Title
Resolution accepting the annual Emergency Management Assistance Grant funding from the Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) for federal fiscal year (FY) 2016 Emergency Management Performance Grant in an amount not to exceed $185,934.18.
Staff Summary
• Lake County applied for and has been awarded an annual allocation from IEMA, via the Department of Homeland Security, on behalf of the Lake County Emergency Management Agency (EMA).
• This grant funding (a) support Lake County in developing and maintaining an effective integrated EMA and program; (b) provides for quarterly reimbursement of allowable EMA program costs; and (c) provides for EMA program expenses between October 1, 2015 and September 30, 2017.
• The actual amount of grant funding is dependent on (a) the federal budget and FEMA grant program guidance, (b) availability of federal funds to IEMA, and (c) actual EMA expenditures.
• The maximum grant funding to Lake County is $185,934.18 which represents a $32,965.51 increase over the previously obligated amount from the Department of Homeland Security.
• 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 applied for funding and has been awarded up to $185,934.18 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 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 101-1101040-45334-000-000-000-0000.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on September 12, 2017.