FRIDAY JULY 27, 2018 THE NEW STAMFORD AMERICAN VOL. 10, ISSUE 10 STAMFORD AMERICAN VOLUME 97, ISSUE 16 STAMFORD LEADER VOLUME 113, ISSUE 17
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How Did We Get Here? BY CALLIE METLER
The chairs are being installed! The Grand Theater made progress towards their projected October/ November opening with the installation of chairs. Over 300 chairs will be installed in the theater in the next week.
On July 9th at 5:00 pm, Stamford Hospital discontinued all inpatient and Emergency Room services. This has left a lot of people in Stamford community concerned about the future of Stamford and wondering how the hospital got to the point that it had to close. There isn’t a clear answer for this, but the short answer is that the health care model has changed across the country, and while the hospital adapted and changed with
it, many of the programs that had been in place to keep it running are no longer available. Here is a timeline of events over the last eight years that impacted the hospital. In October of 2010 the hospital was recognized as the Local Employer of Excellence Award for their CREATE Leadership Training (Courtesy, Respect, Engage, Attitude, Think, and Enjoy) program. Their purpose at that point was to provide the best possible experience for their patients, gain market
share, improve staff morale and retain employees, hospital administrators used a Workforce Investment Fund grant to provide the CREATE Leadership Training to all hospital staff and staff of Stamford Assisted Living Incorporated over a ten month period. Through this training program, 238 jobs were preserved or retained, directly affecting 112 individuals with measurable skill increases and ten new jobs were created. SEE HOSPITAL, PG 8
Museum Board President Meets with City Council During Special Meeting BY WILL MCCLURE The Stamford City Council held a special called session last Monday evening, July 23rd, to mainly review and discuss a proposed draft of the city budget for the upcoming fiscal year. Mayor James Decker called the meeting to order at 5:15 pm with all members except Councilmember Dennis Braden present and asked Councilmember Paul Wright to lead the invocation. After Wright also led the room in the Pledge of Allegiance, the meeting officially opened with citizen’s comments. With there being none, the meeting moved forward with the
second reading of Ordinance 908 concerning structural standards for the city. City Manager Alan Plumlee stated that there were no additions from the first reading which introduced the revision that would shift power to condemn a property from a special zoning board to the City Council itself where the city’s elected officials will have final say. With no additional discussion needed, the council voted to approve the second reading of the ordinance as presented. SEE COUNCIL, PG 7
Cowboy Country Museum Board President Robert Smith discussed the museum’s proposed budget with the Stamford City Council during its special session last Monday evening.