As reported on her Twitter account, Christina Commisso @C_Commisso (who is one of the reporters for the Milton Canadian Champion) sent out a message yesterday saying that the Minister of Infrastructure Bob Chiraelli responded to the article “Councillors Disappointed with Infrastructure Plan“
You can read my response to the article here in my post called “Hey Bob! Read OUR Lips“
Call me a cynic, but I’m not expecting a full time line report from the Minister but hopefully we will get a clearer idea of when any possible expansion of Milton District Hospital will happen. Its not that it should happen, its that it HAS to happen. Miltonians deserve an answer or at least a timeline of when things will begin to move forward.
Milton Council needs to have answers. There are a lot of issues financially that we are facing with our 2012 budget about hospital expansion reserve accounts and other projects that need help from the province that we need to address and we at the town and the Region of Halton have done our work…we just need the province to take some action.
Regional Councillor Colin Best has also expressed his frustration about the plan. The Region has been working on getting ROPA 39 approved (something the province requires) so we can continue with the long range planning and with the province and if its not approved it can put the town and the region in a difficult position at the provincial level. At our last council meeting the measure passed…just barely. Again, we are doing what we can to send a message to the province that we need them to step up to the plate.
I’ll update the blog later on today when we get a chance to read his response. Cross your fingers folks.
I’m not expecting any announcements on the hospital to be honest. Not in that type of format. I’d bet it would be a clarification on the document. HOPEFULLY sometime very soon we WILL get an announcement. Long overdue.
You’re right Kim. Im not expecting an annoucement at all through his response either. I am also looking for clarification of the plan, but not expecting anything earth shattering. We’ll have to wait and see when the Champion comes out ( or online at http://www.insidehalton.com/community/milton )
What else IS he going to say? Bla bla bla bla bla if we can afford it … bla bla bla bla bla bla …re-elect us and we will if we can afford it … bla bla bla!