Vanessa Fuentes

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Austin City Council · City Council Budget Work Session · 28 Jul 2026 meeting

There are staff available to speak to the newly created Child Care Assistance Reserve Fund.

And my next questions will be around consultant contract spending, just as a heads up.

So colleagues, we know we established the Child Care Assistance Fund earlier this year as a result of one of our incentives that we passed.

And so I wanted staff to see if y'all could speak to just how these funds will be used and any guidelines that we have established with it.

child care stakeholders to be able to formalize those okay so for this budget cycle there would be no general fund dollars within that fund that's correct okay

And then the other question I have is, and colleagues, you might remember that we also created separately the child care fee waiver program, which will go into effect later this fall, I believe.

centers and of course, expansion of existing high quality centers.

And the funds for this fee waiver program, is it still the 250,000 that was back from 23?

There's about 238,000 remaining that will roll over into FY27.

Okay, 238.

Okay, thank you.

Those are my questions for you all.

Colleagues, I wanted to now pivot and talk about consultant contract spending.

I know that, well, I assume that this may have come up during the social service work session, so apologies if I'm retreading a conversation that's already been had.

But first, my question I want to start out with is if staff could tell us, Director Lang, on the amount of funds we have dedicated for consulting contracts in the proposed fiscal year budget.

Okay, so just so I'm following, according to the audit, there was over 100 million in consulting contract spend.

You're essentially saying there's different categories of consultant services, and there's only really 10 million that was of general consulting related services?

only 1.3 was actually spent

okay

Thank you.

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