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Travis County lays out near-term spending and delivery plan for $75 million Raising Travis County fund
Summary
County officials detailed contracts, scholarship timelines and procurement steps to expand child care and out-of-school-time services: Workforce Solutions will disburse gap payments this month and 1,000 scholarships are expected by January; county staff said $6.5 million in contracts are pending commissioners court approval.
Travis County officials on a virtual town hall described how the voter-approved Raising Travis County fund — a $75,000,000 annual investment — will be used to expand child care access, stabilize providers and grow out-of-school-time programming.
"This $75,000,000 annual fund will expand access to affordable child care for families," Travis County Judge Andy Brown said, framing the initiative as a community commitment to children and families.
Program staff outlined near-term and longer-term steps. Dr. Megan Robinson, senior planner for child care, said staff contracted with Workforce Solutions to expand infant and toddler slots and place 1,000 additional children off the waitlist. Robinson also said county staff signed agreements to provide "gap payments" so providers serving scholarship children are made whole at the county's Travis County child-care quality rate; Workforce Solutions was expected to begin disbursing those payments mid-November and to backdate awards to Sept. 1.
Out-of-school-time lead Roxanne Jimenez said the…
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