{"id":18921,"date":"2022-01-06T00:10:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T05:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=18921"},"modified":"2022-01-06T01:30:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T06:30:17","slug":"the-city-manager-warns-city-commissioners-on-2-26-21-that-the-lease-agreements-with-lrh-will-impact-the-timeline-to-build-fire-stations-in-lakeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/01\/06\/the-city-manager-warns-city-commissioners-on-2-26-21-that-the-lease-agreements-with-lrh-will-impact-the-timeline-to-build-fire-stations-in-lakeland\/","title":{"rendered":"The City Manager warns city commissioners on 2\/26\/21 that the lease agreements with LRH WILL impact the timeline to build fire stations in Lakeland"},"content":{"rendered":"        <div class=\"ose-youtube responsive wp-block-embed-youtube ose-youtube-single-video aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\">\n            <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eDL_mHdriBI?controls=1&#038;fs=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1\"\n                allowtransparency=\"true\"\n                allowfullscreen=\"true\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                style=\"max-width: 100%;\"\n                width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\n            <\/iframe>\n        <\/div>\n    \n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On March 2, 2021 the Lakeland City Commission voted to amend the current Lease and Transfer Agreement between the City of Lakeland and Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center, effectively affirming the outstanding commitment of the two organizations to providing the best healthcare services to the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under this amendment, Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center will provide the City of Lakeland a <strong>$215 million lump sum prepayment for all remaining payments under the Lease through its 2040<\/strong> term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u201cThe Commission sought permanent certainty for the Capital Improvement Fund, which provides the high quality of life distinctions Lakeland\u2019s citizens enjoy and expect. At the same time, we created significant benefits for LRH by accepting a lump sum lease payment. The hospital can now secure funding at lower interest rates, and annual bond ratings will cease to cite the lease as a concerning issue. Both parties gain immediate benefits and predictable certainty while the quality of community health rises on a more cost-effective basis,\u201d said Lakeland Mayor Bill Mutz. \u201cWe are grateful to have participated in attaining this mutually beneficial outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This comment from Mayor Mutz has come back to haunt him: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cCommission sought permanent certainty for the Capital Improvement Fund, which provides the high quality of life distinctions Lakeland\u2019s citizens enjoy and expect.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The City Commission have used 214 million of the 215 million into other capital projects \u2026\u2026\u2026 leaving only 1 million for land purchase, why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now the Mayor and City Commissioners cannot build the two needed fire stations that would provide the high quality of life Lakeland\u2019s citizens enjoy and expect. <strong>WHY???<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-purple-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Who is actually running our city?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 2, 2021 the Lakeland City Commission voted to amend the current Lease and Transfer Agreement between the City of Lakeland and Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center, effectively affirming&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}