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Resolution accepting the annual Emergency Management Assistance grant funding from the Illinois Emergency Management Agency for Federal Fiscal Year 2010 Emergency Management Performance Grant pass-through funds in the maximum amount of $152,917.52.
Staff Summary
· Lake County has applied for and been awarded an annual allocation from the Illinois Emergency Management Agency on behalf of the Lake County Emergency Management Agency.
· This funding supports the County in developing and maintaining an effective integrated Emergency Management Agency and program.
· This funding provides for quarterly reimbursement of up to 50% of allowable program costs for the Lake County Emergency Management Agency.
· The actual amount of funding is dependent on both the county’s expenditures and the availability of federal funds to the Illinois Emergency Management Agency.
· The maximum funding available to Lake County through this grant is $152,917.52.
· This grant provides for Emergency Management program activities between October 1, 2009, and September 30, 2010.
· Revenue from this grant will offset currently budgeted expenses. No additional expenses are budgeted as a result of this grant.
· Lake County spends more than $349,000 in emergency management program activities to satisfy the grant requirements.
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WHEREAS, Lake County on behalf of the Lake County Emergency Management Agency has applied for funding and has been awarded up to $152,917.52 in an Illinois Emergency Management Assistance (EMA) Grant which provides grant monies to local governments to provide financial assistance to develop and maintain an effective, integrated emergency management organization; and
WHEREAS, Lake County is entitled to reimbursement of eligible emergency management program costs not greater than 50% of all necessary and essential emergency management related expenses; and
WHEREAS, Lake County, through the County Administrators Office, does indeed maintain an Emergency Managem...
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