COUNTYWIDE : County May Join Firm in Child Care
A day-care facility for sick children, opened last year for the children of county employees, may soon be available to employees of a large Ventura company.
The Board of Supervisors will consider an agreement Tuesday with Lost Arrow--the parent company for Patagonia, Great Pacific Ironworks and Great Pacific Child Development--to allow the company to use Hickory Dickory Doc, located at Ventura County Medical Center.
The supervisors also will consider a companion agreement to involve the county in the company’s network of in-home child care for Lost Arrow employees.
The company already provides five spaces in child-care homes for the children of county employees, but 20 people are on the waiting list for those spots. The agreement will add an additional 30 spaces.
The county would pay $10,000 for participation in Lost Arrow’s child-care network.
The money would pay for recruitment and training of five additional in-home child-care providers who would be licensed and monitored by Lost Arrow.
They would set their own rates, but would be encouraged to charge parents $100 a week for children under 2 years, $82.50 for children 2 to 3 years, and $80 for children older than 3 years.
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