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Council Member Brannan questions ACS Commissioner on child care voucher funding and state matching process
1:50:59
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Council Member Justin L. Brannan engages in a detailed Q&A session with ACS Commissioner Jess Dannhauser about the intricacies of child care voucher funding and the state matching process. They discuss the city's required contribution to receive the full $350 million from the state, the maintenance of effort requirements, and the complexities of the matching system.
- The state requires a $350 million match from the city to receive the full funding
- There's a complex system of maintenance of effort thresholds and eligible matching amounts
- Council Member Brannan expresses frustration with the complicated process designed by the state
Justin L. Brannan
1:50:59
just have two follow ups.
1:51:03
So just so we can make sure we're advocating correctly on our side.
1:51:07
In order to get the full three, going back to the vouchers, in order to get the full $350,000,000 from the state, what does the city need to contribute?
Jess Dannhauser
1:51:17
350,000,000.
Justin L. Brannan
1:51:20
Have So we need to match their $3.50, right?
Jess Dannhauser
1:51:23
We do.
1:51:23
It's a little so the maintenance of effort, the original maintenance of effort was 53 for the current fiscal year twenty five.
1:51:32
Every dollar over the maintenance of effort of 53,000,000 is matchable.
1:51:39
And so right now we're doing the analysis of how much city tax levy for this federal fiscal year, whether to draw down any of it because we're already over that maintenance of effort.
1:51:50
There's an additional next year, next federal fiscal year twenty six, there's a three twenty eight.
1:51:57
Again though, everything over the 53,000,000 original maintenance of effort is eligible for the match.
1:52:03
So essentially if we draw down some of that funding this year, the match, and put in the 03/28 next year, which we intend to do, we should be able to draw down the entire match.
1:52:17
This match is one time as we understand it and so we have to do advocacy around years ahead as well.
Justin L. Brannan
1:52:25
So the FY twenty six budget includes about a hundred 95,000,000 of city funding.
1:52:30
How much of that counts towards the city's required state match?
Jess Dannhauser
1:52:38
Everything over 53.
1:52:44
Once we hit the 03/28 threshold.
1:52:46
They're separate but they're so you can't get a dollar unless you spend 03/28.
1:52:52
But about 275,000,000 of that three twenty eight is eligible for the match because it's over the the original maintenance of effort.
Justin L. Brannan
1:53:03
Who came up with this facacta process?
1:53:07
The state?
Jess Dannhauser
1:53:09
Yes.
1:53:12
Took a second to figure out, which is why we don't have every single piece of the analysis done.
Justin L. Brannan
1:53:17
Yeah.
1:53:26
Okay.
1:53:27
Thank you guys very much.
1:53:28
Thank you, chairs.