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**UPDATE: In November, 2009, the Florida Department of Health (DOH) published a Request for Proposals (RFP) "for inpatient hospital services and other operations housed within a replacement facility currently provided for and located at A.G. Holley State Hospital, Lantana, Florida." The deadline for sealed proposals is 2:30p.m. on January 19, 2010.
Please click here for the RFP timeline.
Past Meetings
December 8, 2006 - Senator Ted Deutsch will take U.S. Congressman Ron Klein's seat on the Florida Institute of Public Health Advisory Council.
David Gillings, Palm Beach County, Department of Environmental Resource Management, stated that Mark Glisson, Division of State Lands, and Chris Lockhart of the Florida Natural Areas Inventory, visited the scrub area on the beginning of November. Chris Lockhart wrote a site assessment, stating that the scrub area was valuable scrub habitat. Mark Glisson said he would call susan Kimball at the Department of Management Services to inform her. This morning, Dave Gillings received a call from Department of Management Services on behalf of Susan Kimball. They are waiting for a report from the Division of State Lands in order to proceed.
November 18, 2005 - The committee reviewed a draft plan prepared by Jacobs. The consultant also presented three dimensional views of the proposed plans.
October 14, 2005 - The committee voted on a radial campus style layout with 2, 3 and 4 story buildings. The property would be made up of grid style designs for streets and buildings. A letter was requested by the committee for the new of the Department of Health to express his approval of the committee's decisions.
September 9, 2005 - Jacobs discussed the result from the workshop on economic development.
August 12, 2005 - The committee narrowed down the choices of the potential site plans and agreed to let Jacobs start looking into the type development that will go on the land.
July 8, 2005 - Jacobs presented traffic data from the streets and intersections surrounding the A.G. Holley property, such as Lantana Road and Andrew Redding Road. Jacobs also reported to the committee on the community workshop to help the design the site plan for the property. They also presented fewer and more detailed site plans of the property.
June 10, 2005 - Jacobs presented a variety of land use patterns that could be used on the A.G. Holley property. There were 15. There was also a discussion of payment in lieu of taxes.
May 13, 2005 - It was stated that the A.G. Holley building will be painted and sealed in the coming weeks for maintenance purposes. The types of potential development were discussed. Jacobs announced they had hired an engineering firm to do a traffic study of the roads surrounding the property.
The committee voted on the name "Center of Excellence" to define what the property stands for.
April 8, 2005 - The committee decided on the what was definitely going to be on the site and that the consultants from Jacobs can proceed.
The committee also voted that the A.G.Holley "big, pink building", needs to be demolished and replaced.
March 11, 2005 - A presentation was given by the consultant group Jacobs on what they have learned from meetings with officials and residents along with the CNEP meetings. The gave a summary of what each group on the committee, such as the Department of Health and the Town of Lantana agreed on and their differences.
February 11, 2005 - There was a presentation on Art Deco by the Art Deco Society of the Palm Beaches. The Palm Beach County Environmental Resource Management a gave a presentation on the scrub area. They demonstrated what what part of the scrubs were worth preserving.
January 28, 2005 - The Mayor of Lantana was nominated the Chairman of the Committee. It was also decided that the scrub land (acres to be determined) will stay.
The committee is made up of local and state officials.
David Stewart - Mayor of Lantana
Michael Bornstein - Lantana Town Manager
Dr. Jean Malecki - Director of Palm Beach County Health Department
Senator Ted Deutsch
Retha Lowe - Lake Worth City Commission
Dr. Bonita Sorenson - Deputy Director of Department of Health
Dr. Dwayne Turner - A.G. Holley
Dr. Ming Chan - State Laboratory
Mary Brandenburg - State Representative
Addie Green - Palm Beach County Commissioner |
