Item 6- Success By 6 presentation — original pdf

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Austin/Travis County S COA Budget Discussion Success By 6 Coalition The Success By 6 Coalition is a network of child and family advocates — providers, parents, policymakers, civic leaders, and experts — working together to transform our early childhood system. 90% of brain development happens before age 5. Maintain Funding Social Service Contracts High-Quality Childcare Fee Waivers - - - - - - - - adjustment) $768,157.08) Family Connects Homegrown Implementation Grant Match ($75,000 annually through grant) Start Up Costs for Pre-K Classrooms (consider increasing funding to at least $170,666 for 8 classrooms to reduce reduction in number of classrooms addressed) Incorporating an annual cost of living adjustment for all social service contracts (5% COLA PreK Partnerships, Shared Services (previous amount awarded through ARPA funds for FY 25 is Family Stabilization Grants ($1.3 million, consider increasing to support more families) New Investments for Consideration: - Additional EDD FTE staff focused on early childhood projects/contracts - Meeting one time funding requests from partners that received smaller social contract awards for technology and staff retention requests Thinking about the future - Planning for Travis County Prop A implementation is still taking place, with resource allocation and timing being unclear - Early Childhood funding cliff that needs to be addressed THANK YOU