This past Monday, Jim Daughenbaugh, Chairman of the Snyder Township Board of Supervisors, revoked the occupancy permit for Pyramid Healthcare Inc.\u2019s Greentree Village located in Bald Eagle. A letter was sent out Tuesday to inform Pyramid.
\nDespite the revoked occupancy permit, Greentree Village will remain open because the facility never needed the permit to begin with.
\nDaughenbaugh and Snyder Township\u2019s lawyer, Mr. Allen Gibboney, met to discuss and read over the permit which was found to only pertain to a new building, not an old building that has been there for years.
\n\u201cRevoking the occupancy permit doesn\u2019t do anything; Pyramid didn\u2019t even need it,\u201d said Daughenbaugh.
\nHe continued, \u201cIt said that the owner of the building had to get the occupancy permit, but Pyramid\u2019s not the owners of the building. Labor and Industries are the ones who give the occupancy permit, not us, because it\u2019s an old building.\u201d
\nLabor and Industries have inspected the Greentree Village facility this past August 26. Inspector Scott Brown indicated that violations exist of the Laws and\/or regulations by the Department of Labor and Industries. A list of eleven items are needed to be remedied if the facility was to be used as a school.
\nDaughenbaugh added, \u201cGreentree Village has until January 6 to comply with the problems found, but Labor and Industries couldn\u2019t shut it down either.\u201d
\nAndrea Shope, Director of Media and Community Relations at Pyramid, was surprised at the rumors of Greentree Village being shut down.
\n\u201cWe are definitely not shut down,\u201d said Shope. \u201cMy understanding about the Snyder Township occupancy permit was that is was issued to us although we didn\u2019t need it. After the fact, it was determined that only a new building needs an occupancy permit under those regulations.\u201d
\nShe added, \u201cThat\u2019s something we were trying to follow all the rules for and Mr. Daughenbaugh gave us that permit, but it came out that it really wasn\u2019t required. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s an issue with the permit being revoked.\u201d
\nShope noted that Pyramid is planning on building a new building to use as a school, but if the building isn\u2019t completed by the January 6 deadline for the eleven violations on the building being used now, the old building will be in compliance by January 6.
\n\u201cThey were simple problems; if the new building can\u2019t be built by January 6, then the problems will be taken care of on the existing building,\u201d said Shope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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