re: Economic Development for Winchester (Open Letter to Council via email from Robina Rich Bouffault)

From: robinarich5@gmail.com <robinarich5@gmail.com>


Sent: Friday, December 2, 2022 7:49 AM
To: Amy Simmons <Amy.Simmons@winchesterva.gov>; Corey Sullivan <corey.sullivan@winchesterva.com>; David Smith <david.smith@winchesterva.com>; Emily Deangelis <emily.deangelis@winchesterva.com>; John Hill <john.hill@winchesterva.com>; Kathy Tagnesi <kathy.tagnesi@winchesterva.com>; Kim Herbstritt <kim.herbstritt@winchesterva.com>; Les Veach <les.veach@winchesterva.com>; Phillip Milstead <phillip.milstead@winchesterva.com>; Richard Bell <richard.bell@winchesterva.gov>
Cc: Dan Hoffman <dan.hoffman@winchesterva.com>
Subject: Economic Development for Winchester


Open Letter to the Winchester City Council – via email


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I refer to City Manager Dan Hoffman’s Star Open Forum of November 21st “Recent Open Forum contained inaccuracies”.

Mr. Hoffman was hired in August 2020 and, as a “newbie” to Winchester, having come from Florida, he can be forgiven for not being totally familiar with the erratic meanderings of the city’s recent development attempts.

Stating that Mr. Youmans “has never proposed a new development” is disingenuous at best. Mr. Youmans is a long-term veteran of the city’s current confused economic development objectives, which have mutated depending on who was directing the conversation. He has learned to be flexible, trying to adapt city ordinances to the wishes of the EDA and/or Planning Commission members and/or City Council’s vagaries. It has become a dizzying job in the last few years.

In 2017 a new EDA Director was hired, (since departed), who used taxpayers’ funds to purchase two properties located on Piccadilly/Kent and Piccadilly/Cameron, initially called Piccadilly Street Investments LLC and Cameron Street Investments LLC. The first property cost taxpayers, including demolition, $1,449,000. The second property (Winchester Towers) cost $1,443,000.

Lets’ take the first property on Piccadilly/Kent as an example. Purchased by the EDA in 2017-2018, originally planned for a commercial/residential mixed-use, subsequently called Epicc Lofts, and now called Piccadilly Townes - under construction since April.

Early 2022, developers Aikens purchased the property from the EDA for $480,000. They will theoretically pay an additional “50% of the total profit” with payment due only after the LAST townhouse sells. (Question: who decides what the “total profit” will be?).

The original plans have morphed from a mixed-use project with self-contained parking in a five-story building, to the current 16 three-story residential townhouses under construction, with only 16 on-site parking spaces provided. As the townhouses are all 2 and 3-bedrooms, there will undoubtedly be quite a few cars with no parking spaces, left to park either on Kent or other streets close by. The 30% required green space was fudged by selling the small adjacent public park to Aikens as well.

In March, 2022, the EDA was suggesting that the sales prices of the townhouses would be in the “$250,000 to $300,000” range. They are currently being advertised between $399,000 and $429,000. Hardly “affordable housing”.

In 2019, the B.A.R. had a meeting clearly confirming that vinyl windows would not be allowed in the Old Town Winchester district. You wouldn’t know it by looking at the Aiken townhouses, which all have – you guessed it – vinyl windows. No mullions, of course.

Now the city is faced with a similar situation with the Cameron Square project undertaken by Richmond developers Lynx Ventures. Same problems – 100% residential, far too many apartments in a very small space, no green space, insufficient parking; all of which will only increase taxes and traffic congestion downtown.

Why is the City allowing this, or even promoting it against their own ordinances?

In the interest of the well-being of the city and its residents, it’s time for Council, the Planning Commission and the EDA to seriously reconsider their flawed “economic development” approach.

Thank you for taking the above into consideration when deliberating on future economic development in the City.



Robina Rich Bouffault

Biden’s Bounty on Your Life: Hospitals’ Incentive Payments for COVID-19

 

By Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D. and Ali Shultz, J.D. – https://www.truthforhealth.org/
November 17, 2021

Upon admission to a once-trusted hospital, American patients with COVID-19 become virtual prisoners, subjected to a rigid treatment protocol with roots in Ezekiel Emanuel’s “Complete Lives System” for rationing medical care in those over age 50. They have a shockingly high mortality rate. How and why is this happening, and what can be done about it?

As exposed in audio recordings, hospital executives in Arizona admitted meeting several times a week to lower standards of care, with coordinated restrictions on visitation rights. Most COVID-19 patients’ families are deliberately kept in the dark about what is really being done to their loved ones.

The combination that enables this tragic and avoidable loss of hundreds of thousands of lives includes (1) The CARES Act, which provides hospitals with bonus incentive payments for all things related to COVID-19 (testing, diagnosing, admitting to hospital, use of remdesivir and ventilators, reporting COVID-19 deaths, and vaccinations) and (2) waivers of customary and long-standing patient rights by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

In 2020, the Texas Hospital Association submitted requests for waivers to CMS. According to Texas attorney Jerri Ward, “CMS has granted ‘waivers’ of federal law regarding patient rights. Specifically, CMS purports to allow hospitals to violate the rights of patients or their surrogates with regard to medical record access, to have patient visitation, and to be free from seclusion.” She notes that “rights do not come from the hospital or CMS and cannot be waived, as that is the antithesis of a ‘right.’ The purported waivers are meant to isolate and gain total control over the patient and to deny patient and patient’s decision-maker the ability to exercise informed consent.”

Creating a “National Pandemic Emergency” provided justification for such sweeping actions that override individual physician medical decision-making and patients’ rights. The CARES Act provides incentives for hospitals to use treatments dictated solely by the federal government under the auspices of the NIH. These “bounties” must be paid back if not “earned” by making the COVID-19 diagnosis and following the COVID-19 protocol.

The hospital payments include:A “free” required PCR test in the Emergency Room or upon admission for every patient, with government-paid fee to hospital.
Added bonus payment for each positive COVID-19 diagnosis.
Another bonus for a COVID-19 admission to the hospital.
A 20 percent “boost” bonus payment from Medicare on the entire hospital bill for use of remdesivir instead of medicines such as Ivermectin.
Another and larger bonus payment to the hospital if a COVID-19 patient is mechanically ventilated.
More money to the hospital if cause of death is listed as COVID-19, even if patient did not die directly of COVID-19.
A COVID-19 diagnosis also provides extra payments to coroners.

CMS implemented “value-based” payment programs that track data such as how many workers at a healthcare facility receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Now we see why many hospitals implemented COVID-19 vaccine mandates. They are paid more.

Outside hospitals, physician MIPS quality metrics link doctors’ income to performance-based pay for treating patients with COVID-19 EUA drugs. Failure to report information to CMS can cost the physician 4% of reimbursement.

Because of obfuscation with medical coding and legal jargon, we cannot be certain of the actual amount each hospital receives per COVID-19 patient. But Attorney Thomas Renz and CMS whistleblowers have calculated a total payment of at least $100,000 per patient.

What does this mean for your health and safety as a patient in the hospital?

There are deaths from the government-directed COVID treatments. For remdesivir, studies show that 71–75 percent of patients suffer an adverse effect, and the drug often had to be stopped after five to ten days because of these effects, such as kidney and liver damage, and death. Remdesivir trials during the 2018 West African Ebola outbreak had to be discontinued because death rate exceeded 50%. Yet, in 2020, Anthony Fauci directed that remdesivir was to be the drug hospitals use to treat COVID-19, even when the COVID clinical trials of remdesivir showed similar adverse effects.

In ventilated patients, the death toll is staggering. A National Library of Medicine January 2021 report of 69 studies involving more than 57,000 patients concluded that fatality rates were 45 percent in COVID-19 patients receiving invasive mechanical ventilation, increasing to 84 percent in older patients. Renz announced at a Truth for Health Foundation Press Conference that CMS data showed that in Texas hospitals, 84.9% percent of all patients died after more than 96 hours on a ventilator.

Then there are deaths from restrictions on effective treatments for hospitalized patients. Renz and a team of data analysts have estimated that more than 800,000 deaths in America’s hospitals, in COVID-19 and other patients, have been caused by approaches restricting fluids, nutrition, antibiotics, effective antivirals, anti-inflammatories, and therapeutic doses of anti-coagulants.

We now see government-dictated medical care at its worst in our history since the federal government mandated these ineffective and dangerous treatments for COVID-19, and then created financial incentives for hospitals and doctors to use only those “approved” (and paid for) approaches.

Our formerly trusted medical community of hospitals and hospital-employed medical staff have effectively become “bounty hunters” for your life. Patients need to now take unprecedented steps to avoid going into the hospital for COVID-19.

Patients need to take active steps to plan before getting sick to use early home-based treatment of COVID-19 that can help you save your life.

Why is "The National Forum for Heart Disease & Stroke Prevention" out soliciting mayors of cities to promote the COVID jabs that are proving to be worthless?

Are these mayors and individuals doing this voluntarily or are they getting paid to make such statements?

https://www.facebook.com/nationalforumforheartdiseaseandstrokeprevention

Wonder if Big Pharma has made any donations to this non-profit?

John M Clymer (Exec. Director) salary for years 2019 back to 2013 are the following that includes reportable compensation via W2 plus estimated amount of other compensation from the organization & related organizations.

2019 - $262,120

2018 - $247,689

2017 - $222,089

2016 - $222,963

2015 - $209,037

2014 - $209,037

2013 - $229,358

Meet the team:
https://www.nationalforum.org/about/team/

Meet the Advisory leadership council:
https://www.nationalforum.org/advisory-leadership-council/

Meet the Board of Directors:
https://www.nationalforum.org/about/board-of-directors/

Review the IRS990's at the following link:

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/272257461

COVID vaccines, How it started vs. how it's going!

COVID vaccines, How it started vs. how it's going!

A quick 2min overview of all the news media headlines from the start of COVID to current times.


https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1597834732209045505

Fauci Taps Wuhan Institute Of Virology’s ‘Longtime’ Gain-Of-Function Research Partner Advising People How To ‘Make Money’ Off Pandemics To Run Pandemic Drug Development Network.

Fauci Taps Wuhan Institute Of Virology’s ‘Longtime’ Gain-Of-Function Research Partner Advising People How To ‘Make Money’ Off Pandemics To Run Pandemic Drug Development Network.

BY: NATALIE WINTERS / WARROOM.ORG



https://warroom.org/2022/11/30/fauci-taps-wuhan-institute-of-virologys-longtime-gain-of-function-research-partner/