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FROM: Anne Marie Gold, County Librarian
DATE: March 25, 1996
SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR AUTHORIZATION TO APPLY FOR AND ACCEPT STATE LIBRARY 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$25,000 for the period of July 1, 1996 through June 30, 1997 to maintain and increase the literacy
activities for the adult literacy parents and their young children throughout Contra Costa County.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
No matching funds are required. The Library's costs will include staff time for administration, tutor
training and program support by other Project Second Chance staff. The Library will also provide
financial and clerical support and space. Project Second Chance, Inc., and private donations will
supplement the budget.
BACKGROUND:
Funds have been made available through the California Library Services Act to finance Families for
Literacy projects which enhance and expand the library-based literacy projects to include the entire
family. The Library has received state funding for its Families for Literacy Program for the past six
years. This project allows the Contra Costa County Library and its literacy program, Project Second
Chance, to provide literacy activities for adult literacy parents. By raising the awareness of these
parents, or other primary caretakers, of basic techniques for increasing reading readiness skills for their
children and supplying quality children's books, the cycle of illiteracy can be broken.
Some activities include:
1. Training and supporting tutors in methods specific to enhancing parents as their children's first
teachers.
2. Working with the entire library system to expand Families for Literacy concepts to the public, by
providing training to the staff and instructional programs to the public.
3. Providing the means of making the library less intimidating and more accessible to Literacy
Families.
4. Cooperating with such agencies as Teen Parent and Head Start programs to expand literacy to
other families in the community.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE:
__RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(SI:
ACTION OF BOARD ON A=ri 1 16, 1996 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
_XUNANIMOUS(ABSENT ) AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN AND
AYES: NOES: ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
ATTESTED April 16, 1996
Contact: Rosemarie Roen,646-6423 PHIL BATCHELOR,CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
cc: County Library
County Adrninistrator By AtA DEPUTY
County Auditor
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