Fees for a locally run low-cost child care program — with art, drumming, snacks and homework help — are not proposed to increase after all, following a decision from the state not to implement a large licensing fee hike.

Parents using FACTS (Families and Communities Teaming for Students), a Flagstaff Unified School District and city-funded program, will continue paying $3 per hour for one child or $5 per hour for two. The program pays $150 for three years of licensing required to operate each of its 12 elementary school facilities, which serve 1,200 kids from kindergarten through sixth grade.

In a move to save money, state lawmakers earlier this year directed the Arizona Department of Health Services to make its inspections and regulations self-sufficient. To comply, state health chief Will Humble proposed a tiered structure starting at $351 for the smallest centers — those with no more than 10 children — to more than $13,000 for those operations with at least 150 children.

However, Humble agreed Monday to partially curtail the sharp hike in licensing fees he had proposed for child care facilities as long as those facilities adopt a 10-point plan he said will promote healthier children.