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Joint resolution authorizing the application, acceptance, and emergency appropriation of a 2018 Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) in the amount of $9,080 for the purpose of enhancing the State’s Attorney’s Office’s capacity to provide youth awareness, education, support, and outreach in Lake County through its Young Ambassadors Board.
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.
• 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 $45,399 in fiscal year 2018 grant funds.
• The potential allocation of the eligible funds is $9,080 to Lake County on behalf of the State’s Attorney’s Office, $27,239 to the City of Waukegan, and $9,080 to the City of Zion.
• The State’s Attorney’s Office will use the $9,080 to enhance youth crime prevention awareness, education, and outreach in Lake County through its Young Ambassadors Board by purchasing brochures, printed materials, outreach supplies, journals and USB drives to distribute to youth, parents and teachers.
• The source of program funding is 100 percent federal JAG; no match is required.
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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 a youth awareness, education, support, and outreach effort; and
WHEREAS, Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant is in the amount of $9,080, which will be appropriated in the County FY2018 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 $9,080 is hereby authorized in 101-3330010-79950-000-000-000-(reporting category to be set by the controller), with offsetting revenue of $9,080 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 September 11, 2018.