Will the west Dayton hospital proposal make it onto the November ballot?
The Clergy Community Coalition held a press conference on Tuesday to announce progress toward reaching their goal.
'We are very pleased to announce that we're turning in 2,800 signatures into the clerk of the commission,' said Bishop Richard Cox, CCC president.
It was back to the drawing board after Dayton City Commissioners were split with a 2-2 vote and one abstention just three weeks ago over the imitative to add the hospital petition to the ballot.
In just 20 days, the coalition gathered even more signatures from the community, in order to put it on the ballot regardless of the commission's vote.
The CCC says it's a step in the right direction, and couldn't have been done without the community's support.
'I think it's a win-win for the city. It would provide adequate health care and alleviate the health care desert that we're now living in,' said Cox. 'It's also a win-win for the city commission because then the politicians that we elected to serve us can still work with us as we pursue this effort.'
If the petition goes through the Montgomery County Board of Elections once all the signatures are verified, it will be up to the people of Dayton to make the choice in November.
However, the coalition says they still want to work with the commissioners regardless of how they initially voted.
'We're still interested in working with you. We elected you to serve us, and we want to work with you to make sure that the citizens of Dayton in this upcoming election, get the services they need from the people that they have elected,' said Cox.
However, if the initiative does pass, there will not be adequate money to immediately build a hospital.
The coalition says they plan to go to the state and some potential partners for investment money, although they have not revealed who those partners would be.
They also say they are not naive to think the project will happen overnight. But they do have some target goals in mind.
'It's all incremental and it will take time. But our hope would be that we have something standing by 2032,' said Nancy Kiehl, CCC secretary.
2 NEWS reached out to Dayton City Commissioners for comment, with one commissioner replying that he would share a statement once the signatures were verified and in the hands of the board of elections.
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