HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1988-03-30, Page 16PAGE 16. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1980.
County day care program escapes axe, for now
A proposal for private home day
care to help parents on welfare or
with low income levels get out to
work escaped the axe of budget
cuts at the special budget meeting
of County Council Thursday that
would have killed the program
before it even got started.
A motion to kill the proposal to
budget$16,482ofatotal of $82,408
for operating the program for six
months was made by Howick
townshipreeveGerald D’Arcey
who said he questioned the need of
the program at this time. Although
the expenditure was small this year
it could double next year and then
again the year after. Even though
the county only pays 20 per cent of
the costs, he said, those portions
had to come out of the taxpayers’
pockets someplace.
John McKinnon, Administrator
of Social Services argued that
county council can keep a cap on
the growth of the program by only
agreeing to the hiring of one person
as a private home day care visitor,-
since only 25 home day care
positions can be contracted by the
department with the hiring of one
visitor. Adding more positions
would mean hiring another visitor.
“It’s nice to say we’re going to
limit it to 25 places,’’ Brian
McBurney, Reeve of Turnberry
warned, “but are you going to be
able to say no when the kids on one
side of the street have it and the
people on the other side of the
street wonder why they can’t.”
At that point, after a motion by
Reeve D’Arcey, seconded by
Reeve Bruce Machan of Wingham
to delete the $16,482 item from
budget. County Administrator Bill
Hanly pointed out that approving
the budget allocation did not mean
approving the program. The actual
implementation of the program
wouldbevotedonatalatertime, he
said.
Reeve Dave Johnston of Bay-
field said he’d like the program
explained in more detail because
he was afraid there was a good
possibility the council was going to
defeat a program councillors didn’t
understand.
Mr. MacKinnon explained that
the program was designed to help
people who were getting welfare to
go out and get a job and to keep
people with a low-paying job from
quitting work and going on welfare
because of the high cost of day
care. His department could pur
chase space in recognized day care
facilities but vhese were not as
flexible as home day care, he
explained. Home day care could
make day care available in smaller
centres near where the workers
lived.
These would be more than
babysitters, he said, because the
home day care visitor would help
the operator keep a proper opera
tion. Those providing infant care,
for instance (another benefit over
day care centres which will not look
after infants) would have to have
necessary equipment such as
cribs. Asked ifthe rate of pay might
be unfair in competition for other
babysitters he explained that the
operators will get $1.65 per hour
per child.
Mr. MacKinnon was asked how
12 tables
at Blyth
euchre
There were 12 tables of card
players at the March 21 euchre
party at Blyth Memorial Hall.
High lady was Bernice Brown
while Allan Shaddick was high
man. Ella Richmond and Mary
Holland had the low scores. Hazel
Reid and Wilfred Shortreed had
the most lone hands.
A special prize for the lucky table
wenttoRuth Dougherty, Margaret
Craig, Clara Rinn and Cliff Hoegy.
much saving there would be in
welfare costs because of the
program and he said that there had
been nostudy done but that it costs
$700 a month in mothers allowance
for a mother and one child.
Multiply that by the number of
children you could assist under the
program and you get some idea of
the potential savings, he said.
Under questioning he pointed
out that Huron County is alone
locally in those counties that don’t
provide the service with Bruce,
Grey and Perth and nearly every
other county in southwestern
Ontario already having the pro
gram under way.
Finally a recorded vote was held
on a motion to delete the budgeted
amount but the motion was lost
23-7.
The program still faces another
hurdle at a future council meeting
when the council must vote on
whether or not to approve the
implementation of the private
home day care system.
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