ISU students, faculty and staff with children can look forward to another child-care option with the opening of a new on-campus facility.Jerry Neppel, graduate student representative for the University Child Care Committee, detailed the plans for the new child-care facility to the Graduate Student Senate during its meeting Monday night.Neppel, graduate student in agronomy, is also treasurer of the Student University Child Care Advocacy Group. He said former ISU President Martin Jischke committed $1.8 million for the construction of a new child-care facility to be located on the north end of campus.Julie Hagen, ISU child-care coordinator with Human Resource Services, said the facility will “consolidate and modernize facilities that are located in nine Pammel Court buildings.” She said the new facility will still be open to the children of all ISU students, faculty, staff and community members, if capacity allows.Hagen said the new child-care center should have room for between 85 and 88 children, an increase from the 65 children in the current Pammel Court facility. The new facility will also help alleviate the 300-child waiting list, Neppel said.The current Pammel Court child-care rate is $397 per month for people with an income below $26,000 a year, Neppel said. The cost for the child care at the Veterinary Medicine facility is $541 per month for people with annual incomes below $25,000. Hagen said she is “hopeful cost will be comparable to what they are presently” when the new center opens. Hagen said the committee is currently “evaluating sites to see what works to the best of everyone’s interests.” Currently, the proposed finish date is August 2002, she said.In addition to other child-care facilities on campus, there are many other resources available to help with child-care needs, she said. Pammel Court runs Flex-Care, “a program only available to Iowa State students for students who don’t need full-time child care,” Hagen said.With Flex-Care, students may contract as much or as little time as they want for child care, she said.Students, faculty and staff who don’t live in Ames or want other options for child care can also use the Center for Child Care Resources. Hagen said the center, which serves Boone, Harden and Story counties, is an agency that helps parents find “solutions and matches” for their child care needs free of charge.