PHSSC

That Report COM 16-2024, dated May 7, 2024, respecting Child Care and Early Years 2024 Operating Budget Announcement, BE RECEIVED and the following recommendation BE APPROVED: 1. That a gross operating budget adjustment in the amount of $6,274,822 gross and $0 net, to be fully funded through the Ministry of Education (MEDU), BE APPROVED to support Niagara’s early years and child care system.

That the following items BE RECEIVED for information: COM 12-2024 Seniors Services Quality Improvement Report: October – December 2023 COM 13-2024 Medical Directors Annual Report 2023 – Long-Term Care Homes COM 14-2024 An Evaluation of the use of Granting for the Building Safer Communities Grant Program Pilot COM 15-2024 Housing and Homelessness Action Plan Update 2023 COM-C 6-2024 School-age Child Care Affordability Pilot Update COM-C 7-2024 Correspondence from Niagara Regional Housing – Letter to the Ombudsman of Ontario Public Health and Social Services Committee Open Session Minutes PHSSC 5-2024 May 7, 2024 Page 3 PHD-C 2-2024 Correspondence from the Honourable Sylvia Jones, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health, to Regional Chair Bradley, respecting additional funding from the Ministry of Health for the Niagara Region Public Health Department