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