December 30, 2021
Brian Simons, Library Director
San Leandro Public Library
San Leandro Main Library, 300 Estudillo Ave
San Leandro, CA 94577
Dear Mr. Simons:
We are pleased to approve the grant application for the Memory Lab project for a total of $19,360 in federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds.
Hard copies of this correspondence will not follow. Keep the entirety of this correspondence for your files and consider these award materials your original documents. Please refer to the Grant Guide located on the California State Library’s Manage Your Current Grant webpage (https://www.library.ca.gov/grants/manage/) for more information and review the following:
LSTA Funds
Processing of grant payments may take from eight to ten weeks before delivery. If you have not received payment ten weeks after submitting your claim form to the State Library’s Fiscal Department, please contact your Grant Monitor.
Project Support
There are two people assigned to your project. The first is your Grant Monitor. Contact them regarding compliance and reporting. The Grant Monitor assigned to your project is Michelle Killian and can be reached via email at [email protected]. You are also assigned a Project Advisor for ongoing programmatic support. The Project Advisor assigned to your project is Cindy Smith and can be reached via email at [email protected].
Please stay in touch with your Grant Monitor and Project Advisor throughout the award period.
Read the enclosed award packet thoroughly and contact your Grant Monitor if you have any questions.
Best wishes for a successful project.
Respectfully yours,
Greg Lucas
California State Librarian
cc: Kelly Keefer [email protected]
Cindy Smith [email protected]
Michelle Killian [email protected]
Nicole Bravin [email protected]
Angie Shannon [email protected]
Reed Strege [email protected]
Natalie Cole [email protected]
Library – Courts Building 916-323-9759
P.O. Box 942837 [email protected]
Sacramento, CA 94237-0001 www.library.ca.gov
THE BASICS – YOUR LSTA GRANT AWARD
The following provides all of the basic information about your grant and managing your grant.
Award #: 40-9281
File #: CC-20
IMLS #: LS-249951-OLS-21
ORGANIZATION: San Leandro Public Library
Project Title: Memory Lab
Award Amount: $19,360
2021/2022 LSTA APPROVED BUDGET
Salaries/Wages/Benefits $
Consultant Fees $
Travel $
Supplies/Materials $14,600
Equipment ($5,000 or more per unit) $
Services $3,000
Project Total $17,600
Indirect Cost $1,760
Grant Total $19,360
Payment Schedule IN FULL
Start Date: 12/30/2021
End Date: 8/31/2022
This project will be officially closed as of the end date listed above and no new expenditures may be generated, nor may any additional funded project activities occur. Unexpended or unencumbered funds must be returned within 30 days of the end date. However, if funds were encumbered prior to the end date, this project is allowed 45 days to liquidate those encumbrances. Any funds not liquidated are to be returned with the liquidation report within 60 days of the end date.
REPORTING
Financial and program narrative reports are required. All required reporting materials, as well as the Grant Guide, will be located on the California State Library’s Manage Your Current Grant webpage (https://www.library.ca.gov/grants/manage/). The Grant Guide for this project will list specific reporting due dates. Failure to provide timely reports is a serious breach of a grant recipient’s administrative duty under the grant program, which may result in federal audit exceptions against the state and the loss of LSTA funds.
PAYMENTS
Please note this clarification regarding payments. If your full grant amount is more than $20,000, ten percent (10%) of the grant award is withheld until the end of the project period. It is payable only if the grant recipient fulfills all project reporting requirements and expends all funds, or returns all unspent grant funds, by the time specified in the grant program.