05 Staff Report.Library Grants
PREPARED BY: Ryan Baker
Library Director
Reviewed by: Town Manager, Assistant Town Manager, Town Attorney, and Finance Director
110 E. Main Street Los Gatos, CA 95030 ● (408) 354-6832
www.losgatosca.gov
TOWN OF LOS GATOS
COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT
MEETING DATE: 11/07/2023 ITEM NO: 5
DATE: October 20, 2023
TO: Mayor and Town Council
FROM: Laurel Prevetti, Town Manager
SUBJECT: Authorize Revenue and Expenditure Budget Adjustments in the Total Amount
of $19,672 to Recognize Receipt and Expenditure of Grant Funding Received
by the Library
RECOMMENDATION:
Authorize revenue and expenditure budget adjustments in the total amount of $19,672 to
recognize receipt and expenditure of grant funding received by the Library.
REMARKS:
The Library has been successful in obtaining two grants:
1. A grant in the amount of $12,000 from the Pacific Library Partnership for Unhoused
Community Care and Comfort. This will allow the library to create and stock a “Comfort
Cabinet” that will contain free personal care items (e.g., socks, underwear, tampons,
toothbrushes, personal cleaning and hygiene items, and bandages) that will be available
to unhoused community members seven days a week. Through the grant, we will also
be able to provide pre-loaded one-day VTA/Clipper Card passes as well as fund Lyft rides
for unhoused community members when necessary to connect them with
transportation directly to a point of service, shelter, or nearby hotel.
2. A grant in the amount of $7,672 from the California State Library to continue funding of
the Zipbook program which provides additional books to the collection by allowing the
Library to ship requested books through Amazon directly to a Library user’s home.
While all community members may utilize this program, it most directly benefits
community members with limited mobility or fewer transportation options.
PAGE 2 OF 2 SUBJECT: Library Grants DATE: October 20, 2023
FISCAL IMPACT:
Grant revenues totaling $12,000 will be recorded to account 7801-43343 and be expended
from account 7801-61172.
Grant revenues totaling $7,672 will be recorded to account 7801-43343 and be expended from
account 7801-61171.
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT:
This is not a project defined under CEQA, and no further action is required.