The need for child day care subsidies is growing locally and the availability of the subsidies is dwindling. Yet Monroe County is serving a higher percentage and number of eligible children than other urban counties in New York, outside of New York city. Child care subsidies are the subject of a Center for Governmental Research […]
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Coalition to ask Albany for more state aid, more child care funding
For the ninth straight year, a coalition of business, community, and government leaders is asking the powers that be in Albany to revamp the state’s municipal aid formula. During a press conference this afternoon, the Rochester Community Coalition laid out its 2014 state legislative priorities — the issues they’ll press state legislators and officials on […]
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O’Flynn questioned over proposed raise
When it comes to his potential $37,000 raise, Sheriff Patrick O’Flynn has his story and he’s sticking to it. During a County Legislature committee meeting tonight, Democrats questioned O’Flynn about the raise, which he’d receive under the 2014 proposed county budget. The county administration has said that O’Flynn included the raise as part of the […]
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Child subsidies stay
Children’s advocates in Monroe County say they were pleasantly surprised to find that the state’s 2013 to 2014 budget contains funding for a local child care subsidy program. The recently passed budget sets aside $1.1 million for the “facilitated enrollment” program, which provides subsidies to working parents earning between 165 percent and 275 percent of […]
