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I. <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. V-F <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: March 20, 1991 <br />SUBJECT: RSVP Application for <br />New Family Literacy <br />Initiatives <br />DEPARTMENT: Aging PUBLIC HEARING YES: NO: X <br />------------------------- - - - - -- ---------------------------- - - - - -- <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Jerry Passmore <br />Terri Tyson <br />RSVP Application <br />TELEPHONE NUMBER - <br />Hillsborough - 732 - 8181 -2000 <br />Chapel Hill - 968 -4501 <br />Mebane - 227 -2031 <br />Durham - 688 -7331 <br />PURPOSE: To consider authorizing submission of the RSVP application to <br />ACTION in the amount of $10,000 in Federal Funds by the county <br />Manager to augment the present ACTION grant by initiating new <br />family literacy program initiatives. These are competitive <br />funds so it is not guaranteed that funds will be awarded. <br />BACKGROUND: This is an application for funds to augment the annualized <br />level of funding by ACTION. The additional funds would be <br />used in the area of Family Literacy by initiating programs <br />of National Significance involving these areas: (1) Senior <br />citizen volunteers will read to at -risk children at day care <br />centers and pre- schools; (2) Trained volunteers will tutor <br />parents of these children; (3) Immigrant parents and children <br />will be tutored in ESL (English as a Second Language) in <br />order to halt the cycle of illiteracy in the family as a <br />whole. <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): Approve RSVP application and authorize Chair to sign <br />application. <br />FN:RPGRANT\ABAPPAUG.DOC <br />