8:15 a.m.--Public Health and Human Services Committee of the McHenry County Board is meeting in the Conference Room of the McHenry County Administration Building, 667 Ware Road, Woodstock.
The committee is to authorize acceptance of operational funding for implementation of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) for July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2012. This funding includes grants of $551,289 for Adult Program; $650,000 for Dislocated Workers Program, and $639,465 for Youth Program.
The committee is also to consider the offer of a $6,050 Tobacco Enforcement Grant from the Illinois Liquor Commission Tobacco Program. It is to educate tobacco retailers on minimum age tobacco laws and enforce those laws.
Acceptance of this grant by the County Board will allow the Health Department to enforce the goals of teenage anti tobacco use reality Illinois
This is a program in which the Health Department is working with the Woodstock/McHenry Police Department and specially trained officers who will oversee the compliance check part of the program. The Department will be utilizing trained high school students from the Reality Illinois and tobacco program in the compliance check purchase of tobacco.
Another grant is being considered by the Committee. This is a $35,000 IDVA Lottery
Grant. The Veterans Assistance Commission of McHenry County is requesting approval of acceptance of the grant and an appropriation to the fiscal year 2011 budget to fund a Veterans Dental Services Program.
The Veterans Assistance Commission of the County was awarded a grant to convert the VAC High Top Van into a Mobile Office for the Saturday and Extended Hours Program. The Veterans Assistance Commission is being awarded $7,228.86 for this purpose.
All final action on the various grants is contingent upon the approval by the full County Board
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