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Joint resolution accepting the Health Resources and Services Administration grant and authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $46,032 for the Uniform Data System Plus Grant.
Staff Summary
* The $46,032 Health Resources and Services Administration grant will be used to purchase an interoperability engine.
* The total cost of the interoperability engine is funded in part by the grant and tax support.
* The $46,032 in additional grant funding has not been previously appropriated because the grant resources were secured after the County's adoption of the Fiscal Year 2024 budget.
* The grant award will be for the period June 5, 2024 through January 31, 2025.
* If grant funding for the services ends, the department would have to identify alternate funding within their operational budget.
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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, The total cost of the interoperability engine is funded in part by the grant and tax support.
WHEREAS, this grant amount totaling $46,032 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 $46,032 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:
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