To: Board of Supervisors
From: Alison McKee, County Librarian
Report Title: MOU with City of Oakley re: Project Second Chance
☒Recommendation of the County Administrator ☐ Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the County Librarian, or designee, to execute an MOU including mutual indemnification with the City of Oakley to waive the user fee for the Library’s Project Second Chance Adult Literacy Program usage of the City’s parks and facilities in Oakley for the period August 1, 2025, through July 31, 2026.
FISCAL IMPACT:
No fiscal impact.
BACKGROUND:
The Contra Costa Library’s Adult Literacy Program, Project Second Chance, provides free basic literacy instruction through volunteer tutors to adults in Contra Costa County who read or write in English at or below a 6th grade level. Based on space and schedule limitations at the Oakley Library and a growing number of adult learners in Oakley seeking Project Second Chance services, the City of Oakley has offered to waive the user fee for Contra Costa County Library use of City-owned parks and facilities for Project Second Chance tutoring for the period of August 1, 2025, through July 31, 2026.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
Tutor / Learner pairs for Project Second Chance working in the City of Oakley will be required to pay a fee to the City of in order to use the City’s parks facilities, reducing the number of students who can be served in Oakley.