Title
Joint resolution accepting the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs (OJP) and authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $178,439.
Staff Summary
• In February 2021, the Sheriff’s Office applied for a Fiscal Year 2020 (FY20) SCAAP Grant with the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs. The grant allowed payment to be made to units of local government that have incurred certain types of cost due to undocumented aliens that have been convicted at least one felony or two misdemeanors and who were incarcerated for at least four days between the reporting period of July 1, 2018, and June 30, 2019.
• The Sheriff’s Office received notification on June 15, 2022, that it had been awarded $178,439 and that the Sheriff can inform the OJP where the grant funds will be spent. Grant funds can be used to defray the cost of construction, training/education, training for corrections officers, consultants, medical services, mental health services, vehicles, pre-release/re-entry programs, technology, workforce recruitment and retention of the jail workforce and disaster preparedness.
• The Sheriff’s Office will use the grant funds to partially offset medical and mental health services including Vivitrol for inmates during FY 22 in the amount of $178,439.00. Vivitrol is a medication that will be administered by the jail medical provider. Vivitrol is an extended- release injectable suspension medication to treat opioid dependence.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office applied for and was awarded the SCAAP Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs totaling $178,439.00; and,
WHEREAS, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office submitted a grant request to use the funds towards partially offsetting medical and mental health services in the amount of $178,439.00 while continuing the Vivitrol program to reduce opioid dependence of inmates currently incarcerated in the jail; and,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that the Chairman of the Board, the Lake County Sheriff, and the Lake County Treasurer are hereby authorized to approve an emergency appropriation in the amount of $178,439.00 and execute the necessary documentation to accept the SCAAP Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs.
BE IT FUTHER RESOLVED, that an emergency appropriation for the grant in the amount of $178,439.00 is hereby authorized as follows:
Revenue
Amount Fund
$178,439.00 101-3020010-45334 (Grants - Federal)
Expense
Amount Fund
$178,439.00 101-3020010-71330 (Medical Fees)
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on July 12, 2022.