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March 9, 2026 CERTIFIED MAIL Barbara and Joyce Aanestad Fridley, MN 55432-4655 License Number 1034198 FCC ORDER OF LICENSE REVOCATION Dear Barbara and Joyce Aanestad: Based on the recommendation of Anoka County Human Services (Anoka County), the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) is revoking your license to provide family child care at 6670 Channel Road, Fridley, 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 a household member is disqualified and has not been granted a variance or set aside. DCYF has determined that revocation of your license is appropriate based on the violations identified below and the program evaluation. 2. Disqualification of a license holder or a household member. On October 8, 2025, DHS notified you that a household member who may have unsupervised access to children had a disqualification, and had the right to request reconsideration The disqualified individual made a timely request for reconsideration of the disqualification. On March 9, 2026, DCYF notified the disqualified individual’s disqualification was correct, was not set aside and a variance had not been granted. The disqualified individual was also notified of the right to appeal this decision at a fair hearing. If the disqualified individual requests a fair hearing regarding the disqualification and if you appeal this revocation order, as described below, the correctness of the disqualified individual’s disqualification and whether they pose a risk of harm to children served by the program may be heard along with the revocation at a contested case hearing. Nature, history and severity of violations Previous licensing actions The following violations summarize the nature of your previous licensing violations. 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 Anoka County licensor for assistance. DCYF also considered this history as a factor when it determined that revocation of your license is appropriate. · October 21, 2025, Correction Order, which cited you for failure to immediately report possible criminal information regarding an individual required to have a background study. · June 25, 2025, Correction Order, which cited you for failure to ensure that a child’s allergy information was documented on the required form. · January 9, 2025, Correction Order, which cited you for failure to provide documentation that a caregiver had completed Health and Safety training as required. · December 16, 2024, Correction Order, which cited you for the following licensing violations: o Failure to ensure that combustible items were not within 18 inches of the furnace. Failure to ensure that toxins were inaccessible to children in care when children had access to cleaning products and aerosol spray. You did not request reconsideration of the above correction orders. Severity of violations Because a household member is disqualified from any position allowing direct contact with, or access to, persons served by DCYF-licensed programs, and in order to protect the health, safety, and rights of children in your care, your license to provide family child care 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. Questions about CCAP If you are a provider registered to receive Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) payments, this [revocation/suspension/decertification] 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 If you do not appeal this order, or if the action is not reversed on appeal, you will not be allowed to provide child care, including legally unlicensed child care to unrelated children. Operating an unlicensed family child care home is a misdemeanor offense. 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. · When a revocation of a license is based on a maltreatment determination and/or a disqualification for which reconsideration was timely requested and which was not set aside, the scope of the contested case hearing for the revocation shall also include the maltreatment and/or disqualification and set aside under Minnesota Statutes, section 142B.20, subdivision 3, paragraph (a). · When a revocation of a license is based on a disqualification for which reconsideration was timely requested and which was not set aside, the scope of the contested case hearing for the revocation shall also include the risk of harm review under Minnesota Statutes, section 142B.20, subdivision 3, paragraph (g). · When a revocation of a license is based on a maltreatment determination and/or a disqualification of an individual other than the license holder, the hearings of all parties may be consolidated into a single contested case hearing upon consent of all parties and the administrative law judge, under Minnesota Statutes, section 142B.20, subdivision 3, paragraph (f). · When a revocation of a license is based on a disqualification that cannot be set aside, the scope of the contested case hearing for the revocation shall not include whether the disqualification may be set aside, under Minnesota Statutes, section 142B.20, subdivision 3, paragraph (g), and Minnesota Statutes, section 245C.24, subdivision 2, paragraph (a). · Minnesota Statutes, section 245C.29, subdivision 2 states that a disqualification is final if the commissioner or court has issued a final decision, the individual did not request reconsideration on the basis the disqualification was incorrect, or the individual did not timely request a hearing after being given the right to do so. · 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: Beth Rignell, Anoka County Human Services
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