Title
Joint resolution authorizing an emergency appropriation with offsetting revenue in the amount of $3,000 to support the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit Court’s Self-Represented Litigant program.
Staff Summary
• The Lake County Bar Association and Foundation has awarded the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit Court $3,000 to purchase laptops to support the work of the Court’s Self-Represented Litigant (SRL) program.
• The laptops will allow the SRL Coordinator and the Justice Corps Fellow to provide services anywhere in the Courthouse or from home, if necessary, in response to the pandemic.
• This resolution authorizes an emergency appropriation of $3,000. The grant does not require a match.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the Lake County Bar Association and Foundation has awarded the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit Court $3,000 to support the work of the Court’s Self-Represented Litigant (SRL) program; and
WHEREAS, the funding will be used primarily to purchase two laptops for the Self-Represented Litigant program; and
WHEREAS, the County Board must authorize an emergency appropriation of $3,000 to implement this grant.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that the County Board authorizes an emergency appropriation with offsetting revenue in the amount of $3,000, to support the work of the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit Court’s Self-Represented program.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on January 12, 2021.