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Joint resolution authorizing the application acceptance and emergency appropriation of a Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) in the amount of $4,500 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, the City of North Chicago and Lake County on behalf of the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office, are eligible for a joint award of $52,625 in FY 2024 grant funds.
• The potential allocation of the eligible funds is $4,500 to Lake County on behalf of the State’s Attorney’s Office, $28,190 to Waukegan, $10,916 to Zion and $9,019 to North Chicago.
• The State’s Attorney’s Office will use the $4,500 for informational brochures and materials to distribute through community forums and training events, and social medial 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, the City of Zion and the City of North Chicago has applied for a 2023 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 $4,500 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, the City of Zion and the City of North Chicago 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 the JAG grant from the United States Department of Justice for the LCSAO is hereby authorized; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that an emergency appropriation of $4,500 in federal grant funding and offsetting revenue is hereby authorized for the FY 2023 JAG grant as detailed in the attached chart of accounts; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the State’s Attorney shall serve as the project director for the program, and accurate records of all necessary grant compliance requirements shall be kept by the State’s Attorney’s Office; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Chair of the Board, the Lake County State’s Attorney, and the Lake County Treasurer are hereby authorized to execute the necessary documentation in order to accept the grant renewal.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on March 12, 2024.