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TO: - BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
FROM: Anne Marie Gold, County Librarian
DATE: March 26, 1997
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, 1997 through June 30, 1998 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 eight 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, Head Start and Mt. Diablo Adult Education 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(S):
ACTION OF BOARD ON n, Q . ) 99-1 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED '+!OTHER_
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS:
I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE AND CORRECT
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Contact: Rosemarie Roen,646-6423 PHIL BATC IIEELOR,CLERK-bF THE'BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
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County Administrator By DEPUTY
County Auditor
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