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FROM: C tra
INTERNAL -OPERATIONS COMMITTEE
DATE April 11 ,. 1988 C<)1 '
SUBJECT; �' 'l�
Challenge Grant Funds for Library
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR .RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
1 . Request the County Librarian and the Human Services Advisory
Commission to jointly develop guidelines - for the use of
Challenge Grant funds for the County Library in the 1988-89
fiscal year in the event funds are available for this
purpose which will more fully implement the Board' s concept
of .a Challenge grant and present their recommendations to
the Board as part of the hearings on the 1988-89 ,budget.
2 . Authorize the . County Administrator to transfer $25,000 in
Challenge Grant funds to the County Library for the 1987-88
fiscal year.
3 . Remove this item as a referral to. our Committee.
BACKGROUND
On March 8, 1988, the 'Board of Supervisors referred to our
Committee a. letter from the Human Services Advisory Commission
requesting direction on how the $25,000 in Challenge - Grant funds
were to be addressed in relation to the County Library. The
Board will recall that $25,000 was added to the Challenge Grant
fund, bringing the total fund to $225 ,000 with $25, 000 of the
funds designated to be . used as a Challenge Grant to purchase
library books,. The Board of Supervisors approved a process for
the use of the remaining funds to be allocated to nonprofit
agencies on a Challenge- Grant basis. .
We believe it was clearly the intent of the Board that the
$25 , 000 for library books .also be used as a Challenge Grant to
encourage ' voluntarydonations and foundation, grants over , and
above current levels of revenue to "earn" the Challenge Grant.
Our Committee met with Carl Hansen, representing .HSAC and County
Librarian Ernest, Siegel on April 11. Mr. Siegel indicated that
the Friends of the 'Library group had increased their cash
donations to nearly double what they were a few years ago
( $57 ,000 in* 1986-87 as opposed to $30, 000 previously) . The
Friends of the Library have recently purchased two microfilm
reader-printers.
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SIGNATUREISI: Sonne W. McPeak p Tom Torlakson
ACTION OF BOARD ON April 19, 1988 - AIPPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
X UNANIMOUS, (ABSENT _ AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
AYES: NUBS: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
cc: County Administrator ATTESTED April 19 , 1988
County Librarian -- - --
' Auditor-Controller PHIL -BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
Chair, HSAC, UPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
George Johnson, Staff, HSAC
BY
M382/7-83 -,DEPUTY
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Mr. Siegel believes his highest priorities in terms of library
materials are: 1 ) to reinstate the purchase of many reference
works, indexes and yearbooks which have had to be canceled this
year, and 2) to undertake the microfilming of historical
newspapers and other historical records which otherwise will be
•lost permanently because they are already deteriorating.
While the increased donations from the Friends groups were not
directly related to the Challenge Grant funds, Mr. Siegel points
out that their fund-raising has increased. As the Board was
.advised in relation to the other Challenge grant funds, the time
available to generate foundation . grants and other private
donations was short. In view of this, and in recognition of the
fine work already done by the Friends group, we are recommending
that the Board ..release the $25,000 in funds to the County
Library, but also require that a specific program . be developed
which could be used during the 1988-89 fiscal year if the Board
is able to continue the Challenge Grant funding to the Library.