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Resolution authorizing the acceptance of $6,750 from the Pacific Library Partnership (PLP) to support the TumbleBooks early literacy online resource at the new Westborough Preschool and amending the Library Department’s Fiscal Year 2025-26 Operating Budget and approving Budget Amendment Number 26.001.
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WHEREAS, The Library’s Youth Services Program is collaborating with the Parks and Recreation Department to expand online early literacy resources in the new Westborough licensed childcare classrooms by funding subscriptions to the TumbleBook (online) Library; and
WHEREAS, the Pacific Library Partnership awarded a grant to the Library in the amount of $6,750 to support the TumbleBooks early literacy online resource at the new Westborough preschool; and
WHEREAS, grant funds will purchase 10 licenses, providing online access on two computers per classroom to the TumbleBooks Library, providing story books, read-alongs, Ebooks, STEM-themed books, skill-building puzzles and games and more via a website interface on classroom computers; and
WHEREAS, staff recommends the acceptance of the grant funding in the amount of $6,750 to support the TumbleBooks early literacy online resource at the new Westborough Preschool; and
WHEREAS, receipt of these grant funds does not commit the City to ongoing funding; and
WHEREAS, the foregoing funds will be used to amend the Library Department’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2025-26 Operating Budget.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of South San Francisco that the City Council hereby accepts $6,750 in grant funding from the Pacific Library Partnership and amends the Library Departments FY 2025-26 Operating Budget through Budget Amendment Number 26.001 in order to reflect an increase of $6,750.
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