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Child Care Financial Plan <br />Base State and Federal allocation (CCDF) (with reallocations) $3,803,000 <br />Smart Start Contract for Subsidy 816,000 <br />County Funds available 30,000 employee "pay forward" in subsidy line <br />500,000 on county child care line item <br />65,000 added to county child care during work session <br />595,000 <br />Total available funds for 2014 -2015 <br />Funds needed to pay maintain current spending level $3,052,672* <br />Available CCDF $2,267,001 <br />Market Rate Increase Effective January 175,000 <br />Projected Gap in Funds 976,342 <br />Projected Gap after using available county funds 381,342 <br />Possible additional revenue for child care <br />Smart Start reallocation $135,000 <br />State reallocation $100,000 <br />* This projection is based on annualizing spending based on October spending for October through June <br />2015.October. It includes only the cost associated with serving the current children. Historically, if no <br />children are being added from the waiting list, the spending level decreases due to attrition during the <br />year. Therefore, based on the probability of receiving some reallocation and the historical spending <br />trends, sufficient funds should be available to address the currently served children <br />Additional Costs in Proposal <br />Income Eligibility Changes $100,000 <br />Relative Care 66,000 <br />Serve Current Wait List 400,000 <br />Tota 1 $566,000** <br />Social Justice Request 350,000 <br />Anticipated Gap $216,000 <br />DSS proposes filling the gaps by using any additional unbudgeted revenues and unexpended salary <br />or other line items within the agency budget. <br />** In the above cost projections. DSS has tried to project high on the possible fiscal impact. This means <br />that all of these funds would probably not be needed to implement the plan for this year. <br />