Title
Joint resolution accepting the Illinois Department of Public Health grant and authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $30,248 for the Public Health Emergency Preparedness grant.
Staff Summary
• The $30,248 Illinois Department of Public Health grant will be used to support the purchase of closed Points of Disbursement (POD) supplies, training and volunteer management supplies, and maintain Emergency Management equipment for the Lake County Health Department (LCHD)/ Emergency Management Agency (EMA).
• The $30,248 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.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the Lake County Health Department and Community Health Center has received a grant increase delivered by our Prevention Services 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 $30,248 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 $30,248 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 Public Health - Public Health Emergency Preparedness, $30,248.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on March 13, 2018.