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Z1 Sam Lasris: This says "stacked up to 3 cars". That seems like a lazge area, How much on the lookout aze you for' licensed facilities? What if'they don't comply with this? Glenn Bowles: We're not out looking for violations; when we're out doing something else and notice something strange with a licensed facility, the Zoning Officer may check it out, More often, the Department receives a complaint from a neighbor which we check into. Robert Davis: We have been asked to notify Social Services if we see anything with licensed facilities. They are very concerned with this, Glemr Bowles: Unlicensed facilities are difficult to find, and we only deal specifically with licensed facilities, With an unlicensed facility, you would have to know that something is wrong. Brian Dobyns: I have a child who is in day care now, and have some questions, On p. 3, "receive care on a regular basis of at least once per week for more than four hours." What if the facility offers part-time Gaze; do these regulations apply? Glenn Bowles: That's a good question. I'm not certain, Brian Dobyns: Regarding the self latching and self closing gates, what if the gate is locked during business hours, and there is no means of egress from the play area. Does that need to be self-closirrg and self-latching? Glenn Bowles: If it is not used and locked, that would be covered, We're trying to address those gates that are regularly used. We don't want a child to be able to easily get out of the play area. Brian Dobyns: We talked about 75 squaze feet per child that the child day care should have, and some childcazes have three shifts of children of different ages. If you add those children up, there's no way they can meet the square footage regulation, They never occupy the same play area at the same time. Is there a provision where children use the play area in shifts aze counted differently? Craig Benedict: If they use shifts, and no shifts are in the same play area at the same time, it is only considered per shift that is on the playground at one time. Ted Triebel: On page 01.3, it says that the Commissioners said that they wanted the directors of these three organizations to sign off on this to make sure that the changes are correct and straightforwazd, We have only heard from one of the three, I'm wondering that if Jahn Link said that was what we were going to do, why are we making a recommendation without these responses? It seems that it is incomplete from what the County Manager directed, Glenn Bowles: The draft minutes came verbatim from their meeting, In the eazly part of January, one of the Assistant Managers called a meeting with Ms. Coston and Ms. Truitt of Social Services, and these other ladies were not involved, This meeting was at the Manager's