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PURCHASE OF CHILD DAY CARE SERVICES
AGREEMENT
This AGREEMEVT made this 1st day of March , 19 70
between the Weld County Department ef Ilblee :7elfare, hereinafter referred
to as tee "Department" and thL Weld Ce erIt- "uc . unity Agency, herein after
referred to as the "Agency," a child care organization duly licensed as such
or certified as neetinq the standards of such licen<_ina b-_ the Ft-t- of Colorado.
The program to be delegated directly to the Southern Weld Improvement Association
to operate a day care center in Fort Lupton.
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, the Department is responsible for the furnishing of child care
services pursuant to Colorado Revised Statutes as Amended, 1963, 110--8, and
Title IV of the Social Security Act (45 CFR 220.18, 34FR 220. 18 (1969) ; and
WHEREAS, child care services may be purchased pursuant to Colorado Revised
Statutes as Amended, 1963, 119-8, 2nd
WHEREAS, the Agency is prepared to provide group child care services.
NOW, THEREFORE, the parties intending to be mutually bound hereby agree
as follows:
1. The term of the contract shall be March 1 , 19 70 , through
December 31 , 19 70 .
2. The Agency will at all times during the pendency of this contract make
available to the Department 30 spaces for children whom the Department deter-
mines require child care services.
3. The Agency shall have a Day Care Center Director hired and on the job by
the effective date of this Agreement.
4. The Agency shall have in use a minimum of 75 per cent cf such spaces by
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the end of three months following the effective date of this Agreement and,
thereafter, shall have in use no less than 90 per cent of such spaces during
any month.
5. The Agency agrees to operate child care service in accordance with
the Department's regulations governing child care and with the Federal Inter-
agency Day Care Requirements (45 CFR 71, 34+ FR 1390 (1969)).
6. The Agency will make provision of all educational, health and nutritional
services and necessary child care staff and facilities, including food, equipment,
transportation, and space; provided, however, that medical care and treatment and
social services including intake and intake policy for the 30 child care
placements purchased hereunder are the responsibility of and shall be furnished
by the Department.
7. The Agency further agrees that in hiring staff for the administration
and direct provision of child care, persons will be hired who know what the social
and educational objectives of a day care center are or can be and who know how
to manage the operation of a center. Whenever possible, such staff need to be
drawn from the general area to be served. The Agency agrees that trainees who
may be referred to the day care center by the WIN team of the Colorado State Em-
ployment Service as potential teacher aid teachers in a career progression manner
be interviewed by the Director of the Day Care Center and their acceptability for
training in the care of children be left to the discretion of the Director of the
Day Care Center.
8. The Department will provide all other family and child welfare services
required under State and Federal regulation for the children and their families
served under this contract.
9. The Department shall pay the Association for 30 spaces to be
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available at all times, at a rate of no more than twenty three hundred and ten
dollars ($2,310.00) per month, on the basis of invoices submitted in triplicate;
this amount initially based upon an estimated cost of approximately three dollars
and fifty cents ($3.50) per day per child care space. The Department agrees that
the initial payment to the Agency will be made on April 10, 1970 for services
rendered during March, 1970 and that all subsequent payments to the Agency will
be made the 10th of the month following the month in which services were rendered.
Actual costs incurred and number of spaces to be reviewed jointly by the parties at
the end of the four (4+) months period of this contract for the purpose of making
appropriate adjustments.
10. With the mutual consent of the parties, this contract may be amended as
necessary or canceled after ninety (90) days' written notice and may be renewed
for subsequent periods jointly agreed upon.
11. The Agency agrees that in the performance of this contract there shall be
no discrimination against any employee or other person on the basis of race, color,
sex, religious creed, ancestry, age, or national origin, and that the Department
upon receipt of evidence of such discrimination shall have the right to cancel said
contract, after the aforesaid ninety (90) days' written notice.
12. The Agency agrees that the Department has the •right and the responsi-
bility to monitor the program to determine that the service purchased does, in
fact, meet the county and state department regulations and the Federal Interagency
Day Care Requirements.
The agency agrees to provide the department with cost survey information re-
lating to day care costs in Weld County, and accounting of all funds on a cost
accounting basis to be provided the Department at their request. The Agency agrees
that all payments made for child care are for the explicit purpose of the operation
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of a day care cer.ter in Fort Lupton and for no other purpose whatsoever.
The Agency agrees that the program in the day care center facility is to
be conducted as a total program under the direction of one person and that all
of the children _.n the Center will be grouped according to the ohild's individual
needs and age.
The Agency agrees that individual records on each child maintained by the
agency will be made available to department personnel upon the request of the
department.
The Agency agrees to provide the Department with a monthly census record
report stating tie name and number of children in care, dates of attendance,
category of payment and such report to be submitted no later than the last
working day of each month.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be
executed by their officials thereunto duly authorized.
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SIGNED: MARCH 18, 1970
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