Reso 23-016 Library CLLS ELS Grant

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IN THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN LEANDRO RESOLUTION NO. 2023-016 RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF SAN LEANDRO CITY COUNCIL TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT AND EXECUTE ALL DOCUMENTS RELATED TO THE GRANT FUNDS AWARDED BY THE CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY'S CLLS ELS GRANT TO FUND THE SAN LEANDRO PUBLIC LIBRARY'S PROJECT LITERACY EFFORTS FOR ADULT ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION IN THE AMOUNT OF $18,790 WHEREAS, California Library Literacy Services (CLLS), governed by the California Library Literacy and English Acquisition Service Program (Attachment Exhibit Al), established by the California State Library in 1984 under the name The California Literacy Campaign to help reduce the high level of illiteracy in California and connect more Californians with public libraries; and WHEREAS, in 1985, the California Legislature established support for the program through the California Library Services Act, and in 1988, the legislature funded the Families for Literacy Initiative to help libraries reach and serve the children of adult literacy learners; and WHEREAS, Project Literacy at the San Leandro Public Library was originally established in 1989 with a five-year CA State Library Literacy fund and has continued since to receive grant funding to maintain a basic adult and family literacy program and provide new expanded services in order to meet the current needs of the community; and WHEREAS, San Leandro Public Library was awarded CLLS funding of$95,105 for FY 2022-2023 to continue to provide the Project Literacy program that provides services to low -literate adults and families who speak English very well; and WHEREAS, Project Literacy was awarded additional CLLS ESL funding of $18,790 for FY 2022-2023, to enhance Project Literacy's services to the community by including ESL services as part of the literacy program so that Project Literacy can accept new adult students who speak English less than very well to participate in and benefit from Project Literacy's newly proposed ESL services. NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of San Leandro does RESOLVE as follows: 1. That City Council accepts, and the City Manager is authorized to execute all documents related to the CLLS award for new ESL literacy and ESL tutoring services and programs totaling $18,790; and That an appropriation of the CLLS ESL funding of $18,790 in revenue account #150-3607 and expenditure account #150-68-021 is approved; and 3. That an original executed agreement shall be attached to and made a part of this resolution. RESOLUTION 2023-016