Lake County, IL
File #: 14-0852    Version: Name: Delegation of limited signature authority to Community Development Administrator
Type: resolution Status: Passed
File created: 8/19/2014 In control: Health and Community Services Committee
On agenda: Final action: 2/10/2015
Title: Resolution delegating limited signature authority to the Community Development Administrator.
Attachments: 1. Appendix A.pdf
Title
Resolution delegating limited signature authority to the Community Development Administrator.

Staff Summary
* The annual implementation of the County's Community Development federal grant program requires the County Board Chairman's signature on various documents of minor technical nature, creating an undue administrative burden on the Chairman.
* This item authorizes the Community Development Administrator, or a designee, to sign and execute agreements or documents required for community development grant administration activities that have previously been approved by the Lake County Board in order to alleviate the administrative burden.

Body
RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) provides grants to Lake County, Illinois from its Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), Home Investment Partnerships (HOME), McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grant and Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) programs; and

WHEREAS, the Lake County Board authorizes all activities and funding disbursements under the County's Community Development federal grant programs; and

WHEREAS, the annual implementation of the County's Community Development federal grant program requires the County Board Chairman's signature on various documents of minor technical nature, creating an undue administrative burden on the Chairman; and

WHEREAS, it is the intent to ease the undue administrative burden on the Chairman; and

WHEREAS, the Lake County Board, in its authorization of all activities and funding disbursements under the County's Community Development federal grant programs, authorizes the Chairman to sign all documents that implement this authority; and

WHEREAS, the Lake County Board Chairman will retain sole authorization to sign substantive documents (listed in Appendix A).

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that the Community Development Administrator and/or a staff member de...

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