Lot E Dispute Goes To Arbitration

by Paul Bass | August 3, 2007 6:28 PM | | Comments (4)

Kelly%20M.jpgCity Hall and Yale-New Haven Hospital are entering into arbitration over the terms of a development deal near the hospital’s new cancer center, after talks on Friday failed to produce a compromise. City development administrator Kellyl Murphy (pictured) and the hospital continue to tell different stories about the whole process.

The two sides have been wrangling over terms of a deal struck last year over developments the hospital would fund in the surrounding neighborhood in return for permission to build the new cancer center.

The developments have failed to move forward as both sides disagree over what their original deal said.

And on Friday, they even disagreed about the significance of the hospital requesting that the dispute go to arbitration.

“Despite the fact that this has gone into formal arbitration, since the hospital wouldn’t extend the deadline, we hope we are able to continue to talk to resolve our differences,” Murphy (pictured) said in this release.

Murphy has previously accused the hospital of reneging on a promise to include residential, office and retail in a new complex on so-called “Lot E” — although the language she negotiated in the original deal appears not to require the hospital to do that. Click here and here for background.

Hospital spokesman Vin Petrini said he was surprised at the language in Murphy’s release Friday.

“The city never proposed extending the agreement,” Petrini said. “We had to trigger arbitration just to keep the development agreement from expiring.

“We do agree with the city that we are open to further dialogue. But the bottom line is, we delivered on everything the city requested, including housing.”







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Posted by: Your Tax Dollars at Work | August 3, 2007 7:32 PM

Before the City will deal reasonably, YNH must prostrate itself to the Union's agenda! The City wants YNH to recognize the Union without an NLRB supervised election! That's the real bottom line!

There is no such problem with Becker. Unions are in the deal, so the City is agreeing to every Becker demand, ladeling profits for the unions into the calculations and ignoring sensible planning as well as taxpayer effect.

Posted by: Ann | August 4, 2007 7:47 AM

Saw this coming!! The Mayor's Vendetta. Sounds like a reality show, and that's just what it is. The drama continues, and Mayor John gets the Academy Award. Well at least he wins a vote for something.

The question I have is, who the heck would want to live around a parking garage? Where would the kids play on Level One?

Posted by: Former Graces | August 5, 2007 12:55 AM

How many more agreements is the Hospital going to renege on? And how is the city going to hold them accountable for the promises they have broken?

Posted by: Ann | August 5, 2007 3:37 PM

Your Tax Dollars at Work: You hit the nail right on the head!!! The Union knows that they didn't have the majority vote to get into YNHH. Now they are trying to force themselves in. The one thing the Union can't do is take away employee rights. I am a YNHH employee. We will fight if they think they can force themselves in. Now if they would like to treat the employees like respectful working people and not slaves (one who is completely subservient to a dominating influence), we will be more than happy to take part in a supervised NLRB vote. What the Union seems to forget is, without YNHH employees, YNHH would not be. So our voices are a lot stronger than the City, the Hospital, and most of all the Union's. Let's get the vote over with.

Former Graces: The City needs to start taking care of the people who live there. New Haven has become the toilet bowl of CT. The City gets paid millions and millions of dollars from YNHH. Where is the money going to? It seems to me that YNHH should be holding the City accountable for something. If I lived in the inner city of New Haven and paid taxes to New Haven, I would be real upset with the way things are. Morris Cove area of New Haven looks the same as it did years ago. It's clean and safe. Why is that? The inner city is neglected and that is not YNHH's fault. People need to stop holding YNHH accountable for the state the city is in. The Mayor tries to take the focus off where the focus needs to be. THE PEOPLE!!!! Not his own agenda.

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