Officials hope to clear wait lists by 2012

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More spaces needed
Air Force unveils plan to take care of the kids


Officials hope to clear wait lists by 2012
By Erik Holmes - Staff writer
Posted : Sunday Mar 30, 2008 9:25:10 EDT

Wait lists for child-care slots on base have long been a worry for airmen and their families, but the Air Force says it has a plan to eliminate the backlog by 2012.

To provide care for all the children who need a place at a child development center, service officials say they will require about 4,000 additional slots during the next several years. They have laid out an ambitious plan to build new child-care facilities or expand existing ones at 23 bases, addressing almost all of the backlog. The remaining 100 or so needed spaces will be provided by spouses and other family members who provide care in on-base homes.

“We’re not OK with , so it’s in our plan to fix it,” said Eliza Nesmith, chief of Airman and Family Services at Air Force headquarters. “The plan is ... to wipe it out.”

Air Force child-care centers now have about 56,000 spaces, Nesmith said.

The plan includes building nine new CDCs that will provide space for 2,223 additional children. Those facilities are already in the military construction program. The first to get new centers, with funding provided in fiscal 2008, will be Patrick Air Force Base, Fla.; Charleston Air Force Base, S.C.; and Scott Air Force Base, Ill. Six other bases are slated to get new centers between fiscal 2009 and 2012.


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1. Why not just wait for the kids to all grow up. That's will get rid of the wait list...