Title
Joint resolution accepting the Illinois Department of Public Health grant and authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $162,406.38 for the Comprehensive Health Protection grant.
Staff Summary
• The $162,406.38 Illinois Department of Public Health grant will be used for supplies, contractual services, and to offset existing staff salaries and fringe benefits.
• The $162,406.38 in additional grant funding has not been previously appropriated because the grant resources were secured after the County’s adoption of the FY24 budget.
• The grant award will be for the period July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024.
• If grant funding for the positions and services end, and new funding is not secured, the positions and services will be eliminated.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the Lake County Health Department and Community Health Center has received a grant increase delivered by our Prevention and Environmental Health Unit; and
WHEREAS, these dollars will provide a legitimate increase in services to Lake County with no impact on local taxes; and
WHEREAS, this grant amount totaling $162,406.38 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 $162,406.38 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:
Illinois Department of Public Health - Comprehensive Health Protection Grant, $162,406.38.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on December 12, 2023.