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A RESOLUTION EXPRESSING THE SUPPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PORTSMOUTH FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE CONVALESCENT AND NURSING FACILITY BY THE STOP ORGANIZATION IN THE SOUTH- SIDE REDEVELOPMENT AREA AND REQUESTING THAT THE COM2~ISSIONER OF HEALTH RECONSIDER THE APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF NEED. WHEREAS, the Southeastern Tidewater Opportunity Project (STOP), a Community Action Agency, acquired the thirty-two (32) bed William T. Hall Convalescent and Nursing Home in 1975 to save the facility from closure by~-the State and thus preventing the displacement of elderly residents; and WHEREAS~ the STOP Organization applied in 1978 to the Community Services A~inis%ration for a special Inter-Agency Grant sponsored by the City of Portsmouth to plan a one hundred twenty (120) bed reP%acement facility later reducing the plan to a sixty (60) bed facility; and WHEREAS, the City of Portsmouth was awarded ~o Hundred Seventy-four Thousand, Eight Hundred Twenty ($274,820) Dollars for a jointly funded prc~ect between the Community Services Administration and the Department of Housing and Urban Development of which One Hundred Seventy-four Thousand, Eight Hundred Twenty ($174~820) was earmarked for planning, architectural and consultant services for the nursing home to be constructed in the Southside Redevelopment Area which would provide training and employment oppor%~unities to Southside residents; and WHEREAS, the STOP Organization filed its application with the State Commissioner of Health for a Certificate of Need in February 1981 and received all subsequent procedural approvals including the issuance of a. use permit by'this Council and the approval of the Eastern Virginia Health Systems Agency; and WHEREAS, the Certificate of Need was denied by the Commissioner of Health despite the recommendation of his staff that it be ap- proved; and WHEREAS, the Council of the City of Portsmouth recognizes the need for the proposed facility and the benefits that can result for the citizens of the City of Portsmouth from its approval. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Council of the City of Portsmouth expresses its support for the construction of the proposed facility in the Southside Redevelopment Area and requests that the Commissioner of Health reconsider his denial of STOP's application for a Certificate of Need.