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AUTHORIZING AWARDS FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SYSTEM IMPROVEMENT GRANTS AND THE EXECUTION OF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SYSTEM IMPROVEMENT GRANT'S AGREEMENTS
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WHEREAS, the Congress of the United States has enacted the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 ("ARPA") to provide economic relief to State, Local, and Tribal governments responding to economic and public health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic; and
WHEREAS, the County of Kane received a total of $103,413,041 (One Hundred Three Million, Four Hundred Thousand, Forty-One Dollars) from the United States Department of the Treasury, in State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds ("SLFRF") pursuant to ARPA; and
WHEREAS, the Kane County Board has established the American Rescue Plan Committee ("ARPC") as a resource for research, education, planning, and recommendations for the best allocation and uses of the County's SLFRF; and
WHEREAS, the Kane County Board approved in Resolution 23-497 the allocation of $9,975,000 (Nine Million, Nine Hundred Seventy-Five Thousand Dollars) of SLFRF to the Kane County Health Department to improve the behavioral health system in Kane County and meet the behavioral health needs of residents; and
WHEREAS, as part of that allocation, the Kane County Health Department and the American Rescue Plan Program established parameters to use $5,393,575 (Five Million Three Hundred Ninety Three Thousand Five Hundred Seventy Five Dollars) of SLFRF as Behavioral Health System Improvement Grants via competitive notice of funding process (see Exhibit A), to be distributed as reimbursements for eligible expenses, which has been made available to organizations located in Kane County that are fully incorporated and operating by January 1, 2019, deliver services within Kane County, whose proposals for behavioral health system improvement were selected for funding by a competitive process; and
WHEREAS, the $5,393,575 (Five Million Three Hu...
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