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r 1 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: February 4, 1991 SUBJECT: Child Day Care Subsidy DEPARTMENT: Social Services ATTACHMENT(S): Populations Served, Profile DSS, Profile DCSA (Day Care Services Association), Center vacancies, Diminishing Subsidy Impact, and Available Subsidy. 04 Action Agenda Item No. Y- ----------------------------------- PUBLIC HEARING YES: NO: X INFORMATION CONTACT: Marti Pryor -Cook, 2802 043 P 14 * ; CC Z 1 -10 ZlIJx1_13 N I'= Hillsborough - 732 -8181 Chapel Hill - 968 -4501 Mebane - 227 -2031 Durham - 688 -7331 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PURPOSE: To inform the commissioners about the current child care subsidy crisis in orange County, and to request an emergency allocation for child care subsidy through the end of the Fiscal Year. BACKGROUND: There is a child care subsidy crisis in Orange County. .Orange County has received a reduced allocation of state and federal dollars for child care subsidy for low income families this Fiscal Year; .Costs for child day care have continued to rise, making child care less affordable for low income families and the cost of purchasing care higher for those families; .Only about 125 children per month currently receive child care subsidy through the Department of Social Services; more than 550 children are waiting for assistance; .Children of low income, working families, who are not public assistance recipients, have not been able to access child care subsidy dollars since May, 1989. .Six non - profit community day care centers which have historically served subsidized children are in serious financial crisis and are in jeopardy of closing because of a lack of children who can afford to pay the cost of care.