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Joint resolution authorizing the renewal of the State’s Attorney Violent Crime Victims Assistance (VCVA) grant program awarded by the Office of the Illinois Attorney General for State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2024, including grant funding of $95,000 and an emergency appropriation in the amount of $1,348.
Staff Summary
• This is a request to renew the VCVA grant administered through the Office of the Illinois Attorney General, with a grant period from July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024. Funding for this grant began in 1990 and has been renewed each year.
• Grant program goals include the promotion of fairness and accountability, the coordination of services for victims and witnesses of domestic violence, and the promotion of policy and procedure for domestic violence cases in order to improve response by law enforcement and court personnel.
• The SFY 2024 grant will fund $65,404 for salary and $28,248 for fringe benefits for one full-time Domestic Violence Victim Specialist (DV Coordinator) to serve as a liaison to victims of domestic violence in Lake County, as well as $1,348 to fund relevant staff training on trauma-informed care, an increase of $58,400 from the SFY 2023 award of $36,600.
• The DV Coordinator position and grant are already included in the State’s Attorney’s approved Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 budget and an emergency appropriation of $1,348 is necessary for the grant funded training.
• If funding for this position ends, and new funding is not secured, the position will be eliminated.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the Office of the Illinois Attorney General has approved the continuation of the State’s Attorney’s Violent Crime Victims Assistance Program, and $95,000 was awarded for the time period July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024; and
WHEREAS, the grant funds of $95,000 for this program will fund the salary and benefits of a full time DV Coordinator, and provide trauma-informed training to relevant staff; and
WHEREAS, $93,652 has already been appropriated in the FY2023 budget for this Program for personnel expenses, an emergency appropriation of $1,348 is necessary for the grant funded training and $36,600 has already been budgeted in the FY 2023 budget for revenue; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Violent Crime Victims Assistance Program with the Office of the Illinois Attorney General is hereby authorized; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that an emergency appropriation in the amount of $1,348 is hereby authorized in the State’s Attorney’s approved FY2023 budget in the account 101-3314010-71500 with the increase in offsetting revenue in the amount of $58,400 in the account of 101-3314010-45333.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the State’s Attorney shall serve as project director for the program, and accurate records of all necessary grant compliance requirements shall be kept by the State’s Attorney’s Office; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Chairman of the Board, the Lake County State’s Attorney, and the Lake County Treasurer are hereby authorized to execute the necessary documentation in order to accept the grant renewal.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on July 11, 2023.