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Joint resolution authorizing the application, acceptance, and emergency appropriation of a 2017 Justice Assistance Grant (JAG), awarded by the United States Department of Justice, in the amount of $10,000 for the purpose of enhancing the State’s Attorney’s Office’s K-9 unit through training, awareness, education, and outreach to support victims of crime in Lake County.
Staff Summary
• This is an application for the federal JAG Program in which funding supports a broad range of activities to prevent and control crime and to improve the criminal justice system.
• This JAG funding is a formula grant program. The amount appropriated is apportioned among states based on a statutory formula based upon the local jurisdiction’s population and crime statistics.
• This JAG grant has been awarded since 2005.
• Under this program, the City of Waukegan, the City of Zion, and Lake County on behalf of the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office, are eligible for a joint award of $44,601 in fiscal year (FY) 2017 grant funds.
• The potential allocation of the eligible funds is $10,000 to Lake County on behalf of the State’s Attorney’s Office, $24,601 to the City of Waukegan, and $10,000 to the City of Zion.
• The State’s Attorney’s Office will use the $10,000 to enhance the K-9 unit through training, education, awareness and outreach in Lake County to support victims of crime with the purchase of training, K-9 equipment, supplies, brochures, and printed materials. The grant period is three years.
• The program is fully funded by the federal grant and does not require local matching funds.
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RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Lake County, on behalf of the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office, the City of Waukegan, and the City of Zion has applied for an Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant that provides grant monies to local governments to support a broad range of activities to prevent and control crime and to improve the criminal justice system; and
WHEREAS, the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office will use this funding to enhance the office K-9 unit through a training, education, awareness, outreach and support effort; and
WHEREAS, Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant is in the amount of $10,000, which will be appropriated in the County FY2017 budget; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary and required by the Granting Agency that a Memorandum of Understanding between Lake County, the City of Waukegan and the City of Zion be executed in order to define how the grant funds will be disbursed.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that the acceptance and execution of an Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant from the United State Department of Justice for the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office is hereby authorized; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that an appropriation in the amount of $10,000 is hereby authorized in 101-3330010-79950-000-000-000-(reporting category to be set by the controller), with offsetting revenue of $10,000 in 101-3330010-45334-000-000-000-(reporting category to be set by the controller).
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Chairman of the Board, the Lake County State's Attorney, and the Lake County Treasurer are hereby authorized to execute the necessary documentation in order to accept the grant renewal.
DATED, at Waukegan, Lake County, Illinois, on October 10, 2017.