Council Member Felder questions who Palatnik represents
Felder asks whether Palatnik represents the not-for-profit or the owner. Palatnik says he represents both parties, though Centers Healthcare pays his invoices, and the not-for-profit led the application work.
Thank you, Councilwoman Maffelder.
Thank you.
Just to start, when you were speaking, I might have, you know, not heard you right.
I thought you said that this project is being put forth, I'm paraphrasing, by...
The Svartik not home.
Home or Svartik or whatever.
Is that what you said?
The project, the property is owned by Centers Healthcare or a subsidiary of them.
It was in contract with Sephardic Nursing Home, the not-for-profit.
That contract was broken.
It's a week before Labor Day, so it does not exist right now anymore.
Safardic Nursing Home now has no stake or claim to the property legally, but they're in discussions with Centers Healthcare right now to resuscitate the contract and put them into the position as the proposed operator.
So you're not here.
on behalf of the non-for-profit at all.
I...
Are you being...
Are you here on behalf of the owner?
I'm here in a strange situation.
I'm here on behalf of both of them.
I'm representing both parties, even though they are conflicting with one another right now.
And Centers Healthcare themselves, as you know from the conversation we had the other day, themselves are in the strange position of having their own people also be a part of the Sephardic nursing home.
So we're all in this sort of gray area where we're working for both organizations.
And trying hard to convince the principals of each to come to a resolution.
Okay.
I appreciate your interest in making peace between these two, but I mean, in my mind, today,
Even if they had some sort of agreement with the not-for-profit, you'd be here.
I mean, I'm not a lawyer, but you're here on behalf of the people who own the property.
They, Censors Healthcare, signed my contract.
Right.
Censors Healthcare pays my invoices.
That's right.
Censors Healthcare has not been involved in any of the hard work to bring the application to this moment.
That's all been promulgated by the not-for-profit team.
So they've footed the bill.
For the not-for-profit, and they've created the resources for the not-for-profit.
Up until August.