Fiscal Note
The proposed resolution amends the 2024 Adopted Operating Budget for the Community Development Division (CDD) to reflect up to $7,500 in additional grant revenue and commensurate expenditures in purchased services and supplies in fund 1220 (Other Grants) resulting from the City's acceptance, on behalf of the Madison Senior Center, of a 2024-2025 digital literacy grant award from the National Council on Aging (NCOA). This resolution also authorizes the Mayor to execute an agreement with NCOA to formally accept these grant funds.
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Authorizing the City of Madison, on behalf of the Madison Senior Center, to accept a 2024-2025 digital literacy grant award of up to $7,500 from the National Council on Aging (NCOA); authorizing the Mayor to execute an agreement with NCOA to formally accept the grant funds; and amending the Community Development Division's 2024 Adopted Operating Budget, as appropriate (District 4).
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BACKGROUND
Earlier this summer, through a collaboration with AT&T, the National Council on Aging (NCOA) launched a nationwide effort to ensure older adults can engage in workshops and a self-paced online curriculum designed to improve digital literacy. Through this initiative, and as part of the organization's ongoing efforts to offer resources and tools to the aging network, NCOA will be contracting with up to 50 senior centers and community-based organizations in underserved communities to provide a minimum of four (4) in-person workshops each with older adults to focus on digital literacy. Each successful grantee will receive $7,500 and be required to serve at least 100 unduplicated older adults during the period of September 3, 2024 through April 30, 2025. Applications for this grant opportunity were accepted through July 11, 2024.
The City of Madison, on behalf of the Madison Senior Center, submitted an application for this grant opportunity, and was notified by NCOA on July 30, 2024, that the Madison Senior Center had been aw...
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