City eyes medical house plan Public hearing slated for Ronald McDonald-like home for kin of patients By Lauren Stanforth Published 11:45 p.m., Tuesday, May 8, 2012
SCHENECTADY — The city will hold a public hearing this month on the proposed Jack's Place, a Ronald McDonald House-like residence near Ellis Hospital that is in honor of an assistant police chief's son.
But there are unfavorable signs coming from city officials about the plan — particularly because the initial proposal called for it to be located in a private home in the GE Realty Plot, a historic district in which every home has a deed restriction against development.
City Council agreed to hold a public hearing likely May 28 on creating a new zoning description called a medical hospitality house. If approved, Council members would have to determine in what zoning districts such a house could exist.
But at the City Council committee meeting Monday night, Mayor Gary McCarthy and others seemed less than enthusiastic about going forward with the proposal.
"I think the Falvos have done a great job in taking a tragic situation and turning it into something positive," McCarthy said about the project, which honors Jack Falvo III, who died in 2005 at age 21 in a boating accident on the Mohawk River.
Falvo's father and Schenectady assistant police chief Jack Falvo Jr., who is on the board of the Jack Falvo III Foundation, wants to provide a place to stay for relatives of loved ones being treated at nearby Northwoods at Hilltop in Niskayuna and Sunnyview Rehabilitation Hospital next to Ellis. But the mayor said the city has too many non-profits already. "When we add more, it shifts more to the tax base," he said.....................>>>>...............>>>>.............Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/City-eyes-medical-house-plan-3544365.php#ixzz1uN6cIbIK
I would have voice - in the strongest possible terms - my opposition to the Mayor's position (and any other member of the City Council who shares a similar position) on this issue. Jack's Place is a worthy and necessary cause.
The city seems to have chosen to go to war against non-profits. I am not sure who they got this counterproductive and assinine idea that you should fill the budget gap by attacking non-profits like Jack's Place and religious institutions and the city school district.
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It wont matter....national government 'free healthcare' will make sure there is alot of pillow fluffing to cover the shortcomings of the short-sheeted medical....JMHO
not that there aren't $1million dollar a$$es today playing the vig.....the only difference is they become over priced $1million dollar government 'railroad' keepers of the system....
get a large bucket of popcorn for this one
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This location should be at the soon-to-be-empty Oneida Middle School right next to the hospital. It's all ready off the tax rolls and will be vacant anyway.
McCarthy can't hide his hatred for those who didn't vote for him...even if it means that parents of sick children suffer.
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