A1Q- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 27, 2002

Local named to board
to govern health care

RADIO station sales
manager and former Kit-
sumkalum band councillor
is one of eight people
named to the Northern
Health Authority board.

Ron Burtlett, 48, joins
Jeff Burghardt from Prince
Rupert and Bonnie. Me-
Creary from Smithers as
northwest representalives
on the board which is - re-
sponsible for all facets of
hospital and community
health the north.

“It's not exactly going
to be a cake walk by any
means,” said Bartlett of
the task it faces.

Although it has an an-
nual budget of approxima-
tely $330 million, the au-
thority has to cut expenses
by $45 million over the
next three years lo prevent
it from sliding into a defi-
cit and to provide a base
level of patient care.

It’s already under in-
tense scrutiny for hiring
consultants on how to cut
costs.

Authority executives
are also preparing plans
examining all operations
with a view to reducing
expenditures.

One option open to the
authority is contracting out
of support services such as
housekeeping, food and
some administrative tasks.

Reports’

ANY CHANCE of the pub-
lic getting a look at a ser-
ies of reports outlining how
to cut health care costs in
the north is up to a new
governing board an-
nounced last week.
Eighteen internal re-
ports and two outside ones
prepared by consultants
will form the heart of the

new Northern Health Au- .

thority board’s decision.
making in how to shed $45
million over the next three
years,

i The province has frozen
héalth ‘care budgets for
three years won’t cover in-
flationary or other costs.

“It?s up to the board,”
said health authority offi-
cial Patty Stewart when
asked how soon the reports
will be relcased.

But first the new board
has to meet and that’s not
going to happen until per-
haps mid-April, she said.

“We have to get them .
all together - they do’

Ron Bartlett

Up until last week, the
board consisted of just one
person — Prince George
forester Harry Gairns.

Bartlett is now the sales
manager of CFNR, did
work at Terrace Totem
Ford and has served as a
director or president of a
number of local groups in-
cluding the Kermede
Friendship Centre and the
L’ax Ghels Community
Law Society,

He is eurtently a direc-
tor with the Terrace Pente-
costal Assembly and has a
commercial fishing boat.

“I’ve always been in-
volved in some kind of
community service,” said
Bartlett.

“I have a good know-
ledge of the north and |
know the people.”

“As a First Nations per- ih

son, I have no option to go
anywhere else. My child-
ren are here, my grand-

children are here and | .

know that to creale any-
thing better, you have to

get out there and do it,” -

Bartlett added.
Bartlett’s appointment
is for three years and he'll

be paid a stipend of $7,500 .

a year. Chairman Harry
Gairns earns $15,000 a
ear.

Bartlett said he was
phoned by the premier’s
office and asked to submit
a resume.

“It came out of the
blue,” he said of the phone
call.

The premier’s office
contains a section respons-
ible for all government ap-
points to boards, agencies
and commissions.

Burghardt from Prince
Rupert is the general man-
ager of Prince Rupert
Grain Lid. and McCreary
from Smithers is an ac-
countant and co-owner of
Hudson Bay Lodge.

Other directors come
from Quesnel, Fort St.
John, Prince George,
Chetwynd and Dawson
Creek.

release unknown

Whether or not the pub-
lic will get to comment on
proposed health care cuts
before any decisions are
made is also up to the
board, Stewart added.

She did say the reports
will form one large one

come from all over the” [i

north,” she said.

In any event, the reports
are not yet finished, Ste-
wart added.

“We're still working on
them,” she said.

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