http://www.onelakewood.com/pdf/Lakewood ... of%202.pdf
http://www.onelakewood.com/pdf/Lakewood ... of%202.pdf
The Mayor has shuffled the deck--this document dump is a classic litigators trick muddle matters.
The single document reveals that the Mayor’s plan to “take down” Lakewood Hospital was formulated PRIOR TO OCTOBER, 2013. The document also reveals the Mayor hatched his plan to convert the hospital site to a “Family Heath Campus” with “potential development of additional health and wellness facilities” i.e. the Community Recreation Center and “other attractive economic development elements” in 2013, if not earlier.
Remarkably, the document references a “community dialogue” as being “critical” and that dialogue on only the Family Health Center portion of this scheme did not begin until January, 2015---over 16 months later. These arrogant City Leaders have not yet begun the dialogue on their recently uncovered secret plans---it is almost two years now—they won’t, their course is set.
On the whole, these newly revealed 324 documents show that Mayor Summers and those aligned with him have been extremely dishonest with the public and City Council and the Subsidium process was even more flimsy than I alleged in my April 13, 2015 letter to elected leaders. A “half-truth” is a statement that conveys only part of the truth, especially one used deliberately in order to deceive someone. One such example, was on January 28, 2015 at the Beck Center recorded forum, when Mayor Summers said concerning the hospital land: “The question is what do we do with those 4 acres and the options really are residential, retail or commercial….we have just begun to think about 4 acres of redevelopment downtown….something else could happen there…it could be years in the making.” (you-tube at 1 hour 28 minutes on OneLakewood.com) The Mayor and others concocted their plans back in 2013 and are about t unveil them shortly.
The evidence is now conclusive---this is not about improving healthcare for Lakewood citizens—it is about the Mayor and his gang privatizing public assets and subverting public money to greedy non-profit millionaire co-conspirators to continue their personal agendas controlling public money without accountability.
The ex-officio LHA trustees (Summers/Madigan/Bullock) should be embarrassed and should explain why these documents have just been made public and why they did not want their colleagues on Council and the public to know about the plans and jaded process until now—but they are not embarrassed and they won’t explain anything.
This all turns any notion of transparent government on its head.
Too bad they cancelled that show.