Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 13, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press March 1979 it Ity news i1 lip is 8 v it leaves you breathless 2nd class mail registration number 0286 funding to study move Uncertain Federal provincial relations min ister John Reid was less confident monday that Winnipeg could get special Federal funding to study Relo cation of the up rail Reid admitted in a Telephone inter View that while he wants to see the Federal government provide the Money for a study estimated to Cost about final spending author Ity rests with transport minister Otto i am a promoter and Lang has the said he told a Winnipeg audience last month that Ottawa was willing to come up with special funding for the study and might be ready to provide funds for the actual monday Reid said he had always maintained the funds would have to be drawn from the prov inces million share of Federal Urban transportation assistance program Utah Money or from Federal transport department cof and Lang is concerned that provid ing Winnipeg with funds above and beyond the Utah even for a desirable would set a Prece said i have pleaded special Circum stances in this Case since we Are in effect asking the City to rescind its said the an aide to Lang said last week that Reid didst have the authority to earmark funds from another depart Reid said he would be meeting with Lang monday afternoon to discuss possible late How neither minister was available for if no special funds were the Federal government would be pre pared to undertake an inhouse Cost Benefit study of rail said we May not be Able to fund a study but we will be Able to provide the people to do said but Deputy mayor Bill Norrie said last week that a Federal study might Lack the objectivity required for an and Norrie said the City is hardly Likely to agree to a study using the million Utah funds pegged for the Sherbrook Mcgregor reids promised letter of commit ment that City officials have been waiting for prior to making a Deci Sion had still not been sent Mon Reid said he would do what he could to ensure that the letter arrived prior to tuesdays meeting of Tjie cites and hoc Reid said he still Felt the City had taken Hasty action in approving the construction of the Sherbrook Mcgregor overpass rather than reviewing the relocation photos by Dave Bonner he flies through the air with the greatest of ease if you were snowmobiling or Cross country skiing near the red River flood Way Gates you we rent experiencing Snow while Many Winni Eggers Are flying around the Snow bound Countryside on Snow Glen burling of vital prefers to use an Allter rain the four wheel drive vehicle burling is using to jump off a Burn of Snow just East of the Gates is built much the same As a Dune buggy but is much Drivers Are belted in the there were meat Likely sever Al Snowen boilers who went Home for a Belt if they happened across pcs to be asked to appoint members Board change the membership of the Manitoba museum of Man and by slightly More than the required two thirds approved a Board of governors proposal monday to ask the provincial government to appoint 10 of 20 members of a restructured it took two votes before the membership approved a Resolution to ask the provincial government to Amend the museum of Man and nature act so that 10 members of the Board shall be appointed by the lieutenant governor in Council and shall hold office for a term of two the Board of governors now consists of 21 persons elected by the membership at an annual after the first vote resulted in a per cent majority on 43 votes 16 votes against and six Absten a revote was the second vote yielded a 4517 for against margin just Board Vic chairman who chaired a review com Mittee that recommended the restructuring and monday nights meet told the membership it has become necessary to give govern ment a reasonable since that is the source of much of the museums Mckeag said the Board would sub Mit a list of recommended appointees to the provincial but said there was no guarantee the recommendations would be wed Hope the government would appoint people who would act in the Best interest of the museum but we cant guarantee they wont be Politi Cal that out of our he during the past three issues such As staff contracts and the previous Lack of representation on the Board of governors have created rifts Between the Board and the membership which consists of staff at the museum and members of the general Mckeag said he thought approval of the new Board Structure would encourage donors because it indicated More Harmony within the organi at least one member of the Board spoke against the John Ryan told the meeting i have serious reservations about the restructuring of the because of the nature of the once it is written it will be impossible to re Ryan also asked in what Way would government appointments ensure More Community representation the membership also approved the creation of a Board of trustees to manage and invest the museums foundation creation of the Posi Tion of executive director of the Muse to be appointed by the Board and to be responsible primarily for reve nue development and financial plan was also approved As was Crea Tion of a personnel committee to have supervision Over salaried Transil challenged by private firms the Cit operated hand transit bus service for the physically Handi capped is being challenged by private operators who say they can provide better service at less Cost to the the civic works and operations comma tee monday instructed officials to get details on what private firms can before the committee decides april 9 whether to leave hand transit under City with higher or tender the service Handi transits 18 months of opera Tion under a two year demonstration period has been called a Success by the civic officials Are recommending that the service be made permanent and continued at existing Levels beyond the june 29 expiry Dale of the Demon stration the nine vehicle hand transit Fleet operates seven Days a charges a fare of 50 and re quires an annual subsidy of just Over from the but spokesmen for two private firms expressed worries the City in tends to expand its edging out private Jim of big jims wheel chair said Handi transit threatens to snowball and run his firm out of Semple has eight vans and with another four firms in the same line of there Are about 50 private Semple said his service will run until 1 picking up handicapped persons who were unable to re turn Home by which shuts Down anywhere from 9 to Semple said the pickup charge plus per mile his firm charges results in an average one Way trip costing the handicapped person be tween and Bob of dependable school bus service said private firms could operate at a lower per unit Cost than the City by using the vans for other purposes at off Peak times when they might otherwise be the Manitoba league for the phys Cally handicapped urged the com Mittee to increase hand transits fares and extend its financing proposed crisis Centre Aid pled by shei by Bob Cheshire the Manitoba government will participate in lon term financing to keep open the women shelter at Osborne health minister Bud Sherman said Sherman told reporters his depart ment monday advised the Board of directors of the which Origi Nally financed the shelter for battered women and to extend for a month the Osborne House lease due to expire March Sherman said this would provide additional time in which to arrive at a final solution for keeping a crisis Centre and women shelter operating in he said the directors of Osborne 73 Hargrave have had assurances from the government for the past two weeks that a solution would be found for the shelters continuing although the precise nature of the government assistance is still subject to further Sherman said his department will d provide about to keep the shelter operating for an additional including paying for a one month Extension of the lease d arrange for lon term operation of the to which the govern ment will participate financially but not be the sole funding source for the Centre and d perhaps involve the Manitoba housing and renewal corporation Marc to provide a building less expensive than Osborne House from which the shelter could Sherman reacted angrily to criticisms directed against him saturday by organizers of a group which ral lied at the legislative building in support of Osborne he labelled the demonstration left Wing saying his department had been working of a solution to Osborne House financing Long before organizers of International women Day decided to make a publicity stunt out of the organizers had been critical of Sherman for not attending the even though they had sent him an invitation earlier in the Sher Man said his saturday including attendance at a had been set Long before the rally invitation had arrived and he was not about to let the organizers rearrange his he said in a time of restraint the government is naturally going to 117 and work out the least expensive Type of solution for lon term financing of the with funds hopefully coming from the the Owca and the United he said the Centre provide an extremely valuable service needed in not Only to Deal with the trauma experienced by battered but also providing a place to shelter earlier this year the Owca announced that because of the need for spending cutbacks in the Organiza it was forced to seek govern ment funding for Osborne House or else the Centre would be social questions government evaluation of clinics the executive director of the Winnipeg social planning Council has called on the provincial government to explain Why budget cuts for two City Community health clinics Are being the clinics have been labelled As inefficient without being informed to How those labels Are Tim Sale said the two clinics health action Centre at 425 Elgin Avenue and Norwest Coop health and social services Centre at 61 Tyndall ave nue Are said to be about to lose their provincial Transcona la Wilson Parasiuk nip made the charge in the legislature March the facilities employ a combined staff of and last year operated supplied by the Mani Toba health services senior commission staff met with officials from the clinics Friday but did not announce any cutoff in fund ing after March As Parasiuk pre in a statement issued on behalf of the citizen based Sale expressed serious concerns about the Manitoba government reducing sup port to Community referring to statements by Manitoba health minister Bud Sher Man last week that total Community clinic funding by the province will be reduced this Sale questioned government the government is not expecting to save an amount equivalent or even close to the budget of the nor is there any indication that the government proposes alter natives to Deal with problems for which health centres were Stab he in 1971 the Council prepared a study on Community clinics for the Provin Cial government and later became involved in program planning for at least one Sale said Community health centres were developed to provide improved Access to health care in the Community and shift Consumers to less costly ambulatory and preventive care fact tip Sale questions government move lilies and away from acute care ser he added that clinics help integrate health and social enable communities to manage and control health and carry out health maintenance education in the com has the provincial government discovered that Community clinics Are not meeting these purposes he what evaluative Mea sures were used to determine clo sures or size of budget cuts no data has been tabled to substantiate claims of either ineffectiveness or Sale said if clinics patients would have to return to the fragmented and less ass Tessible health services of the in the Case of health action closure would mean More pressure on the outpatient department and emergency facilities of the health sciences both expensive forms of he challenged the province to make Public the evaluation results obtained on both and reveal philosophical and political if they Are the reason behind the intention to discontinue ;