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Joint resolution approving an emergency appropriation of $5,593 for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 accepting additional funding from the Illinois Department of Public Health Comprehensive Health Protection grant.
Staff Summary
• The Health Department received $5,593 in additional grant funding for the period of July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025, which was not previously appropriated because the grant resources were secured after the County’s adoption of the FY 2024 budget.
• The Illinois Department of Public Health grant funds contractual services and offsets existing staff salaries and fringe benefits.
• The funding is to conduct environmental tick surveillance, submit collected ticks for pathogen testing, and provide public awareness of tickborne disease.
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RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the Lake County Health Department and Community Health Center has received a grant increase delivered by our Environmental Health Unit; and
WHEREAS, these dollars will provide an increase in services to Lake County with no impact on local taxes; and
WHEREAS, the additional grant amount totaling $5,593 for the period of July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025, has not been previously appropriated, having been awarded after adoption of the Fiscal Year 2024 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 $5,593 is hereby authorized in the Health Department fiscal year 2024 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:
Illinois Department of Public Health - Comprehensive Health Protection Grant - Tick Surveillance, $5,593.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on January 14, 2025.