{"id":91789,"date":"2020-03-05T05:03:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T13:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=91789"},"modified":"2020-03-05T17:34:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T01:34:36","slug":"measure-av-fails-to-gain-enough-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2020\/03\/05\/measure-av-fails-to-gain-enough-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Measure AV fails to gain enough support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_89417\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89417\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-89417\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/AV-Hospital-large-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/AV-Hospital-large-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/AV-Hospital-large-768x413.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/AV-Hospital-large.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89417\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">[File]<\/figcaption><\/figure>LOS ANGELES &#8211; A bond measure to build a new, state-of-the-art Antelope Valley Hospital to serve the region\u2019s 500,000 residents was defeated Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Measure AV<\/strong> would have authorized the Antelope Valley Healthcare District to issue 30-Year General Obligation Bonds to keep Antelope Valley Hospital and its trauma center from closing by building a new hospital meeting California&#8217;s Earthquake Standards.<\/p>\n<p>The new hospital would have allowed the region to have access to new technology, a lifesaving trauma center, the best doctors and nurses and reduced Emergency Room wait times, according to AV Hospital officials.<\/p>\n<p>But the majority of voters rejected Measure AV.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/results.lavote.net\/text-results\/4085#contest-12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unofficial results<\/a> from Tuesday&#8217;s election, 50.12% (20,976) voted &#8220;No&#8221; on Measure AV, and 49.88% (20,876) voted &#8220;Yes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The measure required at least two-thirds of the vote for approval.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8211; A bond measure to build a new, state-of-the-art Antelope Valley Hospital to serve the region\u2019s 500,000 residents was defeated Tuesday. Measure AV would have authorized the Antelope Valley Healthcare District to issue 30-Year General Obligation Bonds to keep Antelope Valley Hospital and its trauma center from closing by building a new hospital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,10,1496,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}