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October 22, 2025 CERTIFIED MAIL Jennifer Eid 14747 77th Street Northeast Otsego, MN 55330-6929 License Number 1094527 FCC ORDER OF LICENSE REVOCATION Dear Ms. Eid: Based on the recommendation of Wright County Health and Human Services (Wright County), the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) is revoking your license to provide family child care services at 14747 77th Street Northeast, Otsego, MN. Details of our findings are provided below. Our next steps and your options are also detailed. REASON FOR LICENSE REVOCATION 1. Commissioner’s evaluation of program In determining whether a licensing action is warranted, DCYF evaluated the facts, conditions, and circumstances concerning your program’s operation. This includes consideration of the well-being of children served in your program, available evaluations from consumers of your program, and information about the qualifications of caregivers working in your program. Specifically, because you have repeatedly failed to follow Minnesota Rules and Laws, because you have failed to comply with the conditional license, and because you have failed to comply with correction orders. DCYF has determined that revocation of your license is appropriate based on the violations identified below and the program evaluation. Legal Authority: Minnesota Statutes, section 142B.10, subdivision 13. 2. Conditional license violations On January 19, 2024, DCYF issued you an order of conditional license. You appealed the order of conditional license and on November 22, 2024, the Commissioner affirmed the conditional order. You were placed on a conditional license for one year. Wright County determined that you failed to follow four of the six terms of the Order of Conditional License that is in place from November 22, 2024, to November 21, 2025. Term #1: You must follow and comply with all applicable Minnesota Rules and Laws. Since your license was placed on conditional status, you have the following licensing violations and been issued corrections order for these violations: · January 22, 2025, correction order for failing to comply with the conditional license when you failed to submit daily attendance records and failed to provide documentation of additional training. · February 18, 2025, correction order for failure to provide documentation of current cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and first aid training. · March 24, 3025, correction order for failure to comply with the correction order issued on February 18, 2025. · April 14, 2025, correction order for failure to provide documentation of enrollment paperwork for a child in care. You were missing admission and arrangements forms, immunizations records and emergency medical care permission form. · June 11, 2025, correction order for failure to ensure your water temperature was at or below 120 degrees Fahrenheit. · August 11, 2025, correction order for failure to comply with the conditional license when you failed to submit attendance records. · October 9, 2025, correction order for failure to comply with the conditional license when you failed to provide documentation that families had reviewed the conditional order. Term #4: You must submit daily attendance records on a monthly basis by the 7th of each month to Wright County. Wright County determined that you failed to submit daily attendance records by January 7, 2025, and August 7, 2025, as required by term #4. Term #5: You must complete additional training within 60 days of the issuance of the order. Wright County determined that you failed to submit documentation of additional training within 60 days of the issuance of the conditional order. Term 6: You must submit documentation that families in care have been given the opportunity to review the Order for Conditional License. Wright County determined that you failed to provide documentation that a newly enrolled family had the chance to review the conditional order within five days of enrollment. Legal Authority: Minnesota Statutes, section 142B.16, subdivision 3; and 142B.18, subdivision 4, paragraph (a). 3. Failure to comply with licensing laws and rules Wright County determined that you failed to fully comply with the laws and rules that apply to licensed family child care. DCYF has considered the nature, chronicity, or severity of the violations that led to the revocation of your license. Legal Authority: Minnesota Statutes, section 142B.18, subdivision 4, paragraph (a), subparagraph (1). Nature, history and severity of violations Previous licensing actions The following violations summarize the nature of your previous licensing violations. Because these violations are now conclusive, the individual violations are not within the scope of your appeal rights. Please refer to the previously issued correction orders for further details on these violations. If you do not have copies of these orders, contact your Wright County licensor for assistance. DCYF also considered this history as a factor when it determined that revocation of your license is appropriate. · January 19, 2024, Conditional License, which cited you for the following licensing violations: o Repeated failure to operate within the capacity and distribution limits of your license. o Repeated failure to provide documentation of required training. o Failure to submit a background study as required. o Failure to notify Wright County of a change in household membership. o Repeated failure to maintain your water temperature as required. o Failure to provide documentation of crib safety inspection as required. o Failure to ensure that items were not within 18 inches of your furnace. o Failure to ensure toxins were inaccessible to children in care. o Failure to comply with a correction order. · June 2, 2025, Order to Pay a Fine of $200 for repeated failure to comply with correction orders. · January 19, 2024, Order to Pay a Fine of $200 for repeatedly failing to operate within the capacity and distribution limits of your license. · February 7, 2019, Order to Pay a Fine of $200 for failure to submit a background study as required. Severity of violations Due to the serious and chronic nature of these violations and the conditions in the program, which impact the health and safety of children served in your care, your license to provide family child care services is revoked. YOUR RIGHT TO APPEAL You have the right to appeal the revocation. Your request must be in writing and clearly state that you are requesting a contested case hearing for this matter. Your request must be made before the deadlines provided below. If you do not meet this deadline, you lose your right to an administrative appeal. The timeline to appeal began when you received this order. If you are mailing your request, it must be sent by certified mail and postmarked within 10 calendar days from when you received this order. Please send it to: Commissioner, Department of Children, Youth, and Families Office of Inspector General Legal Counsel’s Office Attention: Licensing Legal Unit PO Box 64953 St. Paul, MN 55164-0953 If your request is being personally delivered, it must be received by DCYF within 10 calendar days from when you received this order. Please bring it to: Commissioner, Department of Children, Youth, and Families Office of Inspector General Legal Counsel’s Office Attention: Licensing Legal Unit 444 Lafayette Road North St. Paul, MN 55155 Upon DCYF’s receipt of your timely appeal, your case would be scheduled for a contested case hearing in front of an Administrative Law Judge. Following this hearing, the Commissioner of DCYF will issue a final order. If you do not appeal or if the order is affirmed by the Commissioner following a hearing, DCYF is prohibited from issuing you a license for five years. In addition, any additional licenses held by you shall also be revoked. Legal representation at the contested case hearing: You do not need a lawyer to appeal. However, a lawyer can help you with your appeal. The state or county will not get you a lawyer and will not pay for a lawyer. If you cannot afford a lawyer, you may be able to get free legal advice or help with your appeal. To find out if free help is available, contact: Volunteer Lawyers Network at 612-752-6677; Central Minnesota Legal Services at 612-332-8151; Southern Minnesota Legal Services at 651-222-4731; or go to www.lawhelpmn.org to find a local legal services program that may be able to help you. You can also find information on contested cases from the Office of Administrative Hearings website at https://mn.gov/oah/self-help. Click on Administrative Law Overview, then click on Administrative Law Contested Case Hearing Guide for a list of frequently asked questions. Operating the program pending the outcome of the appeal: If you file an appeal within the timeframes described above, you may continue to operate pending the outcome of your appeal. If you continue to operate, you must do so in full compliance with all licensing laws and rules. Failure to follow a law or rule that may impact the health or safety of children served by your program could result in the immediate suspension of your license. Questions about CCAP If you are a provider registered to receive Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) payments, this revocation order could impact your ability to receive CCAP funding. If your CCAP registration is closed or denied as a result of this Licensing action, you will get a separate notice(s). If you have questions about: · Your CCAP registration, and you get a notice telling you your registration is being closed or denied, contact the agency that sent the notice. · Billing or payments for specific children, contact the county or CCAP agency where the children get CCAP. Prohibition against providing legally unlicensed child care On January 19, 2024, DCYF issued an Order of Conditional License to your family child care program, which disqualified you from providing legally unlicensed child care. You remain prohibited from providing legally unlicensed child care even if you appeal this order. Posting of this Licensing Action You are required to place this Order of License Revocation in a place that is clearly noticeable to the people receiving services and all visitors to the facility for two years, even if you appeal. Legal authority for this licensing action · This action is taken under Minnesota Statutes, section 142B.18, subdivision 4, which describes under which conditions DCYF may revoke a license. · Minnesota Statutes, section 245.095 defines which programs administered by DCYF are included in the exclusion provision, and further defines “excluded,” “individual,” and “provider.” · License holders have a right to appeal licensing actions and request a contested case hearing, under Minnesota Statutes, chapter 14, Minnesota Rules, parts 1400.8505 to 1400.8612, and Minnesota Statutes, section 142B.20. · Under Minnesota Statutes, section 142B.10, subdivision 14, paragraph (d), subparagraph (3), the commissioner shall not issue or reissue a license if the applicant, license holder, or controlling individual has had a license issued under this chapter or chapter 245A revoked within the past five years. · Under Minnesota Statutes, section 142B.10, subdivision 14, paragraph (d), when a license issued under this chapter is revoked under clause (1) or (3), the license holder and controlling individual may not hold any license under chapter 142B or chapter 245A for five years following the revocation, and other licenses held by the applicant, license holder, or controlling individual shall also be revoked. · Minnesota Statutes, section 142B.05, subdivision 4, provides that child care provider who has received a license revocation that has not been reversed on appeal may not provide unlicensed child care to non-relatives. Operating a prohibited unlicensed family child care is a misdemeanor under Minnesota Statutes, section 142B.05, subdivision 5. · The requirement to post this order in a clearly visible location is required under Minnesota Statutes, section 142B.18, subdivision 6. Questions If you have any further questions regarding this matter, you may contact Beth Donahue, Supervisor at 651-431-6565. Sincerely,
Alexandra Keys, Family Child Care Unit Manager Licensing Division Office of Inspector General cc: Becky Domjahn, Wright County Health and Human Services
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