Title
Joint resolution accepting a grant from the University of Chicago Medical Center and authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $5,000 for the Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) Program.
Staff Summary
• The Lake County Health Department and Community Health Center has received a grant in the amount of $5,000 from the University of Chicago Medical Center for dedicated contractual services which will be used to recruit providers to the agency.
• The $5,000 in additional grant funding is not included in the fiscal year (FY) 2018 budget because the grant resource was secured after budgets had been prepared.
• The grant award will be for the period July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2018.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the Lake County Health Department and Community Health Center has received a grant increase delivered by our Clinical Operations Unit; and
WHEREAS, these dollars will provide a legitimate increase in services to Lake County with no impact on local taxes; and
WHEREAS, this grant amount totaling $5,000 is not included in the Fiscal Year 2018 budget because the grant resource was secured after budgets had been prepared; and
WHEREAS, the proposed appropriation will fully offset the above referenced items, thereby not requiring the expenditure of local tax revenue.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that an emergency appropriation in the amount of $5,000 is hereby authorized in the Health Department budget as identified on the listing of expense and revenue budget modifications attached hereto and made part hereof; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the revenue budgets as identified on the attached listing be modified as provided by increased funding from the following:
University of Chicago Medical Center - Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes, $5,000.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on November 14, 2017.