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1 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action Agenda Item No. VE-4 ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: June 29, 1993 SUBJECT: Child Care Partnership Program DEPARTMENT: Manager' s Office PUBLIC HEARING YES: NO: X ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: 1 . Smart Start Initiative Manager' s Office 2 . Senate Bill 27 Extension 2300 3 . Child Care Task Force Responses to TELEPHONE NUMBER- Commissioners Questions Hillsborough -732-8181 4 . Mission of County Child Chapel Hill -968-4501 Care Partnership Mebane -227-2031 Durham -688-7331 PURPOSE: To receive a report from the Orange County Child Care Resources Task Force and consider the Task Forces ' requests. BACKGROUND: At the June 7th Commissioners meeting John Walker, Anita Daniels, and Sue Russell presented a request for Commissioners ' support in developing a Smart Start program in Orange County. This program would improve standards and incentives for early childhood program across North Carolina. As Attachment I (P3) indicates, twelve initial public-private partnerships would be funded with one county from each congressional district begin chosen by a state-wide panel. Based on present information, each of the twelve counties selected will received approximately 1 million dollars to improve and expand child care service. A non-profit public-private partnership embodied in a new private, non-profit 501 (c) (3) would be the entity to establish a plan and become the conduit for channeling the funding to appropriate child care service providers. (See Attachment II Proposed Legislation) . At the June 7th meeting the, Commissioners requested additional information and requested responses to specific questions which are included in Attachment III. In addition, the Task Force has developed a Mission Statement and a list of Principles to guide the program planning as provided in Attachment IV.