Members of Council March 4th, 1976 iy 8

MAR 1976

Mayor J.M. Campbell

I attended a meeting on March 4th, 1976 at 9:00 a.m. in Vancouver of the Hospital Advisory Committee re the Coquitlam Hospital.

According to the statements made today the Coquitlam Hospital is still a high priority but there is still no definite fuuding. Right at this time all monies from the Government are committed to ongoing projects and no decision has been made as yet as to whether the cash flow will be increased.

The Regional District has chosen a Project Manager who will be a full-time staff member, but it has not been able to hire him yet because the

Provincial Government have not agreed. We are hoping that this situation will

clear itself in the next few weeks.

The $21,000,000.00 that was to be put into the Lions Gate expansion

has been withdrawn. Whether for this year or for the future, we do not know. Mr. Kelly was at the meeting and expressed his opinion that this Hospital is of the highest priority and I believe that now the full respon-

sibility lies with the Minister of Health and we do hope to have some decision.

in the near future.

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