April 16, 1998

To:Budget Committee

 From:City Clerk

 Subject:1998 Operating Budget - Community and Neighbourhood Services - Children=s Services/Children=s Action Committee

  Recommendation:

 The Children=s Action Committee on April 6, 1998, recommended to Council for its meeting to be held on April 16, 1998 that funding be provided to fill the 2,000 licensed daycare spaces currently vacant; and, further, that Council be advised that the Children=s Action Committee reiterated point no. (1) of its previous recommendation to the Community and Neighbourhood Services Committee, viz:

 AThat the following principles be considered during the 1998 budget process:

 (1)that there be expansion of child care subsidies to ensure that the 2,000 vacancies in the licensed child care system are filled;...@

 (This communication has also been forwarded to the Community and Neighbourhood Services Committee).

 City Clerk

  cc:Shirley Hoy, Commissioner of Community and Neighbourhood Services

Marna Ramsden, Interim Functional Lead for Children=s Services