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| ARF- 3718 |
Regular Agenda Item 2. J.
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| Regular BOS Meeting |
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| Request/Subject |
| Grantee Agreement GRA-RC004-17-0838-01 between the Gila Regional Partnership Council, Arizona Early Childhood Development and Health Board (First Things First) and Gila County Library District, July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017. |
| Background Information |
| The Gila County Library District's "First Things First Parent Education Community-Based Training Grant" is a government to government agreement with the Gila Regional Council. It is a 12-month contract that shall become effective on July 1, 2016, and shall terminate on June 30, 2017. This grant is renewable for two additional twelve-month periods. Total funds available are $60,000 for the first funding period and renewal will be contingent upon satisfactory contract performance, evaluation and continued available funding. This agreement continues the Parenting Outreach and Awareness -Early Literacy strategy that began in fiscal year 2011. |
| Evaluation |
The current Early Literacy Grant from "First Things First" has been highly successful in providing curriculum materials and educational training to the libraries in the service area for their use in programming and training for parents. Additionally, library staff have heard only positive comments regarding the training provided to parents on the importance of early literacy skills and the importance of reading to their children. At this time, 1,815 children ages birth to five are enrolled in this program and receive books each month to foster the importance of reading, the six pre-reading skills, and provide parents with material to read each month. Since 2011, an additional 1,831 children have 'graduated' out of this program by turning five, for a total of 3,646 children that have been served in the Gila Region since the inception of this program. An average of 33 children each month 'graduate'.
The public libraries are continuing to tailor and adapt programming geared at these ages, to encourage families to expand the reading opportunity by visiting the library and borrowing other books to read. |
| Conclusion |
| Of all the programs that the Gila County Library District administers, fosters, or promotes, this grant gives staff the opportunity to reach the most residents, and creates a climate and culture to develop the pre-reading skills necessary for literacy in children. The grant has a goal of maintaining 1,800 children in this program, as well as distributing 360 resource guides. |
| Recommendation |
| Staff recommends that the Board of Directors approve this government to government agreement for the First Things First Parent Education Community-Based Literacy Grant for the amount of $60,000 for fiscal year July 1, 2016, through June 30, 2017. |
| Suggested Motion |
| (Motion to adjourn as the Gila County Board of Supervisors, and convene as the Gila County Library District Board of Directors) Information/Discussion/Action to approve Grantee Agreement GRA-RC004-17-0838-01 between the Gila Regional Partnership Council, Arizona Early Childhood Development and Health Board (First Things First) and Gila County Library District in the amount of $60,000 for fiscal year July 1, 2016, through June 30, 2017. (Jacque Sanders) (Motion to adjourn as the Gila County Library District Board of Directors, and reconvene as the Gila County Board of Supervisors). |
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