11. PURCHASE OF SERVICE
CONTRACT DAILY PER DIEM RATES FOR CHILD CARE AGENCIES PROVIDING SUBSIDIZED
LICENSED DAY CARE INDEMNITÉS
JOURNALIÈRES CONSENTIES AUX TERMES DES CONTRATS D’ACHAT DE SERVICES PASSÉS
AVEC LES GARDERIES POUR LA PRESTATION DE SERVICES DE GARDE ACCRÉDITÉS ET
SUBVENTIONNÉS |
That
Council approve $900K from capital WIP (works in progress) closures for a 2%
increase in purchase of service contract daily per diem rates for child care
agencies providing subsidized licensed day care.
Recommandation du Comité
Que le Conseil d’approuver l’affectation de
900 000 $, sur la somme pouvant être dégagée par suite de la
conclusion de travaux d’immobilisation, à une augmentation de
2 p. 100 des indemnités quotidiennes consenties aux termes des
contrats d’achat de services passés avec les garderies pour la prestation de
services de garde accrédités et subventionnés.
DOCUMENTATION
1.
Coordinator, Community and Protective Services
Committee report dated 2 March
2007 (ACS2007-CCS-CPS-0004).
2.
Extract
of Draft Minutes, 1 March 2007
Report to / Rapport au:
Community and Protective Services Committee
Comité des services communautaires et de
protection
2 March 2007 / le 2 mars 2007
Submitted by / Soumis par: City Council / Conseil
municipal
|
City Wide / À l'échelle de la Ville |
Ref N°: ACS2007-CCS-CPS-0004 |
SUBJECT: Purchase
of service contract daily per diem rates for child care agencies proving
subsidized licensed day care
OBJET: INDEMNITÉS
JOURNALIÈRES CONSENTIES AUX TERMES DES CONTRATS D’ACHAT DE SERVICES PASSÉS AVEC
LES GARDERIES POUR LA PRESTATION DE SERVICES DE GARDE ACCRÉDITÉS ET
SUBVENTIONNÉS
REPORT RECOMMENDATION
That the
Community and Protective Services Committee recommend that Council approve
$900K from capital WIP (works in progress) closures for a 2% increase in
purchase of service contract daily per diem rates for child care agencies
providing subsidized licensed day care.
Que le Comité des services communautaires et de protection recommande au
Conseil d’approuver l’affectation de 900 000 $, sur la somme pouvant
être dégagée par suite de la conclusion de travaux d’immobilisation, à une
augmentation de 2 p. 100 des indemnités quotidiennes consenties aux
termes des contrats d’achat de services passés avec les garderies pour la
prestation de services de garde accrédités et subventionnés.
The Community and Protective Services Committee met on 1 March 2007 and
approved the following motion:
WHEREAS Council included a 2% inflationary increase for community agencies
in the approved 2007 budget;
AND WHEREAS as a result of an oversight during
the deliberations, 2% adjustment to purchase of services agreements for child
care agencies was not included in the final budget;
AND
WHEREAS this increase is essential to maintain the level of care that children
receive in the community;
THEREFORE be it resolved that
Council approve $900K from capital WIP (works in progress) closures for a 2%
increase in purchase of service contract daily per diem rates for child care
agencies providing subsidized licensed day care.
Parks and Recreation staff in the Community and Protective Services department provide the following comments:
Child Care agencies, like all service providers, require inflationary increases to manage operational costs this year. The Province has made no allowance for, nor has there been any indication that they will cost share (80%) inflationary increases for child care services for 2007.
The 2% ($900K) increase in child care per diem rates will be a base budget pressure in 2008 and requires 100% municipal funding. The City has used 100% municipal funding in the past and this will shift the balance of cost sharing of provincial service to the City. The cost sharing gap for childcare entering the 2007 budget was 1.725 million this will increase to 3.375 million by including $750K for new Francophone daycare and the 2% adjustment. The total cost sharing gap for all cost shared services was identified as 13 Million during the 2007 budget deliberations and this will increase to 14.65 million.
Federal and Provincial budgets have not been finalized and is impossible to predict if any additional funding for child care will be allocated to Ottawa how the City would be directed to use such funds.
Revenue for child care agencies is generated from either full fee or
subsidized spaces. Child Care agencies
will be required to increase their full fee rates by 2% to achieve the full
revenue required to cover their increased operational costs.
FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS
Staff will be reviewing all capital projects and submitting a "Capital Adjustments and Closing of Projects" report to Council this spring which will include recommendations on the closure of capital project accounts in accordance with City policy. Where applicable, any unspent capital funding will be returned to the appropriate capital reserve fund.
In approving the 2007 operating budget, Council has authorized the use
of $1.6 million from capital project closures to fund 2007 one-time operating
expenditures. Committee and Council
approval of the increase in childcare per diem rates, which is to be funded
from capital closures, will require an additional $0.9 million. As the source of these funds represents
one-time funding in the 2007 budget, the department will identify this
requirement as a tax pressure in the 2008 budget.
Community and Protective Services department staff to take appropriate
action on Committee and Council direction.
PURCHASE
OF SERVICE CONTRACT DAILY PER DIEM RATES FOR CHILD CARE AGENCIES PROVIDING
SUBSIDIZED LICENSED DAY CARE
INDEMNITÉS JOURNALIÈRES CONSENTIES
AUX TERMES DES CONTRATS D’ACHAT DE SERVICES PASSÉS AVEC LES GARDERIES POUR LA
PRESTATION DE SERVICES DE GARDE ACCRÉDITÉS ET SUBVENTIONNÉS
ACS2007-CCS-CPS-0004
On behalf of Chair Deans, the following motion was put forward:
Moved by P. Feltmate
WHEREAS
Council included a 2% inflationary increase for community agencies in the
approved 2007 budget;
AND
WHEREAS as a result of an oversight during the deliberations, 2% adjustment to
purchase of services agreements for child care agencies was not included in the
final budget;
AND
WHEREAS this increase is essential to maintain the level of care that children
receive in the community;
THEREFORE
be it resolved that Council approve $900K from capital WIP (works in progress)
closures for a 2% increase in purchase of service contract daily per diem rates
for child care agencies providing subsidized licensed day care.
CARRIED
The Deputy City
Manager advised that the motion would have to go to Council for approval, but
would not require reconsideration at that time.