February 16 STAFF Introduce Operating Budget February 25 Operating Budget – Councillor Hearings (Council Chambers) TCBCC will monitor this meeting. March 1 and March 2 Deputations: Council Chamber, March 1 6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. March 2 1:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. **We need to make Deputations – Parents and Directors can speak to the [...]
Posts under ‘Winter Update 2010’
School daycares face rent hike – Parent fees could rise by $4 per day
Laurie Monsebraaten Social Justice Reporter Toronto parents Sarah Fittings and Mykola Jemetz struggle to pay annual daycare fees of more than $30,000 for their 5-year-old daughter and 3-year-old twin boys. So a city budget proposal that advocates say would add as much as $80 per child per month for parents in Toronto’s 373 school-based child [...]
We Urge the City: Do NOT CUT any $$$s from CHILD CARE!
Our City’s Finance’s are in a critical state as a result of underfunding from the Province in many areas. The City’s Budget Committee has instructed staff in ALL Departments to find 5% savings in their 2010 budgets. . . In the City’s Operating Budget (released on February 16), the Children’s Services Budget includes a recommendation [...]
The City Budget 2010 – How safe are your Child Care Per Diems?
In the last several budgets, thanks to our advocacy, “approved rates” were received by Child Care programs with a PSA and Family Resource Programs in Toronto. And we have seen a commitment, from city politicians and staff in recent years to ensure that funding remains stable, BUT it is not something we can simply count [...]
Child Care in Ontario faces Catastrophic Collapse
The City Budget in early March will quickly be followed by the PROVINCIAL BUDGET coming up sometime in the Spring, (probably by the end of March) and Child Care Funding MUST be in that Budget – if we are to avoid a catastrophic collapse of our child care system. It is critical that leading up [...]