February 1, 2017

12:00 – 12:45 p.m. Los Angeles County Community Development Commission

700 W. Main St., Conference Room Babe Ruth A&B Alhambra, CA 91801

PROPOSED AGENDA

1. noon

Welcome and Introductions ▪ Opening Statement and Comments by the Chair

Sarah Soriano, Chair

2. 12:10

Approval of Minutes Action Item ▪ January 4, 2017

Debra Colman, Vice Chair

3. 12:15

Public Policy Report Governor’s Proposed Budget for Fiscal Year 2017-18 State Legislation Proposed to Date

Michele Sartell, Staff

4. 12:30

Event Updates - Status of Efforts ▪ Speaker/Panelist Invitations ▪ Communications Strategy ▪ Other

Julie Taren, Chair of Event Planning Committee

6. 12:40

Announcements and Public Comment

Debra Colman

7. 12:45

Call to Adjourn

Sarah Soriano

Next Meeting Wednesday, March 1, 2017 ▪ 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE) Head Start-State Preschool Conference Center 10100 Pioneer Boulevard, Conference, Room 105 Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670

MISSION STATEMENT The mission of the Child Care Planning Committee is to engage parents, child care providers, allied

organizations, community, and public agencies in collaborative planning efforts to improve the overall child care infrastructure of Los Angeles County, including the quality and continuity, affordability, and

accessibility of child care and development services for all families.

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Meeting Minutes – January 4, 2017 Members in Attendance: (31) Demitra Adams, Tonya Burns, Edilma Cavazos, Bernadette Chase, Debra Colman, Sally Durbin, Lindsey Evans, Teresa Figueras, La Tanga Gail Hardy, Tara Henriquez, Monica Barahona for Andrea Joseph, Ritu Mahajan, Cyndi McAuley, Micha Mims, Melissa Noriega, Kelly O’Connell, Omar Ezzeldine for Daniel Orosco, Dianne Philibosian, Ricardo Rivera, Joyce Robinson, Reiko Sakuma, Ancelma Sanchez, Mariana Sanchez, Roselle Schafer, Kathy Schreiner, Janet Scully, Sarah Soriano, Fiona Stewart, Andrea Sulsona, Julie Taren, Christine Manley for Truyen Tran, Jenny Trickey, and Carolyn Wong

Guests and Alternates: Alejandra Albarran Moses, Rocio Bach, Kevin Dieterle, Elsa Jacobsen, Hazel Larimer, Whitney Leathers, Arah Anais Mejia, Mabel Munoz, Quint Page, Eli Pessar Kate Riedell, JoAnn Shalhoub-Mejia, Roders Shakhvaladyn, and Roberto Viramontes Staff: Michele Sartell

I. Welcome and Introductions Chair Sarah Soriano called the meeting to order at 12:06 p.m., read the opening statement and asked members, alternates and guests to make self-introductions. Next, she invited guest Quint Page of LA Child Guidance Clinic to read the Child Care Planning Committee (Planning Committee) mission statement. Sarah briefly reviewed the agenda and then introduced Harvey Kawasaki to provide the update on the Office of Child Care located within the Service Integration Branch of the Chief Executive Office. II. Office of Child Care Status Update Harvey announced the name change from the Office of Child Care to the Office for the Advancement of Early Care and Education. He then spoke to other changes underway that will transition the office from providing direct services to focusing strategically on data collection and analysis, policy and advocacy. While the office will no longer be implementing activities related to the Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS), it will continue to participate in shaping its overall direction in Los Angeles County as partners with Quality Start LA and the QRIS Architects. He added that the Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE) assumed the work that was handled by the Office of Child Care. In addition to giving up QRIS activities, the office will be seeking a sub-contractor to administer the Investing in Early Educators – Stipend Program, hopefully beginning with fiscal year 2017-18. The Board of Supervisors holds the contract with the California Department of Education and the program – a project of the Planning Committee – is currently administered by the Office of Child Care. The role of the Office for the Advancement of Early Care and Education would be contract monitoring and the Planning Committee would continue to serve as an advisory to its scope of work and implementation. Harvey invited meeting participants to offer their ideas for enhancing the program during this period of transition. He added that anyone representing an entity potentially interested in applying to serve as a sub-contractor should recuse themselves from the conversation.

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A Planning Committee member offered a systems level idea given the work of the QRIS Architects, suggesting exploring opportunities for aligning the efforts of the Investing in Early Educators – Stipend program with QRIS. Harvey welcomed the idea and suggested a further discussion. He then noted his timeline for preparing a statement of work in February in preparation for putting it out for solicitation. Members offering to serve as resources included Tara Henriquez and Dianne Philibosian. III. Approval of Minutes – December 7, 2016

Vice Chair Debra Colman reviewed the minutes from the last meeting and then asked for a motion to approve. Tonya Burns made the motion to approve; Julie Taren seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously. IV. Preliminary Data Review Michele Sartell, staff to the Planning Committee, directed meeting participants to the PowerPoint presentation for a brief preview of the data resulting from the LPC Local Funding Priorities and a preliminary overview of the findings from the needs assessment that will be included in the forthcoming executive summary. She began with context, noting the size and diversity of Los Angeles County in terms of ethnicity/race and language. She commented on the overall population of children from birth to 12 years old and overall licensed capacity compared to 2013. The presentation included a series of tables that looked at licensed capacity compared to the populations of children by age groups (infants/toddlers, preschoolers, and school age), followed by the availability of subsidized services compared to the numbers of children of income eligible families. Michele offered preliminary findings and some suggested recommendations for addressing the findings for consideration by the Access/Inclusion Work Group and Planning Committee as a whole. Among the findings: There is a significant shortage of services for infants and toddlers overall, which is

particularly acute for low-income families eligible for subsidized services. The data suggests a gap in preschool services for low-income families despite programs

reporting challenges in filling their spaces, suggesting that a study is needed on the availability of preschool options inclusive of expanded transitional kindergarten and transitional kindergarten as well as consideration of part- and full-day services.

The availability of licensed family child care homes continues a downward trend while serving as a critical resource for families with infants and toddlers.

Most families of school age children rely on a patchwork of license-exempt programs designed to provide academic supports and recreation and/or family, friend and neighbor.

Kate Reidell of First 5 LA provided a portrait of the early care and education workforce in Los Angeles County, also referring to her PowerPoint presentation. Kate cited the sources for her analysis, all of which discuss the impact that early educators have as contributors to children’s healthy growth and development and later success in school. Kate’s analysis included a summary of the language and ethnicity/race of early educators, their employment settings, and education and wages. Among possible recommendations for consideration by the workforce work group are: Mediating logistical barriers to accessing professional development opportunities. Prioritizing investments in specialized trainings, coaching and coursework to build the

capacity of early educators to meet the needs of each child within the group setting. Investing in the registry to track professional development and education of early educators

and serve as a repository for data collection and analysis efforts.

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Next, Kate addressed the quality section. She provided a brief overview of the QRIS, beginning with a definition and citing her data sources that included Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge from LAUP and the Office of Child Care covering 2013-15. The data looks at the participation of licensed family child care homes and center-based programs and the number of sites. Starting recommendations were presented as follows: Establish a standardized collection, data and tracking system. Increase public funds to support a state QRIS infrastructure for all program types. Provide ongoing funding for the Infant/Toddler QRIS Grant.

Both Michele and Kate spoke to some of the limitations of the data resources that contributed to their respective analyses. Michele noted that the needs assessment is a moment in time and relies on data sources that are not aligned and/or are difficult to access. She added that the needs assessment is broad in nature whereas it would be beneficial to know more about how the early care and education system is serving Los Angeles County’s diverse populations of children including dual language learners, children in families experiencing homelessness, child and families served by the child welfare system, children of immigrant families, and children at risk for or with disabilities or other special needs. Kate continued that some of the data is duplicative, there are challenges with disaggregating the data, and the points of time of the various sources do not match. V. Event Updates: Status of Efforts and Charge for the Day Debra Colman provided a brief update as precursor to outlining the charge of the work groups for the remainder of the meeting. To date, Kim Patillo Brownson is confirmed to moderate the panel discussion as are two of the three invited panelists – Keesha Woods and Whit Hayslip. She added that an invitation to serve as keynote will be extended to the City of Long Beach mayor, Robert Garcia. A handout listing the proposed recommendations based on the preliminary data analysis of each of the areas – access/inclusion, quality and workforce – was distributed. Each of the work groups were asked to consider the following three questions:

1) Do the recommendations make sense? 2) Is there a recommendation missing that should be elevated? 3) Prioritize your work group’s top three recommendations to share with the larger group.

VI. Linking Efforts: Cross-cutting Issues Debra invited each of the work groups to report on their work. Workforce – the recommended issues for elevation should address increasing compensation, overcoming barriers to enable the workforce access to education and professional development, and increasing funding and support for the California Workforce Registry. The LAUP 2004 report was cited as a resource. Quality – this work group supported the idea of increasing public funding for the QRIS, however suggested a stronger focus on quality overall beyond the limited scope of QRIS. Additionally, flexibility in data collection to meet the needs of the county is needed. Access/Inclusion – the work group concurred with the proposed recommendations, adding a suggestion to elevate the item pertaining to reimbursement rates.

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Recorders for each of the work groups were reminded to submit their notes to Michele. Debra concluded by stating that the report belongs to the Planning Committee, therefore holding the onus for elevating the issues to policy makers, philanthropy and other stakeholders. VII. Announcements and Public Comment The Infant Development Association will host their annual update, California Early Start Impact of

Regulatory Changes: Social-Emotional Requirements and Administrative/Operational Challenges, on Monday, January 9, 2017. For more information, visit http://www.idaofcal.org/index.php?option=com_jevents&task=icalrepeat.detail&evid=21&Itemid=116&year=2017&month=01&day=09&title=annual-update-on-california-early-start&uid=1b3d840a0536119b480670bbb2084191.

The Los Angeles Times will be posting an article on the minimum wage impact to early care and

education programs on Sunday, January 8, 2017. VIII. Adjournment The meeting adjourned at 2:07 p.m.

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PROPOSITION 98 GUARANTEE

Proposition 98 guarantees minimum funding levels for K-12 schools andcommunity colleges. The guarantee, which went into effect in the 1988-89 fiscal year,determines funding levels according to multiple factors including the level of funding in1986-87, General Fund revenues, per capita personal income, and school attendancegrowth or decline.

Proposition 98 originally mandated funding at the greater of two calculation levels,or tests (Test 1 or Test 2). In 1990, Proposition 111 (SCA 1) was adopted to allow for athird funding test (Test 3) in low revenue years. As a result, three tests determine fundingfor school districts and community colleges (K-14). The test that is used depends on howthe economy and General Fund revenues grow from year to year.

Test 3 is projected to be operative for fiscal years 2015-16 through 2017-1 8.

CHILD CARE

The state funds nine child care and early education programs and dozens of otherprograms that support services provided within these settings, including quality of care,family resource and referral agencies, and local child care planning councils. Theseprograms are administered by the Department of Education and the Department ofSocial Services. Families can access child care and early education subsidies throughcenters that contract directly with the Department of Education, local educationalagencies, or through vouchers from county welfare departments or alternative paymentprogram providers.

From 2013 through 2016, the state implemented policies that added $447.5 millionGeneral Fund and $388.1 million Proposition 98 General Fund in child care and earlylearning programs. The 2016 Budget Act increased provider reimbursement ratesand added an additional 2,959 State Preschool slots. The 2017 Governor’s Budgetincludes augmentations of $87.9 million General Fund and $23.5 million Proposition 98General Fund to reflect full-year costs of 2016 Budget Act adjustments and increasedcosts of care in the CaIWORKs Stage 2 and Stage 3 child care programs. Furtherincreases were intended in 2017-18. However, in recognition of lower-than-expectedGeneral Fund revenue growth and a more constrained budget environment, the Budgetproposes pausing additional augmentations until 2018-19. In essence, this proposalchanges what was intended to be a three-year augmentation plan to one that isimplemented over four years, beginning in 201 6-17 and ending in 2019-20. Statewide

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provider reimbursement rate increases provided in the 2016 Budget Act are consistentwith the cost of state minimum wage increases through 2017-18.

Most subsidized child care and early education providers participate in multiple programs.Each program has distinct administrative requirements that can impact providers’ overallability to serve families efficiently. Programs have varying eligibility rules that make itdifficult for families to navigate access to care and may create inequities in the servicesavailable to similarly aged children. To address some of these issues, the Budgetproposes policies that foster administrative efficiencies and better align child care andearly education programs to create a more rational system for both providers and thefamilies they serve:

• Authorize the use of electronic applications for child care subsidies, making it lessburdensome for eligible families to access care and more efficient for providers toprocess applications.

• Allow children with exceptional needs whose families exceed income eligibilityguidelines access to part-day state preschool if all other eligible children havebeen served. This allows part-day state preschool providers the flexibility tofill unused slots with other students who would benefit from early interventionor education.

• Align the state’s definition of homelessness with the federal McKinney-Vento Act forpurposes of child care eligibility. Many providers receive both federal and state fundsand different definitions of homelessness can be confusing.

• Eliminate licensing requirements for state preschool programs utilizing facilitiesthat meet transitional kindergarten facility standards, specifically K-12 publicschool buildings.

• Allow state preschool programs flexibility in meeting minimum adult-to-student ratiosand teacher education requirements, allowing for alignment with similar transitionalkindergarten requirements.

• Simplify the process by which school districts can align program minutes for statepreschool and transitional kindergarten students.

Significant Adjustments:

• Full-Year Implementation of 2016 Budget Act Investments—An increase of$50.5 million non-Proposition 98 General Fund and $23.5 million Proposition 98

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General Fund to reflect full-year costs of new policies implemented part-way throughthe 2016-17 fiscal year. These costs are associated with an update of the RegionalMarket Reimbursement Rate to the 75th percentile of the 2014 regional market ratesurvey (beginning January 1, 2017), and an increase of 2,959 slots for full-day StatePreschool (beginning April 1, 2017).

Pause Child Care Funding Increases in 2017-18—Maintain reimbursement ratesfor child care providers at 2016-17 levels, pausing rate increases in 2017-18.This includes maintaining the Regional Market Reimbursement Rate at the75~~ percentile of the 2014 regional market rate survey, maintaining the Standard

Reimbursement Rate at the full-year equivalent rate provided in 2016-17 (a 5-percentincrease over the prior year), and forgoing 2017-18 cost-of-living adjustments for childcare providers. Additionally, pause the addition of 2,959 full-day State Preschoolslots planned to begin on April 1, 2018. In total, these proposals save $121.4 millionnon-Proposition 98 General Fund and $105.4 million Proposition 98 General Fund.

• Stage 2—An increase of $35.8 million non-Proposition 98 General Fund in 2017-18to reflect increases in both the number of CaIWORKs Stage 2 cases and the costper case. Total cost for Stage 2 is $505 million.

• Stage 3—An increase of $1.6 million non-Proposition 98 General Fund in 2017-18to reflect an increase in the cost per case, despite a decline in the number ofCaIWORKs Stage 3 cases. Total cost for Stage 3 is $302.5 million.

• Federal Child Care and Development and TANF Funds—A net increase of$4.8 million federal Child Care and Development and $120.1 million federal TANFfunds in 2017-18. Total federal funding is $736.6 million.

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Joint Early Childhood Education Coalition Response to the Proposed 2017-18 Budget The organizations listed want to be on record as supporting the Legislative Women’s Caucus’s continued commitment to renew their support for funding for child care programs in this year’s budget and holding the Administration to their promise of continued funding. Last year after months of bargaining, an agreement was made for multiyear budget investments through 2018-19 that envisioned greater access to child care for working families, modest increases in reimbursement for child care providers and centers, and funding to strengthen our workforce. We understand the need to proceed with caution and be fiscally prudent. However, the budget proposal put forward goes beyond that; it is harmful. As proposed, this budget limits access to care for parents and makes it financially impossible for many providers and centers to stay in business. Furthermore, some of the proposals put forward such as moving towards a change in state preschool ratios of one adult for eight children to one adult to 20 children, make this budget simply unsafe for our children.

Other areas of great concern:

As of January 1, 2017, via the increase in the minimum wage with no change in policy proposed, parents and providers will be harmed:

A two parent household with both parents earning minimum wage will no longer be eligible for a subsidy.

Child care providers on average make $3.70 per hour. They are now further disconnected from the minimum wage.

Title 5 high quality care centers are reimbursed $42.12 per day for full day care. Broken down to a per hour rate, that is $7.02 per hour.

New provider rates enacted on January 1, 2017 included an 18-month hold harmless provision for providers whose rates did not go up. When the 18-month hold harmless provision goes away, in all counties some provider rates will freefall to below 2005 rates.

Child care keeps families working. We support the Legislative Women’s Caucus and ask that the promise made last year be honored.

Sincerely,

California Alternative Payment Program Association (CAPPA)

California State Alliance of YMCAs

Central Valley Children's Services Network

Chicano Federation of San Diego County

Child Care Resource Center

Child Development Associates

Child Development Inc.

Child Development Resources of Ventura County

Children & Family Circle

Children's Council San Francisco

Choices for Children

Community Child Care Council of Sonoma County (4Cs)

Community Resources for Children

Crystal Stairs

Faces San Francisco

International Institute of Los Angeles

KinderCare Education

Mexican American Opportunity Foundation

North Coast Opportunities, Inc.

Santa Cruz County Child Care Planning Council

Sierra Nevada Children’s Services

Siskiyou Child Care Council

Solano Family and Children’s Services

Supportive Services

Valley Oak Children’s Services

YMCA Childcare Resource Service