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Details on the new child care programs map initiative
1:20:39
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Commissioner Matthew C. Fraser provided information about the new child care programs map initiative, its funding, and timeline.
- The preliminary plan includes $1.2 million in FY25 and $1.1 million baseline in FY26 for the child care programs map
- The project will be spearheaded by the Office of Child Care, separate from the MyCity portal
- The projected timeline for completion is by the end of the current calendar year
- The map will show facilities, locations, and eligibility requirements for child care programs
- It differs from MyCity portal in that it provides a visual representation of available services rather than an application for benefits
Jennifer Gutiérrez
1:20:39
My understanding is that the preliminary plan includes funding of 1,200,000.0 in FY '20 '5 and baseline of 1.1 in FY '20 '6 for this child care programs map.
1:20:52
I know it's gonna be a screening process for parents, etcetera, etcetera.
1:20:55
It's going to be spearheaded by the office of child care separate from the MyCity portal.
1:21:00
Correct?
1:21:01
Okay.
1:21:02
Do you have a sense of what the timeline for the completion of that program is?
1:21:05
I know it's a separate office, but do you have a sense of the completion?
1:21:13
Okay.
1:21:14
So the end of twenty twenty five.
1:21:16
And is the baseline funding for a vendor to maintain this map until FY 2028?
1:21:28
Through through f y twenty eight?
1:21:44
Oh, sorry.
1:21:45
Say that again.
1:21:45
I'm sorry.
1:21:49
Okay.
1:21:49
But I I mean with the same vendor.
1:22:00
Okay.
1:22:13
I see.
1:22:13
Thank you.
1:22:14
And can you briefly share how this child care program map is will look different or be different than the MyCity portal or is it are you gonna move everything into this into this map?
1:22:52
Okay.
1:22:54
Okay.
1:22:55
I feel like it there it sounds like there might be some overlap, though.
1:23:19
Okay.
1:23:20
Well, I look I look forward to it.
1:23:21
And then just and you said it's expected to be completed by the end of this year?
Matthew C. Fraser
1:21:01
That is correct.
1:21:09
Yep.
1:21:09
So our projected timeline takes us through the end of this calendar year.
1:21:21
Yeah.
1:21:21
So the baseline funding provides funding to cover licenses, services, and support of the map itself.
1:21:31
I'd have to defer to the deputy commissioner of management and budget.
1:22:01
No funding is baselined associated with the vendor in perpetuity.
1:22:05
It's just acknowledged as the the annual expense that's that's mean that's required to maintain the system.
1:22:27
Yeah.
1:22:27
So the the MyCity portal is for application of application for benefits.
1:22:32
This is giving you a program map to show you what facilities, where they're located, eligibility requirements.
1:22:39
It's it's it's a pictorial representation of what's available across the city versus what's in place right now is applying for a benefit that you could leverage at any one of these facilities.
1:22:58
Well, one is an application to apply for a benefit.
1:23:02
Once you receive the benefit, the other one is a map to show you where you could use it.
1:23:06
It's like it's like getting this may not be a good example.
1:23:12
It's like getting a FastPass at Disney.
1:23:14
It's like, alright.
1:23:15
Here's a FastPass.
1:23:16
These are all the rides where you can use the FastPass at.
1:23:26
By the end of the year.
Edwin Pemberton
1:21:36
Currently, this isn't it it's in the Audi s, so it goes baseline.
1:21:41
It's there's no end of, funding.
1:21:45
Baseline means it's permanently in your budget.
1:21:52
Well, the funding is is in the budget.
1:21:55
We I'm not sure if it would would be the same vendor, but the funding is there.