CITY SLATES PROPERTY FOR CHILD CARE CENTER.Byline: Sonia Sonia young prostitute stays near prison to comfort Raskolnikov. [Russ. Lit.: Crime and Punishment] See : Faithfulness Giordani Daily News Staff Writer Ever since the Goebel Senior Adult Center moved from its one-story building on Conejo School Road to the Janss Road facility 10 years ago, officials have hung on to the idea of converting the dilapidated building into a child care center for the Old Town area. Even when the facility was being used as office space - for construction crews during the building of the Civic Arts Plaza, as a storage facility for city supplies or as former City Council member Frank Schillo's office when he became a Ventura Ventura (vĕnt  `rə), city (1990 pop. 92,575), seat of Ventura co., SW Calif., on the Pacific coast in a farm and oil region; inc. 1866. County
superintendent - the idea of using the building for high-quality,
low-cost child care to the community survived.
``It's taken a long time for us to get it all together,'' said Councilwoman Judy Lazar, a proponent One who offers or proposes. A proponent is a person who comes forward with an a item or an idea. A proponent supports an issue or advocates a cause, such as a proponent of a will. PROPONENT, eccl. law. of the project for nearly a decade. ``But it's finally coming together. We're on the verge On the Verge (or The Geography of Yearning) is a play written by Eric Overmyer. It makes extensive use of esoteric language and pop culture references from the late nineteenth century to 1955. of getting the kids in there.'' More than three years after the city began reviewing the feasibility of rehabilitating the 7,500-square-foot building to convert it into a child care facility and appropriated funds for the work, the City Council will vote today to award a $1.3 million contract to a construction company to get the job done. If all goes as planned, between 90 and 110 children will be enrolled at the new child care center - with about half the slots reserved for low-income families who will be subsidized sub·si·dize tr.v. sub·si·dized, sub·si·diz·ing, sub·si·diz·es 1. To assist or support with a subsidy. 2. To secure the assistance of by granting a subsidy. through state and local funds. ``In this community and in this part of the city - Old Town - the need for child care has grown as we've moved into situations where both parents in a family are working or a single parent is working,'' Lazar said. Many working parents in the community have increasingly relied on home-based child care centers or on friends and neighbors to watch kids during their shifts. But finding a program that engages children in educational activities throughout the day is still a challenge, said Lisa Safaeinili, director of residence services for Many Mansions, a nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. low-income housing group. ``For the working poor especially, there is a very big and important need to be met. Many of our mothers are relying on neighbors or on the older children to look after the smaller ones,'' Safaeinili said. The needs of disabled children and of children from extremely low-income families largely are being met by Head Start, a federally funded child care program for 3- and 4-year-old children, she added. ``It's the working poor who really have a hard time with this,'' she said. ``Also, the child care program will be open to very young children. And generally, finding programs that can handle babies is very, very difficult,'' said Olav Hassel, the city's housing services manager. The other slots will help bring the children and grandchildren GRANDCHILDREN, domestic relations. The children of one's children. Sometimes these may claim bequests given in a will to children, though in general they can make no such claim. 6 Co. 16. of the employees who work in Old Town - including the employees of the Civic Arts Plaza - closer. For Glorianne Landrey, senior records clerk for City Hall, that could mean lunchtime visits during the workdays that she is responsible for her 2-year-old granddaughter, Molly molly see mare hinny. . ``Right now, she stays with my best friend in Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. when I'm working,'' Landrey said. ``Yes, I will apply for her to go to the child care center. I know a lot of people in (City Hall) who will.'' While the new child care center won't fill the community's need for high-quality, low-cost child care, it is a start. With the city having no plans for building and staffing additional child care facilities, Lazar said she hopes the center will serve as an example that such programs can be successful. ``Maybe other neighboring neigh·bor n. 1. One who lives near or next to another. 2. A person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another. 3. A fellow human. 4. Used as a form of familiar address. v. cities will do the same. And maybe some of the private employers will follow our lead,'' she said. |
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