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Joint resolution authorizing an amendment and increase of federal funding for the State's Attorney's Victim of Crime Act (VOCA) Prosecutor Based Victim Services grant program number 215936, awarded by the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA), which will continue to support the program through December 31, 2017, and an emergency revenue appropriation of $19,236.
Staff Summary
* This grant extension is for the Prosecutor Based Victim Services program, a VOCA victim assistance grant administered through the ICJIA.
* The performance period of VOCA grant number 215936 was October 1, 2016 through September 30, 2017. The extension and increased federal funding of $19,236 would continue to support the program for an additional three months, through December 31, 2017.
* The focus of this grant is to provide advocacy services to the currently underserved misdemeanor domestic violence, elder abuse and aggravated battery victim population.
* The federal funds are allocated to 100 percent of the grant assigned domestic violence victim witness coordinator's salary and benefits, and additional program costs will be covered by match funds.
* Sources of program funding for this extension include $19,236 in federal funds and matching funds of $4,808, which is provided from the State's Attorney's Money Laundering Forfeiture Fund, for a grant program total of $24,044.
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RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the ICJIA has announced an extension and increase in VOCA grant funding for the State's Attorney's Prosecutor Based Victim Services program number 215936, which will continue to support the program through December 31, 2017; and
WHEREAS, the Lake County State's Attorney's Office will continue to use this funding to provide advocacy services to victims of domestic violence, elder abuse and aggravated battery through December 31, 2017; and
WHEREAS, the VOCA grant number 215936 has been extended with an increase in program funding of $19,236 and it is necessary t...
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