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FROM: .. W.
Costa
INTERNAL OPERATIONS COMMITTEE ,,� COUnty
DATE: September 28, 1992
SUBJECT: REPORT FROM MEETING WITH THE CHILD CARE TASK FORCE
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATIONS:
1 . Authorize staff to the Child Care Task Force to write to those
entities which. nominated members of the Task Force who have
not been attending regularly, asking the organization whether
it wishes to continue to be represented on the Task Force and,
if so, to try to insure that its representative attends
meetings more regularly.
2 . Authorize the Chair, Board of Supervisors to write to the
State Department of Education noting that some counties have
received additional allocations as a result of the settlement
of appeals and that in other counties funds were diverted from
agencies which had already been allocated funds and that this
County therefore assumes that it and all other similarly
situated counties will also be receiving an additional
allocation of funds .
3 . Leave this subject on referral to the Internal Operations
Committee and authorize the Internal Operations Committee to
meet with the Child Care Task Force again on November 23,
1992 .
BACKGROUND:
On Committee has continued to meet with the Child Care Task Force.
We have reported to the Board of Supervisors following each such
meeting. The Task Force met most recently on September 21, 1992 .
CONTIfIUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE:
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMI R RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
APPROVE OTHE
SIGNATURE(S): ROB 1992 R SUNNE WRIGHT KM,cPEAK
ACTION OF BOARD ON APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
UNANIMOUS(ABSENT ) AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
AYES: NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN. (} G
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Contact: PHIL BATCHELOR.CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
CC: County Administrator SUPERVISORS AN D COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
Social Services Director
Community Services Director
Kate Ertz-Berger, Executive Director
Contra Costa Child Care .Council BY DEPUTY
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There was a discussion regarding the decisions which have been made
by the State regarding allocating the Federal Block Grant funds for
the 1992 Federal Fiscal Year. In some cases, appeals have been
settled by ignoring the initial allocations and allocating
additional funds to a County to settle the appeal, while in other
counties, funds have been diverted from agencies which thought that
the funds had already been allocated to the agency. There seems to
be little rhyme or reason to these decisions . The allocation of
additional funds solely for the purpose of settling appeals upsets
the entire allocation logic which was decided on early in the
process . It appears to the Task Force that some counties will
receive additional funds solely because they had agencies which
submitted applications which were not approved and then appealed
and won the appeal . This does not appear to the members of the
Task Force to be a sounds basis on which to allocate funds .
The attendance at meetings of the Child Care Task Force has been
dropping recently. A good deal of additional important work needs
to be conducted in the immediate future to monitor the
implementation of the Federal Block Grant funds, develop an amended
Child Care Plan for the County and make recommendations on the
allocation of any additional funds which are approved by Congress .
It is, therefore, important that all members of the Task Force be
present.
The Task Force has directed staff to write to the nominating
organizations of those members who have not been attending
recently, asking whether the organization wishes to remain a member
and, if so, to please insure that their members attends regularly
or that the organization appoint an alternate or a new member who
will be able to attend meetings of the. Task Force.
The above recommendations result from the discussion at the Task
Force meeting.
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