To: Board of Supervisors
From: Family & Human Services Committee
Report Title: Appointment and Reappointment to the LPC
☐Recommendation of the County Administrator ☒ Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPOINT Mackenzie Whipps to the Public Agency #4 - East County seat and REAPPOINT Amy Mockoski to the Discretionary Appointee #2 - Central/South County seat on the Local Planning and Advisory Council for Early Care and Education for terms ending April 30, 2027, as recommended by the Family and Human Services Committee.
FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no fiscal impact for this action.
BACKGROUND:
The review of applications for appointments to the Contra Costa Local Planning Council for Child Care and Development was originally referred to the Family and Human Services Committee by the Board of Supervisors on April 22, 1997.
The Local Planning and Advisory Council for Early Care and Education (LPC) coordinates programs and services affecting early childcare and education, including recommendations for the allocation of federal funds to local early childcare and education programs.
The LPC consists of 20 members: 4 consumer representatives - a parent or person who receives or has received child care services in the past 36 months; 4 child care providers - a person who provides child care services or represents persons who provide child care services; 4 public agency representatives - a person who represents a city, county, city and county, or local education agency; 4 community representatives - a person who represents an agency or business that provides private funding for child care services or who advocates for child care services through participation in civic or community based organizations; and 4 discretionary appointees - a person appointed from any of the above four categories or outside of those categories at the discretion of the appointing agencies.
On June 24, 2024, the Family and Human Services Committee recommended the appointment of Mackenzie Whipps to the Public Agency #4 - East County seat and the reappointment of Amy Mockoski to the Discretionary Appointee #2 - Central/South County seat on the Local Planning and Advisory Council for Early Care and Education.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
Failure to appoint members is likely to reduce public participation in advising policy development.