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.
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when hospital care costs were ris
ing at the rate of $17-million a
year. The total cost of hospital
care in Oregon is presently bet
ween $300 and $400 million.
Bowing to public pressure
against spiraling hospital costs,
Gov. 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
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Oregon Association of Hospitals,
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state legislature is not due until
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not to pass the cost of its parking
garage on to its patients, Liz
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