Lake County Illinois - File #: 23-0334

• File #: 23-0334
• Version: 1
• Name: Joint resolution accepting the National Association of County and City Health Officials grant and authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $120,000 for the Local Health Department Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistanc
• Type: resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 2/20/2023
• In control: Health and Community Services Committee
• Final action: 3/14/2023
• Title: Joint resolution accepting the National Association of County and City Health Officials grant and authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $120,000 for the Local Health Department Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance grant.

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
3/14/2023	1	Lake County Board	adopted	Pass
3/9/2023	1	Financial & Administrative Committee	recommended for adoption to the consent agenda	Pass
3/7/2023	1	Health and Community Services Committee	approved and referred on to the Financial and Administrative Committee	Pass

Title

Joint resolution accepting the National Association of County and City Health Officials grant and authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $120,000 for the Local Health Department Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance grant.

Staff Summary

•                     The $120,000 National Association of County and City Health Officials grant will fund temporary program staff, trainings, printing, postage and offset existing staff salaries and fringe benefits.

•                     The $120,000 in additional grant funding has not been previously appropriated because the grant resources were secured after the County’s adoption of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 budget.

•                     The grant award will be for the period February 1, 2023, through July 31, 2023.

•                     If funding for the position and services end, and new funding is not secured, the position and services will be eliminated.

Body

RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, the Lake County Health Department and Community Health Center has received a grant increase delivered by our Prevention 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 $120,000 has not been previously appropriated, having been awarded after adoption of the FY 2023 budget; and

WHEREAS, the proposed appropriation will be fully offset by 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 $120,000 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 National Association of County and City Health Officials - Local Health Department Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance, $120,000.

DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on March 14, 2023.