Negative daycare decisions
Letters to the editor
PIQUE Newsmagazine
June 5, 2008
BY: Jennifer James

It is shameful how the board of directors for MY Place Society handled the closure announcement of Teddy Bear Daycare, March 17th. This is a community daycare (non-profit?) and the MY Place Society looks to this community for contributions and donations. A financial report has been requested on numerous occasions and still has not been produced and the board members did not want their names released publicly.

….When there was finally a meeting, the parents were very frustrated, still no financial report! There was discussion of a third party operator taking over Teddy Bear daycare. The chair of the board.. indicated a third party operator was a possibility, but the Resort Municipality of Whistler would make the decision on who was operating in that space. The Resort Municipality of Whistler has since said, at a council meeting, they would not make this decision, …

The decisions this board of directors is making, are negatively affecting this community. How are we to attract or retain employees in this community, without adequate affordable daycare? There has been no request for money, only the opportunity to keep the doors of Teddy Bear daycare open for working parents of this community.