Lake County Illinois - File #: 11-0493

• File #: 11-0493
• Version: 1
• Name: Joint resolution approving Intergovernmental Agreement No. 2012-55-024-K1D with the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services and authorizing an emergency appropriation of $42,711 for the 19th Judicial Circuit’s Access and Visitation Program f
• Type: resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 5/13/2011
• In control: Court Administration Dept.
• Final action: 6/14/2011
• Title: Joint resolution approving intergovernmental agreement No. 2012-55-024-K1D with the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services and authorizing an emergency appropriation of $42,711 for the 19th Judicial Circuit’s Access and Visitation Program for state fiscal year 2012.

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/14/2011	1	Lake County Board	adopted	Pass
6/8/2011	1	Financial & Administrative Committee	recommended for adoption to the regular agenda	Pass
6/7/2011	1	Law & Judicial Committee	approved and referred on to the Financial and Administrative Committee	Pass

Title
Joint resolution approving intergovernmental agreement No. 2012-55-024-K1D with the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services and authorizing an emergency appropriation of $42,711 for the 19th Judicial Circuit’s Access and Visitation Program for state fiscal year 2012.

Staff Summary
· The 19th Judicial Circuit receives grant funding from the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services to provide mediation services for never-married parents involved in visitation and custody-related disputes in an effort to increase child support collections from this population.
· The state would like to continue funding the 19th Judicial Circuit’s program in the amount of $42,711 for state fiscal year 2012.
· This access and visitation grant does not require matching funds.
· The program has served 501 families and resulted in 359 parenting plans since its implementation in December 2008.

Body
WHEREAS, the 19th Judicial Circuit entered into an agreement in state fiscal year 2009 with the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services to provide mediation services for non-married parents involved in visitation and custody-related disputes; and

WHEREAS, the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services would like to continue funding the 19th Judicial Circuit’s program in the amount of $42,711 for state fiscal year 2012; and

WHEREAS, this access and visitation grant does not require matching funds; and

WHEREAS, it is necessary to approve the new intergovernmental agreement and appropriate the $42,711 in funding to formally accept this grant.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that it hereby approves Agreement No. 2012-55-024-K1D with the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services and an emergency appropriation of $42,711 for the 19th Judicial Circuit’s Access and Visitation Program for state fiscal year 2012; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the $42,711 be appropriated ...