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Childcare council outlines licensing plan, subsidy pilot and possible use of $200,000 municipal grant
Summary
The Skagway Child Care Council reported plans to license a new program for older children at the Presbyterian Church basement pending a fire-marshal review, described a subsidy pilot to boost wages, and urged the municipality to consider pivoting a $200,000 grant toward a sustainable subsidy trust.
The Skagway Child Care Council told the Civic Affairs Committee on Feb. 26 that Little Dipper's Learning Center is pursuing a plan to cover an age gap in local childcare by creating a separate program for school-age children and that a state license application for the proposed Presbyterian Church site is pending a fire-marshal review.
"We're hoping to have a new childcare center for the older kids at the Presbyterian Church in the basement," Jules Miles, vice president of the Skagway Child Care Council, said. She told the committee the application is under state review and the primary outstanding issue is whether the fire marshal will approve a basement space without a sprinkler system given the children would mostly be…
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