I'm so crushed. I'm in the process of getting registered and spoke with my city licensing inspector Friday. Over the past couple of months I have been getting my 2nd floor perfect for the kids with distinct learning centers (home living, books, blocks, etc.). We even moved our entire office to our spare bedroom on the 1st floor to make a seperate infant/napping room with everything for the younger kids.
I asked in our pre-registration training meeting about watching kids upstairs and they said absolutely no problem as long as the fire marshall comes out and says it's ok. So I had them out 3 weeks ago and they said go for it.
Well, yesterday the City licensing agent said in our particular city they cannot register/license homes to care for kids on the 2nd level b/c the Fire Marshall will not put it in writing. He said to me "I can't say where you can't or can watch kids, so if I approve downstairs there's nothing keeping you from going upstairs". I assumed this meant everything was ok. But she told me because it's not in writing they can't grant my permit. They said they will never put it in writing so the city will never approve it. UGGG
So before they come to inspect I need to decide how I'm going to move what I can downstairs so that I could operate on just that level. The downstairs just has one small bedroom, bath and then our kitchen/living/dining and we've never had toys or anything down there. It's always just been our living area and all of the kids' toys were always upstairs in their huge playroom.
I don't know how this is going to work out.:confused:
Thanks for listening to my vent.
I asked in our pre-registration training meeting about watching kids upstairs and they said absolutely no problem as long as the fire marshall comes out and says it's ok. So I had them out 3 weeks ago and they said go for it.
Well, yesterday the City licensing agent said in our particular city they cannot register/license homes to care for kids on the 2nd level b/c the Fire Marshall will not put it in writing. He said to me "I can't say where you can't or can watch kids, so if I approve downstairs there's nothing keeping you from going upstairs". I assumed this meant everything was ok. But she told me because it's not in writing they can't grant my permit. They said they will never put it in writing so the city will never approve it. UGGG
So before they come to inspect I need to decide how I'm going to move what I can downstairs so that I could operate on just that level. The downstairs just has one small bedroom, bath and then our kitchen/living/dining and we've never had toys or anything down there. It's always just been our living area and all of the kids' toys were always upstairs in their huge playroom.
I don't know how this is going to work out.:confused:
Thanks for listening to my vent.
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