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Joint resolution accepting the Illinois Department of Human Services grant and authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $35,145 for the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program.
Staff Summary
• The $35,145 Illinois Department of Human Services grant will be used for salary, fringe, and supply costs for Breastfeeding Peer Counselors working in the WIC program.
• The $35,145 in additional grant funding has not been previously appropriated because the grant resources were secured after the County’s adoption of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 budget.
• The grant award will be for the period July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2018. The Peer Counselors serve over 5,000 women each year.
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RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the Lake County Health Department and Community Health Center has received a grant increase delivered by our Clinical Operations Unit; 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 $35,145 has not been previously appropriated, having been awarded after adoption of the Fiscal Year 2018 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 $35,145 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 - WIC, $35,145.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on February 13, 2018.