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<br /> 1 <br /> RE: Bill No. 122 (Federal Grant-Child Care Development Accomit) <br /> NO"CE: all information below is as per Angela Thomas, Chair of the Mayor's Committee <br /> on Youth (322-4156) <br /> !'E RECENED <br /> ~-7-- ~y- ~ <br /> Historical Backround <br /> County Council <br /> Started with the governor's Good Beginnings Alliance (GBA) three years ago <br /> the GBA was a group assembled to address early childhood development <br /> ~ the GBA was given 18 months to develop a master plan <br /> in order to receive funds to formulate a master plan the GBA became a 501(3c) non-profit <br /> the state master plan calls for each county to develop their own master plan (the county <br /> plan is available at the Mayor's office-contact Jean Fiernes ext. 8211) <br /> FY96-97 mone~(65.000) <br /> ~ breakdown $50,000 to hire contract a coordinator (Leilani Hino 882-7024), $15,000 spent <br /> on computer equipment and travel expenses <br /> ~ money path: originally federal grant went to the Governor's Oltice on Children and <br /> Youth and then to counties (OCY was scaled down) <br /> now federal grant goes to DHS then to counties <br /> ~ originally asked for $120,000 from DIIS to complete the counties plan and fm~m working <br /> group <br /> DHS provided the initial $65,000 with no guaranteed future funding and then came back <br /> with the $60,000 for FY97-98 <br /> the computer money was spent to get an G-mail account and to establish a data base for <br /> the organization <br /> along with the Regional Cow~cil on early childhood education, a Tcen Group <br /> Subcommittee was established (headed by Felicity Johnson 322-6488) <br /> Possible Areas of Interest Regarding Youth Activities <br /> follow-up on the work of the Teen Group (which has a couple teens participating in the <br /> subcommittee work) <br /> ~ Kauai has some good programs including a teens council or teens in government program <br /> (contact: Sharon Agnew) <br /> Angela "Fhomas said that the group will actually want to rely more on private funding to <br /> do their work but she didn't elaborate too much on their fund raising plans <br /> c~ ;ua ~zs, o~ _ <br /> 11Y AR FN~O <br /> 0 P-R_ <br /> roses' red ~vti~r~ <br /> Lt. !s~ <br /> Ret'. n++te SE'P 1 7 f~ <br /> <br />