Child care facility delayed

Boulder’s new child care center will have to wait a few more months to open its doors. Southwest Montana Youth Partners has not yet received the State building permit that is necessary before Rachel Supalla’s 30-child Discovery Kidzone can officially embark on its new location – the modular adjacent to Boulder Elementary School.

SMYP President Drew Dawson and the Board had originally planned to have Supalla’s child care center open by late November or December of this year. 

“Sadly, that won’t be the case,” Dawson said. “The holdup is mostly because we delayed submitting the State application for a building permit. Because the City doesn’t require State Building permits, we didn’t realize a permit was required for this government building.  We should have, and it is now causing a delay. If we had submitted the request before the building was placed on the foundation, we obviously would have eliminated some headaches.  But, hindsight is 20-20.  We are moving on from here and many people are working incredibly hard to get the building in tip-top shape.”