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File #: 24-1712A    Version: 1
Type: Appointment Status: Regular Agenda
File created: 9/12/2024 Department: Board of County Commissioners
On agenda: 11/19/2024 Final action:
Title: Appointment to the Pinellas County Health Facilities Authority (Board of County Commissioners as a whole).
Attachments: 1. PR Health Facilities Authority 2024.pdf, 2. Board Roster 11.19.24, 3. Karen Mullins Eligibilty Verification

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Appointment to the Pinellas County Health Facilities Authority (Board of County Commissioners as a whole).

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Recommended Action:

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Approve reappointment to the Pinellas County Health Facilities Authority.

 

                     Reappoint Karen Mullins.

                     Eligibility verification and application attached.

                     No ballot needed/voice vote will suffice.

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Background Information:

The Health Facilities Authority is a conduit financing authority that issues revenue bonds for non-profit health care facilities, including hospitals, assisted living facilities, nursing homes, and hospice facilities. These are in regard to development, financing and maintenance of health facilities, including but not limited to acquiring property, constructing, leasing, repairing, projects, making and executing agreements of leases, contracts and other such instruments necessary or convenient in the exercise of its functions, issuing bonds for the purpose of paying for projects, employing consulting engineers, architects, surveyors, attorneys, accountants, financial experts, an executive director and other such employees as are necessary, acquiring existing projects and reimbursing any health facilities for the cost of such projects, issuing revenue bonds, keeping records of all proceedings, and reporting to the Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners the authority's activities of the preceding year.

The Authority shall consist of five persons who are residents of the County, appointed by the BCC for four-year terms. Appointees should be knowledgeable of the health care field, and bond financing.

 

Attachments:

Press Release
Board Roster
Eligibility Verification
Application

 

Partner(s):

Jim Abernathy, Operating Budget Manager, Office of Management and Budget