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Child Care Inc. Proposal for Eugene City Council 4 <br /> centers would cost them over half of the net pay they would <br /> earn at an entry level (minimum wage) job. <br /> • In their draft report of December 1993, Feasibility Study: <br /> Whiteaker Multi - Service Center (hereafter referred to as <br /> FS:WMC), Satre Associates cited interview data pointing to a <br /> critical need for additional quality child care in the <br /> Whiteaker area. They found that "Organizations (interviewed) <br /> currently these (preschool, after - school, and no- <br /> school) services in the Whiteaker neighborhood are at their <br /> maximum capacity. Capacity has doubled in the last two years <br /> and waiting lists are still two to three times the current <br /> capacity." (FS:WMC, P. 21) <br /> • Citizens of the Whiteaker neighborhood participating in public <br /> meetings in the fall of 1993 listed among the critical needs <br /> of the community the following services: Child Care, <br /> Parenting classes, Grant to Assist with Cost (of Education). <br /> Child Care Inc. provides these through direct services, our <br /> Sandwich & Savvy community education program, and our <br /> scholarship program. <br /> • In 1990, nearly 800 children of age five and under were <br /> reported as living in the Whiteaker and downtown areas of <br /> Eugene. (Data reported for Eugene Tracts 38, 39, 40, 41, & 42 <br /> Demographic, Housing & Socioeconomic Characteristics of Lane <br /> County: Its Cities and Census Tracts, Center for Population <br /> Research and Census, Portland State University, September, <br /> 1992.) A May 1993 survey by the local chapter of the Oregon <br /> Association of Child Care Directors reported two Whiteaker- <br /> based centers with a combined capacity of only 68 slots. If <br /> we use the measure of sufficient child care (one slot for <br /> every foul children) cited by both the Oregon Commission for <br /> Child Care and Children First of Oregon, current centers meet <br /> only a third of the child care needs in this area. <br /> • In a United Way survey conducted earlier this year to identify <br /> barriers faced by the Hispanic community, 51% of the <br /> respondents sited lack of adequate child care. The Director <br /> of the Los Ninos program for CentroLatino Americano is meeting <br /> with us to help us better meet the needs of this rapidly <br /> growing segment of our community. Our ability to meet these <br /> needs is hampered by our limited space at our current site. <br /> Relocation and construction of a new center at the Thomason Lane <br /> site would allow Child Care Inc. to nearly double our current <br /> capacity. A key element in our planning is increasing our <br /> preschool capacity and adding infant /toddler care, which is much <br /> needed in the community. An expanded capacity of 40 preschoolers <br /> and 12 infants and toddlers can result in actual enrollment of <br /> more than 65 children in our program due to flexible scheduling. <br /> This would greatly increase the number of families we would be <br /> able to serve each year. <br /> Dec. 9, 1994 <br />