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Joint resolution authorizing an emergency appropriation for FFY 2007 US Department of Justice (DOJ) Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) #407406 administered through the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA), to the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office for a maximum total of $138,318 in federal funds to implement a Community Awareness and Outreach program.
Staff Summary
• This is a grant for a Community Awareness and Outreach program that significantly enhance the State’s Attorney’s Office’s capacity to provide crime-related awareness, prevention, and education materials to schools, citizen groups, victims and witnesses of crime, law enforcement, and entire communities.
• Through this program, the State’s Attorney’s Office will accomplish community outreach through print and electronic materials strategically distributed to target populations, through presentations by a newly-formalized Speaker’s Bureau, through funding assistance to the annual GirlWise conference, and through funding of a Multidisciplinary Sexual Assault Response conference.
• The program will fund several projects, each of which target a specific crime or community issue, including domestic violence, drug abuse, gangs and juvenile delinquency, cyber and internet crimes, adult sexual assault and child sexual abuse, elder abuse, mental health issues, and environmental crime issues.
• The grant program is for the period of March 15, 2011 to September 30, 2011 and is 75% funded by federal JAG dollars in the maximum amount of $138,318, and a 25% cash match in the maximum amount of $46,106 is required.
• No match funds are being requested from the County’s general fund, but are being provided from the State’s Attorney’s Money Laundering Forfeiture Fund.
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RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office is in process of applying for a US Department of Justice FFY2007 Justice Assistance Grant, administered through the State of Illinois as grant #407406, that provides funding to state and local governments to address criminal justice system needs; and
WHEREAS, the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office will use this funding to enhance the State’s Attorney’s Office’s capacity to provide crime-related awareness, prevention, and education materials to schools, citizen groups, victims and witnesses of crime, law enforcement, and entire communities; and
WHEREAS, the 25% match is required and is being supplied by the State’s Attorney’s Money Laundering Forfeiture Fund and not by County general funds; and
WHEREAS, the program budget includes a maximum of $138,318 in federal funds and $46,106 in match, and an emergency appropriation is necessary to appropriate these amounts in the State’s Attorney’s FY 2011 budget.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that the application, award, and execution of this FFY2007 JAG grant #407406 for Lake County on behalf of the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office are hereby authorized; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that an emergency appropriation in the maximum amount of $138,318 is hereby authorized in fund 101, management center 3330010, reporting category 33003 with an equal amount of offsetting revenue in federal funds and match funds from the State’s Attorney’s Money Laundering Forfeiture Fund to be deposited to the same management center; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the chart of accounts will be forwarded to the Controller as soon as possible; and
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 Office; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Board Chair, State’s Attorney, and Treasurer for Lake County are hereby authorized to execute the necessary documentation to accept the award.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on March 15, 2011.