Title
Joint resolution accepting various grant awards and approving an emergency appropriation for the Lake County Health Department totaling $260,974.
Staff Summary
• The Health Care Foundation of Northern Lake County awarded a grant for a Care Coordination Program in the amount of $95,000 for the Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council Health Information Exchange one time participation fee.
• The Illinois Department of Public Health awarded $8,400 for the Category C grant which will be used to offset existing staff costs for the period January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2015.
• The National Association of County and City Health Officials awarded $3,500 for the Medical Reserve Corps contract which will be used for MRC staff attending conferences for the period January 1, 2015 through July 31, 2015.
• The Illinois Department of Public Health awarded $3,600 for the Child and Adult Care Food Program contract which will be used to offset existing staff costs for the period October 1, 2014 through September 30, 2017. The amount requested to be appropriated in LCFY15 is $960.
• The Illinois Department of Public Health awarded $1,143 for the Ebola Direct Active Monitoring grant in the amount of $1,143 which will be used to offset existing staff costs for the period December 22, 2014 through June 30, 2015.
• The Coalition for Healthy Communities gave a donation for Life Skills in the amount of $1,000 which will be used for supplies for stress prevention to 5th and 6th graders in Zion for the period December 1, 2014 through December 31, 2014.
• The Illinois Department of Public Health awarded $90,933 for the Chronic Disease and School Health grant which will be used to offset existing staff and advertising costs for the period of January 1, 2015 through June 30, 2015. The amount requested to be appropriated for LCFY15 is $46,496.
• The Illinois Department of Human Services awarded an additional $101,000 for the Child and Family Connections grant which will be used to offset existing staff costs for the period of December 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015.
• The Illinois Department of Public Health awarded $3,475 for the Flat Fee Ebola grant which will be used to offset existing staff costs for the period of December 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the Lake County Health Department and Community Health Center has been awarded grant increases delivered by our Administration and Population Health Service Areas; and
WHEREAS, these dollars will provide a legitimate increase in services to Lake County with no impact on local taxes; and
WHEREAS, this grant amount totaling $260,974 has not been previously appropriated, having been awarded after adoption of the Fiscal Year 2015 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 $260,974 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:
Health Care Foundation of Northern Lake County - Care Coordination Program, $95,000;
Illinois Department of Public Health - Category C, $8,400;
National Association of County and City Health Officials - Medical Reserve Corps, $3,500;
Illinois Department of Public Health - Child and Adult Care Food Program, $960;
Illinois Department of Public Health - Ebola Direct Active Monitoring, $1,143;
Coalition for Healthy Communities - Life Skills, $1,000;
Illinois Department of Public Health - Chronic Disease and School Health, $46,496;
Illinois Department of Human Services - Child and Family Connections, $101,000;
Illinois Department of Public Health - Flat Fee Ebola, $3,475.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on October 13, 2015.