Title
Joint resolution authorizing an emergency appropriation to the Health Department budget in the amount of $45,833 in the FY 2013 budget as a result of a new contract in Behavioral Health Services.
Staff Summary
· A contract with Rosalind Franklin University for one year was entered into in the amount of $110,000 to provide two fourth year psychiatric residents for psychiatric services at the Grand Avenue and Round Lake Park outpatient mental health clinics, as well as to the Nineteenth Judicial Court for a total of 32 hours per week.
· The period of July 1, 2013 through November 30, 2013 in the amount of $45,833 is being funded by revenue generated by the residents in the amount of $32,779 and salary savings from an existing vacant flex provider.
· The balance of the contract period is in the FY14 requested budget.
Body
WHEREAS, the Lake County Health Department and Community Health Center has been awarded a new contract delivered by our Behavioral Health Service Areas; and
WHEREAS, these dollars will provide a legitimate increase in services to Lake County with no impact on local taxes; and
WHEREAS, this contract totaling $45,833 has not been previously appropriated, having been awarded after adoption of the Fiscal Year 2013 budget; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois that an emergency appropriation in the amount of $45,833 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:
· Rosalind Franklin University - Mental Health Outpatient Residents, $32,779.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on October 8, 2013.