This request to City Council is to review and consider for approval the attached Summer Reading Grant Agreement between the City of New Port Richey Public Library and Florida Humanities and corresponding budget amendment.  This grant agreement allocates funding in the amount of $3,000.00 for the purchase of new children's books to be used in the bookmobile. 

To support the library's goals of enhancing the community's access to engaging books, reading materials, and other informational resources, Florida Humanities has approved a supplemental Summer Reading Grant for the New Port Richey Public Library in the amount of $3,000.00. 

Funds from the Summer Reading Grant will be used to purchase new children's books for the bookmobile.  The selected books are recommended from the 2025 Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) reading list and include engaging and educational titles for youth.  Popular board books, beginning readers, early literacy books, juvenile non-fiction, and chapter books will be added to the bookmobile collection and will be available for loan to all members of the New Port Richey Public Library with a library account in good standing.  

In support of this grant application, letters of support were additionally provided by Congressman Gus Bilirakis and the Friends of the Library Organization.