Title
Resolution authorizing emergency appropriations for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 in various funds for certain projects, items, and activities budgeted in the prior year and not completed.
Staff Summary
• Since all unused appropriations lapse at the end of each fiscal year, it is necessary to “carry over” unspent budget authority from one fiscal year to the next under certain conditions as defined in the County's Budget Policies.
• These carryover requests include contracts which were unable to be completed in FY 2025 and uncompleted or ongoing projects that will not be complete until FY 2026.
• These items must be authorized through what is termed an “emergency appropriation” in order to transfer the budget authority that was previously granted in FY 2025 to FY 2026. The detailed accounts are included in the attachment.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 has ended, and certain projects, goods and activities have been identified in the FY 2025 budget that will not be received and/or completed by the ends of the fiscal year; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to reauthorize the associate budgets for the projects, goods, and activities in the FY 2026 budget, which will be funded from the unobligated fund balances from the prior year.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that emergency appropriations for FY 2026 in various funds for certain projects, goods and activities which were budgeted in the prior year and will not be completed are hereby authorized as detailed in the attached listing, which is hereby made a part of this resolution.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on January 13, 2026.