Int. No. 516-A

By Council Members DeBlasio, The Speaker (Council Member Miller), Boyland, Reyna, Baez, Barron, Brewer, Clarke, Comrie, Fidler, Foster, Gennaro, Gerson, Gonzalez, James, Jennings, Jr., Koppell, Liu, Martinez, Monserrate, Nelson, Palma, Reed, Vann, Weprin, Quinn, Seabrook, Lopez, Felder, Sanders, Jackson, Oddo and The Public Advocate (Ms. Gotbaum)

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring regular reports regarding child day care facilities.

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1.  Chapter ten of title 17 of the administrative code of the city of New York is hereby amended by adding a new section 17-920, to read as follows:

§ 17-920.  Reports regarding child care facilities citywide. 

a.  Beginning 45 days after the end of the first full calendar quarter following the effective date of the local law that added this section and 45 days after the end of each succeeding calendar quarter thereafter, the department will furnish to the speaker of the city council a report regarding child day care in New York City that includes, at a minimum, and to the extent that the department has access to such information, the following information concerning state regulated family and group family day care homes and school age child care programs and day care services regulated pursuant to Articles 5 and  47 of the New York City health code: 

1.  number of providers currently holding a valid license, registration or permit issued under state or local law or regulations, disaggregated by borough and by type of program;  

2.  number of inspections of such child day care providers, programs and services conducted, disaggregated borough and by the type of day care inspected;

3.  number of license, registration or permit renewal applications received, disaggregated by type of day care;

4.  number of new applications for licenses, registrations or permits received,  disaggregated by type of program and by borough;

5.  number of renewal licenses, registrations and permits issued, disaggregated by type of program and by borough;

6.  number of new licenses, registrations and permits issued, disaggregated by type of program and by borough;

7.  number of complaints received regarding day care operating with a license, registration or permit, disaggregated by the type of day care and borough of the day care that is the subject of the complaint;

8.  number of complaints received regarding day care operating without a license, registration or permit, disaggregated by the borough in which the day care that is the subject of the complaint is located;

9.  number of State licensed or registered day care providers or programs cited for having violations, disaggregated by borough and by the type of provider or program;

10.  number of City permitted day care services:

(a) that have passed initial inspections by the department;

(b) that have failed initial inspections by the department;

(c) that have passed compliance inspections by the department; and

(d) that have failed compliance inspections by the department;

11.  number of day care licenses, registrations or permits revoked, disaggregated by type of day care;

12. number of day care licenses, registrations or permits suspended, disaggregated by the type of day care;

13.  number of cease and desist orders issued, disaggregated by the type of state licensed or registered provider or program;

14.  number of city permitted day care services closed by order of the department;

15.  number of early childhood consultants employed in the department’s bureau of day care as of the close of business on the final day of the reporting period;

16.  number of early childhood consultant vacancies in the department’s bureau of day care as of the close of business on the final day of the reporting period;

17.  number of public health sanitarians employed in the department’s bureau of day care as of the close of business on the final day of the reporting period; and

18.  number of public health sanitarian vacancies in the department’s bureau of day care as of the close of business on the final day of  the reporting period. 

b.  Within 45 days after the end of each calendar year, the department will publish and make available on its website an annual report containing the information set forth in subdivision a of this section for the prior calendar year.

§ 2. This local law shall take effect 180 days after its enactment and shall expire on July 31, 2008.