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C.122

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	FAMILY & HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE
Date:	July 12, 2016

Contra

Costa

County

Subject:

Accept Local Child Care and Development funding priorities

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 07/12/2016

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Mary N. Piepho, District III Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

ABSENT:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor

Contact:

Enid Mendoza 5-1039

I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: July 12, 2016
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

ACCEPT the California General Child Care Center Priorities and California State Preschool Priorities for Contra Costa County as recommended by the Local Planning and Advisory Council for Early Care and Education and the Family and Human Services Committee.

FISCAL IMPACT:

Although the LPC priorities will be used by the California Department of Education to determine future child care and development funding decisions for State subsidized services, there is no expected fiscal impact to the County.

BACKGROUND:

In 1998, AB 1857 (Escutia) amended the Education Code, Section 8499.5, to include specific expanded mandates for Local Child Care Planning Councils (LPCs). One of these was an expansion of the existing LPC mandate to identify local priorities for the distribution of new state child care and development and preschool funding. The Education Code language specifies how LPCs are to conduct their work in order to identify priorities to ensure that all the child care and preschool needs of the county are met to the greatest extent possible. The priorities are to be submitted annually to the California Department of Education and used by the Department to determine funding decisions.

These priorities are first reviewed and approved by the members of the Local Planning Council for each county, which is made up of parent consumers of child care, child care and preschool providers, public agency representatives and community agency representatives, who have been appointed by the County Board of Supervisors and the County Superintendent of Schools. The priorities are next made available for public review and finally reviewed and approved by the County Board of Supervisors.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

The California Department of Education will not have the mandated local priorities used to make funding decisions.

CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:

These local priorities are used for determining the distribution of new state child care and development and preschool funding. The Education Code language specifies how LPCs are to conduct their work in order to identify priorities to ensure that all the child care and preschool needs of the county are met to the greatest extent possible.