Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Those of you who are family child care providers in the State of Minnesota are will aware of the problems, expense, and confusion caused by the 2003 change in law concerning licensing fees being set by the counties across the state.
To help correct this situation, this past session, legislation was passed requiring a group to review the feasibility of standardizing licensing and bureau of criminal apprehension fees being charged to license family child care providers and to bring back a recommendation to the legislature by January 15, 2006. The exact language of the bill is:
Sec. 18. [RECOMMENDATIONS ON STANDARD STATEWIDE CHILD CARE LICENSE FEE; REPORT.] The commissioner of human services in conjunction with the Minnesota Association of County Social Service Administrators and the Minnesota Licensed Family Child Care Association, shall examine the feasibility of a statewide standard for setting license fees and background study fees for licensed family child care providers, and shall make recommendations on the feasibility of a statewide standard for setting license fees and background study fees in a report to the chairs of the senate and house of representatives committees having jurisdiction over child care issues. The report is due January 15, 2006.
The Department of Human Services Child Development Services and Licensing is coordinating the report, information gathering and dialogue about the issue with the Minnesota Licensed Family Child Care Association and the Minnesota Association of County Social Service Administrators.
Minnesota Licensed Family Child Care Association is seeking input from the family child care community in a variety of ways.
1. We are making this questionnaire available at this conference, on our website, and we will mail it out both to our Association Membership, our Food Program Participants and to our statewide contact list.
2. We are looking for a small number of providers who may be available to attend one meeting, do an on-line discussion, or to do a conference call discussion regarding standardization of licensing fees and the issues.
Please take just a few minutes to offer your feedback about the feasibility of standardizing licensing fees and about fees in your county.
Download the Questionnaire from the MLFCCA website.
To help correct this situation, this past session, legislation was passed requiring a group to review the feasibility of standardizing licensing and bureau of criminal apprehension fees being charged to license family child care providers and to bring back a recommendation to the legislature by January 15, 2006. The exact language of the bill is:
Sec. 18. [RECOMMENDATIONS ON STANDARD STATEWIDE CHILD CARE LICENSE FEE; REPORT.] The commissioner of human services in conjunction with the Minnesota Association of County Social Service Administrators and the Minnesota Licensed Family Child Care Association, shall examine the feasibility of a statewide standard for setting license fees and background study fees for licensed family child care providers, and shall make recommendations on the feasibility of a statewide standard for setting license fees and background study fees in a report to the chairs of the senate and house of representatives committees having jurisdiction over child care issues. The report is due January 15, 2006.
The Department of Human Services Child Development Services and Licensing is coordinating the report, information gathering and dialogue about the issue with the Minnesota Licensed Family Child Care Association and the Minnesota Association of County Social Service Administrators.
Minnesota Licensed Family Child Care Association is seeking input from the family child care community in a variety of ways.
1. We are making this questionnaire available at this conference, on our website, and we will mail it out both to our Association Membership, our Food Program Participants and to our statewide contact list.
2. We are looking for a small number of providers who may be available to attend one meeting, do an on-line discussion, or to do a conference call discussion regarding standardization of licensing fees and the issues.
Please take just a few minutes to offer your feedback about the feasibility of standardizing licensing fees and about fees in your county.
Download the Questionnaire from the MLFCCA website.
// posted by Tammy Wachter @ 5:18 PM 
