"CUTS LIKE A KNIFE"...carved

Attended Hal Werners Concerned Citizen Meeting last night. Gary Robinson from Lake Health was there to inform people in Painesville about the Urgent Care Center.
He briefly spoke about him and Councilman Flock disagreement of what was said at a townhall meeting ago. "We agree to Disagree." What I said was that it would do no one good to leave a boarded up empty building there. Yes Mr .Robinson I also heard that statement after you mentioned that if Painesville didn't get the grant "The hospital would find the funds to tear the building down." Three people at the meeting agreed thats what they heard also. Water over the dam.
On the urgent care center , there is a delay and now we probably won't have it open until May. 180 days after the closing of Lake East. When asked he made the statement that five or six sites were looked into but the city chose the Chase Bank site. When questioned who for the "city" chose that site. He said the committee. What committee? Well there was a committee made up of the city manager, councilpeople Joe Hada, Abbey Delamotte, and another person he couldn't remember at the time. They looked a various sites including the old Rite-Aid location, and a proposed site on Richmond St. across from Kurlee Kone. They decided on the Chase Bank site downtown. When asked when they made this decision ,he said about three years ago? When asked when the hospital signed the lease with the owner of the bank building he said two months ago?
Why was the hospital and city doing waiting for this man to make up his mind? Now we know why the delay. I guess no "urgency" needed here?
Traffic concerns , and bad winter weather was also brought up.
Then the conversation turned to the JEDD arrangement. Now comes the part that upset me. When asked if the Hospital system administration building was included in the JEDD? Mr. Robinson said it was "carved" out of the JEDD, but not by the hospital? That begs the question why and who carved it out? That carving cost Painesville over $50,000 in revenue a year. To understand this, its like the nurses, housekeeping, dietary workers and other support personnel pay the 1.75% tax but the big shots pay ZERO in income tax. That would be like the city carving out city hall from income tax but only city hall? To these people who abandoned Painesville we will spend million to run electricity out to them. That Administration building better not be included in the deal.
It should be mentioned and thanked that Lake Health had the foresight to station an ambulance at that quick care center downtown so far they have saved Painesville about six runs to Tri-Point.