Don Horn told the Human Services Committee that the county applied for and accepted grant funding through the National Children's Association to support the Child Advocacy Center (CAC) and that the county will enter a lease for a new site in the village of Waldo.
"The first grant for CORE will mostly be used for salaries. Outreach materials and, supplies and other operating expenditures at the CAC," Horn said when presenting the grant funding.
Horn said the CAC previously lost a site to a fire and the county has been operating a mobile unit for services. The committee approved a budget adjustment and a lease agreement to open another CAC location in the village of Waldo. Horn said the lease and the budget adjustment will be reimbursed through grant funds and will not require a local share. "It will be reimbursed, through Ardent, through 1 of their grants. So there's no local share involved with us," Horn said.
Committee members asked staff to correct a revenue code on the memorandum of expenditure before it goes to the ways and means committee; the motion to approve the budget adjustment was made "as amended" to fix the code.
The committee approved the grant acceptances and the lease/renewals by voice vote; no detailed tally was recorded in the public transcript.