Title
Joint resolution accepting the Des Plaines River Watershed Workgroup grant and authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $20,000 for the Lakes Project grant.
Staff Summary
• The $20,000 Des Plaines River Watershed Workgroup grant will be used for supplies and to offset existing staff salary and benefit costs.
• The $20,000 in additional grant funding has not been previously appropriated because the grant resources were secured after the County’s adoption of the fiscal year 2019 budget.
• The grant award will be for the period May 1, 2019 through January 31, 2020.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the Lake County Health Department and Community Health Center has received a grant increase delivered by our Prevention 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 $20,000 has not been previously appropriated, having been awarded after adoption of the FY 2019 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 $20,000 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:
Des Plaines River Watershed Workgroup - Lakes Project, $20,000.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on June 11, 2019.