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Joint Resolution authorizing the application, acceptance, and emergency appropriation of a Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) in the amount of $5,000 for the purpose of enhancing the State’s Attorney’s Office’s capacity to provide community outreach, awareness, and education through virtual and remote activities.
Staff Summary
• Under this JAG program, the City of Waukegan, the City of Zion, and Lake County on behalf of the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office, are eligible for a joint award of $38,872 in FY 2022 grant funds.
• The potential allocation of the eligible funds is $5,000 to Lake County on behalf of the State’s Attorney’s Office, $24,410 to the City of Waukegan, and $9,462 to the City of Zion.
• The State’s Attorney’s Office will use the $5,000 for informational brochures and materials to distribute through community forums and training events, and social media outreach, informing the Lake County community about LCSAO programs.
• The source of program funding is 100 percent federal JAG; no match is required.
• If funding for this program ends, and new funding is not secured, the program will be eliminated.
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RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Lake County, on behalf of the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office (LCSAO), the City of Waukegan, and the City of Zion has applied for a 2022 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) that provides grant monies to local governments to support a broad range of activities to prevent and control crime and to improve the criminal justice system; and
WHEREAS, the federal funds of $5,000 will be used to enhance the LCSAO’s commitment to provide awareness and education throughout Lake County through outreach about LCSAO programs with printed materials and social media activities; and
WHEREAS, the grant award must be formally accepted by Lake County, and it is necessary to appropriate the federal grant funding; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary and required by the Granting Agency that a Memorandum of Understanding between Lake County, the City of Waukegan, and the City of Zion be executed in order to define how the grant funds will be disbursed; and
WHEREAS, if funding for this program ends, and new funding is not secured, the program will be eliminated.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that the acceptance and execution of this JAG grant from the United State Department of Justice for the LCSAO is hereby authorized; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that an emergency appropriation in the amount of $5,000 in federal grant funding and offsetting revenue is hereby authorized for the FY 2022 JAG grant as detailed in the attached chart of accounts; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the State’s Attorney shall serve as project director for the program, and accurate records of all necessary grant compliance requirements shall be kept by the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Lake County Chairman of the Board, the Lake County State’s Attorney, and the Lake County Treasurer are hereby authorized to execute the necessary documentation to accept the grant award.
DATED, at Waukegan, Lake County, Illinois, on October 11, 2022.