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Strategy 1: Immerse children from birth in literacy-rich environments where they discover the joy of reading and learning, motivating them to achieve and graduate from high school.
Strategy 2: Improve peoples lives by helping them acquire the resources and skills needed to prosper and contribute to Denvers economy.
Strategy 3: Enrich peoples lives through reading, learning and engaging in experiences that make Denver a better place to live.
Tactic 1: Promote early literacy by providing storytimes, outreach to parents, caregivers and teachers and Read Aloud classes focusing on educationally at-risk, lowincome children who often lack the early literacy skills needed to start kindergarten. Tactic 2: Communicate the importance and value of early literacy through a multi-platform community-wide media campaign. Tactic 3: Prevent the summer slide learning loss and fight the summer reading gap through the Summer of Reading program.
Tactic 1: Help entrepreneurs start and grow their business through the BizBoost program. This program uses sophisticated resources and research to help entrepreneurs create credible business or marketing plans.
Tactic 1: Promote life-long learning by providing books in multiple formats, movies and music for customers to enjoy.
Tactic 2: Assist individuals through technology access and training, software classes, resume writing and job searches.
Tactic 2: Connect people with their cultural heritage through collections such as the Western History and Genealogy and Blair-Caldwell African American Research libraries.
Tactic 4: Promote reading and learning for K-12 students through their participation with the Reading Rocket bookmobiles, After School is Cool program and Question Point online information and research homework help.
Tactic 3: Provide services to new immigrants and English language learners who need assistance with English, computers and technology, citizenship, homework, health literacy, GED preparation, job search and more.
Tactic 3: Connect people through the Creating Your Community website where people can create and preserve social archives of their community using historical documents, records and photographs.
Tactic 5: Increase the circulation of the childrens collection by providing exciting childrens books, CDs and other materials.
Tactic 4: Promote the depth and variety of Denver's local resources, make fun learning experiences, and provide a sense of community for Denvers inquisitive adult population through Fresh City Life and Fresh City Life My Branch.
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236,632
242,202
279,450
285,000
285,000
39,903
36,009
41,267
41,267
43,330
11,450
11,799
13,850
14,500
14,500
2,779
5,573
7,200
8,000
8,000
8,915,628
9,552,145
10,500,000
10,500,000
11,000,000
3,493,694 / 8,335,531
3,826,078 / 9,740,602
4,295,000 / 10,560,000
4,500,000 / 11,500,000
4,500,000 / 11,500,000
* Community Learning Plazas are offered at several branches for customers to practice computing skills, improve communication in English, study for the GED and get help with homework
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FINANCE
PUBLIC SERVICES
COLLECTIONS & TECHNOLOGY Collection Development, Interlibrary Loan, Web, Community Technology Center, IT Support Director 1.0 Mgrs/Supervisors 3.0 Collections/Tech Staff 19.5 Sr. Librarians 5.0 Librarians 5.5 Library Program Assoc 4.0
Accounting, Budget, Cash Handling, Planning, Purchasing Director 1.0 Mgrs/Supervisors 2.0 Finance Staff 6.0 Stock Clerks 2.5 TOTAL 11.5
Central Library, 24 branch libraries, 2 bookmobiles Director 1.0 Executive Assistant 0.5 Mgrs/Supervisors 12.5 Pub Svc Staff 3.0 Sr. Librarians 37.25 Librarians 74 Library Program Assoc 19.75
Director 1.0 Mgrs/Supervisors 3.0 Admin Staff 5.25 Lead Custodians 2.0 Custodians 40.25 Facilities Maintenance Techs 15.5 Security Officers 18.0
Director 1.0 Mgrs/Supervisors 3.0 CR Staff 3.0 Marketing/PR Rep 1.5 Graphic Designers 2.0 TOTAL 10.5
TOTAL 85.0
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2011 Actual
$23,552,188 $6,507,665 $10,589 $300,095
2012 Actual
$24,869,955 $7,129,053 $18,085 $336,970
2013 Revised
$29,169,696 $7,407,303 $216,711 $329,410 $804,497 $37,927,617
Variance
5.9% 8.2% -36.7% -3.0% -100% 3.8%
Revenue
General Fund
2011 Actual
$394,687
2012 Actual
$377,829
2013 Revised
$380,000
Variance
2.6%
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Total Personnel Budget Comp Time Overtime Total Permanent FTE On-Call Budget On-Call FTE
Key Drivers: 2013 FTE increase due to 40% increase in hours funded by 2A 2014 FTE decrease as the funding for the Corky Gonzales branch has been set for 3 months as opposed to 6 months in 2013. A construction delay has set the projected branch opening back to fall 2014.
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N/A
39,903
36,009
41,267
N/A
43,330
Considerations:
DPL student population is approximately 84,000 and high school graduation rate is approximately 58%. More than any other public institution, including the schools, the public library contributes to the intellectual growth of children during the summer. Summer of Reading strongly supports the mayoral priority of youth.
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Mission-Level Metric Outcome: Circulation of childrens materials Mission-Level Metric Outcome: Total circulation
2,073,614
2,267,934
2,500,000
N/A
2,700,000
8,915,628
9,552,145
10,500,000
N/A
11,000,000
Considerations:
Based on the historical impact of Library hour changes from 2007 and 2008 and also 2009 and 2010, the 41% increase in hours from 2A funding should result in a 12% increase in materials circulation. Since the Library completed increasing hours in April, visits have increased 18% while circulation has increased 7%. The additional budget will help ensure the Library will meet the target increase in circulation.
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450,000
400,000
350,000
300,000
250,000
Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 341,994 340,547 346,076 310,331 319,336 331,913 284,598 279,709 299,231 279,019 336,115 309,399 341,765 301,132 288,522 404,623
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Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 766,385 725,705 777,123 787,324 768,487 797,504 750,009 805,779 702,502 735,555 804,978 788,632 850,496 799,225 761,028 829,652
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