New York CCAP: pay Monroe County's 75% enhanced informal rate #10963

What the plan sets

18 NYCRR 415.9(h)(2) sets the enhanced market rate for informal child care at 70% of the registered family day care rate. It lets a district raise that rate to as much as 75% in its Child and Family Services Plan. Monroe County chose 75% in its 2024-2029 plan (PDF page 105), which OCFS approved effective November 18, 2024.

What the model does

#10821 gave New York City its own enhanced informal cells and kept one set of LE_ENH cells for each other county group in rates/weekly.yaml, rates/daily.yaml and rates/part_day.yaml. Monroe County sits in group 2, whose cells equal 70% of the family day care cells. The model pays a Monroe County enhanced informal provider up to $200 a week for a preschooler, where the county's plan allows $214. The New York CCAP notes in programs.yaml list the rate under "Not modeled".

Proposed change

• Add a Monroe County override of group 2's enhanced informal cells from November 18, 2024. Each cell equals 75% of the group 2 family day care cell, rounded to a whole dollar with a half rounding up, as 24-OCFS-LCM-22 (page 8) rounds informal rates.
• Follow the pattern of Monroe County's differentials in Add New York CCAP differentials and enhanced payment rates #10821: a dated county parameter that the rate formula reads when county_str equals MONROE_COUNTY_NY.
• Check the plan that preceded this one for the rate Monroe County paid before November 18, 2024.
• Remove Monroe County's 75% enhanced informal rate from the "Not modeled" list in programs.yaml.

Tests

• A Monroe County preschooler in weekly care with an enhanced informal provider: $200 × 52 / 12 = $866.67 a month in November 2024, and $214 × 52 / 12 = $927.33 from December 2024.
• The same child in Erie County, also in group 2, keeps $866.67.
• One case for each of the 12 Monroe County cells.
• A Monroe County child with a standard informal provider keeps the 65% cell.