Children's Services - 2019 Provincial and Federal Budgets

extending the deadline of August 30, 2019 to at least October 31, 2019 for service system managers and school boards to jointly confirm priority school-based child care capital projects on a preliminary basis subject to a municipal council's annual budget approval process. 2. City Council reiterate to the Province that the goals of the Child Care Growth Strategy require operating funding for sustainable child care growth. 3. City Council request the Province to provide operating funding to support the 51 child care capital projects that are at risk of not proceeding and for all future provincially-funded child care projects. 4. If the Province refuses to extend the submission deadline, City Council request the City Manager to inform the Ministry of Education that the City remains interested in continuing discussions to receive capital funding. 5. City Council request the Mayor and the Deputy City Manager, Community and Social Services to meet with the Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development to discuss the possibility of additional Federal funding to support the operating costs associated with the 51 planned child care centres which no longer have provincial operating funding. 6. City Council direct the City Manager to ask the Federal Government, as it negotiates the renewed Early Learning Childcare Agreement with the Province, to prioritize that the funds be used to fund additional fee subsidies, the expansion of licensed childcare spaces and to improve affordability for all families. 7. City Council request the General Manager, Children's Services to work with the Toronto District School Board to identify locations for new facilities which have demonstrated demand and potential for financial viability with limited operating funding and report to the October 16, 2019 meeting of the Economic and Community Development Committee.