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Joint resolution accepting the Illinois Department of Human Services grant and authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $88,730 for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children grant.
Staff Summary
* The $88,730 Illinois Department of Human Services grant will be used to fund two new positions, travel expenses, medical supplies, incentives for breastfeeding, garden supplies, and printing of educational materials.
* The $88,730 in additional grant funding has not been previously appropriated because the grant resources were secured after the County's adoption of the Fiscal Year 2023 budget.
* The grant award will be for the period July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024.
* If grant funding for the positions and services end, and new funding is not secured, the positions and services will be eliminated.
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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 $88,730 has not been previously appropriated, having been awarded after adoption of the Fiscal Year 2023 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 $88,730 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 RESOL...
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