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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 10111988 - IO.3 o. 3 TO . 'F• BOARD Of'SUPE Rf.• ORS FRO1' ' INTERNAL OPERATIONS COMMITTEE C ra September 26 , 1988 Costa DATE . Status Report on Various ��a � jit SUBJECT; Child Care Issues SPECIFIC REQUESTS) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKCROUND AND JUSTIFICATION RECOMMENDATIONS: 1 . Commend the concept of a Child Care Fund 'as outlined by the Contra Costa Child Care Council as a starting point for . providing quality, affordable child care for all families not able to afford such care on their own. 2 . Request the Deputy Director of the Redevelopment Agency to obtain from the Contra Costa Centre the Centre' s specific plans for where in the Pleasant Hill-BART Redevelopment Area the Centre plans to locate the on-site child care facility, and report his findings back to the members of the Internal Operations Committee.- 3 . ommittee:3 . Request the County Administrator to write to the Superintendent of Public Instruction indicating that Contra Costa County is interested in implementing the child care coordinator function along the lines of AB 3145 (Cortese) if the State is able to do so using existing funds since AB 3145 did not pass the Legislature. 4 . Request the County Administrator to report to our Committee on December 12 regarding the data which has been requested from the Internal Revenue Service and the State Franchise Tax Board on the cost of increasing the child care tax credit as was outlined in our Committee 's report to the Board on June 28 , 1988. _ 5 . Reaffirm the Board' s Order of June 28, 1988 that the Director of Personnel prepare a dependent care assistance program and report the details of the program to the Board of Supervisors by November 1, 1988 since the program must be in place and available to employees by January 1, 1989. 6 . In addition, request the Director of Personnel to report to our Committee December 12 on the status of the implementation of the contract between the County and the Child Care Council for the employee Information and Referral Program. CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: _ YES SIGNATURE: RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR �_ RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE APPROV ✓`- OTHER SIGNATUREIsI: Sunne W. McPeak Tom Torlakson ACTION OF BOARD ON October 11, 1988 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X OTHER X AMENDED Recommendation #12 to REQUEST Finance Committee together with Internal Operations Committee to review the feasibility of use of new revenue streams to fund the Child Care Fund. VOTE OF SUPERVISORS I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE X UNANIMOUS (ABSENT ) AAD CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN AYES: NOES:_ AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD ABSENT; ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN. Listed on Page 4 ATTESTED ��. PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR 4382/1-83 BY ,DEPUTY Page 2 7 . Request the County Administrator to reconvene the Child Care Task Force so the Internal Operations Committee can brief the members of the Task Force on the actions which have been taken by the Board of Supervisors on the subject of child care since the Task Force completed work on their report in December, 1985 . 8 . Endorse the application submitted to the San Francisco Foundation by the Community Development Department staff for funds to support the Child Care Broker function and request the Chairman to send a letter to the San Francisco Foundation indicating that the Board supports the application. 9. Request the Social Services Director to contact Ms . Patty Siegel, Director of the Network of Resource and Referral Agencies in California, and request information from Ms. Siegel on how other counties are handling the GAIN Child Care Program. 10. Request the Social Services Director to consider the possibility of making GAIN child care payments directly to the provider of child care rather than to the GAIN participant and report his decision in writing to the members of the Internal Operations Committee by October 18, 1988. 11 . Request the Community Development Director to designate a member of his staff to meet with the various city recreation directors throughout the County and with the Service Areas in the unincorporated area of the County to brainstorm possibilities of developing city, city-county or service area County-sponsored recreation programs for young people in this County that could generate revenue for the Child Care Fund and report the results of his meetings to our . Committee on December 12, 1988. 12 . Identify the following new revenue streams as potential sources for the Child Care Furid: new sales tax from Buchanan Field, new transient occupancy tax from the Pleasant Hill-BART Station (Embassy Suites Hotel) , increased transient occupancy tax from an increase countywide and development of an entrepreneurial venture, such as a recreation program that generates revenue for child care. Request the Child Care Task Force and the Internal Operations Committee to review the feasibility of the new revenue streams for use to fund the Child Care Fund. BACKGROUND: On June 28, 1988, the Board of Supervisors approved a number of recommendations from our Committee dealing with child care. In many cases, these recommendations requested information from staff. On September 26 , 1988, our Committee received a number of reports from County staff in response to the referrals made on June 28. In regard to legislation, we were distressed to learn that AB 3145 by Assemblyman Cortese did not pass the Legislature. AB 3145 would have appropriated a small amount of money to assist counties establish a child care coordinator function. However, at our meeting on September 26, we were advised that Superintendent Honig may be interested in 'implementing essentially the same program as would have been established by AB 3145 and would finance it by reprogramming some existing funds . We believe that the County should indicate , to Superintendent Honig our interest in applying for these funds . Page 3 We received a concept paper fron the Contra Costa Child Care Council entitled "Child Care Fund" . We have reviewed the concept paper with the Executive Director of the Child Care Council and believe that conceptually it serves as a good beginning point from which to discuss affordability criteria for the child care fund, as the Board asked our Committee to develop on March 29 , 1988 . The proposal is that we would use the same income standards currently in use by the State Department of Education. Under their guidelines, a family is entitled to subsidized child care if their income is no more than 84% of the statewide average income. For a family of four this is currently $2159 per month. A family pays for their child care on a sliding scale based on the family size and number of members in the family. Once eligible, a family may continue to receive subsidized child care until their income equals 115% of the statewide average income. The problem with this is that there is no way under the State guidelines for a family with an income between 84% and 1150 of the statewide average -income to initially qualify for any assistance with their child care costs. We would like to address this group eventually, but believe that first we must assist those lower income families who are otherwise on State waiting lists, often for many months. We have received data on the possible sources of funding which could be used for this purpose. The increased sales tax from development at Buchanan Field, if all potential projects are developed as proposed, would generate as much as $450 , 000 annually, although this is admittedly an optimistic figure. A 1% increase in the transient occupancy tax by the County and each city in the County would yield $340 ,000 annually in added revenue. The anticipated transient occupancy tax in the Pleasant Hill-BART Redevelopment Project Area would yield $1 . 8 million annually by the year 1994 . The sales tax from the Pleasant Hill-BART Station area is estimated to produce $860, 000 in annual revenue by the year 1994 . Our Committee is recommending that we and the Child Care Task Force be authorized to determine the feasibility of using these revenue sources to fund the Child Care Fund. We are also asking that a meeting between our Committee and the original Child Care Task Force be convened so we can give the members of the Task Force a status report on what the Board has done with the Task Force ' s recommendations since the Task Force Report was formulated in December, 1985. In response to the Board' s directions on June 28 , 1988 , the Community Development Department has prepared and submitted to the San Francisco Foundation an application for a three-year grant totaling $35, 000 to support the Child Care Council' s Child Care Broker function until other sources of funds are developed and on-line. The grant would be for $20 ,000 the first year; $10, 000 in the second year, and $5,000 in the third year. At the conclusion of the three-year grant the County would be committed to continuing the Child Care Broker function without any further funding from the San Francisco Foundation. We are recommending that the Board endorse this application and authorize the Chairman to sign a letter to the Foundation indicating the Board' s support. We continue to be concerned about the GAIN Child Care Program. The Executive Director of the Child Care Council reported to us that one of their major concerns is with the decision of the Social Services Department that GAIN Child Care payments only be made to the GAIN participant. A number of child care providers are concerned that if this is done they may have difficulty collecting from the 'GAIN participant. Many of the providers Page 4 have, therefore, asked that the department consider making payments directly to the provider. We are asking Mr. Rydingsword to review this decision and determine whether there is any possibility of making payments directly to the child care provider and let our Committee know his decision. Finally, in reviewing all County property with the Public Works Department, it appears that there are no existing parcels of property that might be suitable for a joint public-private venture whereby the County could enter into an arrangement with a private company to operate a recreation center of some kind on County property. The only possibility is the use of the Pleasant Hill Detention Basin property during the summer months when it is not needed as a detention basin. However, the County is probably five years away from acquiring the property for this detention basin so even this possibility does not hold any hope in the immediate future. As a result, we are asking Public Works staff to meet with the city- recreation directors and do some brainstorming over what they might be able to come up with to suggest to the County and cities. We will report back to the Board following our December 12 , 1988 meeting. cc: County Administrator Deputy Director, Redevelopment Agency Director, Community Development Director, Social Services Dept. Public Works Director Executive Director, Contra Costa Child Care Council Supervisor Fanden Supervisor Powers • - � � O t�D fZD CSD to 0 N fD K f} H H H ort a r 5 H '< P. tD H tz a 0 ro > ct 0 H � K y+ :j K N F, tri �d ►d rt 'C W yz s Fl- M� p n acD a -- art 0 i1 ro tt N � ► N C 1-10 0 y Gw CGN mW 0 rt K N x O+ O r0 rt H. (D � 0 art zM N ro 0 G ((G to N (D N _ a 0 n rt H. rt � Z K P. 0 N 0 , CO bd H 0 � m tn K 000 7q 0 Q N K �Ct cc z � d � n n z E .' z N C) H 0ct � x a o O nrr �, 0 0 n 0(D I p0cn 0 r* � o �. • a G C) \ 0 0 0 0 Ctn n cD to r C rt � rpt 0 X ti rt Ka rKn G n 0 �4 M � N N d K tz rt � ri ro G n a `«3 rt rt K N H 4t a r• t-r rt n 0 ro b cn }+• N H rt n a > N v (D H FJ xrl M rl rt rt m N M O fD M m H T V t� r' n N ( K n H H 0 rwt of a' fC,. O H H M t�D G fD fD n H � � r rt H y ►C \ 0 0 K O K G O G > G w fD K tD H-M K rt rt H ° H. �O3 rt fD O 0 1D n 0 tnDi rt (DD M N rt G w a a ar ,.< p H b� H r M ro N ro 2 0 cn ►� t�7 � y Kn O ~ ~ O H z rt a ° � � b ro > � � neo co � czj° nE c z d ►ca � � � om �OG (D z H G ,�• a � �• � a �' p n � W o vOi rat �- trtD a N d d ° F- 0 P• 5 a r' H o0 � 4A r� a z I--, d G N C ft rt nx 0al a� P. o �• LQ a 0 m K a am a a :5 ft 0K � a � nO r o H•o N rt5 m o � � (DZ a la, m ao v v r Chl' Id Care Fund A concept paper Prepared for: Internal Operations Committee by: Contra Costa Child Care Council The Vision The vision is simply "one stop shopping" for parents seeking child care. one place for parents to come to get their child care questions _ answered, get referrals to appropriate child care programs and access any and all available parent choice subsidy 'programs. r • unin Funding for the .Child Care Fund will come from a variety of sources. Currently the Child •Care Council manages seven . parent choice subsidy programs totalling - approximately $250,000 in subsidy monies. These will be incorporated into the Fund and additional sources of revenue.would be sought. Basically, these fund development efforts will take two tracks. The first will be efforts to increase contracted child care subsidy funding. This will include increased funding from all levels of government; city, county, state and federal, as well as, generating resources from employers to support child care for their own employees. The second track is to build a Trust Fund, the income from which would be used to provide child care subsidies through the Child Care Fund while the principal remains intact. The Trust Fund will be developed with foundation support, and through Planned Giving and Endowment Programs . �0 PC/ How It .. Will Work A family seeking child care will contact one of the Council's offices . Based upon the information garnered by the Referral Counselor, they will be given the .names of child care providers who appear to meet their particular needs. Parents will also be provided with information and counseling to' assist them in making the most informed choice. If the family is interested in receiving subsidy, 'the applicable information and documentation will be gathered to determine the family's eligibility for one or more of the funding streams within the Child Care Fund. Eligibility criteria will be determined by funding source or by the Council Board of Directors for unrestricted sources of revenue. (See attached) . If a family is determined eligible for one or more of the of funding streams incorporated in the Child Care Fund, the Subsidy Counselor will determine if funding is available in the applicable accounts. Recommendation: That families access the most restrictive funding sources first. Rationale: This will allow us to insure continuity of care to the greatest degree possible.. (See section on Continuity of Care) . If no funding is available, the family will be placed on a Wait List and will receive the first available funding for which they are eligible. once enrolled in the program, parents will pay fees to the Child Care Fund on a sliding scale basis with the exception of families receiving subsidy .because the child(ren) is at risk of abuse or neglect, and Partnership Project families. Recommendation: That effective July 1, 1989 the State Department of Education sliding scale be used for the entire Child Care Fund. Rationale: It is unduly cumbersome to administer two separate sliding scales. Appropriate contracts, agreements, and intake documents will be signed with the parents/guardian's and selected child care providers. Monthly, providers will be reimbursed the full cost of care from the Child Care Fund. _ Recommendation: Effective July 1, 1989, the Child Care Fund will have uniform documents . Rationale: Again, it is unduly cumbersome to operate a subsidy program with different forms and documents , and confusing to providers . A family's eligibility will be reassessed every six months . Continuity . o are If child care is viewed as a necessary support service to a family seeking economic self sufficiency, it is contradictory to cease subsidy when the mother reaches the arbitrary age of . 20 or when a parent completes a -traininig program and is about to start employment (or three months later as in the case of Gain) . Rather the only reasons to terminate subsidy to a family moving toward economic self sufficiency would be in the event that family achieves economic self sufficiency (i.e. can afford to fully pay for their own child care) , ceases to move along a path toward economic self sufficiency .(i.e. quits their job) , or moves out of the county. Therefore, the Child Care Fund should be managed in such a way to insure continuity of care to families who are moving toward economic self sufficiency. Practically, this means that families who cease to be eligible for a particular funding stream within the Child Care Fund because they have reached a certain age, completed a training program or moved from one location to another location still within the county, would receive priority for subsidy from the less restrictive funding streams (new revenues from county or income from the Trust Fund) . 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Eligibility for Child bay Care -----------------•------------ 1 family af►oet Bross monthly income at the time of application is wore than 84 Percent of the state median income Is inettsibte for *Jx1d1zed child devetopamt services. the 84 percent level is ur erllned in the above chart. Any tartly tttetving child devttopment services show Grass wonthtr fa.,tty income Increases beyond the amcxnt anterad at the bottom o1 the to an for the appropriate family size becomes ineligible for athsidtzed child development aervi us. families having only ont or two aenbcrs are forQurposet of determining n n l otigibitity and fees treated as three member fa1 S , CONTRA COSTA COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT TO: Internal Operation mm-lttee DATE: September 23, 1988 Supervisor S e W�ght i�kPeak Supervi s Tom To, 1 akson/ FROM: Jim K ne Dep y Director - R evelopment SUBJECT: ransient Oc ncy Tax The Community Development Department was requested to ascertain the revenue effects of increasing the Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) by 1% in each jurisdiction. Additionally, we have estimated the revenue effects of all jurisdictions raising the TOT to a uniform 9.5%. The revenue effects of these changes are summarized below with more detail on Table 1. Incremental Revenue Due to 1% Increase in TOT (based on 1987-88 revenues) $340,993 Incremental Revenue Due to a Uniform TOT Rate of 9.5% (based on 1987-88 revenues) $490,735 JK/jb jkl/intrnop.mem CONTRA COSTA COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT TO: Nancy C. Fanden DATE: July 19, 1988 Supervisor, Distri FROM: James 6edy SUBJECT: RedevelopmentAgency Indebtedness Deputy development to Contra Costa County The Redevelopment Agency has the following outstanding debt obligations to the County: Principal Source of Outstanding Date Amount Loan Funds Term Interest Rate Debt (6/30/87) 1/84 $ 100,000 General Fund Indefinate Prime plus 1% $ 143,451 9/84 100,000 General Fund Indefinate Prime plus 1% 132,786 12/841 ,000,000 AD 83-1 30 Years 12% 1 ,308,877 84-87 530,368 General Fund Indefinate Prime plus 1% 576,808 .4/86 1 ,616,684 r/w convey. Indefinate Prime plus 1% 1 ,782,166 10/85 433, 132 General Fund Indefinate Prime plus 1% 505,426 8/86 337,985 General Fund Indefinate Prime plus 1% 364,161 8/87 192,383 General. Fund Indefinate -Prime plus 1% 210,646* TOTAL $4,310,552 $5,024,321 *As of 6/30/88 The Redevelopment Agency's debt obligations may be summarized as follows : Due to General Fund $1 ,933,278 Due to AD 83-1 1 ,308,877 Due County for r/w 1 ,782,166 TOTAL $5,024,321 i I CC: Board Members County Administrator I County Counsel i 14W V CONTRA COSTA COUNTY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY DATE: June 15, 1988 TO: Supervisor Sunne W. McPeak Supervisor T lakson INTERNAL Q ER IO S COMMITTEE FROM: Jim Kennedy, D uty Director-Redevelopment SUBJECT: Sales Tax Transient Occupancy Tax Estimates- Plea an ill BART Station Area. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attached is an estimate of sales and transient occupancy taxes that may be reasonably expected to be generated from development in the Pleasant Hill BART Station Area. A summary of tax revenue estimates is as follows: Estimated sales tax and transient occupancy tax revenue accruing to the t County of Contra Costa from the Pleasant Hill BART Station Area: Year Revenue Source 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 Sales Tax $20,805 $35,805 $97,055 $835,555 $859,555 Transient Occupancy $522,151 $532,699 $543,248 $1,123,880 $1,862,338 Tax TOTAL (Estimate) $542,956 $568,504 $640,303 $1,959,435 $2,721,893 JK:krc Attachment ra25/estimate.mmo IN� k Ve t t D C"J a`JJ