Title
Joint resolution accepting the Des Plaines River Watershed Workgroup Lakes Project funds and authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $80,535.50 for the Water Quality Monitoring program.
Staff Summary
• The $80,535.50 Des Plaines River Watershed Workgroup Lakes Project funds will be used for supplies and to offset existing staff salary and fringe benefits.
• The $80,535.50 in additional grant funding has not been previously appropriated because the funds were secured after the County’s adoption of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 budget.
• The funds will be for the period January 1, 2021 through November 30, 2021.
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 $80,535.50 has not been previously appropriated, having been awarded after adoption of the Fiscal Year 2021 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 $80,535.50 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 - Water Quality Monitoring, $80,535.50.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on February 9, 2021.