Uh 601.

I will um call this ad hoc to order.

Um, as far as quick introductions, I'm Holly Robinson, um, city councilwoman and chair.

To my left, I have councilman Mike Henry.

To my right, I have Councilman Ben Chinese.

Looks like we have um, and I'm I'm sorry, Kara.

I think the last ad hoc I had, I did not introduce you.

It's quite alright.

I like that.

Cara Prenti, I'm Dan Garrick, and um you guys want to introduce Katie Pearson, library director and Julia Dennon, innovation and sustainability librarian.

I write the grants.

Okay.

Taylor O'Brien, Chief of Staff and Mayor's Office.

Caitlin Gruce Assistant Corporation Council.

Excellent.

Um I believe that the order business that we have today is a this looks like a non-match library literacy grant for um uh Dollar General Literacy Foundation.

Yes.

This is a youth literacy grant for the amount of five thousand dollars with no city match required.

Is that correct?

Yes.

I guess I'm directing my questions to the um I don't think a presentation is necessary, but I think Councilman Henry, you wanted additional questions.

Yeah, just a few things and line of some.

I'll give you the floor.

Yeah.

Um, it's a normal that's a normal process for you for grants.

How many do you write a year usually?

Uh goodness, I think since I've been here, probably 10 or 15.

10 or 15.

This is the first one for this year.

Uh no.

No.

Okay.

I just asked them.

No, it's on the agenda, yeah.

I think you've done Dollar General grant.

I yes, I have I've got to do that.

This is recurring.

No, so they're two separate.

So Dollar General has about six grants that they do every year.

Um, so one that I won last year for last summer was the um summer reading grant.

It was $3,000.

It funded our summer reading program for the kids.

This is the youth literacy grant, so it's separate from it.

It's $5,000 instead of three, and it's um less of a time frame constraint because the other one was only for summer.

This one we can run over about six, eight month period.

The initiative is to bring forward.

Yeah, so I'm actually really excited about it.

I used to be a teacher, and one of the big things that I saw in terms of getting literacy was to get access to the parents.

A lot of times if the parents don't understand the system, the parents don't understand how to teach how to read with their kids.

That breaks down, you know, what you what you teach in the classroom is hard for them to learn, but they don't get reiterated at home.

And so the goal of this was to break it up into two parts.

One would be giving um direct literacy instruction to K2 kids, the other one is giving instruction to parents in specifically in Spanish and in other languages, so that because they specifically in the schools sometimes they don't have things that are translated to them, they don't send um portals work, sometimes they can't communicate with their teachers.

So beginning of the school year to get them all set up so that their kids can be really ready for the school year.

And through the chair won't work for this.

Yes, please.

And so this is I mean, this is a small dollar amount, so not gonna achieve the whole initiative that you want, but you need more probably to go through this process, right?

Then five thousand?

Not now, I'm just saying in future wise for your program, which you're trying to if we wanted to run it again next year.

I can potentially apply to this exact same grant because we haven't won it for two years in a row, or I could take it to other grant programs.

Or if you guys want to fund it, we would love that.