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BOARD OF SUPE RV I SOR S
FROM: Anne Marie 'Gold Contra
Costa
DATE'. April 12, 1991 cOir y
SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR AULHORIZATION TO ACCEPT STATE FUNDING
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION:
Authorize the Contra Costa County Librarian to apply for and accept State
Library funding in the amount of $28,300 for the period from July 1, 1991
through June 30, 1992 to increase the level of literacy activities for
adult literacy parents and their young children in Pittsburg and Concord.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
No matching funds are required. The Library's contribution will include
staff time for training and conducting storytimes, providing tours of the
library, and acquiring picture books.
BACKGROUND:
Funds have been made available through the California Education Code and
California Library Services Act to finance Families for Literacy
projects which enhance and expand the library based literacy projects to
include the entire family. This project will allow the Contra Costa County
Library and its literacy project, Project Second Chance, to provide literacy
activities for adult literacy parents and their young children, to raise
the awareness of these parents of basic techniques for increasing the
reading readiness skills for these same children by:
1. Offering special programs in the Pittsburg, and Concord
libraries, designed to teach adult literacy students why
and how to read aloud to their children.
2. Encouraging Families for Literacy families to participate
in regular library services and programs.
3. Offering to the teen mothers enrolled in the Pittsburg
Adult School, and for residents at a homeless shelter in
Martinez, a program designed to teach them how to develop
pre-reading skills in their children.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: , YES SIGNATURE:
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMM
TE
APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S):
ACTION OF BOARD ON APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
UNANIMOUS (ABSENT AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
AYES; NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
CC: via. County Library ATTESTED APR 2 3 MI
PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
BY ,DEPUTY
M382/7-83