Non Profit Funding Pool Town Board Requirements The Town Board of Aldermen adopted the following requirements for the Non-Profit Funding Pool Applications. The organization must be a non-profit. Funding will not be given on a reoccurring basis. The organization must meet the public purpose doctrine (please see attachment.) All funding must be spent within the fiscal year itis granted in. Name of Organization: Macon County Public Library Amount Requested: $5,000.00 One (1) Time or Reoccurring Request: Reoccurring Purpose of Funds: Reading Rover Program Non- Profit 501 (C) (3): Yes Notes: The Reading Rove program is supported by funding from Region A partnership for Children, the local libraries, and private grants and donations. In order to maintain the program ‘Macon County Public Library is seeking funds from the communities served by the program. Funding will be used to help staff and operate the vehicle.ion for Non-profit Funding Town of Franklin Fiscal Year 2013-14 Name of organization: Macon County Public Library ~ Reading Rover bookmobile Mail Address: 149 Siler Farm Rd., Franklin, NC 28734 Contact Person (with telephone number): Karen Wallace (828-524-3600) ‘Amount Requested (cannot exceed $5,000): $5,000 Criteria listed for this application: ‘A written demonstration of how the granting of funding will meet the “public purpose” requirement: The Town of Franklin offers educational opportunities for all ages: preschool through retirement. Their educational mission is to challenge students and help them excel. The public library helps the Town accomplish this mission by providing excellent service and convenient access to meet the educational needs of preschool children and their caregivers with the Reading Rover bookmobile. The Reading Rover provides library service directly to child care providers in Franklin to help prepare children to enter school ready to learn. Funding library service is a traditional public purpose, as demonstrated in GS Chapter 160A, Article 9, Section 209(2}(c}(20) which specifies that each city may levy property tax to establish and maintain public libraries. ‘A written description of how the agency will spend the money to benefit the town taxpayer, particularly the activity of the agency within the town: ‘The Fontana Regional Library, in partnership with the Region A Partnership for Children, serves preschool age children and their caregivers in Macon, Jackson and Swain counties, through its Reading Rover bookmobile. With monthly visits to six child care centers in the Town of Franklin, the Reading Rover staff takes the library to children. The program provides access to quality, ‘multicultural children’s literature and pre-iteracy development activities through storytelling programs using books, finger plays, songs, poems, and puppets. These programs not only help develop pre-literacy skills in the children, they model strategies to caregivers for providing early literacy experiences that meet child development needs in many areas. The Reading Rover Bookmobile also enables caregivers to borrow materials, including teacher lesson plan books, storytelling kits, hand puppets, developmental toys, puzzles, and books. The wide variety of print and non-print materials on the Reading Rover help caregivers provide a literature-rich