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^ ;' i' i s I' ?nfers £% h» fSJ7— F^.^ew ^JCorlzon ^Jbatj Care Cenlers £%HiS/F* ^)0 JUtpJalt Dlcmtu ^vrlk, CBrooUft CmUr, JKmnraota 55i30 (m) 566.1117 iSmt ^mkttj (6t2j5*6J038 March 8, 1978 Planning Conunlssion and City Council City of Orono Orono, Minnesota Re:Operation of New Horizons Child Care Center Conditional Use Permit of Site'known ** Calvery Memorial Church at Co. Rds 15 6 19 Gentlemen: The purpose of our application is to obtain a Conditional Use Permit for the above location as New Horizons is very much interested in purchasing the premises. We would like to tell you briefly who we are, our intentions and adequately explain to you why we feel such a Conditional Use Permit should be granted. New Horizons was founded six years ago when in Brooklyn Center we opened the first nursery school, followed by the Maple Grove Nurse^ School. Approximately two years later, realizing the existing for expanded child care on a full time basis, we opened the Brooklyn Park facility as an all day child care center. Within a few menus time, the Spring Lake Park facility, offering both nursery school and full day care for children was opened. In August 1977 we opened our Plymouth location offering a complete range of day care and nursery school services. In Plymouth, we purchased, renovated and utilized a church facility after obtaining a Conditional Use Permit. We are established in these fiva communities and have provided a very neces sary service. We will provide to you letters from each community attesting to our programs, our valued service and most importantly, the continued growing need for such facilities. Child care centers are educational programs that help a child become independent, inquisitive and learn to share, love and respect their peers and adults. They are structured similar to a kindergarten classroom but do not take the place of such. We work closely with each school district to see that our material correlates to theirs. Our day care centers are not babysitting services, we are educational schools where the children learn, grow and have fun in a structured atmosphere with certified teachers at the helm. Horizons, at the present time, in our existing facilities, has 40 employees, 24 of whom are certified teachers for the approximate 450 children now enrolled. New Horizons is a private school, licensed and governed in all its existing facilities by the State of Minnesota. We are federally certified for Title 20 children.