HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 12132011 - C.51RECOMMENDATION(S):
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Librarian, or designee, to apply for and accept and
execute a Library Services & Technology Act Grant in the amount of $5000 for the Idea
Box, a program designed to collect and implement ideas from children, promoting
youth-directed educational experiences, and youth engagement in the community for the
period January 1, 2012 through September 30, 2012.
FISCAL IMPACT:
No library fund match.
BACKGROUND:
This LSTA grant is awarded by the State of California as a part of the Eureka! Leadership
Institute, a fellowship program for developing 32 emerging library leaders each year from
libraries throughout the state. The following project was developed by one Eureka! Fellow
from the Contra Costa County Library – the Children’s Librarian at the Pleasant Hill
Community
APPROVE OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY
ADMINISTRATOR
RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD
COMMITTEE
Action of Board On: 12/13/2011 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
Clerks Notes:
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
AYE:John Gioia, District I
Supervisor
Gayle B. Uilkema, District II
Supervisor
Mary N. Piepho, District III
Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV
Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V
Supervisor
Contact: 925-927-3228
I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board
of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: December 13, 2011
David Twa, County Administrator and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
By: June McHuen, Deputy
cc:
C. 51
To:Board of Supervisors
From:Barbara Flynn, County Librarian
Date:December 13, 2011
Contra
Costa
County
Subject:Approve and Authorize the Librarian, or Designee, to apply for and accept a grant in the amount of $5,000
from the State Library of California.
BACKGROUND: (CONT'D)
Library – as the culminating application of newly developed leadership skills to meet
community needs.
Over 4 months this Spring and Summer, children will be encouraged to submit their ideas to
a collection contraption in the library called the “Idea Box.” These ideas will ultimately
inspire a series of projects in and around the library for improving the quality of life in our
community.
The collected ideas will be published and celebrated online, where the whole community
can view and vote on them. Finally, children and parents, educators, local businesses, and
other citizens will work together to bring some of these ideas to life – one per month from
May through September.
The Idea Box will improve our community in three vital ways:
Firstly, it engages youth in a process of ideation, challenging them to tap their creative
capital to identify paths to independent learning and community improvement. Secondly,
the Idea Box empowers youth to recognize the value of their imaginations, and highlights
that value to the larger community. Lastly, the Idea Box directly improves the community
by implementing the ideas collected from youth, and bringing diverse residents together to
realize those ideas in tangible projects.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
The library will not implement the proposal.
CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:
The Idea Box casts youth as visionary influencers in their own lives and the lives of others,
thereby supporting the outcome established in the Children’s Report Card: Children and
Youth Healthy and Preparing for Productive Adulthood. By bringing their ideas to the box
and working with others to bring those ideas to life, child participants will recognize the
value of their imaginations and their power to act on them as contributing members of our
community.
The Idea Box also supports the outcome Children Ready for and Succeeding in School by
motivating children through engaging activities that connect the world of ideas to real-world
results. Children’s academic success is dependent on their self-confidence and ability to
think creatively, both of which are boosted by experiences we create with the Idea Box.