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IN THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN LEANDRO RESOLUTION NO.2016-169 RESOLUTION SUPPORTING EFFORTS TO DISSOLVE EDEN HEALTH DISTRICT (PROPOSAL FROM THE MAYOR AND THE CITY COUNCIL URGING SAN LEANDRO'S STATE LEGISLATIVE DELEGATION AND THE ALAMEDA COUNTY LOCAL AGENCY FORMATION COMMISSION TO SUPPORT EFFORTS THAT WILL LEAD TO THE DISSOLUTION OF THE EDEN HEALTH DISTRICT) WHEREAS, San Leandro Hospital, a 93-bed facility with approximately 467 employees and 300 physicians and allied medical professionals, is the hometown public healthcare provider for San Leandro and central Alameda County; and WHEREAS, the Hospital provides the San Leandro community with a wide range of important medical services including 24-hour emergency room access, critical care, and highly - skilled surgery and rehabilitation services; and WHEREAS, in 2012 San Leandro Hospital experienced financial difficulties, so the City of San Leandro and Alameda County partnered together to take the unprecedented step of contributing $3 million from each of their respective general funds in order to support the sustained operations of the Hospital; and WHEREAS, this financial commitment was made in tandem with a June 13, 2013 public commitment of financial assistance for San Leandro Hospital by the Eden Township Healthcare District (now known as Eden Health District, or EHD), a regional public agency that was formed by the voters in 1948 to provide direct healthcare services for the residents of San Leandro, Hayward, and unincorporated Alameda County; and WHEREAS, since that time, the District divested itself of its ownership of any public hospitals and later became embroiled in costly litigation with Sutter Health regarding the transfer of San Leandro Hospital, resulting in a $20 million judgement against the District; and WHEREAS, since that time, the District has failed to honor its June 13, 2013 public commitment to the community to raise funding for San Leandro Hospital; and WHEREAS, the District now no longer operates any hospital or other direct -service facility and spends significantly more money on its own administration, including but not limited to salaries for its executives, than it does on community grants; and WHEREAS, by the District's own admission, 80% of the population who lives within its geographic boundaries are not even aware of its existence; and WHEREAS, the Milton Marks "Little Hoover" Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy, an independent state oversight agency that was created in 1962 to investigate government operations, issued a 2000 report recommending that when RESOLUTION NO. 2016-169