TO: Members of Council March 3rd, 1976 HAR 8 1876

FROM: Mayor J.M. Campbell

I have been appointed to the new G.V.R.D. Hospital Committee chaired
by Mayor Art Phillips. We had our first meeting today. The Committee is composed
of Mayor T. Goode, Mayor T. Reid, Alderman A. Emmott, myself and, of course, the
Chairman, Mayor Art Phillips. Our job will be to recommend priorities to the
Regional Board working in co-operation with the Advisory Committee. The
announcement made today by the Minister, the Honourable Bob McClelland, that the
B.C. Medical Committee has been dissolved and this will make the Regional
District the sole Hospital participant in the Lower Mainland.

In the afternoon I attended a Regional Planning Budget Committee
Meeting. Last year the Planning Budget was $934,000. This year, if pissed, it
is $1,170,000. The planned programmes come to $988,000. and Mayor Tonn and I
made a motion to have unallocated funds totalling $100,000. which would have

made the budget $998,000. - very little over the year before. This was defeated

and the figure of $272,000. unallocated has been recommended. There was much

discussion over the use of $181,000. for a compact housing study and $165,000. °

on a transit study. Frem what I have learned, the Government has made no
promise of aid in rapid transit and I believe that these monies should net be

used this year.