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BRIDGE &DSFRC MOU 2 September 8, 2009 The latest Centralized Eligibility List (CEL) data show 495 low-income families waiting for child care and three San Leandro zip codes are county-wide priorities (94577, 94578, 94579) for any new public child care funding because of the gap between low-income families with children and available subsidized child care. The 94577 zip code includes the downtown BART station where The Alameda is located. The number of San Leandro preschoolers is projected to grow between 2005 and 2015. BRIDGE has selected the locally-based nonprofit public service provider DSFRC to be the child care center operator. DSFRC has been a licensed child care provider since 1972 when it opened its first center at 1190 Davis Street. DSFRC currently operates a total of four licensed child development centers and is licensed to care for up to 376 children ages 2.9 to 10 years of age. The Center at 1190 Davis Street is licensed for 60 children ages 2.9 to 5; Garfield Child Development Center is licensed for 80 children 4.9 to 10 years; Jefferson Child Development Center is licensed for 86 children ages 2.9 to 10 and Roosevelt Child Development Center is licensed for 150 children ages 5.9 to 10 years. The proposed child care center in The Alameda will serve approximately 45 to 60 children. The majority of the slots will be subsidized for low income (households earning at or below 80% area median income) children and the remainder will be either market rate slots or subsidized. While the child care center will be an ideal fit for The Alameda as a resource for its very low income (households earning at or below 50% of area median income) family residents, the child care center slots shall be open to the public including San Leandro residents and local workforce. Anal sis Due to its current, staff-intensive capital campaign to purchase its existing facility, DSFRC acknowledged the need for a partnership with BRIDGE, the City, the County and 4C's of Alameda County to plan, fundraise, and develop the proposed child care center in The Alameda. BRIDGE has estimated the child care center tenant improvements will cost approximately $700,000. The partnership shall be formalized through a memorandum of understanding (MOU), which outlines the roles of each party during the child care center planning and development phases. The MOU does not commit funding from any of the parties, including the City, for the child care center planning and development costs, but each party to the MOU shall contribute limited in-kind assistance through staff time (i.e., technical assistance, consultant hiring process, grant writing and management, etc) . Under the MOU, City Housing Services Division staff shall primarily aid DSFRC during the planning phase. In particular, City staff shall coordinate with DSFRC on future public and private funding applications for planning/tenant improvement costs and the hiring of an experienced child care consultant. The consultant will help DSFRC with grant writing, project planning and, potentially, the design, permitting and construction process. DSFRC recently submitted a $20,000 grant application to the Low Income Investment Fund (CITE) to hire a consultant and should know by the mid-September if LIIF has approved its funding request. DSFRC can then hire the consultant by end of September and the consultant can begin preparing the child care center development plan, which will include program development and fundraising strategies for the tenant improvement costs.