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Childcare subcommittee asks SoLoCo to distribute Tri‑Share resolution and seek state pilot status
Summary
Orlando Lewis presented a Tri‑Share resolution template asking SoLoCo to encourage member municipalities to adopt it and to present signed resolutions to the Beaufort‑Jasper delegation for consideration as a state pilot site for childcare cost‑sharing.
Orlando Lewis (speaker 6), chair of the childcare subcommittee, asked SoLoCo to accept a Tri‑Share resolution template, distribute it to member municipalities for local debate and signature, and then take the signed group submission to the Beaufort‑Jasper state delegation in Columbia to champion a pilot. Lewis described the Tri‑Share model as a roughly one‑third contribution by state government, one‑third by employers and one‑third by employees.
Board members said the recommendation fits SoLoCo's historic use of resolutions to lobby the state and suggested jurisdictions would want source data included when councils consider the item. Lewis agreed to email the supporting data and to present to counsel or individual council meetings on request. The board did not take a formal vote at this meeting; members asked the subcommittee to return with materials so each jurisdiction can decide whether to sign the template and, if a group of jurisdictions does sign, for SoLoCo to forward that package to the delegation in Columbia.
Next steps: subcommittee to circulate data and the template, offer presentations to councils and counsel, and report back to SoLoCo.
