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TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
FROM: Supervisor Tom Torlakson Contra
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DATE: March 8, 1988 . @ County
SUBJECT: GRAND JURY REPORT ON THE LOS MEDANOS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL DISTRICT
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
1. Ask the County Administrator and the Health Services
Director to prepare a letter on behalf of the Board of Supervisors to
the Los Medanos Community Hospital District requesting a response to
the Grand Jury' s Report, in general, and to outline their plans for
district management, in particular, between now and November 1988.
2 . Ask the County Administrator and the Health Services
Director to report back to the Board of Supervisors 'on the impacts of
the serious fiscal problems in the district on the health care of
their clients and to address any impacts on services the county health
system may experience as a consequence of these problems.
3 . Ask County Counsel to review the Grand Jury report in
reference to the questions of closed meetings and lack of public
process, and to recommend to the Board of Supervisors what legislative
recommendations could be made to strengthen the Brown Act and Hospital
District law to prevent the kinds of problems referenced in the Grand
Jury Report.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: The Grand Jury Report indicates the
Los Medanos Hospital District has suffered millions of dollars of
. fiscal losses and charges of secret meetings and numerous illegal or
inappropriate expenditures of district funds have been made.
The Grand Jury also recommends that a majority of the
governing board resign and the Board of Supervisors appoint one new
director. Questions arise as to the impacts management changes would
have.
We share the community' s concern that the district
management be stabilized and that the district be placed on a course
of recovery.
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RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
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SIGNATURE(S)
ACTION OF BOARD ON March 8, 1988 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
X UNANIMOUS (ABSENT III, IV ) I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
AYES: NOES: AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
CC: County Administrator ATTESTED a. /fry
Health services Director Phil Batchelor, Clerk of the Board of
County Counsel Supervisors and County Administrator
M382/7-83 BY DEPUTY