Title
Joint resolution accepting the Kenneth Young Center grant and authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $71,674 for the Williams Consent Decree.
Staff Summary
• The $71,674 Kenneth Young Center grant will be used to fund a new Counselor, computer equipment, cell phone, and client transition costs.
• The $71,674 in additional grant funding has not been previously appropriated because the grant resources were secured after the County’s adoption of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 budget.
• The grant award will be for the period July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the Lake County Health Department and Community Health Center has received a grant increase delivered by our Clinical Operations 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 will be used for a 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 $71,674 has not been previously appropriated, having been awarded after adoption of the Fiscal Year 2021 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 $71,674 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:
Kenneth Young Center - Williams Consent Decree, $71,674.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on October 12, 2021.