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Joint resolution accepting the Illinois Department of Human Services grant and authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $71,460 for fiscal year (FY) 2017.
Staff Summary
• The Illinois Department of Human Services awarded $71,460 for the Illinois Prevent Prescription Drug/Opioid Overdose-Related Death grant.
• These funds will be used to support a full-time project coordinator, purchase Naloxone, and to offset existing staff costs for the period December 5, 2016, through June 30, 2017.
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RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the Lake County Health Department and Community Health Center has received a grant increase delivered by Clinical Operations; 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 $71,460 has not been previously appropriated, having been awarded after adoption of the FY2017 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 $71,460 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:
Illinois Department of Human Services - Illinois Prevent Prescription Drug/Opioid Overdose-Related Death, $71,460.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on February 28, 2017.