Lake County Illinois - File #: 24-0676

• File #: 24-0676
• Version: 1
• Name: Joint resolution authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $143,033.05 of expenditures from the Opioid Settlement Fund (Fund 771) for additional contractual expenses, stipends, and staff salary.
• Type: resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 5/20/2024
• In control: Health and Community Services Committee
• Final action: 6/11/2024
• Title: Joint resolution authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $143,033.05 of expenditures from the Opioid Settlement Fund (Fund 771) for additional contractual expenses, stipends, and staff salary.

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/11/2024	1	Lake County Board
6/6/2024	1	Financial & Administrative Committee	recommended for adoption to the consent agenda	Pass
6/4/2024	1	Health and Community Services Committee	approved and referred on to the Financial and Administrative Committee	Pass

Title

Joint resolution authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $143,033.05 of expenditures from the Opioid Settlement Fund (Fund 771) for additional contractual expenses, stipends, and staff salary.

Staff Summary

•                     In September 2023, the County Board emergency appropriated $1.5 million in revenue for the Opioid Settlement Fund.

•                     For Fiscal Year 2024, $74,176 was carried over to include half of the Opioid Coordinator’s salary, initial commodities and contractual expenses.

•                     This emergency appropriation in the amount of $143,033.05 in expenditures is to fund the remainder of the Opioid Coordinator’s salary, consultants for strategy research and development, and the Regional Office of Education to develop opioid related curriculum, as well as stipends for community members with lived experience to be compensated when participating with the Opioid Remediation Advisory Board that have been approved by the Opioid Workgroup.

Body

RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, Lake County received Opioid Settlement funding as designated in the Illinois Opioid Allocation Agreement and approved by the Attorney General; and

WHEREAS, use of funds is restricted to Opioid Remediation and the terms and conditions as defined in the Illinois Opioid Allocation Agreement and the Opioid Settlement Agreement; and

WHEREAS, in Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 the County Board emergency appropriated $1.5 million in revenue for the Opioid Settlement Fund; and

WHEREAS, for FY 2024, $74,176 was carried over to include half of the Opioid Coordinator’s salary, initial commodities and contractual expenses; and

WHEREAS, an emergency appropriation is necessary to make the funding available for the execution of staffing and programming to continue strategy development and implementation for opioid remediation.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that an emergency appropriation in the amount of $143,033.05 is approved in expenditures of the Opioid Settlement Fund, and is hereby authorized as indicated in the attachment; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the authority to spend funds in accordance with the Opioid Settlement Fund budget and execute any and all agreements related to the allocation and distribution of funds within an Opioid Settlement Fund account category is hereby delegated to the County Administrator or their designee(s).

DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on June 11, 2024.