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FAMILY AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE

Meeting Date:	04/23/2018
Subject: Appointments to the Local Planning and Advisory Council for Early Care and Education (LPC)
Submitted For:	FAMILY & HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE
Department:	County Administrator
Referral No.:	25
Referral Name:	Child Care Planning/Development Council Membership
Presenter:	N/A	Contact:	Enid Mendoza, (925) 335-1039

Information

Referral History:

The review of applications for appointments to the Contra Costa Local Planning Council for Child Care and Development was originally referred to the Family and Human Services Committee by the Board of Supervisors on April 22, 1997.

The Local Planning and Advisory Council for Early Care and Education (LPC) coordinates programs and services affecting early child care and education, including recommendations for the allocation of federal funds to local early child care and education programs.

The LPC consists of 20 members: 4 consumer representatives - a parent or person who receives or has received child care services in the past 36 months; 4 child care providers - a person who provides child care services or represents persons who provide child care services; 4 public agency representatives - a person who represents a city, county, city and county, or local education agency; 4 community representatives - a person who represents an agency or business
that provides private funding for child care services or who advocates for child care services through participation in civic or community based organizations; and 4 discretionary appointees - a person appointed from any of the above four categories or outside of those categories at the discretion of the appointing agencies.

Terms of appointment are 3 years.

Referral Update:

There are currently 17 seats filled and there are 3 vacancies on the LPC. These vacancies are in the following seats: Child Care Provider 3 - Central/South, Consumer 3 - Central/South, and Consumer 4 – East. Renewal applicants Stacie Cooper-Roundtree, Cynthia Molander, Cathy Roof, Carolyn Johson, Edirle Menezes, and Dough Rowe, submitted their applications for consideration and their reappointments were approved by the LPC. Please see the attached memo and correspondence for additional information. The current membership is as follows:

Seat Title	Term Expiration Date	Current Incumbent	Incumbent Supervisor District	No. of Meetings Attended Since Appointment Date	Total No. of Meetings Held Since Appointment	Total No. of Absences Allowable in Bylaws
Child Care Provider 1 - West County	4/30/2019	Silvana Mosca-Carreon				2
Child Care Provider 2 - Central/South Co.	4/30/2019	Brenda Brown				2
Child Care Provider 3 - Central/South	4/30/2019	Vacancy				2
Child Care Provider 4 - East County	4/30/2018	Stacie Cooper-Roundtree	III	3	3	2
Community 1 - West County	4/30/2019	Eric Peterson				2
Community 2 - Central/South County	4/30/2019	Deborah Penry				2
Community 2 - Central/South County	4/30/2019	Vacancy				2
Community 3 - Central/North County	4/30/2018	Cynthia Molander	IV	1	2	2
Community 4 - East County	4/30/2019	Phelicia Lang				2
Consumer 1 - West County	4/30/2019	Crystal McClendon-Gourdine				2
Consumer 2 - Central/South County	4/30/2019	Denise Clarke				2
Consumer 3 - Central/South County	4/30/2020	Vacancy				2
Consumer 4 - East County	4/30/2018	Vacancy				2
Discretionary Appointee 1 - East County	4/30/2018	Eran Perera				2
Discretionary Appointee 2 - Central/South	4/30/2018	Dan Safran				2
Discretionary Appointee 3 - Central/South	4/30/2018	Cathy Roof	V	12	12	2
Discretionary Appointee 4 - West County	4/30/2019	Aurora Ruth				2
Public Agency 1 - West County	4/30/2018	Carolyn Johnson	IV	12	12	2
Public Agency 2 - Central/South County	4/30/2017	Edirle Menezes	II	5	5	2
Public Agency 3 - Central/South County	4/30/2019	Joan Means				2
Public Agency 4 - East County	4/30/2018	Doug Rowe	V	9	11	2

*Not all data was available at the time of reporting this table. Office of Education working on gathering additional table data

Recommendation(s)/Next Step(s):

RECOMMEND to the Board of Supervisors the re-appointments of Stacie Cooper-Roundtree to Child Care Provider 4 – East County, Carolyn Johnson to Public Agency 1 – West County, Edirle Menezes to Public Agency 2 – Central South County, Doug Rowe to Public Agency 4 – East County, Cindy Molander to Community – Central/South County, and Cathy Roof to Discretionary 3 – Central/South County seats on the Local Planning and Advisory Council for Early Care and Education, as recommended by the County Office of Education.

Fiscal Impact (if any):

There is no fiscal impact.

Attachments
LPC Reappointments Memo and Candidate Applications