CLEAR LAKE — Clear Lake’s City Council tonight will get an update on efforts to improve the availability of child care in Cerro Gordo County.
The City of Clear Lake previously committed $25,000 from both the Fiscal Year 2024 & 2025 budgets toward the Child Care Wage Supplement Program. It’s a program supplementing child care worker wages by $2 an hour in an effort to retain employees, and in turn, get many child care centers back up to capacity and have a solid business model in place.
The council tonight will hear an update about the program from Kelli Gerdes of the Cerro Gordo County Department of Public Health. While the council will not vote on anything tonight, they will consider additional support from the city’s Fiscal Year 2026 budget as part of the budget process.
The council meets tonight at 5:30 at Clear Lake City Hall.
