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House Journal: Page 2222: Wednesday, May 3, 1995

24.  To the department of general services for planning, design,
site acquisition and preparation, and other expenditures
necessary to establish a fee-based child day care program
available to public employees officed at or near the capitol
complex:
			$	500,000
a.  The general assembly considers child day care to be an
important service for employers, employees, and their children.
Employer-supported child care can have a positive impact upon
employee morale and retention and can positively affect the
children who are receiving child care services.  High quality
child care is of significant value to employers.  It is believed
that a quality, on-site child care program available to the
children of state employees will provide a model for other
employers in this state to emulate.
b.  (1)  The legislative council is requested to appoint a
capitol complex child day care program steering committee to
provide direction to the department of general services in
developing facility plans, establishing the facilities,
developing operation policies, contracting with a vendor to
operate the program, and other decisions involving establishment
and operation of the program.  The steering committee shall
utilize the March 1990 consultant report to the capitol complex
ad hoc committee on child care, particularly the intermediate
quality recommendations, in its decision making.
(2)  The steering committee membership shall include members of
the general assembly; representatives of the departments of
general services, personnel, human services, and education;
employees officed at the capitol complex who purchase child day
care services; a representative of the state board of regents
center for early childhood education; a representative of the
Iowa state university of science and technology early childhood
education programs; and other persons knowledgeable concerning
child day care programs.
c.  In consultation with the steering committee, the director of
the department of general services shall retain a consultant to
oversee the process of developing the program and shall contract
with a vendor to manage the program.
d.  The program shall be designed to operate with a capacity of
150 children and to regularly serve infants, toddlers,
preschool, school age, and mildly ill children.
25.  To the commission of veterans affairs, for donation to the
women in military service for America memorial foundation for
the purpose of constructing the women in military service
memorial to be built at the gateway to Arlington national
cemetery in Arlington, Virginia:
 			$	47,000
 The executive director of the commission of veterans affairs
shall forward this donation to the women in military service for
America memorial foundation upon certification by the foundation
that sufficient funding has been pledged to complete the
construction of the memorial.
26.  To the Iowa peace institute:
			$	100,000
27.  To the division of highway safety, uniformed force, and
radio communications of the department of public safety for
purchase and activation charges for cellular phones for force
members:
			$	50,000

Iowa General Assembly

Index: House Journal (76th General Assembly: Session 1)

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