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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1988-06-14, Page 29County council rejects private home day care A private home dzycare p which would have subsidized care costs for 25 single pare low income families in 11 County has been rejected by Hur ca 0e Council. In a 19-12 recorded vote a - regular June session, council fi put to rest the day care issue wh has surfaced at council sec regularly over the past sev months, but always deferre await more information. "We felt the need is defin there," said John MacKinnon, county's social services ministrator. "Whether or not proposal) goes is always a poli decision." He said his staff had developing the proposal for m than a year. In January, council vo narrowly in favor of setting a funding for the program in its budget., but will likely look for of areas in which to spend that $16, The social services commi recommendation scrapped council would have hired one per to develop a program for 25 day c spaces throughout the county for a six-month trial period. During 19 budget discussio proposal called for a nine -mo test costing $82,000. Since Hur County's share would be 20 per ce money was set aside in t budget and "earmarked for th purpose. Federal funds would co 50 per cent of the total cost with other 30 per cent to come fr coffers. 6I think what we are proposi here is extremely high," Exe Deputy Reeve Lossy Fuller told t meeting. "We're not a city and we, not have to pay city prices...for children, I can't see it." Some Huron .reeves say t program could have substitut ;welfare dollars with child ca dollars. That would give son parents — who now must stay hom with children and collect welfare an opportunity to earn their money Bayfield Reeve Dave Johnsto voted for day care, although h questions at recent meetings hav been the most critical of th program. Mr. Johnston said the bigges problem has been council's fear tha some who receive the subsidy ma not really need it. "I'm opposed t that; but I can support the idea of day care subsidies which wi provide people with the opportuni to get out and work," he said after the meeting. People in Huron County, par ticularly in the south, have had t quit jobs because they could not fin adequate, affordable day care, Mr MacKinnon said. Under the proposa rejected by council, however flexible hours would be arranged Day care would be provided in private homes during the hours in which the service is most needed Those homes would also be in areas of the county where the need is greatest. "It's certainly much cheaper to have someone on a day care subsidy than living on welfare," Mr. >R°oposal: MacKinnon said. `That's why we child brought the proposal forward." The nts or guidelines developed would be .easily uron policed to make sure no one who on could afford to purchase child=e was being subsidized, he added, t its "Our proposals dere aimed at the nally single parent and the low wage ich earners." cions Currently, subsidized day care Iseral provided in Huron County only by d to Tuckersmith Township and the Town of Wingham, although the itely Town of Goderich subsidizes spaces the at a local non-profit day care centre, ad- as well as operating'a municipal day (a nursery. tical Among the other concerns of been council, Mr. Johnston said, is an ore objection to the provincial gover- nment requirement that a full-time ted worker be hired for every 25 day side care spaces. "1 question the need for 1988 all that bureaucracy." Be added, her however, that he is willing to see the " 400. program through a six-month trial. ttee "I think it is clear to anyone in the by audience that some members of son council have already made up their are minds about day care." and It was Mr. Johnston, saying some members of council regard day care ons, as an unnecessary and expensive nth baby-sitting service, who requested on the recorded vote. ent, Other reeves suggested that the he county should wait until after the at senior levels of government com- ervplete day care proposals, but Mr. the Johnston said ht fears that without rom initiating its own day care program which it could review on its own ng terms in six months,ron HuCounty ter may now have one forced on it by the he provincial or federal government. do Those who voted for subsidized 25 home day care in Huron County on a six-month trial basis are: Warden he and Tuckersmith Township Reeve ed Robert Bell, Clinton Reeve Bee re Cooke, Goderich Township Deputy e Reeve Laurie Cox, Hullett Township e Reeve Tom Cunningham, Zurich — Reeve Robert Fisher, Morris Township Reeve Doug Fraser, n Ashfield Township Reeve Allan is Gibson, .Mr. Johnston, Colborne e Township Reeve Russell Kernighan, e Wingham Reeve Bruce Machan, Turnberry Township Reeve Brian t McBurney, East Wawanosh Reeve t Ernest Snell. y Those who voted against the o proposal are: Grey Township Reeve Leona Armstrong, Seaforth Reeve 11 Bill Bennett, West Wawanosh ty Township Reeve Cecil Cranston, Howick Township Reeve Gerald D'Arcey, Hay Township Deputy - Reeve Claire Deichert, Goderich o Deputy Reeve John Doherty, Exeter d Deputy Reeve Lossy Fuller, . 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