Lake County, IL
File #: 22-1179    Version: 1 Name: IDHS Suicide Prevention Call Center Enhancement Grant
Type: resolution Status: Passed
File created: 8/22/2022 In control: Health and Community Services Committee
On agenda: Final action: 9/13/2022
Title: Joint resolution accepting the Illinois Department of Human Services grant and authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $462,545 for the Suicide Prevention Call Center Enhancement grant.
Attachments: 1. IDHS Suicide Prevention Call Center Enhancement $462,545
Title
Joint resolution accepting the Illinois Department of Human Services grant and authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $462,545 for the Suicide Prevention Call Center Enhancement grant.

Staff Summary
* The $462,545 Illinois Department of Human Services grant will be used for six new staff positions, supplies, contractual services, and capital items.
* The $462,545 in additional grant funding has not been previously appropriated because the grant resources were secured after the County's adoption of the FY22 budget.
* The grant award will be for the period July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023.
* If the program funding is reduced or eliminated, the program and positions would be eliminated.
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 six 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 $462,545 has not been previously appropriated, having been awarded after adoption of the Fiscal Year 2022 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 $462,545 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:

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