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Joint resolution authorizing the Second and Final Renewal of Agreement No. 2009-55-024 with the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services and an emergency appropriation of $42,686 for the 19th Judicial Circuit of Lake County Access and Visitation Program for state fiscal year 2011.
Staff Summary
· The 19th Judicial Circuit receives grant funding from the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services to provide mediation services for never-married parents involved in visitation and custody-related disputes in an effort to increase child support collections from this population.
· This access and visitation grant does not require matching funds and the state would like to renew this agreement and continue funding the 19th Judicial Circuit’s program in the amount of $42,686 for state fiscal year 2011.
· The program has served 113 families and resulted in 100 parenting plans since its implementation in December 2008.
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WHEREAS, the 19th Judicial Circuit entered into an agreement in state fiscal year 2009 with the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services to provide mediation services for non-married parents involved in visitation and custody-related disputes; and
WHEREAS, the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services would like to renew this agreement and continue funding the 19th Judicial Circuit’s program in the amount of $42,686 for state fiscal year 2011; and
WHEREAS, this access and visitation grant does not require matching funds; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to appropriate the $42,686 in new funding and authorize the necessary approvals to formally accept this grant renewal.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that it hereby authorizes the Second and Final Renewal of Agreement No. 2009-55-024 with the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services and an emergency appropriation of $42,686 for the 19th Judicial Circuit of Lake County Access and V...
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