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Authorizing a Budget Adjustment to Appropriate Remaining Grant Funds from the Coroner’s Office FY25 Budget to its FY26 Budget
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WHEREAS, the Kane County Coroner’s Office received the 2024 BJA Byrne Discretionary Community Project Grant, a reimbursement grant, in the amount of $963,000 through US Congressman Bill Foster’s office to support the establishment and expansion of the Forensics Lab and its ability to provide needed analytic services; and
WHEREAS, $200,000 of the grant was appropriated in the FY2025 budget for use to purchase rapid DNA testing equipment and supplies for the Kane County Forensics Lab, but of the amount budgeted in the Coroner Administration Special Revenue Fund #289, $24,000 in 289.490.496.65000 Miscellaneous Supplies and $24,235 in 289.490.496.60025 Supplies were not expended in FY2025; and
WHEREAS, the Coroner requests that the FY 2026 budget in the Coroner Administration Special Revenue Fund #289, accounts 289.490.496.6500 Miscellaneous Supplies and 289.490.496.60010 Equipment be increase to reflect the unspent grant amounts budgeted in FY 2025.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Kane County Board authorizes the FY 2026 budget in Fund #289 Coroner Administration Fund to be increased in the accounts and amounts listed below to reflect the unspent grant fund budget appropriated in the Coroner’s FY 2025 budget:
FY2026
$48,235 Grants - Federal Government 289.490.496.33903
$24,000 Miscellaneous Supplies 289.490.496.65000
$24,235 Equipment 289.490.496.60010
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Was Personnel/Item/Service approved in original budget or a subsequent budget revision? No
Are funds currently available for this Personnel/Item/Service in the specific line item? Yes
If funds are not currently available in the specified line item, where are the funds available? N/A
Passed by the Kane County Board on February 10, 2026.
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John A. Cunningham, MBA, JD, JD Corinne M. Pierog MA, MBA
Clerk, County Board Chairman, County Board
Kane County, Illinois Kane County, Illinois
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