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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1978)
Neighbors may appeal decision $1.8 million parking garage approved By JAS SAUND Of the Emerald The State Health Planning and Development Agency (SHPDA) approved the Sacred Heart Gen eral Hospital plan to construct a six-story $1.8 million 464-car park ing garage on the southwest corner of 13th Avenue and Hilyard Street Friday. The order follows a June 13 hearing held at the request of West University Neighbors (WUN) to reconsider an earlier SHPDA decision approving the project. State law requires state agency approval for any new health ser vice, or for any project costing more than $150,000 in health facilities. WUN challenged the agency's earlier decision to approve the hospital parking building on six counts, including the impact of the structure on the neighborhood environment and on patients’ fees. SHPDA director Robert Oliver ruled that the environmental is sues raised were outside the state agency jurisdication. “The issue may well be sub stantial," he said. “But it must be settled with the local govern ment.’’ Responding to the charges that his agency has been “unduly casual” in determining whether patient fees should be raised to help pay for the facility, Oliver said, there was no indication that the proposed 72-cent a day in crease will cause the hospital to raise its patient charges. SHPDA expects Sacred Heart to absorb the increase by reducing its profit margin. Oliver also noted that the delays have forced the hospital to reduce the number of parking spaces from 481 to 464 due to the impact of inflation on the construction costs. Dick Williams, Sacred Heart’s assistant administrator, considers SHPDA's decision good news. “We are encouraged that the state has reinforced its earlier de cision, we appreciate this reaffir mation by the state.’’ WUN spokesperson Harold Lannom will not comment until the neighborhood group has a chance to see the official order and dis cuss it. WUN has 30 days to ap peal the decision to the state Cer tificate of Need Board. SHPDA was formed last year to scrutinize the state hospital indus try. closely. One of its main re sponsibilities is to make certain the new health care projects in the state are needed. The creation of City anxious for cable pact, but negotiations are slow By KEVIN HARDEN Of the Emerald Despite fears that Springfield could be left without an alternative when the Teleprompter of Oregon cable television corporation’s franchise expires next April, negotiations with the Metropolitan Cable Television/Translator Commission won’t be completed until the middle of August. The commission, which met Thursday to consider alternatives to the existing cable system if negotiations between Telepromp ter and the commission broke down, said a final draft of the ordi nance, which would govern cable operation in Lane County for the next 15 years, wouldn’t be ready before August 17. According to Les Swanson, commission negotiator, the ordi nance is near completion, but final wording of several clauses will delay the final draft for at least three weeks. The commission and Tele prompter have made “substantial progress’’ in negotiations since a public hearing on the cable sys tem last month, Swanson said. Most of the provisions of the ordi nance have been agreed to by Teleprompter, including a clause to reopen negotiations on the franchise every five years, or “as the need arises,” he said. The negotiations could be reopened, Swanson said, by any organization or group that felt there was a need for a review of the ordinance. A review could also be called to renegotiate the public access programming time estab lished by Teleprompter’s televi sion station KOZY. While the rest of the commis sion was satisfied with the negoti ation timetable, Springfield rep resentatives Gene Hulett and George Vinson asked that a final draft of the cable agreement be sent to the Springfield City Council before the third week in August. “We asked for an ordinance by July 1, and that was delayed,” Hulett said. “Unless we can get a document by at least August 1 we will have to pull out and explore other possibilities.” According to Vinson, Spring field Finance Director, the city council wanted a draft ot the ordi nance to review during its August 2 meeting. If the council has to wait much longer, it may have to negotiate on its own for a cable system, he said. “The negotiations seem near completion, but if they take too long and we have to tell Tele prompter to pack it, we’ll have just four or five months to come up with an alternative,” Vinson said. “And that is an unreasonable amount of time." “We want to remain part of the negotiations, but we cannot dilly dally," Hulett added. Tom Williams, chairman of the cable commission, warned that the negotiations were too near completion to cut the deadline by a week. In other business, the commis sion decided not to explore alter natives to the Teleprompter cable system. The commission had con tacted 18 major cable television firms operating in western states to find out if they would be in terested in supplying a cable sys tem for Lane County. CLASSIFIEDS CRISIS CENTER J of O — Teiepnone Mot Line from 5 p.m. to 8 a m. Heip with personal & emotional problems. 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Robert Straub called a con ference of 100 people represent ing consumers, labor leaders, businessmen, hospital and gov ernment officials to study the prob lem. The group recommended that the state-enforced regulation would not work, and opted instead for the voluntary regulations. During early spring 1977, the Oregon Association of Hospitals, a lobbying organization, stepped forward promising not only to stop the rising cost of hospital care but to cut the costs by $10 million. It is too early to say if hospitals like Sacred Heart will honor this promise; SHPDA’s report to the state legislature is not due until January 1979. As to Sacred Heart’s promise not to pass the cost of its parking garage on to its patients, Liz Fobes of SHPDA sais, ‘‘We are keeping a close watch on the situ ation.” Before Finals ESSAY EXAM WORKSHOP Friday, August 4 10:00-3:00 Well teach you how to predict, prepare, and write clear, well-organized essay exams - fast! 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