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CITY OF COLTON AGENDA REPORT For Council Meeting of August 21, 1990 TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council FROM: David Michael Davis, City Librarian SUBJECT: Authorization to Accept California Library Services Act (CLSA) "Families for Literacy" Grant Award and to Transfer Monies to Library Date: August 13, 1990 Expenditure Acct. BACKGROUND The Colton Public Library applied for and has been awarded CLSA funding in the amount of $20,555 to initiate a "Families for Literacy" program in Colton during FY 90-91. Colton is one of two public libraries in Southern California to be awarded this grant. The program is designed to involve all volunteer tutors and adult learners in activities that will promote parents and their children reading together. Instructional resource materials will be purchsed and a part-time Familiy Literacy Program Coordinator will be hired to plan and implement suitable programs to fulfill that goal. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM We, at the Colton Public Library, hope to reach parents who are having difficulty being a reading role model for their children. We want to work with them, show them how they can better teach their children, and together overcome the cultural, educational, and economic disadvantages that have led to a "literacy gap" in our City. To avoid continuing to transmit low literacy from generation to generation, we must reach the children. We believe that parent-child reading programs are a highly workable approach to reaching two generations at once. ALTERNATIVES Without grant funding, such a program could only otherwise be initiated with the City's general funds. FINANCIAL IMPACT This is a no -cost item to the City. No local matching funds are required. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT None RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends that Council authorize the City to accept California Library Services Act (CLSA) "Families for Literacy" grant award and to transfer monies to Library Expenditure Account. The Colton Public Library Board of Trustees has reviewed this matter and concurs with this recommendation. City Manager's Concurrence %.•.-., .�;- -� � .r Attachments: Page t of --i— �; z e �r` L R'LEt:(),":iU _'Item No. J.