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Joint resolution accepting the AIDS Foundation of Chicago grant and authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $57,245 for the Ryan White A Medical Benefits Coordination grant.
Staff Summary
• The $57,245 AIDS Foundation of Chicago grant will provide medical benefits coordination services.
• The Board of Health approved this request at their meeting on August 28, 2024, and the funding includes a new Case Manager position, supplies, contractual services, a computer, and offset an existing staff salary and fringe benefits.
• The $57,245 in additional grant funding has not been previously appropriated because the grant resources were secured after the County’s adoption of the Fiscal Year 2024 budget.
• The grant award will be for the period April 16, 2024, through February 28, 2025.
• If grant funding for the services end, and new funding is not secured, the services will be eliminated.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the $57,245 AIDS Foundation of Chicago grant will provide medical benefits coordination services; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Health approved this request at their meeting on August 28, 2024, and the funding includes a new Case Manager position, supplies, contractual services, a computer, and offset an existing staff salary and fringe benefits; and
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 an increase in services to Lake County with no impact on local taxes; and
WHEREAS, this grant will be used for one new position that will be eliminated if or when this grant’s funding is no longer available and no other funding source outside of property tax dollars has been identified; and
WHEREAS, this grant amount totaling $57,245 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 $57,245 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 following:
AIDS Foundation of Chicago - Ryan White A Medical Benefits Coordination, $57,245.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on September 10, 2024.