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Resolution accepting the annual Emergency Management Assistance grant funding from the Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) for federal fiscal year 2016 Emergency Management Performance Grant pass-through funds in the maximum amount of $262,124.
Staff Summary
• Lake County has applied for and has been awarded an annual allocation from the IEMA on behalf of the Lake County Emergency Management Agency.
• This funding supports the County in developing and maintaining an effective integrated Emergency Management Agency and program.
• This funding provides for quarterly reimbursement of up to 50 percent of allowable program costs for the Lake County Emergency Management Agency.
• The actual amount of funding is dependent on both the county’s expenditures and the availability of federal funds to the IEMA, which is dependent on the federal budget and FEMA grant program guidance.
• The maximum funding available to Lake County through this grant is $262,124.
• This grant provides for Emergency Management program activities between October 1, 2015, and September 30, 2016. This agreement has been delayed due to the state budget impasse.
• Revenue from this grant will offset currently budgeted expenses. No additional expenses are budgeted as a result of this grant.
• Lake County invests local funding in emergency management program activities to satisfy the grant match requirements.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Lake County on behalf of the Lake County Emergency Management Agency has applied for funding and has been awarded up to $262,124 in an Illinois Emergency Management Assistance (IEMA) Grant which provides grant monies to local governments to provide financial assistance to develop and maintain an effective, integrated emergency management organization; and
WHEREAS, Lake County is entitled to reimbursement of eligible emergency management program costs not greater than 50 percent of all necessary and essential emergency management related expenses; and
WHEREAS, Lake County, through the County Administrators Office, does indeed maintain an Emergency Management Agency in accordance with Federal and State laws and regulations; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that the acceptance and execution of the IEMA Grant from the State of Illinois to the County Emergency Management Agency is hereby authorized, with revenue from this grant to be assigned to account 101-1104040-45334-000-000-000-0000.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on this 11th day of October, A.D., 2016.