Agenda Item
City Council
Item #: 3.7. 12/13/2022 File #: 22-0690
TO: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THRU: Tom Kisela, Interim City Manager
FROM: Dave Curtis, Library Services Director
1. SUBJECT
Appropriation of $30,000 in designated grant funding received from California State Library.
2. SUMMARY
Grant funds from California State Library will be used to enhance and expand the Orange Public Library’s environmental education collections and programming for all ages.
3. RECOMMENDED ACTION
1. Accept into the City’sbudget $30,000 in grant funds from California State Library into revenue account number 100.2001.45290.30213, General Fund - Sustainable Orange Grant.
2. Authorize the appropriation of $30,000 in grant funds into expenditure account number 100.2016.53340.30213, General Fund - Sustainable Orange Grant.
4. FISCAL IMPACT
The total appropriation for this grant is funded by the additional revenue received from the State of California.
5. STRATEGIC PLAN GOALS
Goal 3: Enhance and promote quality of life in the community e: Develop and strengthen collaborative partnerships to enhance and promote quality of life programs, projects and services
6. DISCUSSION AND BACKGROUND
The Orange Public Library has been awarded a Sustainable California Libraries Grant for Fiscal Year 2022-2023 (FY23). California State Library has generously provided support in Federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds to expand and enhance the Library’s environmental education collections and programming for all ages. Orange Public Library is one of only twenty California library systems to receive this funding.
The Sustainable California Libraries Grant supports library projects focused on environmental education, sustainability, climate resilience, and conservation. To implement its Sustainable Orange:
Preserving Our Future project, the Library will reach out to potential local partners on programming including the UCCE Master Gardeners of Orange County, UCCE Master Food Preservers of Orange County, OC Beekeepers, and CR & R Inc. Storytimes and programs will focus on water conservation, food preservation, sustainable gardening, seed preservation, beekeeping, and organic waste recycling. Program attendees will receive take & make seed growing kits, so they can start and grow City of Orange Printed on 12/8/2022Page 1 of 2
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Item #: 3.7. 12/13/2022 File #: 22-0690
recycling. Program attendees will receive take & make seed growing kits, so they can start and grow their own sustainable gardens at home. Programs will be presented from January through June 2023.
The Library will continue its collaboration with Orange Home Grown and the Orange Public Library Foundation on their Seed Lending Libraries by adding a new seed library at Taft Branch Library. Over the past six years, library patrons have checked out over 30,000 seed packets from the Orange Public Library & History Center and El Modena Branch Library, and over 1,750 gardens have sprouted in Orange.
The patio adjacent to the El Modena Branch Library Community Room will be enhanced through the addition of raised beds, plants, and furniture to create a teaching garden area and attractive and functional space for future outdoor programs and activities.
All funds must be spent or encumbered by the end of June 2023 and will be used for new books, speaker fees, and supplies and furniture for the teaching garden and seed library.
7. ATTACHMENTS
· Sustainable Orange Grant Award Letter
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