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Whitby Free Press, 28 Jun 1995, p. 3

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Whitby FmoePresa, WeckIoday, June 2819M. Page 3 Hospîtal seeks $250OOO00pledg9e Items from Whitby Council agenda(s) daf un 2 Recommenda- tions from the Plannig and Development Committee That an officiai plan amendment application tram Robert Hunter Farms Ltd. be approved to increase the maximum aliowable units to 39 f rom 30 units per net hectare ln medium density residèntial areas within a propased subdivision on the east side of Andersan Street. south of Winchester Road, in Brooklin. Carried That an application from Monarch Construction Ltd. t0 amend zoning bylaws ta permit a 90,000-square-foot commercial deveiopment on the southwest corner of Du ndas Street and McQuay Boulevard be denied. Bath planning staff and committee toit the proposai was "premature." at this time. Carried That a revised rezoning application from Monarch Construction Mt. for a mixed density 34-unit subdivision on the southwest corner of Du ndas Street and McQuay Boulevard be approved. The plan has gone through significant alterations since f irst coming beforecouncil in 1986. If will be buit north of the aforementioned comercaldeveoment site. Recommenda- tions from the Operations Committee mhat public works staff report on the recent rash of Mississauga for supplying sadium chioride be approved and that an $11,247 tender tram Glenn Windremi Trucking af Bethany for the delivery be apprved. Cied Correspondence mhat zaning byiaw amend- mient and site plan applica- tions tram the awners of Family Kartway ta permit a 40-lane bowling centre at the park be referred to planning and developmnent commiftee. Carred Fudsneeded for Whitby 'Gven'e cials want the Tc honour the remi year-oid fundraiE A delegation tai's board of ajr befre ' other haîf ai $500,000 commit Hospital offici the outstanding chase much r eq'uipment. . However, un whether the ma used for a prei ma mean the wl have ta ti funding. In a recent president Elizý' reminded counci paiity's 1989 ple called the First9 paign. At the time,4 the hospit 99 ad the bali Like ail donati tai's $5.5-milii expansion, thei mi escrow uni- government hain commitment of work on the projf But the formei ment'. piedge abeyance by tIi study of the health care nei taken by the1 District Heaith That study before the Min resuited ith recommendatio Whitby General tation treatmenr aIl of Durham. Due ta that Whitby resident tions withheld n ta the hospital year. But as regf Gerry Emm not may have backfii If the doctari money ta buy ex make it extremE errais wili have other hospitals,' "We're taid by situation. The manieis jledgedi caming, said Region's repres haspital board. Despite ai future, Emm iE the hospital's the new Progr tive*governmenl Durham Cent herty ha. prom rtninof asel equipment KowaIsi the community's consent. rai Hosital offi- «I feel were on an upward lown of Whitby to course and we've put the worst ýaJnder of its six- behind us," said Emm. Éingpledge. «We as a municipality can fromn the hospi- b*nj a newv feeling of renewal ta, directors will tehsa, e said aing ['n council on that hie own Pdeiianta withhoid ially requestthe contibultions has changed. fthe original Regionai councilior Marcel ±nment. Brunelle, Emm's predecessor on jais hope ta use the board, agreedthnat council $250,000 ta, pur- shouid do everything possible ta, rieeded medical encourage Wlutby residents ta support the hospitai. icertainty. over "There'. an aid phrase 'use it ney can oniy be or lose it,'" said Brunelle. viousiy proposed "Quite frankly, we have ta, be lding expansion, bringing forward a positive view hospital board ta get people ta use the hospital.» rn elsewhere for Brunelle had no ojections ta honouring council's pledge, since letter, hospital he recaled that the First Ciass abeth Woodbury Fund cainpaign was devised ta, il af the mumci- raise money or not oniy an Bdg ta what was expansion, b ut an upgrading of Class Fund cam- equeiipment as weil. 'aor Tom Edwards disagreed council vated ta with BrunelWo interpretation. [taI $250,000 in ,"We're being asked ta, give lance in 1994. money for what was supposed ta ;ions ta the hospi- be a bricks and mortar1 expan- )n share of the sio, said Edwards. money was held H argued that money collec- til the Ontario ted in the fundraising campaign rioured its 1989 was soiely for that purpose and $2 million and Wbitby residents should have ect commenced. input inta, council's decision. r Liberal govern- «I would have preferred a was held in longer period of time, but we e NDP whiie a have at least two weeks,» said region's future Edwards. ,eds was under- Regional councillor Joe Durhamn Region Druimm said he didn't know who Council. was right, but it did not matter. which is now "]Pm going ta, make a decision istry of Health, on what 1 think is best for aur he controversial commaunity,»he sa.id. an ta convert "As far as rmn concerned, rm 1inta a rehabili- very receptive ta, this committee icentre serving comingbeore council.' Following the meeting, bath possibility, many Bruneile and Emin insisted that te and organiza- Edwards was mistaken about the naking donations fund-raisi,,ng amain during the past "It was lear fromth ute that money coilected wouid be ional councillor used for expansion of the build- ;ed, this. approach ing and renewal of medical red. equipment,» said Brunelie. rs don't have the "Some of it is original equip- quipment, it wili ment from 20 years ago, » lhe said. eiy hara ;d ref- "If youre going tarun ahospi- e tabe madete, taI you need two things -- you "he said. ne doctars ta, operate there and r the chief of staff people ta go there. You can't do it g ta, be a seriaus id uipment. ere have been Emm concurred, and produced and it's not forth- a brochure from the cainpaign. Emm, Durham The document stated that sentative an the much of the hospitai equipment will either be replaced or upgra- still uncertain ded. 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