Title
Joint resolution authorizing an emergency appropriation in Fund 254 Children’s Waiting Room to fund benefits expenses of the Fiscal Year 2025 budget in the amount of $8,200 from the Fund 254 fund balance.
Staff Summary
• Lake County has incurred expenses benefits that exceed the amount approved in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget due to a change in benefit elections that occurred after the FY 2025 budget was finalized.
• There are sufficient reserves in the fund to cover this emergency appropriation and should this additional appropriation not be fully utilized, it will fall back into the Children’s Waiting Room fund balance at the end of FY 2025.
• The current fund balance is approximately $430,000, so there are sufficient funds to cover this unbudgeted expense.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Lake County has incurred and will incur expenses for benefits that exceed the amount approved in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget due to a change in actual employee benefit elections, which occurred after the approval of the FY 2025 budget; and
WHEREAS, Fund 254 Children’s Waiting Room has sufficient reserves in fund balance to cover these expenses; and
WHEREAS, an emergency appropriation is necessary to provide sufficient funding to fund benefits for the FY 2025 budget.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that an emergency appropriation from fund balance from the Children’s Waiting Room Fund 254 in the amount of $8,200 to the account number in the amount identified in the attached file and is hereby authorized.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on January 13, 2026.