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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 04231991 - IO.1 . . _ . I.O.-1 TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORSsE L Contra FROM: INTERNAL OPERATIONS COMMITTEE `"� Costa " April 15, 1991 County �'"��. �• =-y_ ��`� DATE. �sTA couN� c� REPORT ON FORMATION OF A CHILD CARE TASK FORCE TO PREPARE A SUBJECT: PLAN REQUIRED IN ORDER TO QUALIFY FOR FEDERAL .CHILD CARL FUNDS 1 SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION RECOMMENDATIONS: 1. Consider the attached recommendations of the Social Services Director on behalf of the County Welfare Directors' Association when preparing the County Plan for Child Care, with the understanding that the term "working teen" also means teenagers who are in school, including high school, or are in a training program. 2. Request the Contra Costa Child Care Council and Social Services Department to jointly identify existing data and consolidate it in a form which will assist the Task Force created below to answer the question: "Who is currently being served in terms of child care, with particular emphasis on the type of care being provided, the economic level of the families being served, the racial and ethnic distribution of children being served and the geographical distribution of children being served?" This data should be presented to the Task Force at its first meeting. 3 . Request the Contra Costa Child Care Council and the Social Services Department to jointly prepare the agenda for the first meeting of the Child Care Task Force, which should include at least the following items: * A brief outline of Child Care and Development Block Grant and the Child Care Services Entitlement under Title IV of the Social Security Act. CONTINUED ON ATTACHMETIS YES SIGNATURE: RECOMMENDATION]OFCOrATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE APPROVE SIGNATURE s: RODER SUNNE WRIGHT McPEAK ACTION OF BOARD ON pry 19 9 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X OTHER VOTE OF SUPERVISORS I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE X UNANIMOUS(ABSENT I, IV ) 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. CC: County Administrator ATTESTED 07.f� X99/ Social Services Director ct Community Services Director PHIL BATCHELOR,CLERK OF THE BOARD OF Executive Director SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR M382 (10/88) Child Care. Council ��j��� BY �""'�"� ,DEPUTY * What does the federal child care legislation require of states and local governments in order to receive the federal child care funds? * What does the State of California intend to require of local communities in order to qualify for federal child care funds? * What does the Task Force have to accomplish and within what timeframe must it be accomplished? * What data currently exists regarding the population which is presently being served? * Resolution of organizational issues, including who will chair the Task Force, whether a Steering Committee is needed and what subcommittees are required in order to complete the Task Force' s charge in a timely manner. * Decision regarding the date, time, place and frequency of future meetings. 4 . Authorize the County Administrator to contact the Superintendent of Schools and determine how best to insure adequate representation on the Task Force from the education community in Contra Costa County and report his conclusions and recommendations to the Internal Operations Committee. 5. Authorize the County Administrator to advertise for those seats on the Child Care Task Force which are identified below as being ones for which an open application process will be most appropriate and return to the Internal Operations Committee with those applications. 6. Authorize the County Administrator to contact all other nominating entities identified below and request that they provide the name and address of their nominee(s) at the earliest opportunity. 7 . Create a Child Care Task Force composed as follows: Contra Costa Mayors' Conference - Four seats for elected members, representing East, Central, South and West County. To be selected by the Mayors' Conference, hopefully at their meeting on May 2, 1991. City Child Care Coordinators - Two seats. To be nominated by the Contra Costa Mayors' Conference. Parents - Four seats. To be advertised for publicly. Nominations by individuals or organizations will also be sought. All applications are to be returned to the Internal Operations Committee for screening and then to the Board of Supervisors for appointments. East Bay Association for the Education of Young Children (EBAEYC) - One seat. To be nominated by the organization, reviewed by the Internal Operations Committee and appointed by the Board of Supervisors. Child Care Worker - One seat. To be advertised for publicly. Nominations will also be sought from the EBAEYC. In addition, individual applications and nominations will also be accepted. All applications will be screened by the Internal Operations Committee and appointments will be made by the Board of Supervisors. -2- YWCA of Contra Costa County - One seat. To be nominated by the organization, screened by the Internal Operations Committee and appointed by the Board of Supervisors. YMCA Mt. Diablo Region - One seat. To be nominated by the organization, screened by the Internal Operations Committee and appointed by the Board of Supervisors. YMCA West Contra Costa - One seat. To be nominated by the organization, screened by the Internal Operations Committee and appointed by the Board of Supervisors. Community Services Department - One seat. To be nominated by the Director of Community Services, screened by the Internal Operations Committee and appointed by the Board of Supervisors. Family Day Care Operators Associations - Three seats. To be nominated by the organizations, screened by the Internal Operations Committee -and appointed by the Board of Supervisors. For Profit Child Care Centers - One seat. To be nominated by the organization called PACE to which most of them belong, screened by the Internal Operations Committee and appointed by the Board of Supervisors. Directors' Association - One seat. To be nominated by the organization, screened by the Internal Operations Committee and appointed by the Board of Supervisors. United Way - One seat. To be nominated by the organization, screened by the Internal Operations Committee and appointed by the Board 'of Supervisors. Building Industry Association - One seat. To be nominated Ey the organization, screened by the Internal Operations Committee and appointed by the Board of Supervisors. Non-Profit, Unsubsidized Provider - One seat. To be advertised for publicly. Nominations by individuals or organizations will also be sought. All applications are to be returned to the Internal Operations Committee for screening and then to the Board . of Supervisors for appointments. Foster Parents Association - One seat. To be nominated by the organization, screened by the Internal Operations Committee and appointed by the Board of Supervisors. Central Labor Council - Two seats. To be nominated by the organization, screened by the Internal Operations Committee and appointed by the Board of Supervisors. Contra Costa Council - One seat. To be nominated by the organization, screened by the Internal Operations Committee and appointed by the Board of Supervisors. Chambers of Commerce - One seat. To be nominated by the organization, screened by the Internal Operations Committee and appointed by the Board of Supervisors. Child Development Specialists - One seat. To be advertised for publicly. Nominations by individuals or organizations will also be sought. All applications are to be returned to the Internal Operations Committee for screening and then to the Board of Supervisors for appointments. J -3- Special Need Providers - One seat. Known providers of services to children with special needs will be asked to submit nominations. In addition, applications from individuals will be accepted, screened by the Internal Operations Committee and appointed by the Board of Supervisors. Social Services Department - One seat. To be nominated by the Social Services Director, screened by the Internal Operations Committee and appointed by the Board of Supervisors. Contra Costa Child Care Council - One seat. To be nominated by the organization, screened by the In Operations Committee and appointed by the Board of Supervisors. Councils of Churches/individual churches - One seat. Nominations will be sought from the various Councils of Churches in the County as ,well as from individual churches and synagogues, screened by the Internal Operations Committee and appointed by the Board of Supervisors. Contra Costa Housing Authority - One seat. To be nominated by the Executive Director, Contra Costa County Housing Authority, screened by the Internal Operations Committee and appointed by the Board of Supervisors. Community-Based Organizations - Three seats. These seats are to include service clubs, AAUW, League of Women Voters. and community-based organizations like UCSSO, etc. Nominations will be solicited from individual organizations. Applications and nominations will also be solicited from individuals and. organizations. All applications will be screened by the Internal Operations Committee and appointments will be made by the Board of Supervisors. Parent Teacher Associations/Parent Clubs One seat. Nominations will be solicited from individual organizations. Applications and nominations will also be solicited from individuals and organizations. All applications will be screened by the Internal Operations Committee and appointments will be made by the Board of Supervisors. Delta 2000— One seat. To be nominated by the organization, screened by the Internal Operations Committee and appointed by the Board of Supervisors. Opportunity West - One seat. To be nominated by the organization, screened by the Internal Operations Committee and appointed by the Board of Supervisors. The Board of Supervisors - Two seats. Appoint Supervisors Schroder and McPeak, as members of the 1991 Internal Operations Committee and reaffirm the Board' s authorization for the Internal Operations Committee to meet with the Child Care Task Force, oversee the work of the Task Force and report back to the Board of Supervisors on the status of the work of the Task Force periodically as events warrant such reports. Representatives of the Superintendent of Schools, the Board of Education and the school districts within the County, as negotiated by the County Administrator. -4- BACKGROUND: Federal child care legislation was passed as part of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (P.L. 101-508) in the closing days of the last Congress. 5. 5, the Act for Better Child Care Services of 1989 (the "ABC" bill) , was introduced by Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut .on January 25, 1989. After negotiations with the states and Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, a revised ABC bill with model child care standards was brought to the Senate floor. On the floor, .Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas added a tax credit package including an expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit (FITC) and a child health insurance credit. This bill passed the Senate on June 23, 1989. In the House of Representatives, H.R. 3, the Early Childhood Education and Development Act of 1990, was introduced on January 3 , 1989, by Representative Augustus Hawkins of California. While similar to the original S. 5, H.R. 3 contained two additional titles, one to expand Head Start and another to provide school-based child care. Representative Thomas Downey of New York introduced his own version of H.R. 3, consisting of a significant expansion of the EITC and adjustment for family size, and a programmatic initiative that earmarked Title XX of the Social Security Act, the Social Services Block Grant. Finally, on March 29, 1990, a new version of H.R. 3 passed the House floor. The version dropped Representative Hawkins' new program of state grants for Downey' s proposal to earmark and increase Title XX for state child care programs. For eight months, child care was debated in conference between the 'House and Senate. At the last minute a compromise child care package was agreed to by all parties and was included as part of H.R. 5835, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 . On October 27, 1990, both houses of Congress passed H.R. 5835 creating a three year, $2. 5 billion authorization for grants to states to help pay for child care expenses for low income families and provide for enhanced quality of child care services. It also contained a $1. 5 billion entitlement program within Title IV of the Social Security Act, the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) program created by the Family Support Act of 1989 (P.L. 100-485) . This new child care entitlement created for working poor families was .added to the transitional child care program f.or Aid to Families with Dependent Children recipients who participate in the JOBS program. The H.R. 5835 package also included an expanded EITC for working families that included a newborn supplement and a child health insurance supplement costing $18. 3 billion over five years. On November 5, 1990, President Bush signed H.R. 5385 into law (P.L. 101-508) . Head Start was also significantly expanded. The child care package established two new grant programs: (1) a , Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) to help pay for child care expenses for low income families and improve the quality of child care services; and ( 2) a child care entitlement program for working poor . families under Title IV of the Social Security Act JOBS program. The Child Care and Development Block Grant is funded at $750 million in fiscal year 1991, $825. million in 1992, $925 million in 1993 and such sums as may be necessary for 1994 and 1995. Most of the block grant funds are to be used to provide child care to low-income working families, under a sliding fee scale established by the state. . Funds are also to be used for activities to improve the availability and quality of child care. -5- Priority is given for services to children of families with very low family incomes and to children with special needs. A portion of the block grant ( 25a) is reserved for quality, for early childhood development, and before and after school services in specific amounts. There are no federal standards in the agreement. The state must certify in its state plan that minimum health and safety requirements are in effect under state or local law, including: prevention and control of infectious diseases ( including immunization) , building and physical premises safety, and minimum health and safety training. The grant requires no state match. However, the grant funds must be used only to supplement, not supplant, current state funding for child care. Families eligible for funding under the block grant are those with incomes not exceeding 750 of the state median income, with parent( s) working or attending a job training or educational program, and with children under 13 years of age. Families providing foster care are eligible. To receive funds, each state must-do the following: 1. Develop a state plan. 2. Provide a certificate (voucher) program by October 1992. 3 . Establish sliding fees for child care. 4. Set minimum health and safety standards. 5. Perform a one-time review of state licensing and regulatory requirements. The Child Care Services Entitlement was added under Title IV of the Social Security Act. (This title provides for Aid to Families with Dependent Children, JOBS transitional child care, and other child welfare programs. ) The new program is permanently authorized at $300 million a year, effective in fiscal year 1991. Child care is available to any family that the state determines is not on AFDC, needs child care in order to work, and is at risk of becoming dependent on AFDC. The JOBS child care transition regulations are expected to apply to this child care services entitlement. Families must contribute to child care services on a sliding fee scale. States must establish eligibility requirements, develop a sliding fee scale based on the family' s ability to pay, and meet annual reporting requirements. One of the most controversial provisions is the requirement that federal reimbursement to states is at the 75th percentile of the local market rate. The grant funds may not be used to supplant any other federal or state funds used for child care services. The interpretation which has been received is that a state may not spend less than it is currently spending on the provision of child care services. Any state funds spent on child care that are not currently matched to any federal program may count towards the entitlement match requirement. Attached is a letter from CSAC indicating that local planning bodies must be established and plans must be submitted to the State Council by July 29, 1991. Failure to meet this deadline will result in available funds being allocated by the State Department of Education based upon their plans. It is, therefore, urgent that we 'move ahead as quickly as possible to form an appropriate planning body and begin the planning process. California is expected to have $78. 2 million available from the Child Care and Development Block Grant and $36.6 million from the Title IV Child Care Assistance Program. While a match is required for the Title IV Program, it is likely that the State will attempt to use presently committed funds which are not otherwise being used to match federal funds for this purpose. -6- The Social Services Director estimates that the Block Grant may result in as much as $3 million being available to Contra Costa County and an additional $1 . 25 million being available under the Title IV Program. In response to the sense of urgency with which it is clear we must approach this issue, our Committee met with the Executive Director of the Contra Costa Child Care Council, the Social Services Director, Community Services Director and a number of other child care providers and advocates on April 15, 1991. The above recommendations were reached on a consensus basis by those who were present. We have outlined the composition for a Child Care Task Force which we believe represents those elements of the community and those organizations which are most concerned about the provision of adequate child care, have the data available on where the need is the greatest and have the greatest stake in how and where these additional funds are used. To this group will need to be added a number of representatives from the school establishment. We have, therefore, asked the County Administrator to attempt to negotiate the number and type of school representatives with the Superintendent of Schools and Board of Education. We have also asked the County Administrator to contact each of the organizations which are indicated and request their nomination of members. Finally, we have identified several types of seats where we should advertise generally for interested individuals or for individuals to nominate someone they believe would be appropriate. We have tentatively scheduled the first meeting of the Child Care Task Force for 7:00 P.M. on Monday, May 20, 1991 at a site to be identified. We hope to return to the Board of Supervisors on a regular basis with status reports, leading up to our plan to forward a completed plan to the Board of Supervisors for approval no later than July 23 , 1991 in order to meet the deadline of July 29, 1991. -7- SOCIAL SERVICE DEPARTMENT CONTRA COSTA COUNTY TO: Internal Operations CAmmittee April 9, 1991 FROM: James Rydingsword SUBJECT: FEDERAL CHLD CARE FUNDS On April 15, 1991, the Internal Operations Committee (IOC) will consider a planning process for the new Federal child care funds under the Child Care and Development Block Grant and the Title IV-A At-Risk Grant. The County Welfare Directors Association (CWDA) adopted two motions at its March, 1991 meeting regarding the new -child care funds. I encourage the IOC to favorably consider these recommendations of CWDA. Child Care and Development Block Grant CWDA recommends that funds be set aside for the child welfare population, children in foster care, children at risk of foster care placement, respite care for foster parents and to further the goals of family preservation and prevention programs. Title IV-A At-Risk Program CWDA recommends that the priorities for the Title IV-A At-Risk funds be as follows: 1) GAIN families whose transitional child care is ending; 2) GAIN families not eligible to transitional child care; 3) Working teen parents; and 4) Department of Education "income eligible" families with priority given to those with the least income. cc: Youth Services Board Claude Van Marter JAR:af Gen 9c (New 3/86) Colinty Supervisors RECEIVED Association of California APR - 3 1991 Ansa.. r March 26, 1991 TO: County Supervisors, Administrative Officers, Personnel Directors, Child Care Coordinators FROM: Steve Keil, Legislative Representative Subject: Local Child Care and Development Planning and Federal Child Care Block Grant Funds I am writing to you concerning some exciting developments in the child care area and to ask for your help in meeting some guidelines which could make your county eligible for federal funds. First, I will outline what's happening in Sacramento in the legislative arena and then tell you about federal grants which have been earmarked for California. LOCAL CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT PLANNING: In 1990,CSAC sponsored AB 1853, by Assembly Member Jackie Speier,which was approved by the California State Legislature but was vetoed by Governor Deukmejian. In summary, the bill would have created the California Child Care Partnership Council to develop a comprehensive state-local child care system using public and private collaboration at the local level. AB 1853 would have requested each Board of Supervisors to complete one of several specified options to establish a local child care planning body and to prepare a countywide, community-based child care plan for report to the Council. The bill would have encouraged local plans to meet prescribed requirements in developing community-based child care plans. It also declared its intention to provide funding for the provisions of the bill in its future budget act. Assembly Member Jackie Speier recently introduced AB 2141, a bill substantially similar to AB 1853. The new bill contains technical changes from the language in AB 1853 and two substantive changes. First,there will be a requirement for County Boards of Supervisors and County Boards of Education to cooperate in theappointment of the local child care planning body. Second, county planning councils will be given the opportunity to establish priorities for the distribution of new federal child care funds within their counties. Attached is the current version of the bill. Amendments are expected by mid April. CSAC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:President:ROLLAND C.STARN,Stanislaus County a First Vice President:ROBERT DORR,EI Dorado County■Second Vice President:LEON WILLIAMS,Sar Diego County u Immediate Past President:WILLIE B.KENNEDY,City&County of San Francisco a MICHAEL D.ANTONOVICH,Los Angeles■KAY CENICERDS,Riverside County■MAGGIE =' ERICKSON.Ventura County■GRANTLAND JOHNSON,Sacramento County a GARY LAMBERT,lake County■GARY LEMKE.Lassen County■BETSY MARCHAND,Yolo County■DOI. PERATA, Alameda County ■ LARRY WALKER, San Bernardino County 1 HARRIETT M. WIEDER, Orange County■ DOUGLASS WILHOIT, San Joaquin County■ADNSORS:CLARri CHANNING.Merced Administrative Officer■JAMES B.LINDHOLM.'JR.,San Luis Obispo County Counsel■LARRY NAAKE,Executive Director■ moo® CWSacramento Office/ 1100 K Street, Suite 101 / Sacramento, CA 95814-34941 / 916-327-7500 / FAX 916-441=5507 VVashincton Office / 440 First Street, N.W. Suite 503 / Washincton, DC 20001 / 202-783-7575 / FAX 202-737-678c, O Federal Child Care Block Grant Funds March 2&, 1991 ` Due to the (quick) requirements to obtain the federal funding by September 1, when funds will be released, much of AB 2141 will be administratively implemented before it is signed into law. (This will be done to permit local child care plans to benefit from funds available through the federal child care legislation which was passed as part of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 in the closing days of the last Congress.) FEDERAL FUNDS: The 1990 federal child care package established two new grant programs: (1) A Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) to help pay for child care expenses for low-income families and to improve the quality of child care services; and (2) a child care entitlement program for working poor families under Title IV of the Social Security Act JOBS Program. Total funds available for California for Fiscal Year 1991-92 are approximately $110,000,000. The majority of these, probably 70-80%, will be available for planning by local child care planning bodies. Funds will be allocated to counties based upon a formula developed in 1980 by the Legislature and the State Department of Education. The formula takes into account population, AFDC population, and the degree to which state and federal funds are currently meeting the needs of low-income children. Draft regulations for the CCDBG have not yet been written. Attached is a summary of major elements of the Federal Child Care grants copied from an analysis prepared by the National Conference of State Legislatures. NOTE: TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE! CSAC recommends that you immediately appoint a liaison to meet with a counterpart from the County Board of Education to bring back an action plan expeditiously to both boards for the appointment of a local planning body. Even though many important administrative matters remain unresolved, planning bodies must be established, and plans must be submitted to the State Council by July 29, 1991. Failure to meet this deadline will result in available funds allocated based upon plans developed by the State Department of Education, which is the lead state agency. We will provide you with additional information as it becomes available. Once sufficient information becomes available, CSAC will sponsor a seminar to provide assistance to local planners in complying with AB 2141, and in planning for Federal Child Care funds. Attachment 101st,Concress: Child Care Page 1, Appendix C: CHILD CARE AT A GLANCE Block Grant Entitlement (under JOBS) Funds 5732 million in budget authority for FY 1991 5300 million/year permanent authorization Effective Date Appropriations available 9/7/91 Immediately available Federal Agency Office of Human Development Services, Family Support Administration.. HHS HHS State Agency Lead agency chosen by governor Agency that administers AFDC Eligible (1) income 75% (or less) of state median State determines as follows: Families income (1) not on AFDC (2) parents work, are in training, or attend (2) need childcare to work educational program (3) at risk of becoming dependent (3) child under 13 years old on AFDC Use of Funds 75°io for child services; 18.75% to increase Child care available to eligible availability of early childhood development families; S50 million for licensing. and before and after school services; 5% registration and training quality; 1.25% either for quality or (preexisting grant in JOBS). availability. State Klatch None At FMAP rate Carry Over Permitted Permitted Maintenance of Funds must not supplant current state Funds must not supplant current Effort spending. state spending. Administration Costs covered within grant (no earmark) Funded at FMAP rate Eligible Center-based, group home, family, or other Non-relative child care providers Providers provider that is licensed, regulated or receiving funds must be licensed. registered under state law, and satisfies regulated or registered by the state applicable state and local requirements; or, or locality in which care is someone who provides child care only to his provided. or her grandchild, niece or nephew. Vouchers State program must be in effect by Oct. 1992. Can be used. Standards State must certify that state or local law All applicable standards of state establishes minimum health and safety and local law. Standards set under requirements. Providers must comply with the block grant will apply. Non- applicable licensing and regulatory relative providers must be licensed. requirements. Providers not required to be regulated or registered. licensed or regulated (sectarian providers) must be registered. Note: Regulations to be issued in 1991.