Receive update on plan to allocate $15 million to support Doctors Medical Center

Chevron & the RefineryReport

In Plain English

The city committed $15 million from a Chevron environmental agreement to help keep Doctors Medical Center operating as a full-service hospital. Staff will report on their progress developing a multi-year spending plan. The city is also exploring additional funding sources beyond the Chevron money.

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Votes

Allow Heather Klup, who failed to file a pink speaker's card with the City Clerk prior to the City Council's consideration of the item, an opportunity to address the City Council

Passed

7 to 0

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Why This Vote Matters

The council unanimously voted to allow Heather Klup to speak about the Doctors Medical Center funding plan, even though she hadn't filed the required speaker card on time. This was a procedural vote to waive the normal public comment rules for this specific speaker. The actual agenda item was just a staff update on how the city plans to spend $15 million from a Chevron environmental agreement to help keep the hospital operating. No financial decisions were made during this meeting.

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Direct staff to continue moving forward with its current plan, begin discussions with stakeholders, explore all possibilities to support DMC as a full-service, acute-care hospital with an emergency room, and also begin conversations with financial advisors regarding possibly adding DMC to the Trans Revenue Bonds in order to immediately provide $4 million to DMC to survive throughout the month of December 2014

Passed

7 to 0

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Why This Vote Matters

The city council unanimously approved a plan to expedite financial support for Doctors Medical Center, which was facing closure in December 2014. The council directed staff to explore adding the hospital to the city's revenue bond program, which could immediately provide $4 million to keep DMC operating through the month while longer-term funding from the $15 million Chevron agreement is developed. This emergency funding would preserve the city's only full-service hospital with an emergency room. The decision builds on the council's previous commitment to use Chevron environmental settlement money to support the struggling hospital.

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Other motions

Allow everyone that failed to file a pink speaker's card with the City Clerk prior to the City Council's consideration of the item an opportunity to speak

Failed

Direct the City of Richmond to immediately loan $4 million to Doctors Hospital and direct the city manager to meet with Casino San Pablo to request that it frontload the $4 million

Failed

Community Discussion

This discussion was submitted to the City Clerk as part of the public record.

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