§ 410-bb. Grants to not-for-profit facilities providing day care for\nchildren for employee salary and benefit enhancements. 1. The\nlegislature finds and declares that a crisis exists in the availability\nand quality of child day care in New York state and that this crisis\nposes a danger both to the welfare and safety of the children and to the\nproductivity of this state's workforce; that inadequate salaries and in\nmany cases nonexistent benefit packages have substantially contributed\nto the existing crisis by precluding day care centers from recruiting\nand retaining necessary teaching and supervisory staff; that an\nextremely high turnover rate has interfered in many instances with the\nability of day care centers to comply with regulatory requirements and\nto properly serve the children in their care; and that because of these\nextraordinary circumstances New York state must intervene and provide\nassistance for recruitment and retention of child care workers. The\nlegislature recognizes that a long-term solution to this crisis will\nrequire cooperative efforts among the business community, local and\nstate governments and families.\n 2. Within amounts appropriated specifically therefor, and after\ndeducting funds as specified in subdivision three of this section the\ncommissioner shall allocate funds to local social services districts for\ngrants to eligible not-for-profit day care centers for retention and\nrecruitment of teaching and supervisory staff, as follows:\n (a) a city social services district with a population in excess of one\nmillion shall be allocated a portion of such funds based on an equal\nweighting of:\n (i) its proportion of the state population of children aged five and\nunder, and\n (ii) its proportion of total claims for reimbursement received by the\ndepartment by May thirty-first, nineteen hundred eighty-eight for the\nlow income, transitional and teen parent day care programs authorized by\nchapter fifty-three of the laws of nineteen hundred eighty-seven.\n (b) all other eligible local social services districts shall be\nallocated the remaining portion of funds based on each district's\nproportionate share of licensed not-for-profit day care capacity\nrelative to the total capacity of all such other eligible districts.\n 3. Five percent of the funds appropriated for such recruitment and\nretention purposes shall be reserved for administration of the program\nand allocated as follows:\n (a) each local social services district shall be allocated an amount\nequivalent to five percent of the funds it receives under paragraphs (a)\nand (b) of subdivision two of this section, provided that no district\nshall receive an amount less than twenty-five hundred dollars nor\ngreater than one hundred fifty thousand dollars, and\n (b) remaining funds shall be allocated to the department. In the event\nthat a not-for-profit child care resource and referral agency or the\ndepartment distributes funds in an eligible district, as provided\nherein, such agency or department may retain the amount that otherwise\nwould be available to the eligible district.\n 4. Not later than thirty days following the effective date of this\nsection, the commissioner shall notify local social services districts\nof the amounts allocated to each district and provide forms for the\ncollecting of information pursuant to this section.\n 5. For the purposes of this section, an eligible district shall mean a\nlocal social services district that is providing, as of the effective\ndate of this section, or which shall agree to provide in such written\nform and by such date as shall be acceptable to the department,\nsubsidized day care services under the special day care services program\nauthorized by chapter fifty-three of the laws of nineteen hundred\neighty-eight.\n 6. Eligible districts may apply on or before the ninetieth day\nfollowing the effective date of this section to receive such allocated\nfunds by submitting to th
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