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Commission approves one Regional One site purchase, delays another amid price and funding questions
Summary
The Board approved purchase of 126 S. Lauderdale for regional medical campus planning, while referring a separate purchase at 455 Union back to committee for further negotiation. Commissioners and hospital leaders discussed a state funding ask and a projected construction cost.
The Shelby County Board of Commissioners approved a contract to purchase property at 126 South Lauderdale Street for Regional One Health, and delayed action on a second property at 455 Union Avenue by referring it back to committee.
The commission approved item 36, a purchase from Chittum Family Limited Partnership, with a not-to-exceed appropriation raised to cover a higher negotiated purchase price and estimated closing costs. County attorneys said the substitute resolution reflected an increase of about $190,000 to the purchase price plus an additional contingency of roughly $50,000 for closing and transaction expenses, for a combined increase of approximately $240,000 to the previously proposed total. The amended total in the meeting materials showed a not-to-exceed figure of about $1,128,914.56 for the Lauderdale parcel.
Regional One Health CEO Reginald Coopwood and…
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