Title
Joint resolution accepting the Illinois Department of Public Health grant and authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $157,506 for the Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program.
Staff Summary
• The $157,506 Illinois Department of Public Health grant will be used to support a new part-time nurse position and cover the costs of mammograms.
• The $157,506 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) 2020 budget.
• The grant award will be for the period July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020.
Body
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 $157,506 has not been previously appropriated, having been awarded after adoption of the FY 2020 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 $157,506 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 - Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program, $157,506.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on May 12, 2020.