ARE AT A HUNDRED PERCENT A MI OR BELOW, UM, AGAIN, WE WOULD HAVE TO CONSIDER THE, THE CAME THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM AND WHETHER OR NOT FAMILIES ATTENDING THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM WOULD BE CHARGED SIMILAR. 
          SIMILARLY FEES, WE WOULD PROBABLY BE IN THE $4 MILLION RANGE OR SLIGHTLY BELOW. 
          AND WHEN WE LOOKED AT THE MODEL THAT SAID IF WE WEREN'T GOING TO HAVE ANY CHARGE, ANY ADDITIONAL FEES TO FAMILIES THAT ARE AT 200% A MI OR BELOW, UM, THAT PUTS US IN ABOUT A MILLION DOLLAR COST SAVINGS, BALLPARK. 
          AND THEN WE WOULD TAKE A LITTLE BIT OUT OF THAT FOR THE ADDITIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE. 
          SO THE COST SAVINGS ARE NOT TREMENDOUS. 
          UM, BUT THAT GIVES YOU SORT OF A BROAD OVERVIEW OF WHAT THE COST, WHAT THE COST SAVINGS WOULD BE, BUT ALSO WHAT SOME OF THE COMPLEXITIES WOULD BE IN TERMS OF IMPLEMENTING, UM, IMPLEMENTING MEANS TESTED MODEL. 
          AND FINAL SLIDE, NEXT STEPS IN CONVERSATION WITH OUR PARTNERS AROUND THE TABLE AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS AROUND THE CITY. 
          UM, DISCUSS SOME OF THESE POLICY OPTIONS. 
          AS I MENTIONED, THE INFANT TODDLER WORKING GROUP WILL BE FINISHING ITS WORK VERY SOON, WITHIN THE NEXT, UM, THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS THIS SUMMER. 
          AND THEN WE EXPECT TO BE ABLE TO HAVE THAT DATA FOR YOU AS WELL. 
          MADAM MAYOR, THAT'S TO YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, IT'S NOW 4 52, SO WE HAVE A LITTLE, UM, OVER AN HOUR, UH, FOR DISCUSSION AND QUESTIONS. 
          I'LL START WITH FOLKS ON THE ZOOM FIRST AND THEN WE'LL ALTERNATE. 
          UH, DOES ANYONE HAVE THEIR HANDS UP WHO'D LIKE TO SPEAK? NO, MADAM MAYOR. 
          OKAY. 
          I SEE A FEW HANDS UP HERE. 
          SO I'LL GO TO, UH, CHAIR WEINSTEIN AND THEN COUNCILOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          AND JUST START WITH KIND OF, YOU CAN HAVE A QUICK COMMENT, BUT THEN TWO, UH, TWO QUESTIONS EACH. 
          WE'LL START WITH THAT. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          UH, THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          UH, THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. 
          SORRY THAT I WAS, UH, NOT ABLE TO BE HERE IN PERSON FOR THE VERY BEGINNING OF IT. 
          UM, I WANNA, ONE THING I WANNA JUST SAY IS THAT AMONGST THE INDICATIONS THAT THIS HAS BEEN REALLY SUCCESSFUL, I THINK IS, UH, THE KIND OF FEEDBACK THAT WE'VE BEEN GETTING, UH, THE INTEREST AMONGST MORE FOLKS, UH, IN VARIOUS, UM, CONSTITUENCIES TO BE A PART OF IT, INCLUDING HEARING FROM PRESCHOOLS, UH, THAT CHOSE NOT TO PURSUE JOINING THE PROGRAM, UH, WHEN WE WERE FIRST LAUNCHING, WHO'VE REACHED OUT WITH INTEREST IN JOINING. 
          UH, SO I THINK THAT'S JUST A SIGN OF THE SUCCESS. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, I, I'LL JUST NOTE THAT, UM, I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE ON THE, UH, JOINT WORKING GROUP OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND CITY COUN SCHOOL COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND CITY COUNSELORS WHEN WE, UM, GOT TO THE STAGE JUST BEFORE AND LAUNCHING THIS PROGRAM, UH, ALONG WITH MAYOR SIDIKI 
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AND, UM, UH, COUNCILLOR MCGOVERN, THEN VICE MAYOR, UH, AND FORMER SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND, UH, CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, UM, AISHA WILSON. 
          AND, UM, IT'S REALLY EXCITING TO SEE THE WORK THAT WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO, TO, YOU KNOW, HELP ADVISE AND COORDINATE, UH, YOU KNOW, TO GET OVER THE FINISH LINE TO THE STARTING LINE , UH, REALLY, YOU KNOW, PROCEED IN THE WAY THAT IT HAS. 
          UM, I MEAN, I THINK MY BIGGEST QUESTION WITH QUESTIONS, WHICH MIGHT NOT REALLY BE ABLE TO BE ANSWERED UNTIL WE DETERMINE WHAT THOSE NEXT STEPS ARE, UM, YOU KNOW, IS OF COURSE, COMING FROM THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE PERSPECTIVE, WHAT WE ANTICIPATE, UH, MIGHT BE. 
          AND SO I WONDER TO WHAT DEGREE WE CAN ANSWER THIS NOW, WHAT MIGHT BE THE ROLE OF THE CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN SUPPORTING BOTH STRENGTHENING THE PROGRAM? YOU KNOW, I REALLY, IN EITHER OF THESE DIRECTIONS, THE HORIZONTAL OR THE VERTICAL, UM, AND, UH, YOU KNOW, WHILE, WHILE STILL BEARING IN MIND OF COURSE, THAT WE'RE STILL RELATIVELY EARLY IN IMPLEMENTING THIS INCREDIBLE COMMITMENT. 
          SO I'M, I'M ALWAYS TRYING TO BE MINDFUL OF THAT, THAT I THINK THE, TO ME, THE, THE PRIORITY IS LET'S MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE DOING WHAT WE'RE DOING NOW AND THE COMMITMENTS THAT WE'VE ALREADY MADE THAT WE'RE, UM, DOING THEM AS WELL AS POSSIBLE, UH, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME REALLY LOOKING AHEAD TO SEE AS WE DO THAT, WHERE DO WE WANNA GO NEXT SO THAT WE ARE ABLE TO DO THAT, UM, IN A REALLY PLANFUL WAY. 
          UH, SO, SO THAT'S, THAT'S MY QUESTION. 
          AND I GUESS A FOLLOW UP QUESTION IS, UM, UM, MS ALSO YOU MADE MENTION OF LIKE THE POSSIBILITY OF, OF, OF A STRUCTURE IN WHICH THERE WOULD BE A, A PAID OPTION THAT INVOLVED CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
          I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT'S EVEN POSSIBLE. 
          UM, MAYBE THE SUPERINTENDENT COULD ADVISE ON THAT, BUT, UM, BUT THAT MAY BE SOMETHING WHERE WE CAN SORT OF ANTICIPATE WHAT THE BOUNDARIES ARE ON THAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          WOULD YOU LIKE TO RESPOND TO THAT SUPERINTENDENT? UH, THANK YOU MAYOR, AND THROUGH YOU TO THE CHAIR, MR. CHAIR. 
          UH, THANK YOU FOR THOSE, UM, QUESTIONS. 
          I'LL START JUST, UM, IN RESPONSE TO THE QUESTION ABOUT CP S'S ROLE IN THE UNIVERSITY, UH, PRESCHOOL INITIATIVE. 
          I MEAN, AS YOU SAW IN THE DATA, WE ARE A SIGNIFICANT ACTOR WITH RESPECT TO THE CONCENTRATION OF STUDENTS WHO ARE ENROLLED IN CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, SCHOOL COMMUNITIES. 
          AND WE TAKE GREAT PRIDE IN THAT. 
          WE TAKE GREAT PRIDE IN, UM, BEING PART OF, UM, THE, THE, UM, NEXT DELIVERY SYSTEM AND PARTNERING BOTH WITH THE CITY AS WELL AS, UH, THE COMMUNITY PROVIDERS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE BUILDING AS SOLID A FOUNDATION AS POSSIBLE WITH RESPECT TO CHILDREN'S, UH, FORMAL EDUCATION. 
          UM, I THINK THE OTHER PIECE THAT I WOULD SAY, AND IT GOES SORT OF TO WHAT POTENTIAL NEXT STEPS COULD BE, IS THAT I, I AND MS. OLSON AND I HAVE HAD MANY CONVERSATIONS, UM, SINCE HER ARRIVAL ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR FACT. 
          AND THAT IS THAT, UM, FROM A, UH, A, A, A LEGAL PERSPECTIVE AND FROM A FEW OTHER PERSPECTIVES, THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A POPULATION OF STUDENTS FOR WHOM THE CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS HAS PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY. 
          AND THAT'S TRUE IN ANY MUNICIPALITY, REGARDLESS OF HOW EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION IS BEING DELIVERED, THAT THE LOCAL EDUCATION AGENCY, UH, HAS SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES, PARTICULARLY WITH REGARD TO STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES THAT WE HAVE BOTH THE PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE AS WELL AS, UM, THE, THE INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY TO PROVIDE THE TYPE OF SUPPORT. 
          AND I THINK GIVEN THE, UM, STATISTICAL LIKELIHOOD OF STUDENTS CONTINUING TO, UH, MOVE THROUGH THE CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS SCHOOL SYSTEM IN ONE FORM OR ANOTHER, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT, UM, I THINK, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT THE LAW IS WHAT IT IS AND THAT WE CONTINUE TO TAKE ON THAT RESPONSIBILITY. 
          UM, I THINK THERE ARE OTHER, SOME, THERE ARE SOME POLICY CONSIDERATIONS BEFORE THE CITY THAT MS. OLSON HAS REFERENCED IN HER PRESENTATION THAT I, I DO THINK, UM, FROM A SCHOOL SYSTEM, MY COUNSEL TO THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE WOULD BE THAT WE WOULD HAVE TO HANDLE IN OUR, IN A WAY THAT IS SPECIFIC TO THE, THE, THE SCHOOL SYSTEM. 
          AND, AND TO SOME DEGREE THAT'S TRUE, THERE ARE, UM, STRUCTURAL PIECES OF THE PRE, OF THE CAMBRIDGE PRESCHOOL PROGRAM THAT CPS HANDLES IN ONE WAY AND THE OTHER PROVIDERS HANDLE IN, IN ANOTHER WAY. 
          AND I WOULD SAY THE, THE POTENTIAL FOR MEANS TESTING OR, UM, SOME SORT OF A TUITION BASED SYSTEM WOULD, WOULD LIKELY BE SOMETHING THAT I THINK CPS WOULD NEED TO, UM, ESTABLISH ITS OWN POLICIES AND STRUCTURES AROUND FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS. 
          UM, BUT I THINK CONTINUING TO BE AN IMPORTANT PART, CONTINUING TO TAKE ON A, A SIGNIFICANT, WHETHER, WHETHER IT'S THE EXACT PERCENTAGE OR NOT, I THINK IS A DIFFERENT QUESTION FOR DOWN THE ROAD, BUT CONTINUING TO BE A SIGNIFICANT, UM, PART OF THE MIXED DELIVERY SYSTEM AND PARTICULARLY, UM, UH, PROVIDING, UH, EDUCATIONAL SERVICES TO STUDENTS IN SOME OF THOSE, UM, STATE DESIGNATED HIGH NEED CATEGORIES WOULD ALWAYS BE SOMETHING THAT WE WOULD, WE WOULD NEED TO BE AT THE TABLE FOR. 
          YOU WANT ANYTHING? CHAIR WEINSTEIN? UH, THANK YOU. 
          AND NOW JUST, UM, NOTE, WHICH I, I SHOULD HAVE MENTIONED IN MY QUESTION. 
          UM, AS OF COURSE, THOSE ON THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE KNOW WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF, UH, DEVELOPING OUR NEXT STRATEGIC PLAN, UH, IN A COUPLE DIFFERENT STAGES OVER THE NEXT, YOU KNOW, WITHIN THE NEXT SIX MONTHS. 
          THE, UM, UH, UNIVERSAL PRESCHOOL PROGRAM WAS A KEY ELEMENT OF THE PRIOR STRATEGIC PLAN, UH, AND MAKING SURE THAT, UM, THAT CPS WAS, WAS READY TO, UH, TAKE THE STEPS WE HAD TO DO TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN, UM, FROM OUR SIDE. 
          AND I WANT TO BE SURE 
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THAT IN THAT TIMEFRAME, WE'RE ABLE TO ANTICIPATE AND PUT IN PLACE, UM, ELEMENTS IN OUR NEXT STRATEGIC PLAN, UM, THAT ANTICIPATE WHERE WE'RE GOING WITH THIS PROGRAM OVER THE NEXT FOUR YEARS, OR AT LEAST WHAT WE KNOW AT THIS POINT. 
          SO, UM, SO I LOOK FORWARD TO, TO THAT CONVERSATION. 
          UH, THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          WE'LL GO TO COUNCILOR SABRINA. 
          WHEELER. 
          THANKS MADAM MAYOR, THROUGH, UH, YOU, I HAD A BRIEF COMMENT AND THEN A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS. 
          I THINK THE, THE COMMENT IS, UH, IS MAINLY THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR WORK ON THIS. 
          IT IS A, A SUPER IMPORTANT PIECE TO, TO HAVE ROLLED OUT. 
          I THINK FROM MY START ON THE COUNCIL, WE, YOU KNOW, FIVE YEARS AGO WE, THIS PROGRAM WAS COMPLETELY NEW. 
          IT HAS BEEN GREAT TO SEE IT ROLL OUT AND TO, UH, SEE THE IMPLEMENTATION, DOING IT AS A MIXED DELIVERY MODEL, FIGURING OUT ALL THE, THE KINKS TO IT AND, UH, AND NOW REVIEWING IT AND TALKING ABOUT WHAT WORKS, WHAT DOESN'T, WHAT HASN'T, HOW CAN WE EXPAND IT? UM, I HAVE OUTSIDE MY ROLE WITH THE COUNCIL, DONE A DONE SOME WORK ON CHILDCARE POLICY AND JUST THE MORE WORK I I DO ON THAT, THE MORE, YOU KNOW, IT BECOMES CLEARLY THAT CHILDCARE IN PARTICULAR POLICY IS JUST FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN IN THE UNITED UNITED STATES. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE UNIVERSAL EDUCATION FROM AGE FIVE TO 18 AND, YOU KNOW, WHETHER YOU'RE RICH, YOU'RE POOR, OR WHEREVER YOU LIVE IN THE COUNTRY, YOU CAN GET PUBLIC EDUCATION AND, AND THAT'S A RIGHT. 
          BUT AGE ZERO TO FOUR WE'RE, WE JUST SAY TO PEOPLE, YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN. 
          YOU KNOW, GOOD LUCK FIGURING IT OUT. 
          AND THAT HAS BEEN THE, THE NORM FOR 200 YEARS. 
          AND IT'S, IT'S CRAZY. 
          ONCE YOU GET TO AGE FIVE, YOU, YOU CAN GUARANTEE A SPOT BEFORE THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE REALLY ON YOUR OWN. 
          AND IT IS A HUGE STRUGGLE FOR SO MANY FAMILIES. 
          UM, WE'VE NOW SAID, YOU KNOW, UNIVERSAL FOR, FOR FOUR YEAR OLDS, THAT IS A HUGE BENEFIT. 
          WE'D LOVE TO EVENTUALLY EXPAND THAT DOWN TO THREE AND TWO AND ONE AND ZERO. 
          UM, BUT JUST HAVING IT FOR FOUR YEAR OLDS HAS MADE SUCH A BIG DIFFERENCE FOR SO MANY FAMILIES. 
          AND I HEAR THAT FROM, FROM FRIENDS IN OTHER PLACES OR, OR FROM FOLKS IN CAMBRIDGE TO SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, CAMBRIDGE IS EXPENSIVE TO LIVE, BUT WE KNEW WE WOULD GET UNIVERSAL PRE-K. 
          AND SO THAT MADE UP FOR THE HIGH COST OF, OF HOUSING HERE, KNOWING WE COULD COUNT ON THAT BECAUSE THAT SAVED US TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. 
          AND IT IS JUST A HUGE BENEFIT AND IT'S REALLY EXCITING TO SEE ROLLED OUT. 
          SO THAT'S, THAT'S THE COMMENT. 
          UM, ONE OF MY QUESTIONS WAS ON, UM, THE MEANS TESTING AND, AND, UH, ANSWER AROUND THAT. 
          THANK YOU FOR, FOR LOOKING INTO THAT. 
          THAT WAS SOMETHING THE COUNCIL HAD ASKED FOR. 
          I, I DO THINK BRIEFLY, I, I THINK MEANS TESTING IS ACTUALLY THE WRONG TERM THERE. 
          I, SO WHEN USE MEANS TESTING, I THINK FROM A POLICY MAKING STANDPOINT, WE'RE OFTEN THINKING ABOUT ONLY THE LOWEST INCOME PEOPLE BEING ABLE TO AFFORD IT. 
          YOU KNOW, MAYBE THE LOWEST 20% OR 30%. 
          I, I DON'T THINK THAT'S ACTUALLY WHAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT HERE. 
          I THINK WE WERE ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT SHOULD WE MAKE THE HIGHEST INCOME FOLKS PAY SOMETHING, UH, FOR IT OF, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE MAKING 200,000 PLUS DOLLARS PER YEAR, SHOULD YOU MAYBE HAVE TO CHIP INTO THAT? I WOULD SUGGEST IT WOULD BE IN INCOME SCREENING IS A BIT BETTER TERM FOR THAT. 
          ULTIMATELY THAT'S SEMANTIC. 
          UM, BUT I THINK THE, THE FACT THAT, I THINK THE IDEA FROM, FROM THE COUNCIL AND, AND YOU KNOW, OTHER FOLKS CAN CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG ON THIS, WAS, WAS SAYING, HEY, SHOULD THE HIGHEST INCOME FOLKS IN CAMBRIDGE, SHOULD WE ASK THEM TO CHIP IN A BIT? AND MAYBE THAT WILL LEAD TO A LOT OF COST SAVINGS THAT WE CAN PUT TO EXPANDING THIS TO THREE YEAR OLDS. 
          IF WE'RE ASKING FOR THE 200,000 PLUS 300,000 PLUS 400,000 THOUSAND DOLLARS PLUS TO CHIP IN A BIT, MAYBE THAT GIVES US SOME MORE INCOME TO EXPAND IT TO THREE YEAR OLDS. 
          IT SOUNDS LIKE THE ANALYSIS IS SAYING ACTUALLY THERE ARE NOT THAT MANY FAMILIES THAT, THAT MAKE THAT MUCH. 
          AND IF WE WERE TO DO INCOME SCREENING, WE WOULD HAVE TO DO IT AT AT A HUNDRED PERCENT A MI AND, AND THAT'S IF WE TOOK IT SUBSTANTIAL SAVINGS AND, YOU KNOW, THAT WOULD ACTUALLY BE CHALLENGING TO MAKE A, A LOT OF FAMILIES PAY FOR THIS. 
          AND MAYBE THAT'S SOMETHING WE DON'T WANNA DO. 
          UM, WOULD LOVE IF FOLKS WOULD BE A LITTLE MORE EVALUATED ON THAT. 
          I WOULD ALSO, IT WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL IF WE COULD SEE THE, A LITTLE MORE DETAIL OF THE SPREADSHEETS, OF THE CALCULATIONS OF, HEY, THIS IS WHAT 200% A MI ACTUALLY IS, THIS IS HOW MANY FAMILIES WOULD, WOULD EXPECT THIS IS HOW MUCH SAVINGS IT WOULD BE. 
          IT'S JUST HELPFUL TO BE ABLE TO PUT NUMBERS TO, OH ACTUALLY WE WOULD BE REQUIRING FAMILIES MAKING MORE THAN 120,000 OR WHATEVER, 200% A MI IS TO PAY MORE. 
          AND, AND WE DON'T WANT THAT 'CAUSE THAT THAT IS A MIDDLE CLASS FAMILY AND WE DON'T WANNA MAKE MIDDLE CLASS FAMILIES. 
          IT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO SEE THOSE NUMBERS IN A LITTLE MORE DETAIL IF YOU COULD SHARE THOSE WITH THE COUNCIL. 
          UM, BUT MY, MY QUESTION ULTIMATELY IS THERE, THE REASON WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THIS WAS NOT 'CAUSE WE, WE WANTED TO DO INCOME SCREENING MEANS TESTING FOR THE SAKE OF IT. 
          IT'S BECAUSE WE WANTED TO DO EXPANSION. 
          WE WANT TO EVENTUALLY EXPAND THIS TO BE UNIVERSAL FOR THREE YEAR OLDS. 
          IF WE'RE NOT GONNA DO THAT VIA INCOME SCREENING 'CAUSE WE THINK THAT IS BAD FOR WHATEVER FOR AND THE NUMBER REASONS WE THINK IT WOULD BE HARD TO IMPLEMENT. 
          WE DON'T WANNA MAKE FAMILIES PAY FOR IT IF WE'RE NOT GONNA DO EXPANSION THAT WAY. 
          HOW ARE WE GONNA DO EXPANSION? AND WOULD LOVE TO HEAR ANY OF YOU TALK ABOUT THAT. 
          HOW ARE WE GONNA EXPAND THIS TO EVENTUALLY GET TO UNIVERSAL PRE-K FOR THREE YEAR OLDS? WHAT'S THE THOUGHT AROUND THAT? OR IS IT JUST GONNA BE THROUGH TAX REVENUE? IS THAT THROUGH, IS THERE SOME OTHER WAY WE'RE GONNA DO IT? HOW ARE WE GONNA GONNA KEEP EXPANDING THIS BECAUSE WE NEED TO FOR, TO EXPAND IT TO THREE YEAR OLDS EVENTUALLY. 
          UH, WHAT, WHAT'S THE THOUGHT THERE IF WE'RE NOT DOING IT THROUGH INCOME SCREENING, 
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UH, THROUGH YOU MAYOR? UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK, I THINK YES, WE CAN SHARE SOME OF THE MORE DETAILED NUMBERS. 
          UM, AND I THINK YOU ARE COUNCILOR SABRINA REALLY PUTTING YOUR FINGER ON IT. 
          YOU KNOW, I THINK A LOT OF THIS EXPANSION WOULD HAVE TO COME THROUGH THE BUDGET PROCESS. 
          UM, AND I DO THINK IT IS HELPFUL AS WE'RE, UM, STRENGTHENING SOME OF THE COORDINATION AND PRIORITIZATION AROUND THE BUDGET PROCESS THAT WE'RE HAVING THESE CONVERSATIONS EARLY AND THEN BUILDING IN MULTI-YEAR PLANS. 
          UM, SO I THINK IN SOME WAYS THIS IS WHAT WE'RE SEEING AROUND THE COUNTRY WHERE, UH, PART OF THE CONVERSATION HERE AND FOLLOWING UP FROM THIS ROUND TABLE WILL BE, UM, HOW WE WANT TO ARTICULATE A SHARED VISION ACROSS CITY COUNCIL, CITY ADMINISTRATION, SCHOOL COMMITTEE FOR WHERE WE WANT TO GO ON CHILDCARE AND EXPANSION OF PRE-K. 
          UM, AND THEN, AND THEN WE NEED TO THEN DO THE WORK OF FIGURING OUT BOTH HOW WE WOULD IMPLEMENT, THERE'S A LOT OF LOGISTICAL CHALLENGES IN TERMS OF DIFFERENT MODELS THAT WE COULD BE EXPLORING, BUT ALSO HOW DO WE BUILD THAT INTO OUR BUDGET PROCESS AND UH, AND WE CAN BUILD THAT INTO OUR PROJECTIONS. 
          OKAY, THANK YOU. 
          UM, AND THEN FOR THE OTHER QUESTION, UM, I, UH, WANTED TO ASK ABOUT, UH, EVALUATION PROCESS FOR COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, WE WE'RE DOING THIS AS A MIXED DELIVERY MODEL. 
          SO WE HAVE SOME, SOME CPP SLOTS THROUGH CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, SOME THROUGH DHSP, BUT THEN A LOT WHERE WE'RE GOING TO NON-PROFITS AND DAYCARE PROVIDERS AND SAYING, YOU KNOW, WE WANT YOU TO DO SOME OF THESE SLOTS. 
          AND I'LL SAY THAT IN THIS, THIS ROLLOUT OF NOW FOUR YEARS, FIVE YEARS NOW, PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS HAVE, HAVE BEEN SUPER EXCITED ABOUT THIS PROGRAM. 
          I HAVE, YOU KNOW, I'M SURE THERE ARE FOLKS WITH QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS, UH, THAT HAVE BROUGHT THAT TO COUNCIL. 
          I GENERALLY LIKE DON'T HEAR THAT MANY QUESTIONS FROM PROVIDERS. 
          IT'S JUST LIKE, WE'RE SO EXCITED, UH, FROM CAREGIVERS, I SHOULD SAY WE'RE SO EXCITED THIS EXISTS. 
          WHERE I HAVE HEARD QUESTIONS AND AND CONCERNS HAS BEEN FROM THE COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS. 
          UM, AND I DON'T THINK THAT'S 'CAUSE IT'S, IT'S, THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN BAD. 
          I THINK IT'S THE REVERSE OF IT. 
          IT'S ACTUALLY BEEN SO GOOD THAT EVERY PROVIDER IS LIKE, HOW DO WE GET CPP SLOTS? WHEN, WHEN CAN I GET SOME, OH, WE DIDN'T GET THEM THIS YEAR. 
          HOW DO I GET SOME OF THE CPP SLOTS? WE DIDN'T APPLY ORIGINALLY, BUT, BUT WE, WE'VE SEEN THE IMPACT OF THEM. 
          EVERYBODY WANTS TO HAVE SOME OF THE CPP SLOTS 'CAUSE IT'S BEEN HUGELY HELPFUL FOR THESE COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS. 
          UM, AND, AND THE ONES THAT HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO GET CPP SLOTS SO FAR HAVE, HAVE BEEN FRUSTRATED BY THAT. 
          AND SO I I JUST WANTED TO ASK A QUESTION ABOUT THAT. 
          UM, UH, SORT OF WHEN, WHEN DOES THE CPP PROGRAM ACCEPT NEW APPLICATIONS FROM THE COMMUNITY BASED PRO ORGANIZATIONS TO JOIN THE PROGRAM? DOES THAT HAPPEN EVERY YEAR? I FEEL LIKE I'VE HEARD SOME FROM PROVIDERS, OH, WE, WE THOUGHT WE WERE GONNA HAVE A CHANCE TO JOIN THIS YEAR AND WE DIDN'T. 
          UM, AND THEN ALSO, HOW DOES THE, THE COST VERIFY? I THINK THE, THE THING I'VE ALWAYS TRYING TO UNDERSTAND IS WE HAVE A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS PARTICIPATING. 
          SOME OF THOSE ARE MORE EXPENSIVE THAN OTHERS. 
          AND, AND THERE'S, I'VE HEARD PROVIDERS SAY LIKE, OH, THIS IS ACTUALLY LIKE A PREMIUM DAYCARE PROVIDER AND THE CITY IS PAYING THEM MORE PER SLOT THAN, OR MORE PER HOUR. 
          I FORGET HOW THE CALCULATION IS THAN MY PROGRAM. 
          I SHOULD BE GETTING SLOTS. 
          'CAUSE WE'RE AT, WE'RE A CHEAPER, MORE EFFICIENT C PRESCHOOL PROVIDER. 
          BASICALLY, WHY IS THE CITY FUNDING THESE PREMIUM PROVIDERS AND NOT, NOT THE MORE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD ONES. 
          SO IF YOU COULD JUST TALK THROUGH BOTH HOW, HOW YOU DECIDE WHEN TO ACCEPT APPLICATIONS FROM NEW COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS, AND THEN HOW YOU EVALUATE THE, THE BANG FOR THE BUCK BASICALLY OF HOW THE CITY IS, IS FUNDING THE CBOS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THROUGH YOU MADAM MAYOR. 
          YEAH, SO IN TERMS OF, I THINK I'LL START WITH THE, THE THE SEATS AND FOR, FOR PROVIDERS THAT ARE NOT PART OF CPP CURRENTLY WHO WANT TO BE DIRECTOR, CAN YOU JUST SPEAK RIGHT INTO THE MIC? SORRY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          YEAH. 
          SO FOR PROVIDERS WHO ARE NOT CURRENTLY PART OF CPP AND WHO WANT TO BE PART OF CPP, THAT WAS SOME OF THE STRONGEST FEEDBACK WE HEARD IN THE FIRST YEAR OF CPP. 
          UM, AND THE, THE CONSIDERATION THERE WAS IF WE EXPANDED SEATS AND ALLOWED A LOT MORE PROGRAMS IN, THEN WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IS WE WOULD HAVE A LOT MORE EMPTY SEATS ACROSS THE SYSTEM. 
          SO WHAT HAS HAPPENED OVER A NUMBER OF YEARS IS THERE HAVE BEEN MORE PRESCHOOLS THAT HAVE OPENED IN THE CITY, BUT THERE AREN'T MORE PRESCHOOLERS FROM YEAR TO YEAR. 
          SO THE NUMBER OF PRESCHOOLERS ACTUALLY HAS DECLINED SLIGHTLY, BUT AT THE SAME TIME THERE HAVE BEEN NEW PRESCHOOLS THAT ARE OPEN. 
          SO IT IS A SUPPLY AND DEMAND CONUNDRUM. 
          SO THE DECISION WAS MADE TO ONLY ADD NEW CPP PROVIDERS WHEN THERE WAS DEMAND THAT INDICATED WE ACTUALLY NEEDED MORE SEATS IN THE SYSTEM. 
          SO WHAT I MENTIONED VERY EARLY ON IN OUR CONVERSATION THIS EVENING, THIS FORMULA THAT WE USE FROM YEAR TO YEAR TO LOOK AT THE DEMAND, LOOK AT HOW MANY STUDENTS HAVE COME THIS YEAR, MAKE A PREDICTION ABOUT HOW MANY STUDENTS WILL COME, WHAT I THINK OF AS SORT OF CHILDREN WHO TRICKLE IN OVER THE COURSE OF THE SPRING AND SUMMER TO COME UP WITH A PREDICTION FOR HOW MANY SEATS WE WILL NEED FOR THE NEXT YEAR. 
          SO WE TAKE THAT NUMBER AND THEN WE ADD 10% AND 
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THE 10% IS ADDED TO GIVE A LITTLE BIT OF A CUSHION. 
          SO IF WE HAD THE EXACT NUMBER OF SEATS AS WE HAVE CHILDREN, PARENTAL CHOICE WOULD BE LIMITED SIGNIFICANTLY. 
          SO WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT LIKE THE PERCENTAGE OF FAMILIES THAT WOULD GET ONE OF THEIR TOP THREE CHOICES, THAT WOULD GO DOWN SIGNIFICANTLY. 
          SO 10% ALLOWS US TO MAKE SURE THAT FAMILIES STILL HAVE A ROBUST CHOICE-BASED SYSTEM, BUT MINIMIZES THE NUMBER OF EMPTY SEATS IN THE SYSTEM. 
          SO THEN THIS COMES UP AGAINST WHAT I MENTIONED IN TERMS OF OUR NEW QUALITY MONITORING POLICY. 
          AND THIS IS THE FIRST YEAR WE'VE BEEN DOING THIS. 
          SO AGAIN, THAT IS A PRETTY ROBUST SYSTEM OF, OF MONITORING USING VARIOUS METRICS TO MAKE SURE THAT THE PROVIDERS IN THE SYSTEM ARE HIGH QUALITY. 
          AND AS TIME GOES ON, IF WE DO DETERMINE THAT WE HAVE A CPP CLASSROOM THAT IS NOT MEETING THOSE QUALITY METRICS, THEY WILL BE EXITED AND THAT WOULD OPEN UP SEATS TO A NEW PROVIDER. 
          WE ARE NOW ACTUALLY CURRENTLY IN THE SITUATION WHERE, BECAUSE WHEN I MENTIONED EARLIER WE HAVE MINIMIZED THE NUMBER OR REDUCED THE NUMBER OF FOR-PROFIT CLASSROOMS IN THE SYSTEM, WE ARE NOW JUST OPENING UP A BID PROCESS FOR NEW PROVIDERS. 
          AND I WANNA BE CLEAR THAT THE, THAT THE FOR-PROFIT CLASSROOMS THAT HAVE BEEN, OR IN THE PROCESS OF BEING EXITED FROM CPP, THE DECISION WAS NOT MADE BECAUSE OF QUALITY. 
          SO THE DECISION WAS MADE SIMPLY TO BE RESPONSIVE TO THE COMMUNITY FEEDBACK IN TERMS OF MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE USING CITY RESOURCES TO SUPPORT LOCAL, UM, LOCAL NONPROFITS AND MINIMIZING THE EXTENT TO WHICH WE'RE SENDING CITY RESOURCES TO LARGE CORPORATE, UM, CHILDCARE PROVIDERS. 
          SO NOT BASED ON QUALITY. 
          SO BECAUSE WE HAVE A NUMBER OF CLASSROOMS THAT WILL BE EXITING, WE NEED TO ESSENTIALLY BACKFILL THOSE SEATS TO GET US. 
          SO WE DON'T ANTICIPATE A BIG INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN COMING TO US NEXT YEAR FOR CPP, BUT WE DO NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE HOLDING THE NUMBER OF SEATS SET STEADY. 
          SO LAST FRIDAY WE LAUNCHED AN RFP PROCESS TO WELCOME NEW LOCAL NONPROFITS, UH, TO JOIN THE SYSTEM. 
          SO OVER THE NEXT, I THINK IT'S FIVE WEEKS, UM, THEY WILL HAVE TO FILL OUT AN APPLICATION AND THE FIRST REVIEW, FIRST PART OF THAT WILL BE A REVIEW OF A, OF THE DOCUMENTS THAT THEY SEND TO US. 
          AND THEN WE WILL ACTUALLY GO OUT AND DO SOME ASSESSMENTS IN THE PROGRAMS BEFORE WE MAKE ANY DECISIONS. 
          SO ALL THAT TO SAY, WE DO NOT ON AN ANNUAL BASIS, UM, WELCOME NEW PROVIDERS INTO THE SYSTEM, BUT WE LOOK AT HOW MANY SEATS WE NEED FROM YEAR TO YEAR AND WHEN, AND IF IT IS DETERMINED THAT WE DO NEED MORE SEATS IN THE UPCOMING APPLICATION CYCLE, THAT'S WHEN WE WOULD OPEN UP THE BID PROCESS TO WELCOME NEW PROVIDERS. 
          COUNCILLOR, THANKS. 
          I'LL YIELD NOW FOR MY TWO QUESTIONS. 
          I MAY, UM, COME BACK WITH A COUPLE OF FOLLOW-UPS. 
          WE HAVE, UM, VICE CHAIR DUBBY, AND THEN I'LL GO TO COUNCILLOR MCGOVERN. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS, UM, REALLY THOROUGH PRESENTATION. 
          I, UM, JUST HAVE ONE QUESTION AND I WAS, YOU KNOW, READING THE MEMO AS WELL AND I WANTED TO TALK JUST SORT OF ABOUT, AS WE'RE THINKING ABOUT EXPANSION, THINKING ABOUT THE WORKFORCE SIDE, I KNOW IT'S IN OECS MISSION, UM, AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT'S ONE OF THE FOUR KEY AREAS, BUT, UM, I'M NOT SURE THAT I SEE IT ARTICULATED, UM, IN ANY OF THESE EXPANSION PATHS. 
          SO, UM, TWO THINGS. 
          FIRST, I THINK THE, IN THE MEMO FROM I THINK APRIL, THE FIRST COST CONTROL RECOMMENDATION IS ENSURING A SUPPLY OF, UM, SOMEWHAT LESS COSTLY DHSP PRESCHOOL SEATS. 
          AND I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY, UM, THAT A BIG PART OF, I THINK WHAT MAKES THOSE SEATS LESS COSTLY IS THAT WE, UM, MAY BE PAYING THOSE EDUCATORS LESS. 
          SO I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT. 
          AND THEN I THINK IF ONE OF OUR COST STRATEGY IS STEERING FAMILIES TOWARDS A LOWER, UM, WAGE SECTOR, UM, THEN THAT'S LIKE PART OF OUR WORKFORCE DECISION. 
          SO I'D LIKE TO SEE US KIND OF PAYING ATTENTION TO THAT AS WELL. 
          UM, AND I THINK THE, YOU KNOW, THE FAMILY SIDE COST AND ANALYSIS IS REALLY THOROUGH. 
          SO I I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT. 
          AND I'M HOPING THAT AS WE CONTINUE TO HAVE THIS CONVERSATION, ONE OF OUR NEXT STEPS CAN BE PUTTING A NUMBER ON WHAT WE'RE PAYING EDUCATORS ACROSS C-P-S-D-H-S-P AND CBOS, UM, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE THIS IS A WORKFORCE THAT'S OVERWHELMINGLY, UM, WOMEN. 
          UM, SO I'M WONDERING IF WE HAVE ANY DEMOGRAPHIC DATA ON THE WORKFORCE ACROSS THOSE SECTORS, UM, THOSE THOSE THREE PROVIDER AREAS AND JUST WANNA MAKE SURE WE'RE UNDERSTANDING WHAT WE'RE PAYING, UM, AND WHO WE'RE PAYING THE LEASE BEFORE WE LEAN INTO THAT SECTOR TO POTENTIALLY MANAGE COSTS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THROUGH YOU MADAM MAYOR. 
          UM, BEFORE I RESPOND TO THAT QUESTION, I NEGLECTED TO AN, UH, TO RESPOND TO AN IMPORTANT, UM, QUESTION ABOUT THE COST PER SEAT. 
          THE COST REIMBURSED PER SEAT IS THE SAME FOR ALL CPP, ALL THE COMMUNITY BASED PROVIDERS. 
          IT IS CALCULATED A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY, OBVIOUSLY FOR CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, THAT FUNDING MODEL'S A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT, BUT FOR THE COMMUNITY BASED PROVIDERS, UH, THE COST IS THIS OR THE, THE REIMBURSEMENT RATE IS THE SAME REGARDLESS 
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OF HOW EXPENSIVE PARTICULAR TUITION IS. 
          UH, OKAY, THANK YOU. 
          SO IN TERMS OF THE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS I I'D LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT IS OUR OFFICE, UM, THROUGH MY COLLEAGUE EMILY  AND OTHERS, UH, HAVE A, A NUMBER OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES IN PLACE. 
          WE ALSO PARTNER WITH SOME OF OUR, WE COLLEAGUES IN WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE CITY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE OFFERING FREE OF CHARGE OPPORTUNITIES FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS TO EXPAND THEIR CREDENTIALS, WHETHER IT'S GETTING A CHILD DEVELOPMENT CREDENTIAL, GETTING FINISHING A DEGREE, UM, AT FISHER COLLEGE, OR ALSO JUST TAKING C CEUS CONTINUING EDUCATION UNITS, UM, THAT WE MAKE AVAILABLE FOR FREE THROUGH OUR OFFICE. 
          AND SO THERE'S A GREAT DEAL OF WORK THAT HAPPENS THERE TO HELP DEVELOP THE WORKFORCE. 
          WE ARE ALSO PARTNERING, UM, IN A STUDY WITH CHILDREN'S, UH, FUNDING PROJECT THAT IS A NATIONAL ORGANIZATION BASED IN WASHINGTON DC THAT HAS LOOKED AT THE COST A SALARY IN PARTICULAR, THEY LOOK AT A NUMBER OF THINGS RELATED TO FINANCING OF CHILDCARE SYSTEMS, BUT THEY ALSO LOOK AT EDUCATORS SALARY, UM, AND THEY ARE TAKING DATA FROM ACROSS THE SYSTEM, UM, AND WILL ISSUE FINDINGS TO US AT SOME POINT THIS SUMMER THAT WILL GIVE US INFORMATION IN TERMS OF THE AVERAGE SALARIES THAT TEACHERS ARE BEING PAID ACROSS THE SYSTEM, UM, AS WELL. 
          ANYTHING THAT YOU'D LIKE TO ADD FROM CPS PERSPECTIVE? SALARY. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          WAS TRUE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          YEAH, I THINK HAVING A COMPARISON OF SALARIES ACROSS CBOS, DHSP AND UH, CPS WOULD BE REALLY IMPORTANT FOR THE NEXT TIME THAT WE'RE MEETING. 
          SO WE CAN TAKE A LOOK AT THAT. 
          I, I APPRECIATE THAT. 
          THANK YOU COUNCILOR. 
          GOVERNOR, UH, THANK YOU. 
          UM, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION AND THANKS TO YOU AND YOUR STAFF. 
          UM, I'M ALWAYS EXCITED TO TALK ABOUT THIS. 
          THIS HAS BEEN, I'M SORT OF LOOKING AT THE, THE CREW AT THE HEAD OF THE TABLE, AND THEN I THINK GOING BACK TO THE TIME THAT I FIRST STARTED TALKING ABOUT THAT, I THINK IT WAS THREE CITY MANAGERS AGO, FOUR SUPERINTENDENTS AGO, YOUR POSITION WASN'T HERE AND THEN  ELLEN. 
          UM, SO IT'S REALLY GREAT TO SEE, TO SEE THE PROGRESS. 
          AND I THINK, UM, EVEN YOU COULD GO BACK TO CERTAINLY EVEN BEFORE, YOU KNOW, DECADES, BUT, UM, WHEN COUNCILOR SIMMONS WAS MAYOR, SHE APPOINTED, UM, MYSELF AND THEN COUNCILOR DECKER TO A TASK FORCE IN OH EIGHT. 
          UM, THAT WAS, THAT BROUGHT TOGETHER THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND, UH, THE CITY, YOU KNOW, TO, TO LOOK AT THIS SO YOU CAN GO BACK EVEN FURTHER. 
          UM, SO IT'S REALLY, I'M SO EXCITED THAT WE'RE HERE. 
          UH, JUST TO, I WANTED TO FOLLOW UP ON COUNCILOR SABRINA WHEELER'S QUESTION, UM, WHEN, WHEN HE TALKED ABOUT SORT OF THE EXPANSION PIECE, DID I, AND MAYBE I JUST DIDN'T HEAR THIS PROPERLY, DID YOU SAY THAT, SO WERE ALL FOUR YEAR OLDS PRIORITY OR NOT ARE IN PRIORITY, THREE YEAR OLDS ARE IN, AND THEN DID YOU SAY THEY WERE 64 3 YEAR OLDS THAT DIDN'T GET A SLOT? YES, THROUGH YOU, MADAM MAYOR, 67. 
          67 AS OF LAST, LAST WEEK IT WAS 67. 
          SO AS SOME CHILDREN, SOME FAMILIES MAY MOVE OUT OF THE CITY OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 
          THERE WILL PROBABLY BE A LITTLE BIT OF MOVEMENT THERE, BUT AS OF LAST WEEK, IT WAS 67. 
          SO I MEAN, SO THAT'S NOT, I MEAN, WE'RE NOT TALKING HUNDREDS. 
          SO IF WE WERE TO EXPAND FOR THOSE 67 KIDS AND ALL THREE YEAR OLDS WOULD BE GETTING A SLOT YES. 
          THROUGH YOU, THAT WOULD BE A DECISION THAT THE, THE CITY WOULD, WOULD, WOULD NEED TO MAKE IN TERMS OF THE EXTENT OF THAT EXPANSION? WELL, I THINK, WELL, I JUST, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT BECAUSE I THINK WHEN WE TALK EXPANSION, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE, WHEN WE KICKED THIS OFF AND WE WERE, YOU KNOW, IT WAS BY THE TIME WE GOT AROUND TO SAYING THERE WAS A FIVE YEAR PLAN AND $36 MILLION AND, UM, AND THEN SAYING, OH, NOW WE WANT TO DO IT TO ALL THREE YEAR OLDS, IT WOULD BE EASY TO SORT OF WALK AWAY THINKING, OH MY GOODNESS, THAT COULD BE ANOTHER $15 MILLION OR SO. 
          BUT IF YOU'RE TALKING 67 KIDS, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT DOESN'T SEEM, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE MATH IS ON THAT, BUT I MEAN, AGAIN, WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT HUNDREDS OF KIDS, SO IT MAY BE, IF WE DECIDE THAT WE WANT TO DO THAT, THAT MAY BE A MUCH MORE ACHIEVABLE AND MUCH QUICKER PROCESS THAN, THAN WE MAY THINK. 
          UM, SO JUST WANTED TO PUT THAT OUT THERE AND MAKE SURE I GOT THAT NUMBER RIGHT. 
          AND, AND, AND THEN MY, MY SECOND QUESTION, NOT SO MUCH ON THE, UM, ON THE, UM, UNIVERSAL PIECE, BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, THAT ARE, ARE WE STILL PROVIDING, ONE OF THE REASONS THAT THAT TASK FORCE WAS FORMED IN OH EIGHT WAS BECAUSE THE STATE HAD, UM, REMOVED FUNDING FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND SPECIAL ED SCREENING IN PRESCHOOLS AND CAMBRIDGE. 
          HAD WE, WE WERE PROVI THE STATE WAS PROVIDING IT. 
          AND, AND WE HAD I THINK TWO OR THREE PEOPLE AT THE TIME 
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WHO WERE DOING IT JUST FOR CAMBRIDGE. 
          AND THEN THE STATE CAME OUT AND SAID, WELL, NOW WE'RE GONNA DO REGIONS AND THOSE TWO OR THREE PEOPLE THAT ARE SERVING CAMBRIDGE ARE NOW GONNA HAVE TO SERVE, I THINK IT WAS LIKE 10 OR 12 DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES. 
          AND SO THE CITY STEPPED UP AND SAID, WE ARE GONNA JUST DO IT OURSELVES. 
          SO ARE WE STILL, IN TERMS OF, AGAIN, THIS MAYBE THE QUALITY AND SCREENING, ARE WE STILL PROVIDING TRAINING, INTERVENTION SCREENINGS FOR KIDS IN PRESCHOOL PROGRAMS WHO MIGHT HAVE LEARNING CHALLENGES OR BEHAVIORAL CHALLENGES SO THAT WE CAN MAKE SURE THEY'RE GETTING SERVICES AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE? YES. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THROUGH YOU MADAM MAYOR, I WILL START AND THEN I WILL TURN IT OVER TO THE SUPERINTENDENT TO RESPOND AS WELL. 
          SO A COUPLE OF THE THINGS WE'VE DONE IN TERMS OF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH, WE PARTNER, UM, WITH OUR COLLEAGUES AT THE EARLY YEARS PROJECT, UM, AND THEY HAVE EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE IN WORKING WITH CHILDREN WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED TRAUMA AND AS A RESULT ARE DEMONSTRATING CHALLENGING BEHAVIOR IN THE CLASSROOM. 
          AND SO THAT IS PART OF THE WORK THAT WE DO. 
          SO THERE IS A SYSTEM WHERE, UM, THROUGH ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES IN THE OFFICE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD, IF A CLASSROOM IS EXPERIENCING SUCH A SITUATION, THEY CONTACT MY COLLEAGUE WHO GOES OUT AND DOES AN OBSERVATION, DOES SORT OF A ASSESSMENT AND, UM, AND THEN DETERMINES THE SUPPORTS THAT WOULD BE USEFUL IN THAT SITUATION. 
          AND THAT OFTEN INVOLVES OUR PARTNERS AT THE EARLIER PROJECT, UM, TO, TO COME IN AND GIVE COACHING TO THE TEACHERS AND, AND SUPPORT TO THE TEACHERS IN TERMS OF UNDERSTANDING STRATEGIES THEY CAN USE IN THE CLASSROOM, BUT ALSO WORKING CLOSELY WITH FAMILIES. 
          ANOTHER PART OF THIS IS THE AGES AND STAGES QUESTIONNAIRE. 
          IT'S CALLED THE A SQ, UM, AND THAT IS A DEVELOPMENTAL SCREENING, AGAIN, NATIONALLY NORMED, WIDELY RECOGNIZED DEVELOPMENTAL SCREENING. 
          SO AS PART OF THE CPP PROGRAM, ALL OF OUR PROVIDERS ARE REQUIRED TO IMPLEMENT THE A SQ AS A DEVELOPMENTAL SCREEN VERY EARLY IN THE SCHOOL YEAR TO IDENTIFY CHILDREN WHO MIGHT BENEFIT FROM A COMPLETE COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENTAL EVALUATION. 
          AND AT THAT POINT, THEY'RE TURNED OVER TO OUR FRIENDS, UM, IN THE CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM FOR, FOR THE REST OF THE CHILD FIND PROCESS. 
          I THANK YOU, UH, MS. OLSEN. 
          SO, AND THROUGH YOUR MAYOR, UH, TO COUNCIL MCGOVERN. 
          SO, UM, SIMILARLY, WE ALSO USE A SQ ON THE SCHOOL SIDE AS PART OF CHILD FIND, AND THERE ARE, UM, A NUMBER OF SCREENING PROCESSES THAT CPS LIKE OTHER LEAS HAVE EMPLOYED SINCE PRIOR TO THE, UM, UNIVERSAL PRESCHOOL INITIATIVE HERE IN CAMBRIDGE. 
          AND SO PART OF THE EVOLUTION OF THAT WORK IN RECENT YEARS HAS BEEN PARTNERING WITH OEC AND DHSP TO MAKE SURE THAT WHEN THERE ARE CHILDREN WHO ARE IDENTIFIED FOR POTENTIALLY, UM, UH, MORE SIGNIFICANT NEEDS THAT CPS IS BETTER SUITED, UM, THAT WE ARE WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THEM TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S A PATH TOWARD THE APPRO APPROPRIATE EDUCATIONAL SETTING. 
          SO IT'S NOT NECESSARILY A CHANGE IN POLICY OR PRACTICE FOR THE CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS BECAUSE AS I STATED EARLIER, WE HAD SOME, WE HAVE EXISTING STATUTORY AND REGULATORY RESPONSIBILITIES THAT WE HAVE TO ATTEND TO. 
          UM, BUT IT IS AN ADDITIONAL, UM, ESSENTIALLY A, A A, UM, IT'S, IT'S A MORE EXTENSIVE NET FOR LACK OF A BETTER TERM, BY WHICH TO, UM, ESTABLISH THOSE RELATIONSHIPS WITH CHILDREN AND FAMILIES. 
          AND I THINK, UM, I THINK THAT'S A BENEFIT TO THE CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY AND A BENEFIT TO THE CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
          YEAH. 
          CUSTOMER GOVERNOR. 
          THANK YOU MADAM MATTHEW. 
          YEAH, THANK YOU. 
          IT, IT'S SO IMPORTANT BECAUSE NORMALLY FOR A LOT OF KIDS IN A LOT OF COMMUNITIES, THEY'RE NOT GETTING THOSE SCREENINGS UNTIL THEY GET INTO PUBLIC SCHOOL, YOU KNOW, AND, AND YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY'RE FIVE YEARS OLD. 
          AND SO IF WE'RE IDENTIFYING THESE NEEDS AT, YOU KNOW, THREE YEARS OLD OR LOVE, EVEN LOVE TO GET TO THE POINT OF DOING IT EARLIER FOR FOLKS, YOU KNOW, ONCE, ONCE THEY AGE OUT OF EARLY INTERVENTION, THERE'S SORT OF THIS GAP BETWEEN. 
          SO, UM, FILLING THAT IS, UH, AND GETTING THEM THE SERVICES THEY NEED IS GREAT. 
          SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR, FOR, FOR EVERYTHING. 
          I'M, UH, EXCITED ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DOING. 
          I'M EXCITED ABOUT WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO. 
          UM, IT'S SO INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT, SO THANK YOU. 
          I'LL YIELD, WE HAVE A FEW FOLKS ON ZOOM, SO I'M GONNA ALTERNATE. 
          I'LL GO TO VICE MAYOR AZI AND THEN COUNCILLOR NOLAN. 
          UH, THANK YOU. 
          UM, UH, UM, MAYOR SIDIKI, UM, I JUST HAD, UH, TWO QUICK QUESTIONS. 
          I WAS JUST WONDERING WHAT OUR PER UNIT, LIKE PER STUDENT COSTS ARE, IF WE HAVE THAT NUMBER. 
          YES, THROUGH YOU MADAM MAYOR. 
          IT IS 31,000 PER STUDENT FOR THE SCHOOL DAY, WHICH IS THE 6.5 HOUR DAY, AN ADDITIONAL A HUNDRED, UH, 193 PER MONTH FOR EXTENDED DAY. 
          AND THAT IS FOR OUR COMMUNITY BASE FOR THE CHILDREN WHO ARE IN COMMUNITY BASED PROGRAMS. GOT IT. 
          I, I THINK AT SOME POINT, PERHAPS OFFLINE, UH, I'D LOVE A BREAKDOWN OF THAT, AND THAT I UNDERSTAND TO SOME EXTENT ARE LIKE HIGHER SCHOOL COSTS BECAUSE WE HAVE ALL THESE, YOU KNOW, OTHER POSITIONS AND SMALL CLASSROOMS. I, I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A LARGE NUMBER FOR, UH, PRE OR, UM, YOU KNOW, THREE AND A HALF K. 
          AND SO, UM, I WOULD LOVE TO UNDERSTAND THOSE NUMBERS A LITTLE BIT BETTER. 
          UM, I JUST WANTED TO, THEN BESIDE THE, BESIDE MAKE THE POINT BESIDES THAT, THAT I, I SECOND WOULD, COUNCILOR MCGOVERN SAID, AND THAT I THINK THAT FOR MAYBE ABOUT A MILLION DOLLARS 
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A YEAR, MAYBE A LITTLE BIT MORE, WE COULD EXPAND TO THREE YEAR OLDS. 
          AND I THINK THAT THOSE SMALLER INCREMENTAL EXPANSIONS FEELS LIKE A GOOD STEP INSTEAD OF TRYING TO DO SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, UH, MASSIVE ALL AT ONCE, TRYING TO INCREMENTALLY EXPAND THE PROGRAM, I FEEL LIKE, FEELS LIKE AN EASY STEP FORWARD, AND THAT'S SOMETHING I WOULD BE VERY EXCITED ABOUT AS WELL. 
          SO THOSE WERE JUST THE TWO COMMENTS I HAD. 
          I HAVE COUNCILOR NOLAN NEXT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I WILL TOTALLY ECHO BECAUSE I WAS ON SCHOOL COMMITTEE WHEN THEN COUNCILOR MCGOVERN AND I MEAN SCHOOL COMMITTEE MEMBER MCGOVERN AND COUNCILOR DECKER DID THE BLUE RIBBON COMMISSION. 
          WE WERE TOTALLY JAZZED ABOUT IT, AND IT REALLY STARTED THIS PROCESS AND ALSO SHOUT OUT TO MANY OF THE FORMER COUNCILS BEFORE I EVEN GOT ON WHO REALLY CONTINUED TO PUSH AGAINST, I THINK, SOME REAL SKEPTICISM THAT WE COULD EVEN AFFORD TO DO THIS IN THE CITY. 
          SO I KNOW IT'S TAKEN A LONG TIME AND WE'RE ALL ANXIOUS, BUT IT, IT'S REALLY A GREAT TESTAMENT THAT WE'RE HERE. 
          SO, UM, VERY GLAD, AND I KNOW IT WAS A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF WORK, NOT JUST ON THE COUNCIL, BUT TO DIRECT THE STAFF TO DO THIS. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, SINCE BLUE RIBBON, AND I'VE JUST BEEN FOLLOWING THIS FOREVER, I THINK ALL OF US WHO HAVE KIDS, I MEAN, THIS IS ONE OF THOSE, LIKE I WAS AT THE BIRTH CENTER THINKING I ALMOST WANNA GET PREGNANT AGAIN JUST TO GIVE BIRTH IN THAT AMAZING BIRTH CENTER HERE. 
          I LIKE, OH MY GOSH, IF I JUST HAD A 3-YEAR-OLD, INSTEAD OF PAYING HALF MY SALARY THAT I PAID WHEN MY KIDS WERE YOUNG, IN PARTICULAR, HAVING SOMEONE WHO WAS BORN APRIL 3RD, ALL OF US ARE LIKE, MAN, IF YOU JUST COME OUT FOUR DAYS EARLIER, I COULD HAVE TWO YEARS OF PRE OF UNIVERSAL PEAK. 
          THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR A LONG TIME IN THE CITY. 
          SO THAT'S JUST THE EXCITEMENT AND THE QUALITY PIECE TO HEAR IT IS SO KEY BECAUSE ALL OF THE DATA WE KNOW IS QUALITY IS IS REALLY THE, THE KEY THAT MATTERS. 
          SO I'VE BEEN FOLLOWING THIS WHILE, I'M JUST REALLY, UM, VERY EXCITED. 
          I WANNA JUST ASK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW WE'RE, WE'RE BLENDING THE CPS ROLE AND EARLY CHILDHOOD, BECAUSE AS MUCH AS I LOVE CPS, I'VE SPENT MUCH OF MY LIFE FOLLOWING IT, I CONTINUE TO FOLLOW IT. 
          WE ALSO KNOW THAT FROM AN EARLY EDUCATION POINT OF VIEW, THERE'S A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE FOR JUST EARLY CHILDHOOD PLAY IN MAKING SURE THAT IT'S NOT A SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT. 
          AND A LOT OF EARLY EDUCATION ADVOCATES WOULD REMIND US OF THAT, THAT YOU HAVE TO BE KIND OF CAREFUL UNLESS IT'S A MONTESSORI PROGRAM, YOU KNOW, TO, TO PUT A 3-YEAR-OLD OR HOPEFULLY I HOPE WE GET TO THE TWO YEAR OLDS AND THE ONE YEAR OLDS AND THE, THE EARLY THE INFANTS INTO THIS UNIVERSAL, UH, CHILDCARE S SYSTEM. 
          BUT, BUT IT, THIS COLLABORATION HAS BEEN PHENOMENAL. 
          AND YET ARE WE ALSO ENSURING THAT THE, AS WE EXPAND TO ALL THREE YEAR OLDS, WHICH I'M VERY MUCH HOPING WE DO, AND THEN TWO YEAR OLDS THAT, THAT WE'RE, WE'RE RECOGNIZING THAT THERE'S A FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE IN THE WAY THAT KIDS SHOULD BE APPROACHED AT THAT AGE COMPARED TO BEING IN SCHOOL. 
          IF THAT MAKES SENSE. 
          I DUNNO IF IT'S A QUESTION OR JUST A YES. 
          DITTO. 
          WE'RE DOING THAT. 
          I, IF, IF I CAN START AND THEN I'M GONNA TURN IT OVER THROUGH YOU, MADAM MAYOR, I APPRECIATE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. 
          AS SOMEBODY WHO SPENT, UM, MU MUCH OF MY CAREER PRIOR TO TAKING THIS ROLE IN AN EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM IN A PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM, I DO BELIEVE IT CAN BE DONE VERY WELL, AND IT CAN BE DONE IN A WAY THAT IS PLAY-BASED AND VERY DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE. 
          AND I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS I VERY MUCH APPRECIATE ABOUT THE FOCUS, THE CURRICULUM THAT CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS USES IS IT DOES PROMOTE LEARNING LANGUAGE, CRITICAL THINKING IN A WAY THAT REALLY IS DEEPLY PLAY-BASED. 
          SO I THINK YOU HAVE TO WORK A LITTLE HARDER TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT HAPPENS IN A PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM, BUT I, IT IT CAN BE DONE VERY WELL. 
          AND I'LL SEE TO YOU, UH, THANK YOU MS. HILSON THROUGH YOU, MAYOR. 
          UH, I THINK WHAT I WOULD SAY IS THAT EVERY, I THINK DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE IS THE KEY TERM, AND THAT WE HAVE TO BE VIGILANT ACROSS CHILDREN'S ENTIRE SCHOOLING EXPERIENCE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE NOT LOSING OPPORTUNITIES TO INFUSE JOY INTO THEIR LEARNING. 
          I THINK THAT IS, UM, IT'S SORT OF SELF-EVIDENTLY IMPORTANT FOR THREE AND FOUR YEAR OLDS, BUT IT FRANKLY FOLLOWS THROUGH ACROSS OUR PRE-K TO 12 PLUS, UH, PROGRAMMING IN CPS. 
          AND SO WHILE THERE ARE, THERE ARE CHALLENGES WHEN THERE IS, UM, HOPEFULLY, UH, ACROSS ALL SCHOOL COMMUNITIES CONSISTENTLY HIGH EXPECTATIONS AT ALL GRADE LEVELS THAT WE ARE, AND WE'RE HOLDING OURSELVES ACCOUNTABLE FOR MAKING SURE CHILDREN ARE PREPARED FOR THE NEXT GRADE LEVEL AND EVENTUALLY FOR POST-SECONDARY OPPORTUNITIES. 
          UM, IT'S ALSO TRUE THAT, UM, THE, THE DATA IS VERY CLEAR ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVING ELEMENTS OF PLAY-BASED EDUCATION IN THE EARLY CHILDHOOD SPACE. 
          AND REGARDLESS OF ANY OTHER, UM, CURRICULAR OR PROGRAMMATIC DECISIONS THAT WE MAKE OR STRATEGIES THAT WE EMPLOY, THREE YEAR OLDS WILL STILL BE THREE YEAR OLDS, FOUR YEAR OLDS WILL STILL BE FOUR YEAR OLDS. 
          AND THEY WILL NEED, FROM A SOCIALLY DEVELOPMENTAL STANDPOINT, THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE, UM, PLAYING BOTH INSIDE AND OUTSIDE. 
          AND SO THAT, THAT IS A PRIORITY AND IT WILL CONTINUE TO BE A PRIORITY. 
          UM, AND 
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WHETHER WE, WE TALK ABOUT, UM, FUN OR ENGAGEMENT, THE POINT IS THAT THEY HAVE, WE HAVE TO BE, UM, STOKING WITHIN CHILDREN, UH, AND APPRECIATION FOR THEIR SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT. 
          AND I THINK THAT WILL ALWAYS BE TRUE REGARDLESS OF ANY OTHER PROGRAMMATIC DECISIONS WE MAKE. 
          COUNCILLOR NOLAN. 
          YEP. 
          THANKS. 
          RIGHT. 
          THE KEY OBVIOUSLY IS DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE, AND I'M NOT SAYING IT'S NOT SOMETHING PEOPLE WANNA DO, AND YET IT'S SOMETIMES TRICKY IN A SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT NOT TO HAVE IT BE FED INTO, ESPECIALLY GIVEN THAT THERE'S A LOT OF PRESSURES FROM OUTSIDE TO DO PARTICULAR CURRICULUM OR TEST-BASED LEARNING. 
          AND, AND THE JKK HAS ALWAYS BEEN FOR SOME TEACHERS, WAS ACTUALLY CHALLENGING FOR THEM TO EVEN DO THAT. 
          SO AS WE MOVE FORWARD, I'M, WE'LL, WE'LL, I THINK WE'LL ALL BE, UH, LOOKING TO THAT AND LOOKING TO YOU AS LEADERS TO ENSURE THAT IT'S THE DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE. 
          UM, THE OTHER, UH, QUESTIONS JUST THE, THE NEXT STEPS, OBVIOUSLY THIS IS WHAT, UM, SOMETHING WE'VE COMMITTED TO THAT I'VE CERTAINLY BEEN CHAMPIONED FOR A WHILE. 
          THE, THE NEW MEXICO IS SOMETHING I'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT FOR TWO YEARS NOW SINCE I HEARD THAT THEY USED THEIR ARPA FUNDING AND THAT THEY HAD REAL GOOD RESULTS. 
          SO I THINK IT MIGHT BE TO YOU, UM, MAYOR COULD JUST, THIS IS ONE OF THE THREE COUNCIL PRIORITIES FOR THE FINANCIAL, THIS IS ONE OF THE THREE WE'VE TALKED ABOUT ALREADY ESTABLISHED A PROCESS FOR SOCIAL HOUSING. 
          LIKE, ARE ARE THERE NEXT STEPS RELATED TO THIS THAT WE'RE, WE WILL EVENTUALLY EXPECT TO MOVE FORWARD ON DON? YEAH, I THINK THROUGH, THROUGH ME , I WOULD SAY, UM, I THINK I'VE BEEN IN IN COM COMMUNICATION WITH, UM, THE CITY MANAGER, UM, AND OTHERS JUST AROUND, UM, HOW DO WE, YOU KNOW, MAKE SOME FURTHER DECISIONS AS WE TAKE FEEDBACK FROM THE COUNCIL. 
          AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF, THERE'S SOME OUTSTANDING RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE TODDLER CARE WORKING GROUP AND HOW DOES, UH, THE COUNCIL, UM, KIND OF WEIGH IN AND, YOU KNOW, WHETHER THAT'S THROUGH A WORKING GROUP, UM, TASK FORCE OF SOME SORT. 
          SO, UH, WE'RE WORKING ON SOME OF THOSE DETAILS AND OBVIOUSLY THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE WOULD BE INVOLVED. 
          AND SO AS IS PAST PRACTICED, I THINK THE COUNCIL AND THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE VERY MUCH, UM, WANNA BE ACTIVE PARTNERS WITH, UM, THE OFFICE OF, UH, EARLY CHILDHOOD AND KIND OF MOVING SOME OF THIS WORK FORWARD AND TO ALSO TALKING ABOUT SOME OF THE CHANGES, UH, SUPERINTENDENT ALLUDED TO AS FAR AS POLICY, UM, YOU KNOW, THE MATRICULATION POLICY, THERE'S A LOT OF QUESTIONS AND SO I THINK THERE'S SOME ONGOING DECISIONS THAT NEED TO BE MADE. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I JUST LOOK FORWARD TO THAT AND EAGER TO BE INVOLVED AND TO SEE THIS MOVE FORWARD AND REALLY EXCITED TO BE HERE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I YIELD, SO I HAVE COUNCILLOR ZUBI AND THEN COUNCILLOR ZUI. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THROUGH YOU MADAM MAYOR. 
          I JUST WANNA SHARE THAT THIS IS A FANTASTIC PRESENTATION. 
          IT SEEMS LIKE AS A CITY WE'VE SPENT, YOU KNOW, JUST ABOUT A DECADE BUILDING SOMETHING POSITIVE, AND I THINK THAT'S BEAUTIFUL. 
          THE RESEARCH THAT YOU ALSO PUT OUT THERE IS SHOWING US THAT UNIVERSAL PROGRAMS ARE OUTPERFORMING MEANS TESTED ONES, WHETHER THROUGH IT'S REACHING MORE CHILDREN OR STRONGER PEER ENVIRONMENTS. 
          I'M KIND OF TAKING AWAY FROM WHAT YOU ALL SHARED IS THAT THE GAPS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO CLOSE ARE ABOUT EXTENDING COVERAGE, LIKE WHETHER IT'S TO INFANTS, TODDLERS, SUMMER CARE AGE. 
          AND FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, I, I DON'T THINK IT WOULD MAKE SENSE TO SIGNIFICANTLY ALTER THE MECHANISMS TO WHAT WE'RE BUILDING UNLESS IT COMES WITH SOME SORT OF SIGNIFICANT BENEFIT BECAUSE I'M SOMEONE WHO REALLY BELIEVES IN UNIVERSAL CHILDCARE. 
          I THINK SOMETHING I NOTED IN THE PRESENTATION WAS ON ONE OF THE SLIDES, I BELIEVE IT'S SLIDE 25, YOU GUYS POINT OUT THAT COST SAVINGS ARE LIMITED, IF MEANS TESTING IS NOT APPLIED TO MIDDLE INCOME FAMILIES. 
          SO IN THAT WAY, I THINK LIKE SIMILAR TO COUNSELOR SABRINA WHEELER'S COMMENTS, I'D, I'D BE CURIOUS TO UNDERSTAND THE PROJECTED DOLLAR SAVINGS IF WE WERE TO GO MEANS TESTING JUST TO BETTER UNDERSTAND LIKE WHERE THE JUSTIFICATION IS FOR A POTENTIAL MOVE. 
          AND I'M SAYING THAT FROM THE FRAMEWORK THAT IF WE THINK ABOUT IT, LIKE LIMITED, IF MEANS TESTING NOT APPLIED TO MIDDLE INCOME FAMILIES BEING, IT SOUNDS LIKE IF WE WANT TO GENERATE ANY SORT OF MEANINGFUL REVENUE, WE'D HAVE TO MEANS TEST PRETTY FAR DOWN THE INCOME LADDER, WHICH THEN IN IS LIKE COUNTERPRODUCTIVE BECAUSE WE'RE HURTING THE FAMILIES AND THE DIVERSITY WE'D WANT TO PROTECT. 
          AND IN THAT WAY THE MATH DOESN'T SEEM FAVORABLE. 
          BUT THEN AGAIN, LIKE I WOULD WANT TO CHECK OUT SOME OF THOSE PROJECTIONS TO SEE, YOU KNOW, WHERE THOSE SAVINGS ARE, ARE THEY LARGE ENOUGH TO MEANINGFULLY CONTRIBUTE TO ANOTHER AVENUE FOR EXPANSION? AND PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF I'VE MISUNDERSTOOD THAT. 
          UM, I'D ALSO BE CURIOUS BASED ON THIS PRESENTATION, LIKE FROM OUR, MY COLLEAGUES, LIKE WHAT ARE THE CONDITIONS IN WHICH, YOU KNOW, THEY'D SUPPORT MEANS TESTING? AND KIND OF LIKE WHERE THAT BAR OF TRADE OFF IS. 
          THE ONE QUESTION THAT I'M SITTING WITH RIGHT 
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NOW IS FUNDAMENTALLY IN AMERICA WE'VE SET THAT K THROUGH 12 IS UNIVERSAL. 
          SO THIS KIND OF JOURNEY TO UNIVERSAL CHILDCARE IS PRETTY NEW. 
          UM, I'D IMAGINE THAT THE CAPACITY BUILDING OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS THROUGH TO THROUGH THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM HAS BEEN AN ADJUSTMENT. 
          SO I'D JUST BE CURIOUS TO HEAR ABOUT THAT CAPACITY BUILDING, WHAT'S IT BEEN LIKE, UM, AND ANY LIKE, MAJOR BARRIERS THAT YOU GUYS HAVE FOUND IN THAT PROCESS? MARY, I, I DIDN'T WAS, DID, WAS THERE A PREFERENCE AS TO WHICH ONE OF US RESPONDED FIRST ON THIS? SIR? WHOEVER WANTS TO ANSWER. 
          OKAY. 
          THROUGH YOU MAYOR, UM, TO COUNCIL ZUBI, UM, ON THE BASIS OF THE QUESTION WAS SORT OF HOW HAVE THE CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, UM, FOCUSED WITH RESPECT TO CAPACITY BUILDING IN RECENT YEARS? I MEAN, WHAT I WOULD SAY, AND THAT IN SOME OF YOU HAVE, HAVE HEARD ME SAY THIS BEFORE IS THAT, UM, WHILE THERE WAS SOME SHIFTS IN TERMINOLOGY AND SHIFTS WITH RESPECT TO THE, UM, ADMINISTRATION OF OUR REGISTRATION AND ASSIGNMENT PROCESS, UM, THE ACTUAL, UH, COMPOSITION OF OUR STUDENT BODY WITH RESPECT TO THE AGE GROUPS THAT WE WERE SERVING IS CONSISTENT BOTH BEFORE THE CAMBRIDGE PRESCHOOL PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION AND AFTERWARDS. 
          SO I THINK, UM, TO SOME DEGREE MORE SO POTENTIALLY THAN OTHER, UM, PARTNERS, THIS IS THE, FOR THE CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S PRETTY CONSISTENT. 
          HAVING SAID THAT, I, THE, THE, THE, THE POINT THAT I THINK IT RAISES THAT I, I I JUST WANNA MENTION IS THAT AS THE, THE CITY DETERMINES ITS POLICY OBJECTIVES RELATED TO EARLY CHILDHOOD, THE CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS IS, I THINK SOMEWHAT UNIQUELY SITUATED IN THAT OUR PRE-K TO 12 PLUS MISSION IS, UH, CONSISTENT AND WILL REMAIN REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE CITY'S POLICIES ARE WITH RESPECT TO THE EARLY CHILDHOOD SPACE. 
          AND I SAY THAT BECAUSE AS COUNCIL ZUBIE SAYS, IT WAS A SOCIETAL DECISION THAT LONG PREDATES ALL OF US TO MAKE K TO 12 ESSENTIALLY A UNIVERSAL SERVICE THAT'S PROVIDED IN MUNICIPALITIES. 
          IT IS HARDLY A SERVICE THAT WE HAVE PERFECTED, AS I KNOW, UM, MEMBERS OF BOTH BODIES HERE ARE AWARE. 
          AND I DO THINK THAT PART OF THE CHALLENGE THAT WE HAVE AS WE CONTINUE TO, UM, STRIVE TOWARD CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT WITH RESPECT TO OUR EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMMING TO MAKE SURE OUR STUDENTS HAVE THE MOST SOLID FOUNDATION POSSIBLE, WE ALSO HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY TO BE MINDFUL OF HOW, UH, OUR RESOURCES ARE BEING MARSHALED TO ENSURE THAT OUR ENTIRE PRE K TO 12 PLUS SYSTEM IS CONTINUING TO IMPROVE AND CONTINUING TO BRIDGE NARROW AND ULTIMATELY ELIMINATE THE ACHIEVEMENT GAPS THAT HAVE PERSISTED FOR FAR TOO LONG. 
          SO I THINK THAT IT IS A WISE STRATEGY AND I AM GRATEFUL TO THE CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY AND THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE LED IT TO HAVE, UM, PUT YOUR VALUES INTO THE TYPE OF INVESTMENT THAT YOU HAVE. 
          AND IT ABSOLUTELY PO IT'S ONE OF MANY THINGS THAT POSITIONS THE CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR SUCCESS. 
          BUT IT, I DO, I FEEL LIKE I HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO NOTE THAT, UM, FOR, FROM OUR ORGANIZATION'S PERSPECTIVE, THIS IS A, THE, THE FOUNDATION, BUT THERE'S AN ENTIRE HOUSE THAT WE'RE TRYING TO BUILD THAT WE HAVE NOT YET GOTTEN TO THE POINT WHERE WE ARE SERVING ALL STUDENTS, UM, IN A WAY THAT, THAT THEY'RE ENTITLED TO BE SERVED AND THAT THAT IS WORK THAT CONTINUES WITHOUT QUESTION. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND THEN, OH, GO AHEAD. 
          I DON'T KNOW IF I'LL, I'LL ADD IF YOU, IF YOU DON'T MIND, JUST IN TERMS OF CAPACITY BUILDING WITH OUR COMMUNITY-BASED PROVIDERS, THE IDEA WAS THAT WHEN THE COMMUNITY BASED PROVIDERS JOINED THE CPP SYSTEM, THEY WERE ALREADY MEETING THE QUALITY METRICS. 
          SO THE GOAL WAS NOT THAT WE WOULD TAKE PRESCHOOLS AND BRING THEM UP TO OUR QUALITY STANDARDS, BUT THAT THEY HAD TO REALLY DEMONSTRATE THOSE STANDARDS BEFORE THEY WOULD BE ADMITTED TO THE CPP SYSTEM. 
          AND THAT CONTINUES TO BE THE GOAL AS WE OPEN UP THE RFP THIS SUMMER. 
          UM, THAT IS NOT TO SAY THAT WE DON'T PUT A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF RESOURCES TOWARDS QUALITY BUILDING. 
          SO I MENTIONED EARLIER IN THE PRESENTATION, MY COLLEAGUE BEHIND ME, UM, WHO DOES A LOT OF WORK WITH, UH, TEACHER DEVELOPMENT, COACHING DIRECTOR, MENTORING, AND THEN OUR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT TEAM THAT, UM, OFFERS VARIOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL YEAR. 
          SO THERE'S A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES THERE FOR TEACHERS TO, TO CONTINUE TO BUILD THE WORKFORCE IN THAT WAY. 
          I WOULD SAY SOME OF THE CAPACITY BUILDING, UM, SOME OF THE LIFT ON OUR SIDE WAS JUST DEVELOPING AND PUTTING IN PLACE SOME OF THE POLICIES THAT ARE NEEDED TO RUN A SYSTEM LIKE THIS. 
          A VERY COMPLEX SYSTEM. 
          SOME OF THOSE POLICIES WE DIDN'T KNOW WE NEEDED UNTIL WE RAN INTO, YOU KNOW, SITUATIONS AND REALIZED WE NEEDED TO HAVE A CLEAR POLICY. 
          SO EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS FAMILIES AND OUR PROVIDERS, HOW WE'RE HANDLING CERTAIN SITUATIONS. 
          UM, ATTENDANCE, FOR EXAMPLE, UM, OR, UH, TRANSFER REQUESTS IF WE HAVE FAMILIES COMING TO US ASKING FOR A TRANSFER OF REST. 
          THOSE TYPES OF THINGS ARE THE KIND OF THINGS THAT, THAT POPPED UP DURING THAT FIRST YEAR OF IMPLEMENTATION. 
          WHEN WE REAL, WE REALIZED WE NEEDED TO SPEND A LOT OF TIME REALLY DEVELOPING VERY CLEAR POLICIES AND WORKED WITH OUR PARTNERS ACROSS THE CITY AND ALSO THE CPP 
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PROGRAM ADVISORY BOARD, UM, THAT I MENTIONED THAT PLAYED A REALLY INSTRUMENTAL ROLE IN, IN PUTTING THOSE POLICIES IN PLACE. 
          COUNCIL ZUBIE, THANK YOU. 
          I I REALLY APPRECIATE BOTH OF YOUR THOUGHTS ON THAT. 
          AND AGAIN, JUST LIKE, AS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO STRENGTHEN OUR PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM AS WELL. 
          'CAUSE I MEAN, LIKE YOU SAID, LIKE THIS IS TO SOME EXTENT OUTSIDE OF US, LIKE A SOCIETAL THING IN WHICH WE DIDN'T APPRECIATE THAT, YOU KNOW, THOSE AGES DESERVE A LEVEL OF DIGNITY WHEN IT COMES TO LEARNING AND FUN AND JOY. 
          UM, I ALSO JUST BEFORE, UM, I YIELD, I, I WANNA ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IN OUR BUDGETING PROCESS WE COMBINED PRE-K WITH AFTER SCHOOL, SO I DON'T WANT AFTER SCHOOL TO BE LOST IN THE CONVERSATION IN THE SENSE THAT, UM, THERE'S A GAP TO CLOSE THERE WITH PROVIDING FOR LOW INCOME FAMILIES. 
          UM, I KNOW THAT YOU GUYS MENTIONED THAT THERE'S GONNA BE SOME SORT OF RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE WORKING GROUP THIS SUMMER, SO I'LL ALSO BE LOOKING FORWARD TO CHECKING THAT OUT IN TERMS OF HOW WE TAKE THOSE NEXT STEPS. 
          I'LL GO AHEAD AND YIELD, WE GO TO COUNCILOR ZUI, UH, THANK YOU CHAIR SIDIKI. 
          UM, I WANNA, UH, CONGRATULATE MY COLLEAGUES AND THE CITY STAFF ALSO FOR, UM, BRINGING UNIVERSAL PRE-K TO INTO BEING, UM, I THINK IT COULD MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE FOR OUR KIDS AND IT'S GONNA BE REALLY FASCINATING TO SEE THE IMPACT ON KINDERGARTNERS. 
          I WE'RE PROBABLY ALREADY GETTING SOME FEEDBACK FROM KINDERGARTEN TEACHERS ON HOW UNIVERSAL PRE-K IS, UM, BOLSTERING ALL KIDS. 
          UM, SO GREAT WORK. 
          I REACHED OUT TO A MOM ON MY STREET AND I ASKED HER, HOW IS THIS PROGRAM? AND SHE SAID IT'S GREAT. 
          SHE JUST WISHES SHE COULD, IT COULD BE EXPANDED FROM NINE TO SIX. 
          AND THAT MADE ME THINK BACK ON WHEN I WAS A MOM AND WORKING, UM, I WAS WORKING PART-TIME. 
          I STARTED WITH CHILD, I WAS AN OLDER MOM, SO I, I STARTED WITH CHILDCARE TWO DAYS A WEEK AND THEN I MOVED TO THREE. 
          BUT I REALLY NEEDED, I WAS A CONSULTANT. 
          I NEEDED A FULL DAY TO GET MY WORK DONE. 
          UM, SO I THINK, AND WHAT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT TO ME WAS TO HAVE SOMETHING THAT I COULD DEPEND ON AND THAT WAS RELIABLE AND OF COURSE THAT WAS A VERY HIGH QUALITY. 
          UM, SO I THINK THE EASIER YOU CAN MAKE IT FOR OUR PARENTS WHO ARE ALREADY, UM, LIKE DOING SO MUCH, UH, THE, THE BETTER. 
          I, I THINK MAKING THE, THE, THE EASE WILL MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE, UH, FOR THE PROGRAM. 
          UM, I THINK IF, IF IT REALLY WOULD ONLY COST A MILLION DOLLARS TO ADD, TO PROVIDE PRE FREE PRESCHOOL FOR THREE YEAR OLDS, IT WOULD BE WONDERFUL. 
          BUT I WONDER, UM, WHETHER , IF, I WONDER IF SOME PARENTS AREN'T MAKING A CHOICE NOT TO DO UNIVERSAL PRE-K 'CAUSE THEY'RE, THEY WANT THE SLOTS, THEY WANNA MAKE SURE, LIKE IF THEIR KIDS START AT AGE THREE, THEY PROBABLY HAVE TO CONTINUE WITH THE PROGRAM FOR FOUR, RIGHT? SO I'M, SO MY REAL QUESTION IS ON PAGE 23, UM, WHEN YOU'RE PROJECTING, UH, HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL INCREASES, HAVE YOU COME UP WITH NUMBERS FOR WHAT THIS WOULD COST? AND, UM, AGAIN, I, I FEEL LIKE ULTIMATELY IF THERE'S A WAY WE CAN EXPAND UNIVERSAL PRE-K HORIZONTALLY AND VERTICALLY, IT WOULD BE ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC, BUT WE DO NEED TO BECOME FLUSH AGAIN BEFORE WE'LL HAVE THE RESOURCES TO DO THAT. 
          SO WE'LL HAVE TO DO IT INCREMENTALLY. 
          BUT DO YOU HAVE SOME NUMBERS ASSOCIATED WITH WHAT THE COST IMPLICATIONS MIGHT BE FOR THESE HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL EXPANSIONS? THANK YOU. 
          THROUGH YOU MADAM MAYOR, WE HAVE NOT COST MODELED THAT OUT TO SERVE ALL THREE YEAR OLDS. 
          SO THE ANALYSIS THAT WE DID OVER THE LAST YEAR WAS LOOKING AT THE INCOME SCREENING OR THE MEANS TESTING OF CURRENT CPP STUDENTS. 
          SO WE HAVE NOT DONE THAT MODEL IN TERMS OF IF WE WERE TO GO TO UNIVERSAL FOR ALL THREES, WHAT THAT WOULD COST. 
          UM, I THINK WITH THE INFANTS AND TODDLERS, THAT ONE IS FAR MORE COMPLEX BECAUSE IT ISN'T JUST A MATTER OF, I SAY JUST A MATTER THAT THAT IN AND OF ITSELF IS COMPLEX PROVIDING TUITION SUPPORT BECAUSE THERE WOULD NEED TO BE A NUMBER OF OTHER POLICY SOLUTIONS THERE AS WELL, INCLUDING MAKING SURE THAT THERE ARE ENOUGH SEATS. 
          CURRENTLY, THERE ARE NOT, PARTICULARLY FOR, FOR LOWER INCOME FAMILIES, UM, THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH SEATS. 
          THERE WOULD NEED TO BE WORKFORCE POLICIES IN PLACE AS WELL, BECAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS THAT INFANTS AND TODDLER PROVIDERS WITHIN CAMBRIDGE AND BEYOND CAMBRIDGE REALLY ARE STRUGGLING WITH RIGHT NOW IS STAFFING, UM, REALLY A, A, A STAFF SHORTAGE FOR INFANTS AND INFANT AND TODDLER TEACHERS, UM, IN PARTICULAR AND THEN LOOKING AT THE TUITION. 
          SO I THINK WE, WHATEVER RECOMMENDATIONS WE EVENTUALLY COME UP WITH, WE'LL PROBABLY LOOK AT A NUMBER OF THOSE THINGS, MAYBE STABILIZATION FUNDS AS WELL FOR SOME PROVIDERS. 
          UM, SO WE CAN CERTAINLY COST MODEL OUT AT THIS POINT HOW MUCH IT WOULD COST TO PROVIDE TUITION REIMBURSEMENT 
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LIKE WE DO WITH CPP. 
          UM, BUT I THINK THAT ALONE PROBABLY WILL NOT BE A SUFFICIENT SOLUTION. 
          COUNCILOR SUZI? YEAH, I, I THINK, UM, YOU KNOW, THIS WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON, OR YOU'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS FOR 10 YEARS AT, YOU KNOW, I THINK WE'VE GOT ANOTHER 10 YEARS TO REALLY TO, TO BROADEN ITS REACH. 
          UM, SO I THINK WE'LL BE MAKING INCREMENTAL, UM, EXPANSIONS TO THE PROGRAM AS WE ALSO NURTURE OUR WORKFORCE SO THAT WE HAVE, UH, CHILDCARE, UM, PROVIDERS THAT CAN PROVIDE THE PRESCHOOL AND THE AFTERSCHOOL CARE, WHICH ARE SO ESSENTIAL. 
          UM, MY SECOND QUESTION WAS ON SLIDE 15, UM, WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT FEEDBACK FROM PARENTS ABOUT THE PROGRAM, AGAIN, LIKE I, I FEEL LIKE THE HIGHLIGHTS OF MY SON'S, UM, EDUCATION WERE, UH, AT, IN PRESCHOOL. 
          HE WAS AT PEABODY TERRACE, WHICH WAS EXTRAORDINARY, AND THEN HE WENT TO AN AMAZING LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGE. 
          SO I, I FEEL LIKE, UM, ANYWAY, I, I FEEL AS THOUGH IF WE'RE PAYING $30,000 A YEAR TO PROVIDE, UM, STUDENTS WITH QUALITY PRESCHOOL, I, I WANT MORE THAN 79% AND 72% AND 76% BEING VERY SATISFIED. 
          I FEEL LIKE WE, WE SHOULD REALLY SHOULD HAVE 95% OF THE PARENTS VERY SATISFIED. 
          SO I'M GLAD TO HEAR, I DUNNO IF THIS IS A QUESTION OR A COMMENT, BUT I'M REALLY, I I THINK IT, IT, UH, IT'S AN EXTRAORDINARY INVESTMENT THAT WE'RE MAKING IN OUR, IN OUR KIDS WITH THESE PROGRAMS. SO, UM, ANYWAY, I'M GLAD YOU'RE WORKING ON MAKING THEM EVEN BETTER THAN THEY ARE ALREADY, BUT I, I THINK THAT'S ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL BECAUSE I THINK WHEN, UH, LITTLE KIDS ARE FIRING WHEN ALL THEIR NEURONS ARE FIRING, THEY'RE LIKE, YOU'RE REALLY PREPARING THEM FOR LIFE AND IT'S GOTTA BE ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC. 
          SO, I KNOW YOU'VE GOT A HIGH BAR, BUT I ENCOURAGE YOU TO MAKE IT EVEN HIGHER. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, AND I DUNNO IF YOU HAVE A RESPONSE TO THAT THROUGH YOU. 
          MAD MAYOR. 
          I, I AGREE WITH YOU. 
          AND I THINK A LOT OF THE QUALITY, THE WORK THAT WE ARE DOING IS MAKE TO ENSURE THAT OUR, ALL OF OUR PROGRAMS ACROSS THE CITY ARE HIGH QUALITY. 
          WE FEEL THAT WHEN, THAT WE ARE ESSENTIALLY PUTTING THE CITY STAMP OF APPROVAL WHEN WE ARE SAYING THAT THESE PROGRAMS ARE PART OF CPP AND WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT FAMILIES FEEL THAT NO MATTER WHAT CHOICE THEY MAKE ACROSS THE SYSTEM, THEY ARE GUARANTEED A HIGH QUALITY EXPERIENCE. 
          UH, THANK, THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          UM, AYET, WE WILL GO TO MEMBER HUDSON. 
          MEMBER HUDSON. 
          HELLO. 
          CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, YES. 
          WONDERFUL. 
          UH, WHAT PLANS ARE THERE TO TRACK THIS CO FIRST COHORT AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE ELEMENTARY AND UPPER SCHOOL, SCHOOL GRADES AND UNDERSTAND HOW THEY'RE DOING ACADEMICALLY? YOU KNOW, PART OF THE, PART OF THE ARGUMENT HERE IS BETTER STUDENT OUTCOMES. 
          UH, YOU KNOW, AN IMPLICIT PART OF THE ARGUMENT, UH, FOR EARLY, EARLY, UH, UH, CHILDHOOD CARE IS ALSO JUST, YOU KNOW, THE, THE ECONOMIC BURDEN THAT IT PLACES ON FAMILIES AND THE LOGISTICAL BURDEN IT PLACES ON WORKING FAMILIES. 
          UM, BUT TO THAT, TO THAT ACADEMIC POINT, HAVE, HAVE THERE BEEN PLANS, UH, MADE TO TRACK THESE GRADES? AND IF SO, WHAT ARE THEY? THANK YOU, MAYOR AND THREE TO MEMBER HUDSON. 
          I THINK WHAT I WOULD SAY, AT LEAST AMONGST THE COHORT WHO EITHER, UH, ENTER OR REMAIN WITH THE CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, WE WILL CONTINUE TO, UH, ACCUMULATE ALL OF THE DATA THAT WE HAVE. 
          AND THERE WILL BE OVER TIME OPPORTUNITIES TO, UH, CROSS REFERENCE AND SEE, UM, IF THERE ARE DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN, UM, CHILDREN WHO HAVE, UH, PARTICIPATED IN THE CAMBRIDGE PRESCHOOL PROGRAM, UH, AND OTHERWISE. 
          AND I IMAGINE THE DATA WILL BE DISAGGREGATED EVEN FURTHER WITH RESPECT TO THE, UM, MIXED DELIVERY MODEL SO THAT WE CAN SEE, UM, SPECIFIC THROUGH LINES WITH REGARD TO, UH, THE, THE, THE TOTALITY OF THE BENEFITS THAT CHILDREN ARE, UH, EXPERIENCING. 
          I THINK IT'S AN IMPORTANT POINT AND ONE THAT, UM, IS ANOTHER SORT OF EXAMPLE I WOULD SAY AS TO HOW THE CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS SORT OF VESTED INTERESTS, UM, ARE, ARE, I'M NOT SURE I WOULD SAY PRONOUNCED BECAUSE I THINK THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE RELIES ON THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM TO PROVIDE THAT FOUNDATION FOR AND HAS EDUCATED CITIZENRY. 
          BUT, UM, OUR INTERESTS ARE PERHAPS MORE PRONOUNCED IN THAT ULTIMATELY, UH, WE WILL HAVE THE CLEAREST DATA SET WITH RESPECT TO ACCOUNTABILITY AS TO HOW WE CONTINUE TO SERVE STUDENTS THROUGHOUT THEIR EDUCATIONAL CAREER. 
          AND I THINK THE REASON IT'S THAT, THAT MEMBER 
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HUDSON POINT, MEMBER HUDSON'S POINT IS AN IMPORTANT ONE IS THAT IT IS, UM, FREQUENT THAT WE LOOK AT AGE GROUPS WHERE WE HAVE, UH, SIGNIFICANT EMPIRICAL DATA WITH REGARD TO THE EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES THAT WE ARE HAVING. 
          THE STATE ASSESSMENTS BEGIN IN GRADE THREE. 
          UH, OUR SCREENERS ESSENTIALLY START IN KINDERGARTEN AND FIRST GRADE, AND WE, WE LOOK AT THAT DATA, UH, CUMULATIVELY OVER THE COURSE OF THE CHILDREN'S EDUCATIONAL CAREER, BUT IT IS ALWAYS THE CASE THAT THERE'S A LAG TO A CERTAIN EXTENT BECAUSE WHEN WE LOOK AT DATA FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, WE ARE IN SOME SENSES SEEING HOW WE AS AN ORGANIZATION SERVE THEM IN THEIR UPPER SCHOOL YEARS. 
          AND WHEN WE LOOK AT UPPER SCHOOL DATA, WE ARE SEEING HOW WE AS AN ORGANIZATION SERVE THEM IN THEIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL YEARS AND SO ON AND SO FORTH. 
          SO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT, AND I WOULD SAY THAT, UM, WE WILL, WE WILL CONTINUE TO BE A DATA-BASED ORGANIZATION SO THAT WE CAN, UH, IDENTIFY THE FULL BENEFITS OF, OF, OF THIS PROGRAM AND AS IMPORTANTLY, UNDERSTAND WHERE WE HAVE TO PIVOT IN ORDER TO CONTINUE TO SERVE STUDENTS BETTER. 
          REMEMBER HUDSON, THANK YOU THROUGH YOU. 
          UH, AGAIN, I I APPRECIATE THE ANSWER. 
          IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT WE COULD DO NOW IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE THAT FIVE YEARS FROM NOW, 10 YEARS FROM NOW WE ARE NOT HAVING THE SAME CONVERSATIONS WE'RE HAVING NOW ABOUT PRIOR INVESTMENTS, I THINK THAT WOULD BE WELL WORTH IT. 
          YOU KNOW, WE TALK NOW ABOUT CONSOLIDATING ALL THE MIDDLE SCHOOLS. 
          WE TALK ABOUT, UH, STAFFING UP OUR SCHOOLS, WE TALK ABOUT OTHER BIG STRUCTURAL CHANGES, UH, NONE OF WHICH HAVE GOTTEN US EXACTLY WHAT WE, WE WANT. 
          THEY ALL MADE ABSOLUTE SENSE ON PAPER WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT IT. 
          UH, AND THEN 10 YEARS DOWN THE LINE, YOU KNOW, WE, WE HAVEN'T SEEN THE IMPACT THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY MADE LOGICAL SENSE, BUT WE HAVEN'T SEEN THE IMPACT THAT WE EXPECT. 
          UH, SO THE, TO THE DEGREE THAT WE CAN THINK NOW ABOUT THAT AND ALSO PUT IN PLACE PLANS NOW THAT WILL KIND OF, YOU KNOW, UH, UH, COME AS CLOSE AS, AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE TO AUTOMATICALLY EXECUTING IN 10 YEARS AND SAYING, NOW LET'S REALLY GO BACK AND LOOK AT IT. 
          I THINK THAT'S HELPFUL. 
          I, I DON'T, I DON'T HAVE THE FOGGIEST CLUE HOW TO DO IT. 
          UM, BUT YEAH, I, I'M SURE OTHERS HAVE BETTER IDEAS, UH, THAN, THAN I DO, AND I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT. 
          MY SECOND QUESTION IS ABOUT THE PROVIDERS. 
          I KNOW THAT THE FIRST YEAR WAS ROCKY IN TERMS OF THE PROVIDER EXPERIENCE, AND WE TOUCHED ON THAT, YOU TOUCHED ON THAT A LITTLE BIT IN THE PRESENTATION. 
          UH, WHAT ARE SOME REMAINING PAIN POINTS FOR PROVIDERS? LIKE IF I'M A COMMUNITY PROVIDER, UH, ONE RUNNING ONE OF THESE PROGRAMS, UH, BESIDES THE, YOU KNOW, BESIDES THE CUTOFF DATE FOR, YOU KNOW, FOR PARENTS TO CHANGE THEIR MIND AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          WHAT ARE, WHAT ARE REMAINING PAIN POINTS AND WHAT ARE WE DOING TO ADDRESS THOSE? THANK YOU. 
          THROUGH YOU, MADAM MAYOR. 
          I THINK THE TWO BIGGEST PAIN POINTS THAT WE'RE HEARING MOST FREQUENTLY, ONE IS ENROLLMENT. 
          AND AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, THE ENROLLMENT CHALLENGE JUST, JUST SIMPLY THERE'S MORE PRESCHOOL SEATS IN THE CITY RIGHT NOW THAN THERE ARE PRESCHOOLERS TO FILL THEM. 
          UM, I THINK THAT IS MUCH LESS OF A CHALLENGE RIGHT NOW FOR OUR CPP PROVIDERS THAN IT WAS A YEAR AND A HALF OR TWO YEARS AGO BECAUSE WE'VE, WE'VE DONE A, A, A PRETTY GOOD JOB, FRANKLY, OF, OF BEING ABLE TO PREDICT ENROLLMENT, UM, BETTER NOW THAT WE'RE TWO AND THREE YEARS IN. 
          UM, AND I, I THINK THAT'S A PAIN POINT THAT HAS FELT MOST ACUTELY RIGHT NOW FOR OUR NON CCP P PROVIDERS. 
          UM, AND I THINK STAFFING IS ANOTHER ONE. 
          AND SO AS PART OF THE CPP PROGRAM, WE HAVE ENCOURAGED, UH, PROVIDERS TO BE AS CLOSE TO PAY PARITY AS POSSIBLE WITH THE CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM, TRYING TO ELEVATE THE WORKFORCE IN THAT SENSE AND MAKING SURE THAT EARLY CHILDHOOD PROVIDERS ACROSS THE CITY, UM, ARE PAYING, PAID WHAT THEY SHOULD BE PAID, UM, REGARDLESS OF WHICH SECTOR THEY WORK IN. 
          THAT IS THE PAIN POINT. 
          AND WHAT WE KNOW IS THAT SOME OF OUR PROVIDERS HAVE, UH, GREATER RESOURCES AND GREATER ACCESS TO RESOURCES THAN OTHERS. 
          AND SO I MENTIONED THE CHILDREN'S FUNDING PROJECT A LITTLE BIT EARLIER. 
          THAT'S PART OF THE WORK THAT WE ARE DOING WITH THEM TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IS THE RIGHT PLACE TO LAND WITH THAT PARTICULAR POLICY AND HOW CAN OUR OFFICE SUPPORT THAT, UM, TO MAKE SURE THAT PROVIDERS A, ARE ABLE TO MAKE SURE THAT, UH, THEIR EDUCATORS ARE PAID APPROPRIATELY AND, AND, AND PAID WHAT THEY ARE, UM, WHAT THEY ARE DESERVED, UH, WITHOUT PUTTING THEM OUT OF BUSINESS AND, AND, AND MAKING THEM INCUR AN, UM, UNREASONABLE FINANCIAL BURDEN. 
          MEMBER HUDSON, THANK YOU. 
          I YIELD COUNCILOR FLAHERTY QUICKLY. 
          THANKS FOR THE PRESENTATION. 
          THIS WAS REALLY GOOD COME A LONG WAY FROM TALKING ABOUT CHAPTER 7 66, HAVEN'T WE? SO, UM, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE SERIOUSLY CONSIDER, AS COUNCILOR ZUBIE SAID, NOT APPLYING A MEANS BASED TEST, UH, TO MIDDLE INCOME FAMILIES BECAUSE, UH, MY FAMILY WAS ONE OF THOSE 67 WHEN MY SON WAS DENIED, UH, ADMISSION TO A PROGRAM. 
          AND, UH, AND WE BORE THE COST AND IT WAS A VERY, VERY SIGNIFICANT COST. 
          ULTIMATELY, MY WIFE DECIDED JUST NOT TO, UH, WORK ANYMORE. 
          AND, UH, AND I CAN TELL YOU THAT THE PRE-K THAT MY SON 
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RECEIVED AT THAT TIME, UH, HELPED HIM DEVELOP, UH, EXPONENTIALLY BEYOND SOME OF HIS PEERS. 
          AND HE'S DOING VERY WELL AND, UH, ATTENDING A GREAT HIGH SCHOOL. 
          UH, AND ACTUALLY, UM, ONE OF THE BEST I WOULD SAY, AND ALL OF THIS HAS TO DO WITH HIS EXPERIENCES AS A, AS A YOUNG KID, AS A 3-YEAR-OLD, AND, UM, YOU KNOW, I DON'T WANNA BORE YOU, BUT HE WAS READING, UM, AT A VERY YOUNG AGE. 
          I MEAN, THIS IS AN EXPONENTIALLY DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE THAN MANY OF MY FRIENDS HAVE WITH THEIR KIDS. 
          SO I'M HERE TO TELL YOU, AS A YOUNG PARENT OR THEN A YOUNG PARENT, UM, THAT THIS IS, THIS IS REAL. 
          THIS IS A VERY SIGNIFICANT, UM, SERVICE THAT THE CITY IS PROVIDING TO YOUNG, MIDDLE INCOME FAMILIES THAT HAVE CHILDREN IN THIS AGE GROUP. 
          AND IT'S ESSENTIAL AND IT'S MAKING A BIG DIFFERENCE. 
          UH, AND THE QUESTION I WAS GONNA ASK THAT, UH, MEMBER HUDSON JUST ASKED WAS ABOUT THE TRACKING TO SEE WHAT GAINS WERE MADE, BECAUSE I'M SEEING IT, AND I WONDER IF WE'RE GONNA SEE THAT UNIVERSALLY ACROSS ALL DEMOGRAPHICS, ALL KIDS, UM, SPECIAL NEEDS ARE NOT, AND HOW THEY TURN OUT AT THE SECONDARY SCHOOL LEVEL AND EVEN COLLEGE AGE, YOU KNOW, WHAT HAPPENS AFTER GRADUATION IN CAMBRIDGE TO THESE KIDS? MY, MY QUESTION, AND I, I'M THINKING ABOUT THE CONNECTIVITY, UH, BETWEEN THIS PROGRAM AND THE COST AND SOME OF THE OTHER THINGS WE'RE FUNDING IN THE CITY. 
          AND I THINK THERE IS MONEY THAT WE COULD USE MAYBE FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND ALL THE MONEY THAT WE'RE REALIZING THERE IN THE OVERAGES, AND WE, WE COULD TALK MORE ABOUT THAT LATER. 
          BUT MY QUESTION IS OF THE, I THINK 925 KIDS OR 858, UH, ACCEPTED 67 THAT WERE NOT, UH, ALLOWED IN THREE AT THE 3-YEAR-OLD LEVEL, 925 KIDS. 
          DOES THAT NUMBER SEEM LOW TO YOU IN THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE? AND I'M THINKING ABOUT FROM THE CAMBRIDGE RESIDENTS, UM, SURVEY THAT WE, WE EXAMINED, YOU KNOW, A FEW MONTHS BACK AND HOW PEOPLE THAT ARE LIVING IN CAMBRIDGE NOW TEND NOT TO HAVE CHILDREN. 
          AND, UH, THAT, THAT'S MAYBE HAVING AN IMPACT ON THIS. 
          AND PROBABLY WHEN WE THINK OF THAT AND THE CONNECTIVITY BETWEEN OUR HOUSING POLICIES AND MY VIEW IS THE IMPACT THAT WILL HAVE ON THE INCREASED COST OF HOUSING IN CAMBRIDGE, AND WILL FAMILIES ACTUALLY LIVE IN THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE? UH, LOOK, LOOK AT, I, I'VE GOT NO ARGUMENT THAT I CAN EVEN THINK OF THAT WOULD SAY, WE SHOULDN'T INVEST IN THIS BECAUSE WE SHOULD. 
          AND I'M HERE TO TELL YOU, IT MADE A BIG DIFFERENCE IN MY SON'S LIFE AND IT COST A LOT OF MONEY. 
          AND IF THE CITY'S ABLE TO DO IT, LET'S DO IT BECAUSE IT'S VERY DIFFICULT FOR MIDDLE INCOME FAMILIES. 
          BUT IS THAT A SMALL NUMBER, THE 925 IN, AS WE LOOK AT GRADES GOING FORWARD ALL THE WAY TO THE, UM, SENIOR IN HIGH SCHOOL THIS YEAR? DOES IT SEEM LIKE A SMALL NUMBER? THANK YOU. 
          THROUGH YOU, MADAM MAYOR. 
          I, I'LL START, AND THEN IF ANY OF MY COLLEAGUES ALSO WANNA ADD TO THAT, WE, AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE PRESENTATION, HAVE REALLY GOOD DATA ON WHO WE'RE SERVING IN CPP. 
          WE HONESTLY DON'T HAVE SUCH GREAT DATA ABOUT WHO WE'RE NOT SERVING. 
          SO IT'S ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THAT WE HAVE BEEN ASKING OURSELVES AND TRYING TO FIGURE OUT IS, WHO ARE WE NOT SERVING IN CPP AND WHY IS IT SIMPLY THAT THEIR FAMILIES HAVE MADE CHOICES TO KEEP CHILDREN HOME, TO KEEP CHILDREN WITH A GRANDPARENT, UM, OR TO GO TO A DIFFERENT SCHOOL OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 
          WE JUST DON'T HAVE THAT DATA. 
          SO THE BEST THAT WE HAVE IS LOOKING AT, UM, THE CITYWIDE CENSUS DATA, WHICH ONLY COMES IN FIVE YEAR TRACKS. 
          SO IT'S, IT, IT DOESN'T EVEN PINPOINT AT THE 4-YEAR-OLD LEVEL HOW MANY FOUR YEAR OLDS EXIST IN THE CITY. 
          THE NUMBERS THAT WE'RE SERVING IN CPP, IF WE TAKE THE CENSUS TRACK DATA AND WE SORT OF MAKE THE ASSUMPTION THAT IF WE DIVIDE THAT BY FIVE, THAT THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN ARE EVENLY SPLIT IN THAT, IN THAT AGE RANGE, WE ARE SERVING CLOSE TO WHAT WE WOULD EXPECT TO BE ALL OF THE FOUR YEAR OLDS IN THE CITY. 
          UM, BUT THAT IS A VERY, VERY IMPRECISE CALCULATION. 
          SO IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE TALKED QUITE A BIT AND CONTINUE TO TALK ABOUT IN OUR OFFICE, IS HOW DO WE GET BETTER DATA ABOUT WHO'S NOT, WHO WE'RE NOT SERVING AND WHY. 
          UM, WE HAVE MEMBERS OF OUR STAFF IN PARTNERSHIP WITH COLLEAGUES OF THE CENTER FOR FAMILIES AND OTHERS ACROSS THE CITY, UM, HAVE REALLY FOCUSED EXTENSIVELY ON MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE GETTING THE WORD OUT, AND PARTICULARLY GETTING THE WORD OUT TO COMMUNITIES WHO MAY NOT HAVE READY ACCESS TO INFORMATION, MAKING SURE THAT ALL OF OUR MATERIALS ARE TRANSLATED IN THE PRIMARY LANGUAGES IN CAMBRIDGE, MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE FOLKS, UM, THAT ARE IN COMMUNITIES, ENGAGING WITH FAMILIES, UM, THAT MIGHT NOT BE COMING TO OUR WEBSITE JUST TO SEE WHAT'S GOING ON. 
          SO, MADE A 
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LOT OF EFFORTS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE ACCESSING FAMILIES AND MAKING SURE THAT FAMILIES HAVE THE INFORMATION THAT THEY NEED. 
          UM, BUT I THINK YOUR QUESTION IS A GOOD ONE, AND WE DON'T HAVE A, A GREAT ANSWER ABOUT THAT YET. 
          OKAY. 
          I DON'T KNOW IF IAN IS, IF THERE'S ANYTHING, IF NOT, OKAY. 
          COUNCILOR TY AND, AND THROUGH YOU MADAM MAYOR, AND THEN I'LL, I'LL YIELD, UM, AND WE CAN BEGIN SUMMER. 
          BUT TO THAT POINT ABOUT WHO WE'RE NOT SERVING, UH, AND YOU ANSWERED THE QUESTION ABOUT THE COMMUNICATION STRATEGY, UM, I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT PART ABOUT THIS, BECAUSE I WONDER, AND I REALLY HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT THIS, I WONDER WHAT'S, WHAT SEGMENT, WHAT NUCLEUS OF PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE THAT HAVE CHILDREN AT THIS AGE ARE NOT AWARE OF THIS OR DON'T KNOW HOW TO ACCESS IT. 
          BECAUSE I THINK THE PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE THAT GO TO THE WEBSITE TO LOOK AT IT AND RESEARCH IT, AND SOME OF THE QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS FROM THE PARENTS HERE, I REMEMBER IT VERY WELL MYSELF. 
          THESE ARE INFORMED PEOPLE, AND I WAGER THAT THAT PERCENTAGE IS A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE CHILDREN THAT MIGHT BE AVAILABLE, UH, OR MIGHT BE AGE APPROPRIATE TO BE AVAILABLE TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THIS PROGRAM. 
          SO TO WHATEVER, UM, WAY WE CAN IMPROVE OUR COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES, UH, AND DIRECTLY TO THOSE PEOPLE. 
          I THINK THIS IS JUST SUCH AN INCREDIBLE PROGRAM. 
          UM, I, I CELEBRATE AND I, I CONGRATULATE YOU AND I YIELD, AND I, AND I, AND I WANT, I DO WANNA MENTION THAT, UM, MS. OLSON, AND I'M SO IMPRESSED BY THIS PRESENTATION TODAY. 
          I AM SURE AS MUCH AS EVERYONE ELSE IS A BOSTON COLLEGE GRADUATE, AND IT'S SO REFRESHING. 
          OKAY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          IT'S SO REFRESHING TO HAVE A BOSTON COLLEGE PERSON HERE, RATHER THAN A HARVARD PERSON LEADING THE DISCUSSION IN SUCH A, UH, STUDIOUS AND ARTICULATE WAY. 
          SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. 
          DOES ANYONE ELSE ON THE ZOOM HAVE ANY COMMENTS, QUESTIONS IN A FEW MINUTES? MEMBER HARDING HAS HIS HAND UP. 
          WHO? WHOSE HAND MEMBER HARDING. 
          MEMBER HARDING. 
          GO AHEAD. 
          MEMBER HARDING. 
          HI EVERYONE. 
          CAN YOU HEAR ME, MR. MAD MAYOR? YEAH, GO, GO AHEAD. 
          YEP. 
          YEP. 
          THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. 
          I APPRECIATE THE DEPTH IN WHICH YOU SPENT TO BRING THIS TO US. 
          AND AS ALL THE EXUBERANCE AND, UH, ACCOLADES AND EXCITEMENT AS MR. FLAHERTY, I, I WANNA CONGRATULATE YOU FOR PULLING THIS OFF AND IT'S IN ITS EARLY STAGES, SO THANK YOU ALL THROUGH THE CITY MANAGER AND THE COUNCIL AND ALL WHO'S SUPPORTED, INCLUDING THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE FOLKS. 
          I HAD TWO QUICK QUESTIONS AND I CAN'T SEE, UM, MUCH OF THE DATA PRESENTATION, BUT, UM, JUST AROUND THE OBSTACLES, NOT OBSTACLES, EXCUSE ME. 
          JUST AROUND THE, UM, THE SATISFACTION PIECE, THE PEOPLE THAT I TALKED TO, IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT ACCESSIBILITY TO YOUR POINT EARLIER, IT'S ABOUT, YOU KNOW, SORT OF HOW CLOSE IT IS TO THE, YOU KNOW, WHERE PEOPLE LIVE. 
          BUT I HAVE JUST A QUESTION AROUND, UM, TWO QUESTIONS. 
          ONE IS, ARE WE PROVIDING TRANSPORTATION LIKE WE WOULD IF THIS, THIS WERE A SCHOOL SETTING TO ALL OF THE FAMILIES? OR, AND, AND, AND WITH THAT, DO WE HAVE AN EQUAL AMOUNT OF SEATS, UM, SPREAD ACROSS THE ACCESS TO FIELDS AND THE HEARD CONVERSATION THAT, YOU KNOW, GEOGRAPHICALLY, SOME RESOURCES ARE JUST IN CERTAIN PLACES. 
          SO COULD YOU JUST TELL ME IF WE ARE PROVIDING TRANSPORTATION AND IF THAT'S ALSO PART, IF, IF THAT'S A MAIN DRIVER IN HOW PEOPLE PICK THE SLOTS, WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE THROUGH YOU? MADAM MAYOR? YES. 
          THANK YOU FOR THAT QUESTION. 
          THE ANSWER TO THE TRANSPORTATION IS WE DO NOT PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION AT THE PRE PRESCHOOL LEVEL. 
          UM, IN ADDITION TO THE COSTS, TRANSPORTING THREE YEAR OLDS ON A SCHOOL BUS IS AN INHERENTLY VERY COMPLICATED, UM, PROCESS. 
          SO WE DO NOT PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION IN THAT WAY. 
          WE DO LOOK, UM, AT THE, AT THE ACROSS THE CITY TO MAKE SURE THAT CPP PROVIDERS ARE EVENLY DISTRIBUTED ACROSS THE CITY AND ARE PARTICULARLY HEAVILY, UM, HEAVY IN HEAVILY, UH, RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS. 
          AND IT IS A PROCESS THAT WE USED LAST YEAR. 
          I MENTIONED THAT WE REDUCED THE NUMBER OF FOR-PROFIT CLASSROOMS IN OUR COMMUNITY, AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE LOOKED AT IS WHERE THEY WERE LOCATED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE NOT REDUCING THE NUMBER OF CLASSROOMS IN AREAS, AGAIN, THAT ARE HEAVILY RESIDENTIAL WITH A LOT OF YOUNG CHILDREN. 
          UM, AND PARTICULARLY WHERE WE HAVE A LOT OF PRIORITY FAMILIES. 
          AND THEN AS WE GO INTO THIS RFP PROCESS THAT IS HAPPENING THIS SUMMER, THAT IS ONE OF THE MAIN CONSIDERATIONS. 
          WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE NOT OVERLY SATURATING A PARTICULARLY COMM A PARTICULAR COMMUNITY WITH CP PCS. 
          AND WE ALSO WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THE NUMBER OF CPPS IT PPCS IS ALIGNED WITH THE NUMBER OF YOUNG CHILDREN, AND AGAIN, WITH SPECIAL 
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CONSIDERATION TO PRIORITY FAMILIES IN THE COMMUNITY MEMBER HARDING. 
          YEAH. 
          SO THANK YOU FOR YEAH, THANK YOU FOR THAT THROUGH MADAM CHAIR. 
          I, I JUST THINK THAT WHILE I, I GET THE FINANCIAL REALITY AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, WE KNOW ON THE SCHOOL SIDE WE'RE SPENDING A LOT OF MONEY, YOU KNOW, TRANSPORTING KIDS, BUT I DO THINK WE NEED TO, IF WE'RE FORWARDLY THINKING ABOUT THIS, THINK ABOUT THAT AS SOMEWHAT OF AN OBSTACLE IN TERMS OF SUPPORTING FAMILIES. 
          THE REALITY IS THAT IF YOU ARE GETTING UP ALREADY AND YOU'RE PUTTING, YOU KNOW, A KID OR TWO AND LEAVING THEM AT A BUS STOP AND YOU'RE ON YOUR WAY TO WORK TO WHEREVER THAT JOB IS, AND YOU NOW HAVE TO GET YOUR KID WHO MAY NOT BE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD TO A CHILDCARE SLOT, I THINK IT'S A TREMENDOUS BURDEN ON FAMILIES, UM, CERTAIN FAMILIES. 
          AND I UNDERSTAND THAT WE, YOU KNOW, WE, WE ARE IN OUR, THE SPACE WE'RE IN, THIS IS AN EARLY IN THE PROGRAM, BUT I DO THINK WE NEED TO START THINKING ABOUT, UM, OBSTACLES SUCH AS THAT. 
          UM, AND I, AND I KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, THE OTHER BIG THING IS THAT CHILD CARE AT THIS LEVEL IS, IS SUPER EXPENSIVE. 
          SO I DON'T WANNA ACT AS IF, YOU KNOW, I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT. 
          BUT I DO THINK FROM A EQUITY PERSPECTIVE, WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT WHAT WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO DO TO SUBSIDIZE OUR HELP, UM, BUILD IN, UM, SOME TYPE OF TRANSPORTATION, UM, IF, IF IT'S AT ALL POSSIBLE, A YIELD. 
          MADAM MAYOR, SO WE'RE AT TIME, UM, I'LL JUST WRAP UP. 
          I THINK THERE'S SOME OUTSTANDING QUESTIONS AROUND, YOU KNOW, 67 SEATS POTENTIALLY. 
          THERE'S OUTSTANDING QUESTIONS AROUND EVALUATION. 
          WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? UH, THERE'S, UH, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF QUESTIONS AROUND, UH, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS THE PROCESS TO GET TO SOME OF THESE, UH, ANSWERS THAT WE NEED. 
          SO, UM, IT'LL BE ONGOING. 
          I DO HAVE QUESTIONS, BUT WE'RE OUT OF TIME, SO I WILL, I THINK MOST OF MY COLLEAGUES HAVE ANSWERED, UH, OR ASKED, UM, BUT WE'LL FOLLOW UP DIRECTLY WITH YOU, UH, DIRECTOR. 
          BUT, UM, I THINK THE COUNCIL HA AND SCHOOL COMMITTEE, WE'VE DONE A LOT OF WORK ON THIS AND I THINK THEY'LL CONTINUE TO BE VERY INVOLVED. 
          UM, AND JUST AS YOU'VE LAID OUT IN YOUR SLIDE, WE ALSO LOOK FORWARD TO PARTNERING WITH YOU, UH, TO SHAPE THE NEXT PHASE OF THE CITY'S EARLY CHILDHOOD PRIORITIES. 
          SO WITH THAT, UH, WE WILL GO AHEAD AND ON A MOTION TO ADJOURN BY COUNCILOR FLAHERTY, WE'LL DO A ROLL CALL, VICE MAYOR, VICE CHAIR DUBY. 
          ABSENT. 
          MEMBER DEPALO SANTOS. 
          ABSENT. 
          MEMBER HARDING. 
          ABSENT. 
          MEMBER HUDSON. 
          ABSENT MEMBER JAY KUMAR. 
          YES. 
          YES, YES. 
          MEMBER SIDIKI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          CHAIR WEINSTEIN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          MAY I ASK WHO THE MALE VOICE WAS THAT SAID YES? WASN'T MEMBER? IT WAS A MEMBER HUDSON AND MEMBER JAY KUMAR. 
          PERFECT. 
          YEAH, I THINK WE BOTH SPOKE AT THE SAME TIME. 
          YES. 
          BUT WE BOTH SAID YES. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILOR ZUBI? YES. 
          YES. 
          VICE MAYOR. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR FLAHERTY? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR MCGOVERN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR NOLAN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNSELOR SIMMONS. 
          ABSENT. 
          COUNCILOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SUSIE EY. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE EIGHT MEMBERS RECORDING THE AFFIRMATIVE, AND ONE RECORDED IS ABSENT. 
          GOODNIGHT EVERYONE. 
          IT'S SUMMER.
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