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Market Rate Increase <br />A rate increase was approved <br />for providers which may also <br />impact how many children can <br />be served with the subsidy <br />funds. <br />All market rates will increase <br />effective January 2015. The <br />cost of the increase for this <br />fiscal year is estimated at <br />$150,000- 200,000. <br />See attached market rate <br />increase chart. <br />Implement state policy <br />Decrease in Subsidy for <br />Currently DSS is <br />The BOCC provided DSS with $500,000 in the current <br />Orange County <br />overspending the state <br />budget for children on the wait list. Given the cut, DSS <br />For several years, the state has <br />allocation although an <br />recommends using county funds to continue services to <br />not rebased subsidy allocations <br />additional allocation for this <br />eligible families currently being served if state funds are <br />using the available census data. <br />year of $290,000 is now <br />not sufficient to cover this care. <br />This year begins a six -year <br />expected. State funds may be <br />cycle to implement this <br />exhausted before the end of <br />rebasing and Orange County's <br />the fiscal year even with the <br />allocation has decreased by <br />wait list for working families. <br />approximately $700,000. The <br />second phase of the <br />implementation will occur in <br />July 2016. <br />Wait List <br />Working families will wait <br />Only target populations (child <br />Although the BOCC provided funds for the wait list, <br />There are currently 276 children <br />longer for child care. The <br />protective services and foster <br />DSS recommends delaying serving any of those families <br />on the wait list and they are <br />current wait list began in <br />care, Work First training, <br />until the costs of providing longer notices to ineligible <br />being assessed to see how they <br />May 2014. <br />adolescent parents in high <br />families and of providing subsidy for child welfare <br />are impacted by the new <br />school, and homeless children) <br />relative cases is known. If after these changes, budget <br />policies. <br />are currently being served <br />projections for the year allow for more children to be <br />without being placed on the <br />served, working families on the wait list will be served in <br />wait list. All other families <br />the order they were placed on the list. Spending will need <br />are being placed on the wait <br />to be monitored since the next fiscal year will begin in <br />list if they meet the new <br />June 2015 and it is less likely that Orange County will <br />criteria. <br />receive a supplemental allocation next year. <br />