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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 04242001 - C.96 TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS —� Contra FROM: Anne Cain, County Librarian 1011. _1�ys Costa DATE: April 2, 2001 oosTq cooK t l County SUBJECT: Request for Authorization to Apply for and Accept Funding from the California State Library, Families for Literacy, FY 2001-2002 SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION RECOMMENDATION: Authorize the Contra Costa County Librarian to apply for and accept California State Library funding in the amount of $24,000 for the period of July 1, 2001, through June 30, 2002, to maintain and enhance the literacy activities and services 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 administrative 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 programs to include the entire family. The Library has received state funding for its Families for Literacy Program for the past eleven 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 awareness in 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. Examples of activities include: 1. Training and supporting tutors in methods specific to enhancing parent's skills as their children's first teachers. 2. Providing classes to Literacy Parents to expand Families for Literacy concepts. 3. Introducing the library to Literacy Families to make it less intimidating and more accessible to them. 4. Cooperating with such agencies as Teen Parents, Head Start and Mt. Diablo Adult Education programs to expand literacy to other families in the community. CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: ❑ Y�s SIGNATURE: 0"h n, oaoC t �RECOMMENDATIONOF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR FIRECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE ©APPROVE OTHER C SIGNATURE(S): ACTION OF BOA,D N Wk.Lu� �1 1:9-OC I APPROVE9S RECOMMENDED OTHER VOTE OF SUPERVISORS: Y I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE AND CORRECT COPY OF /-UNANIMOUS(ABSENT AN ACTION TAKEN AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD AYES: NOES: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN. ABSENT: ABSTAIN: Contact: MelindaSisson,(925)927-3212 ATTESTED �"1 aQ o I JOHN SWEETEN,CLERK OF THE BOARD OF cc: County Library SUPERVISORS ND CO NTY ADMINISTRATOR County Administrator County Auditor By Deputy l':\P SC\BOS\ffl cl sn.doc