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Receive a presentation providing an update on the Early Learning Center in Vallejo
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DEPARTMENTAL RECOMMENDATION:
The First 5 Solano Children and Families Commission recommends that the Board of Supervisors receive a presentation providing an update on the Early Learning Center in Vallejo.
SUMMARY:
The First 5 Solano Children and Families Commission is bringing forward a presentation to update the Board on the Early Learning Center in Vallejo, CA, which is a project to renovate the shuttered Beverly Hills elementary school. Utilizing funding from Solano County American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), and the First 5 Commission, the school was purchased from the Vallejo City Unified School District (VCUSD) in December 2023 and transferred to Child Start, Inc. in January 2024.
The purpose of this project is to create an Early Learning Center (ELC) which will expand childcare and family strengthening opportunities for children ages 0-5 in Vallejo and throughout Solano County. The ELC will provide crucial childcare services for both the local and surrounding communities. In addition to 18 childcare and preschool classrooms for children ages 0-5, the project includes a new Community Resource Building established on the campus, providing resources to the families at the center, and the surrounding community as appropriate.
In addition, the project moves the two Head Start classrooms currently located at the Virginia Street County building on the Solano County Health & Social Services Vallejo Campus to the ELC in Summer 2025, allowing the County to use that space for another purpose.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
There is no cost to receiving this presentation.
DISCUSSION:
In early 2021, County staff requested that the First 5 Solano work with Child Start, Inc. to identify a space to relocate two of its Head Start Classrooms located on Virginia Street in Vallejo on t...
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