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1 �9 -9- IV. The Housing of Day Care in Orange County Certified day care is housed in many different sites in our county. Six churches, three university buildings, two county build- ings, one Town of Chapel Hill building, and one privately owned building all house certified programs. No rent is paid at any center, although some centers do pay portions of the utility costs. Estimated savings in rent and utilities because of comitiuni,ty, government, university, and individual contributions of space ex- ceeds $45,000 a year. This savings is evidenced in lower overall. I costs for day care. If this $45,000 were to be added to the present budgets of the certified centers, all centers would be receiving the maximum reimbursement rates of $1G0/month, for children over threo j • and $215/month for children under three. As stated earlier the average cost of care is much lower than the state maximum in Orange j County. Increases in the budgets such as' this would drastically i reduce the number of children the county could purchase. day care for. The lower the casts for the service, the more children that can be served. Community-based centers housed in government [ buildings in orange County have the lowest costs of care in the lo- 1? County. In a time of increasing need and rising inflation all contri- butions of space must be considered critical. The present require- ments of standards for day care space have almost eliminated the !i possibility of start-up for new programs without significant ftYt�ci.n°�y for a building or renovations. The loss of any presently accuPiOd day care space means that much of a reduction in service 4o residents of Orange County. This is particularly critical for all three c--en- ,} ters housed in government buildings, where moxe than two-thirds of th- ;1 families served are low income. ti r tj 4' ;i t Y i t , 1 i