House Journal: Page 2046: Friday, April 28, 1995

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 1   believed that a quality, on-site child care program
 2   available to the children of state employees will
 3   provide a model for other employers in this state to
 4   emulate.
 5     b.  (1)  The legislative council is requested to
 6   appoint a capitol complex child day care program
 7   steering committee to provide direction to the
 8   department of general services in developing facility
 9   plans, establishing the facilities, developing
10   operation policies, contracting with a vendor to
11   operate the program, and other decisions involving
12   establishment and operation of the program.  The
13   steering committee shall utilize the March 1990
14   consultant report to the capitol complex ad hoc
15   committee on child care, particularly the intermediate
16   quality recommendations, in its decision making.
17     (2)  The steering committee membership shall
18   include members of the general assembly;
19   representatives of the departments of general
20   services, personnel, human services, and education;
21   employees officed at the capitol complex who purchase
22   child day care services; a representative of the state
23   board of regents center for early childhood education;
24   a representative of the Iowa state university of
25   science and technology early childhood education
26   programs; and other persons knowledgeable concerning
27   child day care programs.
28     c.  In consultation with the steering committee,
29   the director of the department of general services
30   shall retain a consultant to oversee the process of
31   developing the program and shall contract with a
32   vendor to manage the program.
33     d.  The program shall be designed to operate with a
34   capacity of 150 children and to regularly serve
35   infants, toddlers, preschool, school age, and mildly
36   ill children.
37     23.  To the commission of veterans affairs, for
38   donation to the women in military service for America
39   memorial foundation for the purpose of constructing
40   the women in military service memorial to be built at
41   the gateway to Arlington national cemetery in
42   Arlington, Virginia:
43   			$	47,000
44     The executive director of the commission of
45   veterans affairs shall forward this donation to the
46   women in military service for America memorial
47   foundation upon certification by the foundation that
48   sufficient funding has been pledged to complete the
49   construction of the memorial.
50     24.  To the Iowa peace institute:

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