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05/06/2019 RESOLUTION 15764 RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF REDWOOD CITY SUPPORTING ASSEMBLY BILL 452 (ASSEMBLYMEMBER MULLIN) TO ESTABLISH THE CALIFORNIA CHILD CARE FACILITIES GRANT FUND AND REQUIRE THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO PROVIDE GRANTS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW CHILD CARE CENTERS THAT SERVE CHILDREN IN SUBSIDIZED CHILD CARE PROGRAMS, AS WELL AS RENOVATION, REPAIR AND MODERNIZATION OF FAMILY CHILD CARE HOMES WHEREAS, on June 12, 2017, the City Council heard a presentation by Joanne Brion of Brion Associates and Kristen Anderson, a Child Care Services Specialist for Redwood City, regarding a Child Care Needs Assessment that quantified the child care and early learning supply gap in Redwood City and proposed several potential solutions to the shortage of physical facilities. Lack of appropriate, affordable, licensable spaces for new programs is a major barrier to progress, and financing sources to build new facilities are very limited; and WHEREAS, California's Department of Education ("DOE") administers state child care and preschool subsidy funding for children from low-income families. DOE offers a Facilities Revolving Loan Fund to provide funding for loans for the renovation, repair, or improvement of an existing building to make the building suitable for licensure for child care and development services, and for the purchase of new relocatable child care facilities for the lease to local educational agency or contracting agency that provides child care and development services. The Facilities Revolving Loan Fund has been severely underutilized in recent years; and WHEREAS, Redwood City Child Care Service Specialist Kristen Anderson worked with Assembly Speaker Pro Tem Kevin Mullin on Assembly Bill (AB) 452 to convert the Facilities Revolving Loan Fund into facility grants of up to $1M for construction of new child care centers and small grants for licensed family child care home expansion. Programs would need to serve at least 50% subsidized children. AB 452 would also repeal the existing Child Care Revolving Loan Program and require funds in that program as of December 31, 2019, to be transferred into the facility grant program; and WHEREAS, AB 452 takes an important step in addressing the need for facilities for all children, and particularly to serve infants and toddlers in subsidized programs offered by community based organizations, Early Head Start programs, and local educational agencies. According to the 2017 San Mateo County Child Care Needs Assessment, there are publicly -supported spaces for less than 13% of income -eligible infants and toddlers in the county; and ATTY/RESO.0041/CC RESO IN SUPPORT OF ASSEMBLY BILL 452—CHI LDCARE FACILITIES GRANTS RESO. NO 15764 REV: 04-25-19 DZ MUFF NO. 205 Page 1 of 2