Lake County Gazette

Lake County Health and Community Services Committee met Nov. 4

Here is the agenda provided by the committee:

1. Call to Order

2. Pledge of Allegiance

3. Roll Call of Members

4. Addenda to the Agenda

5. Public Comment

6. Chair's Remarks

7. Unfinished Business

8. New Business

CONSENT AGENDA (Item 8.1)

*MINUTES*

8.1 25-1439

Committee action approving the Health and Community Services Committee minutes from October 7, 2025.

REGULAR AGENDA

*HEALTH DEPARTMENT*

8.2 25-1420

Joint resolution approving an emergency appropriation of $74,642 for Fiscal Year 2026 accepting additional funding from the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services Care Coordination and Support Organization program.

• The Health Department received $74,642 in additional grant funding for the period of December 1, 2025, through November 30, 2026, which was not previously appropriated because the grant resources were approved after the County’s adoption of the Fiscal Year 2026 budget.

• This funding is to support the program for Medicaid enrolled youth under the age of 21 who have complex, high-risk behavioral health needs and require evidenced-informed intensive care coordination along with home and community-based services to supplement existing treatment interventions.

• This will fund one new position for a Care Coordinator, computer equipment, contractual services, and supplies.

• If funding for the positions and services end, and new funding is not secured, the positions and services will be eliminated.

8.3 25-1421

Joint resolution approving an emergency appropriation of $46,804.37 for Fiscal Year 2025 accepting additional funding from the Illinois Department of Public Health Disease Intervention Specialists Workforce Development Support Grant.

• The Health Department received $46,804.37 in additional grant funding for the period of January 1, 2025, through December 31, 2025, which was not previously appropriated because the grant resources were approved after the County’s adoption of the Fiscal Year 2025 budget.

• This funding is to support 21st-century outbreak response needs by expanding and enhancing frontline public health staff, conducting DIS workforce training and skills building, building organizational capacity for outbreak response, evaluating and improving recruitment, training, and outbreak response efforts.

• This will fund supplies, contractual services, indirect expenses, and offset existing staff salary and fringe benefits.

• If funding for the positions and services end, and new funding is not secured, the positions and services will be eliminated.

9. County Administrator's Report

10. Executive Session

11. Member Remarks and Requests

12. Adjournment

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