Membership and Seat Qualifications
The below listed summary of seats, term expirations and membership information shall serve as notice of vacancies, upcoming term expirations, and information on currently held seats, appointed by the Board of Supervisors. Appointments by other bodies are listed, if available.
Seat numbers listed as “VACANT” are open for immediate appointment. However, you are able to submit applications for all seats and your application will be maintained for one year, in the event that an unexpected vacancy or opening occurs.
Seat: 1
Appointing Authority: BOS
Seat Holder: Savitha Moorthy (second term) residency waived
Term Ending: 9/14/2026
Qualifications:
Must be a nominee of the District 1 Supervisor and represent one of the following categories: consumers, child care providers, discretionary, community representatives, or public agency representatives.
Term: 3-years.
Seat: 2
Appointing Authority: BOS
Seat Holder: VACANT - Term Expired 3/19/25 Holdover Member Patricia Sullivan (second term)
Term Ending: 3/19/2028
Qualifications:
Must be a nominee of the District 2 Supervisor and represent one of the following categories: consumers, child care providers, discretionary, community representatives, or public agency representatives.
Term: 3-years.
Seat: 3
Appointing Authority: BOS
Seat Holder: Jerry Yang (first term)(residency waived)
Term Ending: 3/19/2027
Qualifications:
Must be a nominee of the District 3 Supervisor and represent one of the following categories: consumers, child care providers, discretionary, community representatives, or public agency representatives.
Term: 3-years.
Seat: 4
Appointing Authority: BOS
Seat Holder: Claudia Quinonez(second term) (residency waived)
Term Ending: 3/19/2027
Qualifications:
Must be a nominee of the District 4 Supervisor and represent one of the following categories: consumers, child care providers, discretionary, community representatives, or public agency representatives.
Term: 3-years.
Seat: 5
Appointing Authority: BOS
Seat Holder: Elizabeth Winograd(second term)
Term Ending: 3/19/2027
Qualifications:
Must be a nominee of the District 5 Supervisor and represent one of the following categories: consumers, child care providers, discretionary, community representatives, or public agency representatives.
Term: 3-years.
Seat: 6
Appointing Authority: BOS
Seat Holder: Benson Wong (second term)
Term Ending: 3/19/2028
Qualifications:
Must be a nominee of the District 6 Supervisor and represent one of the following categories: consumers, child care providers, discretionary, community representatives, or public agency representatives.
Term: 3-years.
Seat: 7
Appointing Authority: BOS
Seat Holder: Delia Fitzpatrick(first term)
Term Ending: 9/14/2026
Qualifications:
Must be a nominee of the District 7 Supervisor and represent one of the following categories: consumers, child care providers, discretionary, community representatives, or public agency representatives.
Term: 3-years.
Seat: 8
Appointing Authority: BOS
Seat Holder: Heather Cassandra Morado (residency requirement waived) (second term)
Term Ending: 3/19/2026
Qualifications:
Must be a nominee of the District 8 Supervisor and represent one of the following categories: consumers, child care providers, discretionary, community representatives, or public agency representatives.
Term: 3-years.
Seat: 9
Appointing Authority: BOS
Seat Holder: Yensing Sihapanya(second term)
Term Ending: 3/19/2026
Qualifications:
Must be a nominee of the District 9 Supervisor and represent one of the following categories: consumers, child care providers, discretionary, community representatives, or public agency representatives.
Term: 3-years.
Seat: 10
Appointing Authority: BOS
Seat Holder: Crystal Hawkins (Residency requirement waived)
Term Ending: 3/19/2028
Qualifications:
Must be a nominee of the District 10 Supervisor and represent one of the following categories: consumers, child care providers, discretionary, community representatives, or public agency representatives.
Term: 3-years.
Seat: 11
Appointing Authority: BOS
Seat Holder: Monique Guidry (second term)
Term Ending: 9/14/2026
Qualifications:
Must be a nominee of the District 11 Supervisor and represent one of the following categories: consumers, child care providers, discretionary, community representatives, or public agency representatives.
Term: 3-years.
Seat: 12
Appointing Authority: BOS
Seat Holder: Jessica Campos(second term)
Term Ending: 3/19/2027
Qualifications:
Must be a nominee of the President of the Board of Supervisors and represent one of the following categories: consumers, child care providers, discretionary, community representatives, or public agency representatives.
Term: 3-years.
Seat: 13
Appointing Authority: BOS/SFUSD
Seat Holder: VACANT - Term Expired 3/19/25 Holdover Member Sherrice Dorsey-Smith (Residency Requirement Waived) (First Term)
Term Ending: 3/19/2028
Qualifications:
Must be jointly appointed by the Board of Supervisors and the Board of Education, or the County Superintendent of Schools, if the Board of Education delegates the appointment power to her/him. Term: 3-years.
Appointing Authority: SFUSD
Seat Holder:
Term Ending:
Qualifications:
Twelve (12) members appointed by the Board of Education.
Half of the Advisory Council members are appointed by the Board of Supervisors and half are appointed by the San Francisco Board of Education.
DESCRIPTION:
Pursuant to California Welfare and Institutions Code Sections 10480, 10485–10487, a local Child Care Planning and Advisory Council for the City and County of San Francisco (“Council”) is hereby established as an Advisory Body as defined in Section 5.1-1.
The Council is established to provide a forum for the identification of local priorities for child care and the development of policies to meet the needs identified within those priorities. The Council shall advise the Board of Supervisors, the Mayor, the San Francisco Children and Families First Commission and, with their consent, the Board of Education and the Superintendent of Schools about child care issues. The Council will serve as a representative advisory and planning body to maintain, expand, and improve local child care services. The Council will provide links between government and the community, and will work to maximize the amount and impact of local, State, federal and private resources and funding for child care in San Francisco.
REPORTS:
By May 30 of each year, and upon approval of the Board of Supervisors and the Superintendent of Schools, the Council shall submit to the State Department of Social Services and the State Department of Education the local priorities it has identified that reflect all child care needs in San Francisco.
SEAT INFORMATION:
The Council shall consist of 25 members. The Board of Supervisors and the Board of Education shall each appoint 12 members. The Board of Supervisors and the Board of Education shall jointly appoint one member.
The Council shall be comprised as follows:
- Twenty percent of the membership shall be consumers.
- Twenty percent of the membership shall be child care providers, reflective of the range of child care providers in San Francisco.
- Twenty percent of the membership shall be public agency representatives.
- Twenty percent of the membership shall be community representatives, who shall not be child care providers or agencies that contract with the State Department of Social Services to provide child care and development services.
- The remaining 20% shall be appointed at the discretion of the appointing agencies.
TERMS / TERM LIMITS:
3 Years/ Maximum of 2 Consecutive Terms
Application Process
Please Note: Depending upon the posting date, a vacancy may have already been filled. To determine if a vacancy for this Commission is still available, or if you require additional information, please call the Rules Committee Clerk at (415) 554-5184.
Applicants interested in a seat on the Advisory Council, including those appointed by the Board of Education, may contact Tony Tyson, CPAC Coordinator, at anthony.tyson@sfgov.org for current information on seat qualifications and vacancies.
For seats appointed by other Authorities please contact the Board / Commission / Committee / Task Force (see below) or the appointing authority directly.
Next Steps:
Applicants who meet minimum qualifications will be contacted by the Rules Committee Clerk once the Rules Committee Chair determines the date of the hearing. Members of the Rules Committee will consider the appointment(s) at the meeting and applicant(s) may be asked to state their qualifications. The appointment of the individual(s) who is recommended by the Rules Committee will be forwarded to the Board of Supervisors for final approval.
Description:
The Child Care Planning and Advisory Council consists of twenty-five (25) members. The Board of Supervisors appoints twelve (12) members: one (1) nominated by each individual member of the Board, and approved by the full Board; and one (1) nominated by the President of the Board. The Board of Education or County Superintendent of Schools, if the Board of Education delegates the appointment power to him/her, shall also appoint twelve (12) members. One (1) member shall be jointly appointed by the Board of Supervisors and the Board of Education, or the County Superintendent of Schools, if the Board of Education delegates the appointment power to him/her.
The members appointed by the Board of Supervisors shall be representative of the following categories:
A) “Consumers” - Parents, guardians or caretakers with varied income levels who use child care and/or early education services, including but not limited to clients of publicly subsidized programs such as CalWORKS, and other child care programs funded through the San Francisco Human Services Agency, the California Department of Education, Head Start or Preschool for All;
B) “Child Care Providers” - Private and subsidized child care providers including, but not limited to, from a private center, from a family day care home, a Title 5 program, a school age program, from a Head Start center and from a Preschool for All site;
C) “Discretionary” - Representatives of the public at-large and/or representatives from any of the other categories, or outside of these categories at the discretion of the appointing agencies;
D) “Community Representatives” - Parent advisory councils of public and private child care programs; associations of child care providers, family child care providers and Head Start; City College of San Francisco, San Francisco State University, public interest organizations including, but not limited to, the Child Care Law Center, Low Income Investment Fund community organizations, members of labor organizations and local businesses that fall within the definition of "community representative" as described in Subsection (d)(1) (B) and other community and public agency representatives that deal with child care; and
E) “Public Agency Representatives” - Representative from two of the following agencies: the Department of Children, Youth and Their Families, Human Services Agency, San Francisco Children and Families Commission, Community Care Licensing, Department of Public Health, Recreation and Park Department, Mayor's Office of Community Investment and San Francisco Housing Authority, or other entities.
The Council is established to advise the Board of Supervisors, the Mayor, the San Francisco Children and Families Commission and, with their consent, the Board of Education and the Superintendent of Schools about child care issues. The Council will serve as a representative advisory and planning body to maintain, expand and improve local child care services. The Council will provide links between government and the community, and will work to maximize the amount and impact of local state, federal and private resources and funding for child care in San Francisco. Powers and Duties are outlined in Administrative Code, Section 5.200.
All terms shall be for three years. Members may serve for up to two consecutive terms, and may be re-appointed after one year off the Council. No terms served prior to March 8, 2010, shall be counted towards the term limit for Council members. A member appointed to serve a term of two years or less, including the initial term provided in the preceding paragraph, shall not be deemed to have served a full term for purposes of this term limit.
Holdover Information:
Not Applicable
AUTHORITY:
Administrative Code, Article XX, and California Welfare and Institutions Code, Section 10480, 10485-10487 (Ordinance Nos. 362-95, 118-99, 192-99, 31-00, 6-03, 49-10, and 99-26).
Sunset Date:
None
Contact:
The Department of Early Childhood shall provide administrative support for the Council.
Updated: September 22, 2026