DU PAGE COUNTY - File #: FI-R-0239-23

• File #: FI-R-0239-23
• Version: 1
• Type: Finance Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 10/11/2023
• In control: Human Services
• On agenda: 10/17/2023
• Final action: 10/24/2023
• Title: ACCEPTANCE AND APPROPRIATION OF ADDITIONAL FUNDING OF THE LOW-INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM HHS GRANT FY23 INTER-GOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT NO. 23-224028 COMPANY 5000 - ACCOUNTING UNIT 1420 FROM $3,291,193 TO $ 3,718,038 (AN INCREASE OF $426,845) (Under the administrative direction of the Community Services Department)

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
10/24/2023	1	Finance Committee	Approved	Pass
10/24/2023	1	DuPage County Board	Approved	Pass
10/17/2023	1	Human Services	Approved and Sent to Finance	Pass

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ACCEPTANCE AND APPROPRIATION OF ADDITIONAL FUNDING OF
THE LOW-INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM HHS GRANT FY23
INTER-GOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT NO. 23-224028
COMPANY 5000 - ACCOUNTING UNIT 1420
FROM $3,291,193 TO $ 3,718,038
(AN INCREASE OF $426,845)

(Under the administrative direction of the Community Services Department)

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WHEREAS, the County of DuPage heretofore accepted and appropriated the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program HHS Grant FY23, Company 5000 - Accounting Unit 1420, pursuant to Resolution FI-R-0477-22 for the period October 1, 2022 through June 30, 2024, as amended; and

WHEREAS, the County of DuPage has been notified by the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity with Amendment No. 002 to Inter-Governmental Agreement No. 23-224028 (ATTACHMENT II) that additional grant funds in the amount of $426,845 (FOUR HUNDRED TWENTY-SIX THOUSAND, EIGHT HUNDRED FORTY- FIVE AND NO/100 DOLLARS) are available to be used to assist low-income DuPage County residents by offsetting the rising cost of home energy through direct financial assistance, energy counseling, outreach, and education; and

WHEREAS, no additional County funds are required to receive this additional funding; and

WHEREAS, acceptance of this additional funding does not add any additional subsidy from the County; and

WHEREAS, the County Board finds that the need to appropriate said additional funding creates an emergency within the meaning of the Counties Act, Budget Division, (55 ILCS 5/6-1003).

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the DuPage County Board that Amendment No. 002 to Inter-Governmental Agreement No. 23-224028 (ATTACHMENT II) be and is hereby accepted; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the DuPage County Board that the additional appropriation on the attached sheet (ATTACHMENT I) in the amount of $426,845 (FOUR-HUNDRED TWENTY-SIX THOUSAND, EIGHT HUNDRED FORTY-FIVE AND NO/100 DOLLARS) be made and added to the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program HHS Grant FY23, Company 5000 - Accounting Unit 1420 and that the program continue as originally approved in all other respects; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that should state and/or federal funding cease for this grant, the Human Services Committee shall review the need for continuing the specified program and related head count; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that should the Human Services Committee determine the need for other funding is appropriate, it may recommend action to the County Board by resolution.

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Enacted and approved this 24^th day of October, 2023 at Wheaton, Illinois.

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DEBORAH A. CONROY, CHAIR

DU PAGE COUNTY BOARD

Attest: ___________________________________

JEAN KACZMAREK, COUNTY CLERK