DATE: February 19, 2025
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers
FROM: Library Department
TITLE: ACCEPTANCE OF GRANT FUNDS FROM CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY TO CONTINUE LUNCH AT THE LIBRARY SERVICES
RECOMMENDATION
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Staff recommends that the City Council accept and appropriate $60,000 in grant funds from California Library Association and $79,019 from the California State Library, awarded to the City to support Lunch at the Library services, and approve one new provisional part time Hourly Librarian position to support the project.
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BACKGROUND AND ANALYSIS
Lunch at the Library is a project of the California State Library (CSL), supported with funds from the State of California and developed by the California Library Association (CLA) and the California Summer Meal Coalition, with support from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. It provides California libraries with the opportunity to apply for funds that will support existing free meal and food distribution sites and promote literacy, health, and well-being enrichment activities at these locations.
From 2018 through 2024, the Library received Lunch at the Library award funds to enhance meal programming, promote early learning, and to educate families about healthy nutrition at the Library and at existing free meal sites for youth throughout Oceanside.
The City has now been awarded CLA grant funds in the amount of $60,000, as part of the 2024-2025 Lunch at the Library Partner Project, and CSL grant funds in the amount of $79,019 as part of the Lunch at the Library Summer 2025 project, to provide programming support for ages 0 to 18 at the Civic Center, Mission Branch, and John Landes Community Center Libraries, and other community meal sites throughout the school year and summer 2025. These funds will be used to support after-school and summer programming efforts at Library locations, and pop-up youth activity programs at other locations in Oceanside, including the Libby Lake, Crown Heights, and...
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