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C CT 2 2 1991 -7 BOOKS serving approximately 130 children and most of these children are in contract slots throughout the community, either in private or non-profit centers. As of yesterday, there is a waiting list for these services of 33 three-year olds and 34 four-year olds. There are spaces in private child care centers if funding was available. The point she wished to make is that with all the efforts going on in our community between private child care centers, the various agencies, Headstart, Title XX, and the School District, there are still a large number of children needing these services. --Ms. McNulty felt it is an exciting concept for an employer to be willing to put in the effort and the funding to provide a facility on his grounds, and she hoped the Board would give strong consideration to everyone working together to make these kinds of things possible for the students of our community. Lenore Quimby, owner of "For Kids Only" Child Care Center, wished to clarify a couple of points. She read aloud the following statement: Graves Migrant Daycare 10/22/91 i j If you the County Commissioners feel drainage, road paving,impact i fees and parking requirements presently required for Childcare j Centers are too stringent - then I encourage you to not only j waive these items for the proposed Graves Migrant ChildCare Center but ask that you delete them for all ChildCare Centers. If you waive these items today, we may in the future allow Centers to operate that do not offer safe and professional places for children. As you consider these waivers today, 1 would remind the Commission that the doors would be open for waivers for other Centers in the future. To waive these requirements because the clientele to be served is migrant would be to say we have one set of standards for migrants and another set for everyone else. 1 believe all j children and their families deserve 'a professional place for their children and these exterior requirements are a part of that standard. To waive these requirements because the organization which will operate the proposed Graves ChildCare Center is a nonprofit would be saying that the County has 1 set of standards for nonprofits and another set for profits. A nonprofit childcare and a profit childcare are paid exactly the same fee for a migrant child. The corporation status or a profit or non-profit makes no difference to the state and/or federal agency when they purchase childcare for migrant or other economically disadvantaged child. In fact, the non-profit is at an advantage over the profit - because although they receive. the same amount of reimbursement per child - the non-profit pays no property tax, no sales tax. Thank you for your careful consideration of the matter before you as it will certainly affect the standard for childcare facilities in the future. 44