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i e mtmsfsmmmmmmmws education daycare centres should be build inau new schools childcare waiting lists tackled by public board by jennifer brown staff writer daycare spaces in york region schools are hard to come by and the public board wants to help par ents who are on the waiting list in a report to the school board monday night coordinator of community services gayle whitehead told trustees that waiting lists grow longer because the regions population is expand ing and no new schoolbased centres havebeen opened since 1996 the board is considering asking the province to let it resume building daycare centres the harris government stopped funding the construction of childcare centres in july 1995 and lengthy waiting lists now exist for all age groups every fall a childcare report is provided to trustees outlining the lack of space in the region but vaughan trustee harvey nightingale said sim ply accepting the report every year isnt doing any thing to improve the problem just receiving this report is not enough i think we ought to do more than just receive it nightingale said we need to writea letter to the ministry of community and social services and the ministry of education asking to allow us to resume building childcare centres in our schools were coming to the next millennium and the fact is we have to expand or the situation for child care will just come back and hit us one day director of education bill hogarth agreed say ing it is the boards responsibility to the communi ty to pursue the issue with the province i think it is one way we have shortchanged a growing region hogarth said whiteheads report indicated there aire no initia tives or funding sources to encourage new pro grams and operators are reluctant to start new before- and afterschool programs because staff is difficult to find and hard to keep the idea of writing to the province was intro duced by nightingale during a committee meeting monday and all trustees will consider the motion during its regular meeting next week our numbers keep going up and the supervisors at the centres are becoming more and more stressed and the families are calling and becoming more and more stressed whitehead said parents are becoming savvy to the waiting list problem calling the board to inquire about daycare space before they purchase a new home we cant serve our communities with those waiting lists our numbers keep going up and the supervisors at the centres are becoming more and more stressed and the families are calling and becoming more and more stressed they expect the child care to be there she said the board has a list of 21 prequalified child- care operators including two commercial providers who will be given first opportunity to bid should the province approve the construction of new centres whitehead said but there is also a growing space problem for before- and afterschool programs with the demo- lition of hundreds of portables and renovation of space such as lunch rooms family studies indus trial arts and french rooms to become classroom space the available space for children in before- and afterschool programs has dropped j 20off all regular prices 1 0 off econmlstsun all sale prices for more information buffet orientalis escape from your daily rituals and expect a fresher approach to the finest dining experience in exotic chinese and international cuisine icji glenburnt residents ofthis exclusive community will follow i a winding road through mature woods over aimjb stream past a stone gateway and up a slope to homes that look as if they had been here since the days purebred shqrihorn cattle roamed the property illm this is glenburn forest here connecting with nature simply means stepping outside an exclusive gated community m a charming rural setting in the city v- t privacy assured by limited access entry acres of forest made up of maple oak and walnut adjacent to york downs golf course minutes to major highways and all amenities just 36 luxury condominium town residences from 521900 upto 3428 sq ft wlpifler ss rv z- narch mm hllp wwwmonarchgroupnet for an appointment call phil storey 9059470686