AGENDA CAPTION:
Title
Receive a Staff presentation and hold a Public Hearing to receive comments for or against Ordinance 2020-42, adopting Youth Programs Standards of Care for 2020; providing a severability clause; declaring an effective date; and consider approval of Ordinance 2020-42, on the first of two readings
Body
Meeting date: June 2, 2020
Department: Parks and Recreation
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Prior Council Action: None
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Background Information:
The State of Texas Human Resources Code Chapter 42 exempts certain after-school and summer recreation programs from state licensing requirements as identified in Subsection 42.041(14) stating "an elementary-age (ages 5-13) recreation program operated by a municipality provided the governing body of the municipality annually adopts standards of care by ordinance after a public hearing for such programs, that such standards are provided to the parents of each program participant, and that the ordinances shall include, at a minimum, staffing ratios, minimum staff qualifications, minimum facility, health, and safety standards, and mechanisms for monitoring and enforcing the adopted local standards; and further provided that parents be informed that the program is not licensed by the sta...
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