PLEASE PASS ONTO THE COLORADO GOVERNOR AND DENVER MAYOR:
The Denver Metro area will need to request federal funding and negotiated prices for the following:
20,000 quantity of new, infant cribs, built from solid pine wood, unsealed, unpainted with new crib mattresses
Each crib needs to be negotiated down to:
$100/crib frame (sales tax, assembly, and delivery-free)
Each new crib mattress needs to be negotiated down to:
$50/crib mattress (sales tax and delivery-free)
Organic, food-grade, liquid beeswax spray to seal each crib frame with reusable cleaning rags:
1 gallon per 1,000 cribs = 20 gallons total
$35/gallon x 20 gallons= $700 (sales tax and delivery-free)
SIDS/acid-reflux prevention wedges for underneath each crib mattress:
$20/each x 20,000 qty = $400,000
Fitted crib mattress sheets (4 per crib):
$10/each x 4 sheets per crib x 20,000 cribs: $800,000 total
Crib bumpers (2 qty per crib):
$15/each x 2 per crib x 20,000 cribs= $600,000 total
(Negotiate bulk discount prices, free delivery, assembly and sales taxes).
TOTAL AMOUNT NEEDED FOR DELIVERY TO THE BATTERED SHELTERS, PREGNANT PRETEENS, PREGNANT TEENS HOMES, HOMELESS SHELTERS, ORPHANAGES, FOOD STAMP AND WIC RECIPIENTS:
$4,800,700 USD, U.S. dollars
(Four million, eight-hundred thousand, seven hundred dollars)
This needs to be federally funded every year, as we have not funded appropriately for literacy (year-round public schooling with before and after school programs, especially, full-day, year-round Headstart and Kindergarten) or adequate, feminist, minority law enforcement with oversight.
The cribs, crib mattresses and SIDS/acid reflux wedges all need to have JPMA certifications, to meet federal regulations for infant and toddler safety. See the link below for further information & reviews on portable, travel-sized cribs.
If we go with a crib about three-quarters the size of a regular crib, with properly-fitting crib mattresses, we can save money on the delivery/transport fees, and total costs. As long as we can safely fit a preemie, or newborn baby to two-year old toddler into the mini/travel/portable crib without exceeding the weight capacity, it can be purchased in bulk instead of the regular-sized ones.
We may be able to also harvest the pine beetle-infested trees to turn them into the needed cribs, as long as we meet the JPMA certification and have the proper-fitting, used, cleaned crib mattresses for them. The adult prisoners could all help to build these cribs with reduced wages (half of the minimum wage per hour) for the federal government. It could be a positive rehabilitation program, to help the poorest infants and toddlers, while also providing carpentry skills to the illiterate, English-language learning, adult prisoners, both female and male.
http://www.consumersearch.com/portable-cribs/how-to-buy-a-portable-crib
We can also provide heavy machinery, transport trucks and lumber yard skills training free for the unemployed coal plant workers, to provide us with the solid pine (beetle-infested) wood. So many coal plant workers and U.S. Army poor enlisted are currently jobless, homeless and hungry right now. Their numbers will be dramatically increasing, due to the coal plant layoffs plus, the U.S. Army's layoffs.
We could request a federally-funded job skills/vocational rehabilitation program for both those categories of poor, homeless and uneducated classes. The U.S. Veterans Affairs/Administration and Department of Labor will need to manage it.
The U.S. Army's poor, homeless, enlisted, disabled veterans and unemployed coal plant workers will now desperately need a Habitat for Humanity youth hostel shelter built for them too. One equivalent to the Pigeon Point youth hostel in Central California could be built with free pine beetle-killed woods.
Here's a link for sustainable, beetle-killed pine wood, kiln-dried, from trees which are all over five years old.
http://www.sustainablelumberco.com/products/beetle-kill-blue-stain-pine/
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