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Encourage the training and retmip!%~ of qualified child care emplos/~es through advocating for and providing higher wages, educational stipends and lonsevRy pay. Make available affordabk fee-based child care opportunities for Pleasanton families through sliding scale fee rates and scholarships. Solidt ~rants and any other addilional funding avsi!shle ~o subsidize employee salaries. Provid~ accessible and affordable transportation to and from child care programs by adding service routes nea~ or directly adjacent to, childcare facilities and new school campuses. Communicate t~ parents/guardians and the community the availability of child care resources through organizations (such as Child Care Links), via newspapers, ffKIQ radio, Channel 30 pro.am- ming PUSD, and City publications and websites. Provide free resource and child care referral services and community resource information through Child Care Links, a community-based referral agency that develops and maintains a list of current licensed programs. Maintain copies at ~he Ple~santon Public Library and appropriate websites. IMPLEMENTATION SUGGESTIONS The City of Pleasanton, PUSD, Child Care Links, and other related agencies and businesses could collabo- rate on this objective. (~e L~hibit A, 3) Develop a consortium of agendes, i.e. City of Pleasanton, PLISD, child care providers, local businesses, the Youth Master Plan of Pleasanton Implementation Committee and Child Care Subcom- mittee to pursue this objective. The City of Pleasanton, PUSD, private businesses and child care providers could work with Wheels and other public transportation s~stems to identify the need for new service routes and establish a sliding- scale fee program for qualifying families. Private child care providers could be strongly encouraged to include transportation to their facilities through fees paid by clients. '$~ Exhibit A, 4) See Exhibit A, 5) 8