A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October SPECIALISTS HERE should find out soon how much theyll receive from a $2 million fund for on-call pay- ments. The money is to come from an agreement signed in June which extends an existing agreement. That first agreement provided for more money for doctors in small rural places such as Burns Lake and Vanderhoof, The new June agreement extends the idea of on-call payments to specialists and to general practitioners i in larger northern ‘centres.as Terrace... : In Terrace, general practitioners have already accep- ted the principle of being paid’$10 an hour when on-call plus whatever they would bill under the Medical Ser- vices Plan, But for. specialists, the situation is ‘mare complicated - as the agreement simply sets out the sum of $2) million for on-call payments. How to-do that is. being left up to local physicians, community health councils anda joint committee of the B.C. Medical ‘Association and the provincial govern- ment, Terrace is the home of 18 of the. 55 specialists cov- ered by the agreement: who can expect to-take part in dividing up:the:$2 million. Should the specialists decide to divide the money evenly, that works out to'$36,000 each. In re one month after the deal was signed, local specialists indicated they would be willing to each re- ceive $25,000 with the remainder going ta recruliment From front Gas guys reach deal It called not only for the 10 per cent Oct. 1 rate hike but featured PNG wanting the commission’s approval to have Methanex pay more than $11 million in deferred taxes and for costs associated with PNG boosting its ca- pacity to ship natural gas to the Kitimat methanul plant. It’s this request which appears to have caused both Methanex and PNG to make another attempt at reaching a deal, said Job Protection Commissioner Eric van Soer- en. “Methanex thought of that as being punitive and it would have tried to fight that,” said van Soeren. Instead of what he called a “running gun hattle” be- tween Methanex trying to cut its losses and PNG trying to get as much as possible from Methanex, both parties decided to work something out, he said, _ “Nobody gets what they want but everybody is better off in the end,” said Van Soeren. The PNG application, with the exception of the Oct. 1 10 per cent hike, has been put on hold for now. PNG and Methanex had been trying for months to come up with a suitable arrangement. PNG’s Weeres said his company filed the application Sept. 29 because it couldn’t wait any longer. Tt was faced not only with the loss of Methanex reve- nue bul was under increasing pressure ‘from its bank to Stabilize. its. financial. situation. : Lia Boyd said Methanex's effort 10 reach: ‘a deal: with .PNG wasn’t easy,,, "And he was hesitant to say if iti is enough to help Me- thanex ride out any further drops in the price of methanol between now and 2009.7 ACTORS AUDITIONS FOR Worm Foster’s Foursome Will be held October 12 & 15 at 7:30 p.m. EPONA EEX JETER pare. ens at the McColl Playhouse ES 4 males and 1 male/female are needed. This is for our dinner theatre presentation which will be held. in February. No experience is necessary SET CD Se ed 0 ED ae SY PO For further information call Director Gordon Oates at 615-6152 or 638-0996 Sp PEEVE SES Sar ere LESCAEMAT ai Fat DON id Tt ti Make room for Fatt Seoeel All Stock Of Framed Prints & Mirrors 20’-40°:.. Regular Price SALE ENDS OCT. 15" | ‘The Yellow Gift Howse on Highway 16 — €38-1808— 11, 2000 On-call pay for specialists agreement said to be close ‘actually takes -hald, the amount. of money this year for oe specialists will-be lower, « ‘each health council area. It-is' then to be divided by the _eall work, ~ Royal Canadian Legion Branch 13 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIR WHO be a? branch Friday, October 13th 8:30 am For appointments 635-5825 alter 2:30 pm and retention bonuses. But that proposal appears to have been discarded by the joint commitice. One problem, says health ministry spokesman Jeff Gaulin, is that the committee can’t decide the start date of when the $2 million payment program takes effect. - Doctors want. the effective date to be carlier this year, meaning that payments for 2000 will be higher. But if.the $2 million is pro-rated on when the program That kind of wrangling continued on last week as the committee met again. 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