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Resolution: RES 05-2019
File Number: 18-1133
P.O. Box 711 (City Hall,
400 Grand Avenue)
South San Francisco, CA
Enactment Number: RES 05-2019
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ACCEPTANCE OF $20,000 FROM
THE BROADCOM FOUNDATION, VIA THE SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO
FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY, TO SUPPORT STEM PROGRAMMING IN
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO THROUGH THE BAY AREA STEM
ECOSYSTEM AND ACCEPTING BUDGET AMENDMENT 19.037.
WHEREAS, the City of South San Francisco ("City") Library Department established the Community
Learning Center (CLC) to assist adults and their families in reaching educational goals; and
WHEREAS, the Community Learning Center joined the Bay Area STEM Ecosystem to support STEM
learning in South San Francisco through partnerships with other STEM agencies; and
WHEREAS, the Community Learning Center has been selected as a lead agency for the STEM
Ecosystem; and
WHEREAS, the Broadband Foundation has awarded the City, through the South San Francisco Friends
of the Library, a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to supporting the Library, $20,000 in grant funding for
STEM Ecosystem activities; and
WHEREAS, the Bay Area STEM Ecosystem Activities will leverage the work conducted as part of the
San Mateo County STEM Out of School grant awarded to the Library and Parks and Recreation
Departments in 2018; and
WHEREAS, funding would be used to enhance the SSF STEM partnership by providing staff training
and public programming support to the agencies in the South San Francisco STEM community; and
WHEREAS, grant funding will be used to amend the Library Department's Fiscal Year 2018-19
Operating Budget per Budget Amendment 19.037.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of South San Francisco that
the City Council hereby accepts $20,000 in grant funding from the Broadcom Foundation via the South
San Francisco Friends of the Library to support the Bay Area STEM Ecosystem and approves Budget
Amendment 19.037.
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File Number: 18-1133
Enactment Number. RES 05-2019
At a meeting of the City Council on 1/9/2019, a motion was made by Mark Nagales, seconded by Flor
Nicolas, that this Resolution be approved. The motion passed.
Yes: 5 Mayor Matsumoto, Vice Mayor Garbarino, Councilmember Addiego,
Councilmember Nagales, and Councilmember Nicolas
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Aosaovea Acosta
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