WAC 110-15-0247. Field trip/quality enhancement fees

(1) As funding allows, DCYF pays licensed or certified family home child care providers and in-home/relative providers a monthly field trip/quality enhancement fee up to $30 per child or the providers' actual cost for the field trip, if the fee is required of all parents and guardians whose children are in their care. DCYF-licensed or certified child care centers and school-age centers are not eligible to receive the field trip/quality enhancement fee. (2) The field trip/quality enhancement fee is to cover the providers' actual expenses for: (a) Admission; (b) Enrichment programs and/or ongoing lessons; (c) Public transportation or mileage reimbursement at the state office of financial management rate for the use of a private vehicle; (d) The cost of hiring a nonemployee to provide an activity at the child care site in-house field trip activity; and (e) The purchase or development of a prekindergarten curriculum. (3) The field trip/quality enhancement fee will not cover fees or admission costs for adults on field trips, or food purchased on field trips.