h1. ProMedica and Toledo notes - Jan 22, 2015

bq. _"Count me as one who thought it smelled funny ..."_

That's understandable, or maybe I'm confused by the arithmetic.

When ProMedica "announced":http://toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/tt.pl/article/170875/Promedica_Moving_700_Employees_Downtown_Toledo their plan in February 2014, Randy Oostra, ProMedica president and chief executive officer, said that he envisioned an *underground* parking structure, and ProMedica expected *700* employees would be moved to the downtown location.

The "Jan 5, 2015 Memorandum of Understanding":http://ftpcontent4.worldnow.com/wtol/pdf/MOUProMedicaDowntown.pdf (pdf file)  between ProMedica and Toledo said that *800* employees would be moved to the downtown location, and an *above-ground* parking structure would be needed.

On Jan 6, 2015, Toledo City Council held a public meeting to discuss the Jan 5, 2015 MOU. At this meeting, Robin Whitney, ProMedica’s vice president of property acquisition and development, "said":https://twitter.com/IgnazioMessina/status/552537427848749056 that up to *1,000* employees could be moved downtown. Obviously, that employee number disagreed with the MOU.

I have no idea if MOUs need to be accurate. Maybe an MOU is simply a vague outline.