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CORRESPONDENCE ... To: Michael Rumpf, We are requesting a minor modification for our daycare center. We would like to add an additional restroom that the children would be able to use when on the playground. We feel this would be beneficial because teachers would not need to leave the playground to supervise a child that needs the restroom. We appreciate your consideration on this minor modification. Sincerely, Scott and Catherine Freeland The Learning Piafe freschfoi ~YrJI D\.i\ e . Th --\-h-e \ ~ ~r-~ ~~ -(:. a ~ P4-- \(\r'\ 5 re 'Lulv-~ent":) W~ vJ\~" +\:) LN~ ~ d-v-o.vv ou""- p\<:'i'\ sot ~ ~v-of<:>s-<-J. t::;;.",-.:t-t..rOO0'"\-. CQtbio~ ~ W r, rc;: ,.'1' r--o I': .1, ;:. d Ii. . -^"".~~--,,^~_.~,.__..., -~ -.....,' . : Iii i. . ,; -4 ~ PLANNING AND ZONING DEPT MRR-23-2000 10:19 Department of EngifteerUtg Uld Public Wo,k, P.O. Box 2t229 West Palm 8ellch. 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GO \tJ:.. \ --~, I PlM,li~INGr\;'D ) i ZONiNG DE-PI w-> 1_ -~~_. .-.-- RE: FREELAND CHILD CARE CENTER TRAFnCPERFORMANCESTANDARDSRE~EW Mr. Rumpf: The Palm Beach County Traffic Division has reviewed the traffic impacts for the project enutled Freeland Child Care Center pursuant to the Traffic Perfonnance Standards in Article 15 of the Palm Beach County Land Development Code. The project is summarized as follows: Location: Municipality: Proposed Use: New Trips: Build-out: north of Woolbright Road and east of~rest Boulevard Boynton Beach Day Care 3,300 sq. ft. 235 per day 2000 Approval of this project has been delayed pending approval of a "di minimus" impact provision in Article IS of the Palm Beach County Land Development Code. This provision was adopted on March 21,2000. Based on our review the Traffic Division has dctcnnined that the project meetS the Traffic Perfonnance Standards of Pahn Beach County. Please contact me if you have any questions regarding this review. Sincerely. OFFICE OF TIm COUNTY ENG~r;ER S:)~~ )A-~ Dan Weisberg, P.E. Assistal'lt Director - Traffic Division File: General - TPS - MUll - Traffic Study Review F~\TRAF1.-rC\apt\tp8\0OO38l11pp.wpd" tal: 484 TOTAL P.02 lEcif. :~ . ~ . ~denlla( CcxJe ~Vl~l~. ~ HER CHOICE: Vilma Campanale, of Wellington, picked the Kids Club Private, a day-care center in Boca Raton, for her daughter, Victoria, 16 months old. Staff photo/Mark Randall For parents, crucial choices in child care Officials worry as some pick un certified sites 8y SHANA GRUSKIN STAFF WRITER Zachariah is Celia and Keith Tatman's fertility miracle. After one miscarriage and five years of waiting, the baby was born two months premature. So when Celia Tatman went back to work as a teacher, the Sunrise couple were especially picky about child care. First, they took the official route and checked out numerous licensed centers before choosing the cleanest one. H was a disaster. The center charged about $135 a week for infant care, the place was freezing and Za-' chariah constantly was sick. Celia Tatman missed so much work, she eventually quit to stay home with him. "We did it for as long as we could until we were completely broke and I had to go back," she said. . Once working again, Tatman could have chosen another one of the 1,150-plus licensed providers in' Broward and Palm Beach counties for her 2-year-old . DAY CARE continues on 28 CAL SlIll-SClltiIlCI.COI11 . SL',~-SFNTINEl, SOUTII PI.ORI/l.\ Parents face difficult choices in care II DAY CARE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 B son, After all, child-care experts in both counties tout their resource and referral services, their strict child-care laws, their constant in- spections of in-home care provid- ers and day-care centers, But instead, she chose Lizette Dejesus - a neighborhood mom, unlicensed in child care, who charged $80 a week. Last week, a premature baby died while at Dejesus' home in Sunrise. Police, who await a medi- cal examiner's report, are investi- gating. Officials think, however, that Evan Dermer, 10 months old, probably died from medical com- plications. The death, the second one at an unlicensed provider in South Flori- da in less than a year, has again highlighted the day-care dilemma of working parents. It also has prompted county and child-care of- ficials to warn parents against plac- ing their children in unlicensed and crowded day-care situations. Deje- sus was caring for eight children at the time of Evan's death, many younger than 3. Tatman, however, isn't con- vinced she made the wrong deci- sion in opting for unlicensed care. Neither isWende Cuddy of Pompa- no Beach or Diane Weber of Sun- rise. "I really feel that having some- one certified means nothing," said Weber, whose son, Nicholas, 7 months old, also was under Deje- sus' care. "Yeah, they have a fire extinguisher. [But] it's all about how you care. Do they have the knowledge to be a good caregiver?" Child-care officials wince when they hear parents shrug off the li- censing issue. There's more tq child care, they say, than a warm heart and the appearance of com- petence. "If there are rules out there or laws out there that govern a type of care, and the person is aware of them and chooses not to follow them, what does that say about that person?" said K. Lee Tirpak, execu- tive director of Palm Beach Coun- ty's Child Care Resource and Re- ferral, which links parents with licensed day-care providers. Licensed providers are limited in the number of children they can LICENSE SAFEGUARDS In Broward and Palm Beach counties, about 1,150 child-care providers are licensed. That means: . They get paid to care for children from at least two families. . They are limited in the number of children they can watch, depending on the age of the children and the number of staff available to care for them. . Employees' backgrounds have been checked by federal, state and local law enforcement. . Employees take 30 hours of classes, which include first aid and child development courses. . Home care and centers are monitored regularly by inspectors, For more child-care information, call: .In Palm Beach County, Child Care Resource and Referral at 561-265-2423. .In Broward County, Family Central's Resource and Referral at 954-742-4609. care for at one time. Their criminal backgrounds are checked by feder- al and local law enforcement. They must go through 30 hours of train- ing, which includes first aid and child development classes. Their place of business, whether a home or a center, must be structurally sound. ' But many parents rely on their instincts, finding friends of friends to be more trustworthy than the most accredited of day-care provid- ers. Dejesus, whom the children called "Titi" (auntie in Spanish), was loving, both Tatman and We- ber say. She was structured. She organized holiday parties for the children, sang them songs and bought them books. Cuddy said the licensed day-care center where she used to leave her son, Logan, was a petri dish for infections. She yanked him out after only two weeks, after he came down with bronchitis. Now he stays with a baby sitter who watches one other child. "I don't really mind if some- body's not licensed as long as they don't have a million kids and they abide by my rules," she said, "Somebody who's licensed can turn around and make the same mistakes." But while bad things certainly can happen anywhere, chances are higher in an unregulated setting, officials say. ' "Someone can make you feel good when you're there, but there's no guarantee they're good," said Lony Herdeen, executive director of the Florence Fuller Child Devel-' opment Centers in Boca Raton; where about 500 Palm Beach County children go for child care. "Why take a chance?" Vilma Campanale, 34, of Wel- lington, wasn't willing to take that chance. She visited one center after another before choosing Kids Club Private in Boca Raton for her daughter, Victoria, who started day care as a 6-week-old, Some places weren't clean enough, Campanale said. Others had waiting lists. Kids' Club, which charges $1l0 to $132 a week, put her at ease. Still, Campanale visited her daughter, now 16 months old, ev- ery day at lunchtime during her first year in day care. , "The only drawback I think is when they're in the day-care cen- ters, they tend to get sick more of- ten than usual," she said, "But I pre- fer the structure, the monitoring," . But finding the right care isn't al" ways possible, or affordable. Parents often have to settle for their second or third choice be-' cause of waiting lists. Infant care is such a hot commodity in growing pockets of Palm Beach and Brow-' ard counties that Kids Club Direc- tor Cindi Kennedy advises parents to sign their babies up six months in advance. Welfare reform, meanwhile, has only added to the demand for care - as parents who used to stay home with their young children' now stream into the work force. That's put a huge strain on the ar- ea's subsidized child-care system. , In Palm Beach County, more than 1,400 children are waiting for subsidized child care. In Broward, it's closer to 3,000. " So until good, loving, affordable care in a licensed setting is easier to come by, parents will continue to seek alternatives. "My mom raised seven children and she wasn't licensed," Tatman said. "She didn't need a license to do that." Shana Gruskin can be reached at sgrlls/<in(u slm-sentinel.com or 561-243-6537. 12A WEDNESDAY, FEBIWARY 'J, 2000 . NWS NATION = Good child care still a problem By JANELLE CARTER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - Affordable, quality child care remains a critical problem for millions of families, a study concluded Tuesday. The re- sults came a day after President Clinton submitted a proposal for $2 billion in child care aid. Lawmakers cited the report by the National Council of Jewish Women in urging expansion of child-care efforts. ; "We need to do better by our ; children and families," said Sen. '. Mary Landrieu, D-La. , The report by the : 90,000-member organization ': looked at obstacles families face in . finding child care. The study, : which compiled recent child-care ' research, urges both the public and ~. private sectors to work toward bet- ; ter access and affordable, quality ~ care. The survey came a day after the : release of President Clinton's fiscal ~. 2001 budget, which seeks $2 billion : for child-care and development ' block grants to states, an increase ~. of $573 million. The grants are the ~. primary SOurce of child-care subsi- dies for poor families. Clinton also wants new tax cred- its for businesses building or ex- .., panding child-care programs for ~ workers, an investment of $42 mil- lion next year and $1.4 hi1linn f~_ "For most working parents, searching for child care is like running an Olympic track race _ every hurdle they leap is followed by another." JAN SCHNEIDERMAN PRESIDENT OF THE NA T10NAl COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN, WHO ISSUED THE REPORT the decade. The report found that in 15 states, the average cost of day care for 4-year-olds can be nearly twice the' annual cost of college tuition. "For most working parents, searching for child care is like run- ning an Olympic track race _ ev- ery hurdle they leap is follOwed by another," said Jan SChneiderman, president of the organization. The struggle is just as evident for child-care workers, accordingto the report. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says the average annual salaries of janitors and bartenders are higher than those of child-care Workers. I Almost one-third of child-care workers leave their jabs each year because of money, said Rep. Con- nie Morella, R-Md. "They get paid less than they Would at a fast-food I place slinging hambun!pr~ " PLANNING AND ZONING DEPARTMENT MEMORANDUM NO.OO-79 FROM: Mike Haag, Building Division Ken Hall, Engineering Division . 11 ~e- Michael W. Rumpf Director of Planning & Zoning TO: DATE: March 23, 2000 SUBJECT: Rectified Plans for Learning Depot Daycare Attached are rectified plans for the Learning Depot Daycare-99-007 for your file. J:ISHRDATAIPlanningISHAREDlWPIPROJECTSILEARNING DEPOT - COUSIRECTIFIED MEMO,doc DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT Division of Planning and Zoning \~ C:.. \..,(; CA. \- \ '\; n '.\ \ \ \,-, " , ,I,..} Building Planning & Zoning Engineering Occupational License Community Redevelopment -" December 1, 1999 Scott and Catherine Freeland 4470 Gleneagles Drive Boynton Beach, FL 33436 Re: File No.: Location: Day Care Center in R-l-AA Residential Zoning District Code Review (CDRV 99-002) N/A Dear Mr. & Mrs. Freeland: Enclosed is the City of Boynton Beach Development Order for code review granted on August 3, 1999. Should you have any questions regarding this matter, please feel free to contact this office at (561)742-6260. Sincerely, ~:-tJ2- Michael W. Rumpf Director of Planning & Zoning MWR:jma J :\SHRDA T A \Planning\SHARED\ WP\PROJECTS\Daycare center-residential\Development Order Letter .doc America's Gateway to tire Gulfstream 100 East Boynton Beach Blvd., P.O. Box 310 Boynton Beach, Florida 33425-0310 Phone: (561) 375-6260 FAX: (561) 375-6259 PROJECT NAME: Learning Depot (aka Freeland Childcare Center) LOCATION: 8518 Lawrence Road COMPUTER ID: 01-85000033 PERMIT #: I FILE NO.: MMSPOI-033 II TYPE OF APPLICATION: I AGENT/CONTACT PERSON: Cathy OWNER/APPLICANT: Cathy Freeland Freeland PHONE: (561) 742-3707 PHONE: 561-742-3707 FAX: n/a FAX: n/a ADDRESS: 4470 Gleneagles Drive, Boynton ADDRESS: see right column Beach, FL 33436 Date of submittal/Projected meetin~ dates: SUBMITT AL / RESUBMITT AL 5-4-01 1ST REVIEW COMMENTS DUE: N/A PUBLIC NOTICE: N/A TRC MEETING: N/A PROJECTED RESUBMITTAL DATE: N/A ACTUAL RESUBMITTAL DATE: N/A 2ND REVIEW COMMENTS DUE: N/A LAND DEVELOPMENT SIGNS POSTED N/A (SITE PLANS): PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT BOARD N/A MEETING: COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY BOARD CITY COMMISSION MEETING: N/A COMMENTS: Minimum ~ acre for daycare; Daycare regs. (pg.59) 2000 ft distance requirement between Tucks & Miner Rd. Conditional use required. Site plan application. The proposed bathroom addition requires one (1) extra parking space. The applicant withdrew the request on May 16, 2001. \\CH\MAIN\SHRDATA\Planning\SHARED\WP\PROJECTS\LEARNING DEPOT - COUSIMMSP Learning Depot - Bathroom\Learning Place Preshool2001 PROJECT TRACKING INFO,doc