Agenda Item
12. 22-423 Report regarding a resolution to adopt The 2022 Child Care Master Plan for South San Francisco: A Plan for 2020-2030. (Greg Mediati, Director of Parks and Recreation) Legislation Text City Council - SSF Child Care Master Plan Approval - June 8, 2022 Presentation_SRad SSFChildcare-plan-v10-web 2 Public Comments
Guest User at June 08, 2022 at 2:20pm PDT
Support
Honorable Mayor Nagales and Council,
The Child Care Master Plan before you is based on a very comprehensive, well-researched and -written study of all the complex factors, challenges, and resources to be considered. The many recommendations for actions provide excellent direction for all stakeholders. I encourage you to adopt the Plan and to work with School District leaders to engage other sectors and community members to begin to implement priority recommendations.
The City has been a leader on child care policy and services in the County for decades and the District operates long-standing model programs as well. However, the additional stressors on the child care/early education system (e.g. workforce shortages, covid impacts, TK rollout) and new opportunities (e.g. federal funding, state workforce and facilities grants) call for enhanced communication, common commitment, and engagement with the child care provider community. Having an outside facilitator for advisory committee meetings would be helpful, as would a jointly-funded, even part-time, coordinator to support the ongoing work and to represent the interests of the whole provider and parent community. As Redwood City’s child care coordinator for over 25 years, I was able to support the development and improvement of our local system of center- and home-based programs by facilitating the use and/or capture of available local, state and federal resources, affecting supportive policy changes in our city, and working directly with our community’s programs, churches, schools, etc. I’m proud to note that we have the largest percentage (of SMC cities) of centers that provide much-needed infant/toddler care, as well as preschoolage. Also, we have four new center facilities in the pipeline offered by private developers of mixed-use projects (despite no requirement or impact fee).
Again, I encourage you to adopt the Plan and continue to address the needs of your community’s families.
Sincerely,
Kristen Anderson
Child Care Planning and Policy Consultant
Redwood City
Guest User at June 08, 2022 at 10:58am PDT
Support
On behalf of the San Mateo County Child Care Partnership Council (CCPC), the publicly appointed, statemandated local child care planning entity for San Mateo County, I am writing to voice support for the adoption of the 2022 Child Care Master Plan for South San Francisco: A Plan for 2020-2030. The CCPC applauds the City’s long-term leadership on planning for child care in your community. This new Child Care Master Plan will address critical gaps in child care services for working families in the City of South San Francisco, and hopefully inspire other cities in San Mateo County to develop similar plans.
Thank you for addressing this critical issue for our community.
Sincerely,
Sarah Kinahan
Coordinator, San Mateo County Child Care Partnership Council