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An Administrative Ordinance establishing the policy of the City of
Saint Paul regarding the providing of child care and setting forth goals
for the City.
The Council of the City of Saint Paul Does Ordain:
Section 1
The City of Saint Paul will take steps to insure that children
w i th i n the C i ty are not den i ed good ch i 1 d care because of 1 ow f ami 1 y
income.
a. The City will work with corporations, foundations, non-profit
organizations and other governmental bodies to make child care
in the City of Saint Paul more affordable to low-income
residents.
b. The City will take the lead �role in joining with corporations,
foundations, non-profit organizations and other governmental
bodies to establish a "Child Care Trust Fund" to be
administered by the Child Care Council which shall be a 501
(c) (3) non-profit organizat..ion to provide subsidies for child
care to eligible low-income residents of the City as a means
of last resort when other child care funding is unavailable.
c. The initial funding goal for the Child Care Trust Fund from
all public and private sources is approximately $1 ,000,000.
Interest income or other available funds from the Fund will
be used to serve eligible families residing in the City who
are not currently receiving funding from the sliding fee
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program funded by the State of Minnesota or other governmental
assistance programs, and to serve eligible neighborhood Child
Care Initiatives. Every good faith effort will be made to
allocate up to one half of the income from the fund to support
family Child Care Program initiatives.
In an effort to demonstrate its commitment to the Child Care
Trust Fund and to encourage additional contributions from
other private, non-profit, and governmental sources, the City
may, to the extent permitted by law and within its discretion,
set aside a substantial amount of funds from its federally
funded Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program.
These funds will be used as a pledge to the Child Care Trust
Fund to provide assistance on a reimbursement basis as allowed
in the CDBG Program. In the event that additional
contributions are suceessfully obtained from other private and
governmental prganizations, the City Council may, in its
discretion, make additional contributions to the Trust Fund.
The City will also explore additional innovative funding
sources for the Child Care Trust Fund.
d. The City of Saint Paul shall adopt as part of the City's
Legislative Program as a top priority the lobbying of the
State Legislature for the purpose of increasing the funding
for the sliding fee child care program to meet the needa of
eligible residents of the City of Saint Paul .
e. The City of Saint Paul will support federal legislation that
will allow persons on social security to keep additional
income earned as a family child care provider without reducing
their social security benefits.
Section 2
The City of Saint Paul will play a role in increasing the number
and variety of child care opportunities within the city.
a. The City will establish a program to assist in funding and
promoting Child Care Partnership Initiatives which increase
child care options now in short supply, such as infant, drop
in, sick, and extended day and family Child Care programs
where full funding for the programs is not available from
other sources.
b. This Child Care Partnership initiative program will be
patterned after the Neighborhood Partnership Program under
which neighborhoods will submit proposals for projects
appropriate for the residents, and would be required to
provide some form of matching contributions for the Child Care
Trust funds being requested.
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c. A source of City funding for such Child Care Partnership
initiatives will be a designated portion of the interest
income or other available funds of the Child Care Trust Fund
outlined in section 1 .
d. The City will designate appropriate staff to provide technical
assistanee to neighborhood groups in the areas of writing
grant proposals to foundations, setting up non-profit
organizations, and other necesaary steps for establishing
Child Care Partnership Initiatives.
e. The City will expand its efforts to assist new and existing
child care providers with finding funding for renovations
needed to meet licensing requirements.
( 1 ) The City will use its residential rehabilitation funds
to help child care providers meet licensing requirements.
(2) The City will modify its program guidelines so that those
child care providers who do not meet income criteria but
who serve a sufficient number of low-income children for
a specified number of years also qualify for City
assistance.
(3 ) The City will assiat potential child care providers
seeking small Business Administration (3BA) ( 7) (a) Loan
Guarantees, loans from the Community Issues Conaortium,
St. Paul Enterprise Development Company, and municipal
bonds, where appropriate.
( 4) The City will request the Housing and Redevelopment
Authority (HRA� of the City of Saint Paul to make
available through its Development Fund loan guarantees
and low-interest 20-year deferred loans to eligible child
care providers needing such assistance.
(5 ) The City will take the initiative to work with other
public bodies and community agencies to coordinate
existing funding sources, such as those identified in
section 2, as well as those of other governmental or
private organizations, to make child care start up and
improvement funds more readily available and accessible
to child care providers .
(6j The City will give preference in awarding start up and
improvement funding to ehild care centera which are
accredited or agree to seek accreditation from the
National Academy of Early Childhood Programs which is
administered by the National Association for the
Education of Young children or who clearly meet standards
prerequisite to receiving accreditation from this agency,
and to family day care providers who are accredited or
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agree to seek accreditation from a recognized family day
care accreditation system or who meet standards
prerequisite to receiving such accreditation from such
agencies.
f. The city will provide information and assistance to child care
providera so they can better use City resources to improve the
quality of their programs . In addition, the City will make
City resources for children and families more accessible for
parents who work full time during the week.
( 1 ) The Public Health Division will prioritize its
availability of services to allow the provision of
services to children, such as dental clinics on
Saturdays .
(2) The Public Health Division will provide training
opportunities for child care center staff and family care
providers on topics such as "Preventing the 3pread of
Disease" and "Accident Prevention" .
( 3 ) The Saint Paul Public Libraries will allow family child
care providers to obtain a group card for their children,
just as child care centers are currently allowed to do.
(4) The Saint Paul Public Librariea shall insure that the
City' s collection of child care resource books is
complete and readily available to providers and users of
child care services.
( 5 ) The City's Division of Parks and Recreation will
structure its priorities to provide athletic and non-
athletic activity programming on evenings and weekends
so that full time working parents can participate or
attend programs with their children.
(6) The Division of Parks and Recreation will work in
coordination with the 3chool District's Community
Education Program to provide evening programming for
younger children so that parents can attend community
education programs while having activities available for
children.
(? ) The Division of Parks and Recreation will work with
neighborhood and other interested organizations to make
necessary capital improvements to city-owned facilities
that may be used for child care programs .
{8) The Public Health Division will assist day care progra�s
with providing drug-free education.
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g. The City will help meet the growing demand for downtown child
care and will assist providers interested in establishing
downtown child care by eliminating some major barriers facing
those child care providers.
( 1 ) The City will provide incentives to developers for the
provision of child care space in buildings within the
downtown distriet, such that developers who ineorporate
child care space in new or renovated buildings in the
downtown district will get "bonus square footage" over
that square footage usually allowed within the particular
zoning di�trict.
(2 ) The City will designate loading zones or special parking
meter enforcement areas in front of downtown district
child care facilities as deemed necessary.
( 3 ) The City will consider the establishment of play areas
equipped for child care when planning or giving approval
for use of outdoor space in the downtown district.
(4) The City will maintain the Zoning Code to allow
industrially-zoned child care centers to serve employees
of more than one company in the area.
Section 3
The City will take active steps to raise the visibility of child
care needs and priority for child care in City public policy, community
discussion and government operation.
a. The City will develop clear staff responsibility to coordinate
the City initiatives for improved child care in the City and
will, consistent with Civil Service requirements, establish
within the City's Department of Community Services a position
of child care coordinator who will be devoted fuil time to the
analysis of child care issues and coordination of efforts
supporting child care in the City. The duties of the child
care coordinator may include but not be limited to the
following:
( 1 ) Oversee fund raising efforts and grant writing for the
Child Care Trust Fund to subsidize child care for low
income families;
(2) Work with the Department of Community Services to improve
City resources for child care providers and families with
working parents ;
( 3 ) Raise funds for and oversee the effort to promote
neighborhood child care initiatives;
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(4) Act as a liaison to the School District to aid in its
effort to expand its role in the care of school age
children;
( 5) Act as a liaison to the State and County to identify and
resolve child care issues that involve more than one
governmental level;
{6) Provide appropriate staff to any on going City-related
child care efforts ;
(? ) Plan and coordinate an annual "Kids Day" ;
(8) Plan and coordinate activities to promote the "Year of
the Child" ;
(9 ) Prepare an annual report to the Mayor and the City
Council on the progress the City has made in implementing
the City's child care policy.
b. The City will take the lead role in establishing a Child Care
Council which will review changing child care needs in Saint
Paul , the governmental programs to meet child care needs,
advise in the implementation of the City's and other
governmental entities' child care policies, administer the
Child Care Trust Fund and recommend new policy directions on
child care as necessary. The Child Care Council will consiat
of at least two elected officials of the City, County, State
Legislature and School District who are designated as
representatives to this Council by the respective governmental
units. The Child Care Council will have an equal number of
non-elected citizens appointed through the City's open
appointment process by the Mayor and approved bg the City
Council .
c. The city will establish a "Child Care Hot Line" , if possible
with the number 298-KIDS, which City residents may call to
obtain information about child care availabilitp and resources
within the City. To provide this referral service, the City
will contraet with an independent non-profit child care
referral service which meets the standards and criteria for
a "Resource and Referral Programs" as provided for bq
Minnesota Statutes 1988, sections 245 .83-245.84 . The City's
Child Care Coordinator shall prepare guidelines for the
implementation of the Child Care Hot Line. These guidelines
shall be adopted by the City Council by resolution before they
are implemented.
d. The City will sponsor an annual "Kids Day" with positive
activities for children which will be beginning in October
1989 and will be promoted with the City seeking arrangements
with appropriate organizations to provide for free museum
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admissions, free bus rides and other free programs to children
16 and under.
e. The City's budget process will be amended to require that
every City department include a "family-impact" statement in
their annual budget submisaions which will address how the
budget provides for children's initiatives and its impact on
families with children in the City.
f. The City will declare 1989 as the "Year of the Child" in the
City of Saint Paul to commemorate the City's renewed
commitment to families with children and beginning of
implementation of the City's new Child Care Policy.
Section 4
In accordance with all applicable law the City will implement
personnel policies to become a national model as an employer in meeting
the child care needs of City employees.
a. On Site Child Care: To meet the growing general demand for
downtown child care among private employees and to meet the
child care needs of public employeea the city will take the
lead role in working with the City, County and State offices
located in downtown Saint Paul to conduct a feasibility study
to determine whether an on-site child care center ahould be
established during the course of the City Hall Court House
renovation and construction of the new Annex Building. Such
an on-site child care center would be required to financially
self sustaining based on revenues from fees charged to those
receiving child care servicea provided by the center. The
child care center would be available to City, County and 3tate
employees as well as employees of other employers in the
downtown area.
b. Use of Sick Leave for Child Care: To meet the needs of City
employees with young children, the City will negotiate with
appropriate employee bargaining representatives to revise
personnel policies by January 1 , 1989 so that City employees
can without restriction use accumulated sick leave when a
household member is sick or disabled. This policy should
enable city employees with young children to adequately care
for their children on a day-to-day basis without creating
undue financial hardship or operating as an adverse factor in
the employee's career development with the City.
c. Flexible Working Arrangements: The City will negotiate with
appropriate employee bargaining representatives so a8 to
revise its personnel policies by January 1 , 1989 to increase
the flexibility of working arrangements for employees to
provide child care. These revisions shall include the
addition or expansion of flex-time, job sharing, part-time as
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established and approved employment schedules. the City
Personnel Department shall actively promote these flexible
working arrangements as valid and acceptable work schedule
options for all City employees .
d. Cafeteria Style Benefit Package: The City will revise its
personnel policies by January 1 , 1989 to establish and offer
"cafeteria" style benefit packages during the course of
contract negotiations with collective bargaining units.
e. Guaranteed One-Year Leave of Absence: The City will revise
its personnel policies by January 1 , 1989 and will negotiate
with appropriate empioyee bargaining representatives so as to
offer a guaranteed minimum one-year unpaid leave of absence
for parental care responsibilitiea, and to permit up to a two-
year unpaid leave of absence on a discretionary basis to be
determined by the department.
f. The Child Care Coordinator will serve as a child care contact
person for City employees to provide them with child care
information and information on child care programs and
resources available to City employees.
g. The City will establish by January 1 , 1989 a child care vendor
program for City employees . This program will provide city
employees with discounts on child care costs at participating
child care centers and family child care providers with which
the City has signed agreements. These discounts will be
offered by the participating child care providers at no
additional cost to the City.
h. The City will make available to City employees by January 1 ,
1989 a Salary Redirection Plan or "Voucher Program" as a
voluntary program subject to the regulations of the Federal
Internal Revenue Code and which would allow participating
employees to redirect a portion of their salary (up to a
maximum of $5,000 annually) to child care expenses.
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SA[NT PAUL, MINNESOTA 55102
GEORGE LATIMER ' (612) 298-4323
MAYOR
october a�, i98s R�CEIVEb
OCT 311988
Council President James Scheibel
and Members of the Saint Paul city council CITY CI.ERK
Seventh Floor, City Hall
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55102
Dear Councilmembers:
Next Tuesday, November 1, you will be considering final
adoption of an ordinance regarding the provision of child
care. As you know, I strongly support the concept of a child
care program for the City and I believe that the City should
be considerate of the child care needs of our citizens and our
employees. In August, we put forth the idea. of a child care
program for our City and, in addition, proposed the creation
of a child care coordinator position in the 1989 budget you
have approved.
Even witfi my strong support for the basic direction that you
are heading, I do have some problems with the way the proposed
ordinance handles changes in personnel benefits. Provisions
in the ordinance allowing for the consideration of child care
needs of City employees are employment benefits and are
subject to the collective bargaining process. I believe it is
a mistake to delete these items from the bargaining process
and to grant them unilaterally through a city ordinance. To
do so is not in the best interests of the City or its
citizens.
If there is a cost generated by the implementation of the
ordinance in this area, it is critical that we ascertain that
cost before taking action. I have no knowledge of any study
that has been conducted that indicates the estimated costs of
these benefits and their budgetary impact.
Of course, we all want to provide our employees with a package
of reasonable benefits such as competitive wages, health care
coverage, sick leave compensation, vacation and others,
possibly even including day care. All of these benefits cost
money and are periodically negotiated with the unions involved
in order to assure that we have a reasonable cost-effective
package of benefits for our City employees. If by acting on
the proposed ordinance in its present form we take benefits
off o,f the bargaining table, the questions must be
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answered--what other benefits will be reduced to compensate or
where will the additional fund$ come from to pay for the costs
of the new benefit that was granted?
, Another element that must be considered is the close working
relationship that exists between the City and the Saint Paul
School District. I feel that the School District
administration and the School Board should be partners in this
process and their input considered prior to adopting an
ordinance.
In summary, while I wholeheartedly support the overall thrust
of the child care program and reasonable benefits for our City
employees, I do believe the interests of all would be better
served if we closely re-look at the issues raised above.
Very truly yours,
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cc: Dr. David Bennett
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