Lake County, IL
File #: 21-1228    Version: 1 Name: ABHIL $250K
Type: resolution Status: Passed
File created: 8/17/2021 In control: Health and Community Services Committee
On agenda: Final action: 9/14/2021
Title: Joint resolution accepting the Aetna Better Health of Illinois grant and authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $250,000 for the Diabetes Care Initiative grant.
Attachments: 1. ABHIL $250K

Title

Joint resolution accepting the Aetna Better Health of Illinois grant and authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $250,000 for the Diabetes Care Initiative grant.

 

Staff Summary

                     The $250,000 Aetna Better Health of Illinois grant will be used to support salaries, fringe benefits, A1C point of care testing machines, and glucose monitoring kits.

                     The $250,000 in additional grant funding has not been previously appropriated because the grant resources were secured after the County’s adoption of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 budget.

                     The grant award will be for the period July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2023.

 

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 will be used for two new positions that will be eliminated if or when this grant’s funding is no longer available and no other funding source outside of property tax dollars has been identified; and

 

WHEREAS, this grant amount totaling $250,000 has not been previously appropriated, having been awarded after adoption of the FY 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 $250,000 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:

 

Aetna Better Health of Illinois - Diabetes Care Initiative, $250,000.

 

DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on September 14, 2021.