[Nfb-or] Here is the latest news from the OSB front.

[T. Joseph Carter]

They're getting settled at extreme cost to local districts.

Joseph

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 01:11:21PM -0800, Mike Sivill wrote:
>How are the kids doing back in the neighborhood schools? Are there lawsuits
>yet?
>Mike
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>Subject: [Nfb-or] Here is the latest news from the OSB front.
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>http://www.thelundreport.org/resource/salem_hospital_eyes_school_for_the_bli
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>Salem Hospital Eyes School for the Blind
>Oregon's legislature will decide the school's fate when it meets in February
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>By: Diane Lund-Muzikant
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>January 14, 2010 --
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>Salem Hospital and Willamette University are interested in purchasing the
>Oregon School for the Blind, reliable sources have told The Lund Report.
>Both declined to comment.
>A Willamette University spokesman said the school "may potentially be
>interested if the property goes up for sale," but declined to comment
>further.
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>The school, which is located near the hospital and university, closed last
>summer. Consultants have been hired by the Department of Administrative
>Services to evaluate whether the school should be sold outright or its
>dilapidated buildings torn down first, according to Lonn Hoklin, the
>governor's public relations spokesperson. "The goal is to maximize the
>return," he said.
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>The consultant's report, which will include an appraisal, should be
>completed when the legislature convenes in February so that a decision can
>be made, he added.
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>House Education Chairwoman Sara Gelser (D-Corvallis), an advocate for
>disabled students, led the effort to close the 135-year-old school.
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>If Salem Hospital becomes its new owner, some people in the community
>question how the hospital could come up with the financing.
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>Last November its CEO, Norman Gruber, sent his staff a memo announcing
>cutbacks of $9 million in 2010, which unleashed a hailstorm. Salem residents
>called the hospital a country club because of its expensive artwork and
>furnishings, new construction and bad planning decisions.
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>After losing $2 million in September and facing losses last summer as well,
>Gruber told his staff he might have to close or sell the hospital's home
>health agency because of declining revenues.
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>"Going forward, however," he wrote, "we are operating with a negative margin
>unless we make a course correction."  END
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>PS:  Julie McEvoy, please send your new email again!  Lynn
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