Title
Authorization to Annually Submit Head Start Birth to Five and Child Care Partnership Refunding Applications (Ordinance S-46464)
Description
Request to authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to (a) submit annually the Head Start Birth to Five and Early Head Start Child Care Partnership Refunding Applications for approximately $37,343,112 annually or an aggregate not to exceed $167,573,837 for the remaining four years of the grant (2021-24) as approved by the Head Start Birth to Five Governing Board, and (b) enter into or execute all contracts, documents, and agreements and take all other action necessary or appropriate to implement the Head Start Birth to Five and Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grants subject to any necessary approval by the Head Start Birth to Five Governing Board. Further request authorization for the City Treasurer to accept and the City Controller disburse all funds related to this item. There is no impact to the General Fund.
Report
Summary
The City of Phoenix Head Start Birth to Five program provides comprehensive education and social services through two programs: Early Head Start (0-3 years) and Head Start (3-5 years). There are 488 families with infants and toddlers in Early Head Start and 2,963 preschool children in Head Start. The terms of the Head Start Birth to Five and Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grants are from July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2024. The grants require grantees to submit a refunding application each year.
Contract Term
The City of Phoenix, as the Grantee, is entering into the second year of a five-year grant for the Head Start Birth to Five program and the Early Head Start Child Care Partnership programs. The remaining four years of the five-year contract term are July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2024.
Financial Impact
The grant funding for the second year of $37,343,112 is inclusive of $3,555,653 for Early Head Start Child Care Partners and $33,787,459 for Head Start Birth to Five and Early Head Start home-based funding. The aggregate contract total of $167,573,837 for the remaining four years of the grant (2021-24) is inclusive of $14,948,108 for Head Start Child Care Partners and $152,625,729 for Early Head Start and Head Start Birth to Five funding. Totals include a forecasted 2 percent Cost of Living Adjustment annually for each of the remaining four years of the grant. There is no impact to the General Fund.
Concurrence/Previous Council Action
City Council approved the five-year Head Start Birth to Five and Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grants on March 6, 2019 (S-45416).
This item was discussed by the Head Start Policy Council on March 9, 2020. This item was discussed by the Land Use and Livability Subcommittee, which serves as the Head Start Governing Board, on March 18, 2020.
Department
Responsible Department
This item is submitted by Assistant City Manager Deanna Jonovich and the Human Services Department.