Item - 2016.CD13.10

The Community Development and Recreation Committee recommends that:

1.  City Council amend the 2016 - 2025 Approved Capital Budget and Plan for Children's Services by adding a new capital project, with a total project cost of $2.4 million, funded entirely from the Child Care Capital Reserve Fund, with a cash flow budget of $0.715 million in 2016 and $1.685 million in 2017.

2.  City Council authorize the General Manager, Children's Services to enter into a funding and development agreement with the Toronto District School Board (TDSB), in a form satisfactory to the City Solicitor, to fund the construction of 25 new infant and toddler child care spaces at the new George Webster Elementary School.

3.  City Council authorize the General Manager, Children's Services to amend the programming at the Parkside Early Learning and Child Care Centre by continuing to offer kindergarten and school age programming at Parkside Early Learning and Child Care Centre but not to proceed with the re-opening of the preschool program or the addition of an infant/toddler program at this location, with the funding approved to operate the expanded preschool program for four months, from September to December 2016, to be returned to the Service System Management function of the Children's Services Operating Budget.

This report provides an update on two child care sites in Ward 31, Beaches-East York.  First, it requests the approval to add a new capital project for the expansion of a child care centre at the new George Webster Elementary School, based on the results of a feasibility study.

The report also responds to a City Council request for a report on the feasibility and financial implications of offering an infant/toddler/preschool program at Parkside Early Learning and Child Care Centre to create a more viable operating model at the site.