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Joint resolution accepting the National Association of County and City Health Officials grant and authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $2,500 for the Medical Reserve Corps grant.
Staff Summary
• The $2,500 National Association of County and City Health Officials grant will be used to hire a contractor to help design and create a Medical Reserve Corps recruitment/retention handbook.
• The $2,500 in additional grant funding has not been previously appropriated because the grant resources were secured after the County’s adoption of the fiscal year 2018 budget.
• The grant award will be for the period February 12, 2018 through August 31, 2018.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the Lake County Health Department and Community Health Center has received a grant increase delivered by Prevention; 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 $2,500 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 $2,500 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:
National Association of County & City Health Officials - Medical Reserve Corps, $2,500.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on May 8, 2018.