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Council advances funding to move children off childcare scholarship wait list and stabilizes positions
Summary
Council committees unanimously advanced enhancements to move children from the state childcare scholarship wait list into a county program and recommended converting contractor roles to merit positions to stabilize early care administration; additional funding tranches were placed on the reconciliation list.
Montgomery County council committees recommended (and the council approved) budget actions intended to reduce the state childcare scholarship wait list and stabilize early‑childhood administration.
The joint ECHHS committee recommended a $500,000 enhancement that would move 23 children from the state scholarship wait list into the county’s Working Parents Assistance program (about $300,000 to serve 13 infants/toddlers and $200,000 to serve 10 preschool‑age…
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