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Report regarding a resolution accepting $31,955 in San Mateo County Measure K funds via the Peninsula Library System to support the Library's Summer Learning Challenge 2024 and amending the Library Department's Fiscal Year 2023-24 Operating Budget and approving Budget Amendment Number 24.038. (Valerie Sommer, Library Director)
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RECOMMENDATION
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It is recommended that the City Council adopt a resolution accepting $31,955 in San Mateo County Measure K funds via the Peninsula Library System to support the Library's Summer Learning Challenge 2024 and amending the Library Department's Fiscal Year 2023-24 (FY 2023-24) Operating Budget and approving Budget Amendment Number 24.038.
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BACKGROUND/DISCUSSION
The Library has been awarded $31,955 in Measure K funds to support Summer Learning Challenge 2024. In 2013, Measure A, a half-cent sales tax, was approved by San Mateo voters, which included funds to support library summer learning programs. Measure K, approved in 2016, is now the source of funding for these programs. The purpose of summer learning programs is to address summer learning loss among children and teens by focusing on increasing summer reading participation, advancing literacy and academic performance by engaging children, teens, and families in reading and enrichment activities, and promoting library use. This funding will be used to fund $27,955 in free book giveaways and four $1,000 scholarships to four lucky Summer Learning Challenge participants. Free books, in Chinese, English, Spanish, and Tagalog will be distributed in the Library, at schools within the South San Francisco Unified School District (SSFUSD), Parks and Recreation preschools, as well as at other programs and events to be scheduled this summer.
FISCAL IMPACT
Funds will be used to amend the Library Department's current FY 2023-24 Operating Budget. Funds not expended in FY 2023-24 will be carried over into Fiscal Year 2024-25. Receipt of these funds does ...
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