2025 Child Care Grants

The Child Care Grant Program is currently funded through voluntary amenity contributions to the Child Care Development Reserve and Child Care Operating Reserve secured through the development applications process in keeping with City policies. The recent Provincial Housing Bills are intended to constrict the ability to secure voluntary amenity contributions but do provide the ability to secure capital funding towards the construction of growth related amenities, including child care facilities, to support growth within the municipality. This will be achieved through the adoption of an Amenity Cost Charges (ACC) Bylaw, which is currently under review and will be presented to Council for consideration later this year. Under an ACC program, the City’s ability to fund the Child Care Grant Program will be severely limited as only growth related capital expenditures on City-owned facilities within the capital grant stream are anticipated to be eligible. This may result in diminished capacity to secure funds through development processes to support the Child Care Reserves and the activities they currently fund as outlined above. Due to these changes, there is a need for increased partnership and shared financial responsibility in the allocation of the Child Care Grants. These impacts to the Child Care Reserve Funds available have been taken into consideration in the review of the 2025 Child Care Grants and the resulting recommendations.

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