Monroe County Throws Working Families Under the Bus
More Monroe County “Less is More!” ridiculousness. In yesterday’s D&C, “Families lose day care help.”
In this article reporter Stephanie Veale describes letters received by 563 families noting that they will no longer qualify for day care subsidies and have two weeks - TWO WEEKS - to make other arrangements. Have you ever tried to make day care arrangements in two weeks?
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this article is the lobbing of responsibility from the county to thes tate. Although the county states it was the state’s decision to curtail day care funding earlier this month, the county is doing the notifying and cutting. What was the total amount of state money lost? What could the Ren Square pot (or any other big bucks paid out to crony contractors) have done to replace these funds?
According to the article, Human Services Commissioner Kelly Reed:
sought to debunk rumors that the county was sitting on rollover funds, or that the day care cuts were exclusively Brooks’ doing.
(By the way, why aren’t the books completely open on this? Oh wait - we should just trust another Brooks’ lackey.)
And get this - the state had offered to assist in helping those cut off deal with the problem. But we’re Monroe County, where less is more. “State Office of Children and Family Services spokesman, Edward Borges, said his agency wrote to Reed, offering to audit the county’s subsidy program and help ’stretch their dollars to their maximum benefits in these difficult economic times.’..’Commissioner Reed decided not to avail her department of the agency’s expert services,’ Borges said.”
I bet they chose not to avail. An audit? She (and Monroe County) don’t need no stickin’ audit!
But not to worry - the less-is-more approach will resolve all of this.
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Ms. Brooks office is nice place to bring your kids when your other arrangements have fallen through.
How cruel. It’s situations like this that force parents to put their kids into sub-par child care facilities, like the one in which the woman was just sent to prison for feeding the children cough medicine to get them to take naps.
not allowing an audit? that is like pleading the fifth. it is your right and all, but it does imply some wrongdoing to deny an extra set of eyes on your books.