<div dir="ltr">The City of Chelsea provides childcare at our community meetings. We utilize a contractor, who is a licensed childcare provider, and have a MOU and indemnification agreement to limit liability. Happy to chat offline, but I think this is doable for all municipalities and something I'd encourage. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 2:12 PM Darlene Wynne via MassPlanners <<a href="mailto:massplanners@masscptc.org">massplanners@masscptc.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">I posted about this back in 2019 for our master planning process and received a few responses. Ultimately, our legal and HR staff did not support this due to concerns about liability, CORI checks, certification, that the City is not in the business of childcare. So it was mostly organized by others (not City staff) and advertised as having "child friendly activities available." </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">We used volunteers from JROTC who needed volunteer hours. We had one child attend whose mother was a member of our master plan committee - which was still important, as she is a single parent.  </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Best, </div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:13pt;color:rgb(31,78,121)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font face="times new roman, serif"><span style="color:rgb(31,78,121);font-size:large">Darlene Wynne, AICP</span><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><i><span style="color:gray"><font face="times new roman, serif">City of Beverly</font></span></i><span style="color:black"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><i><span style="font-family:"Cataneo BT",serif;color:gray">Director of Planning & Development</span></i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><i><span style="font-family:"Cataneo BT",serif;color:gray">978-605-2341</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><i><span style="font-family:"Cataneo BT",serif;color:gray"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:dwynne@beverlyma.gov" target="_blank">dwynne@beverlyma.gov</a></span></span></i><span style="color:black"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><i><span style="font-family:"Cataneo BT",serif;color:gray"><br></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><img width="96" height="96" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4zbNZxJsCyRWCG_v5XeP40k0SIejMtV9bI88rBH3TX-dU18gZid40bLszI892YhAXUNWjpWybI"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-family:"Cataneo BT",serif;color:gray">--</span></i><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">

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