To: Members of Council ; October 31st, 1973.
from Mayor Scott re:, :
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I am also prepared, subject to the agreement of the Regional Hospital
District, to authorize your Society to plan construction of a 75~bed
Extended Care Unit to service the requirements of your area."
The Advisory Committee has reviewed this communication fron the Minister.
The proposal to develop initially 150 acute beds, with provision for future
expansion is entirely acceptable to the Committee. The deletion of obstetrical
facilities is in keeping with the Obstetrics-Neonatal and Gynaecological Services
Report which the Board approved in May of this year. The provision of a basic

75-bed Extended Care. Unit is also in line with the proposals in the Region's

er

" Report on Extended Care. In light: oF this the Advisory Committee recommend

concurrent approval of the Minister's proposal,
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This report was tabled by the Board pending clarification on whether the

original structure would be a "shell" for the potential total of 225 beds as

stated verbally by the Health Minister at the August meeting or as stated in the

report that there would be two "separate" units.

TRANSPORTATION: ‘

On October 10, the members of the Executive Committee and Transportation

-Committee met in Victoria with The Honourable James Lorimer and The Honourable

Robert Williams to discuss various means of financing transportation on the Lower

Mainland. On Oc* ober 17, the two Committees met to réview the results of the
meeting and to prepare further recommendations for the Board.

At the meeting on October 10, the Government reiterated its demand that the
Regional District's contribution to the operating deficit of the transportation
system take the form of a levy on the municipal property owner. The members of
the Executive Committee and Transportation Conmittee do not agree with this
approach and recommend that the Board again endorse the recommendation made
jointly to the Board on May 2, 1973 by the Executive and Transportation Committees

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