Submissions to the Hamilton City Council
Thank
you to all the groups and individuals who have made submissions to the
Hamilton City Council’s LTCCP supporting the Trust’s call
for the hydrotherapy pool to be built without delay. The oral
submissions hearings for the pool were held in the Council Chambers on
Tuesday 12 May.
Dr
Alison Glover and Laurie Pilling presented the submission on behalf of
the Trust. There were also personal submissions made by Chris
East, Contact Hydrotherapy Group member Lynn Falconer, Alison Glover and Clive
Kingsley Smith. Ron Hancock gave his oral submission on behalf of
Hamilton Rotary Clubs. The Trust urged the Council to meet the
funding shortfall and get the pool underway.
Laurie
and Alison told the Council the pool is desperately needed but need the
Council’s approval to make it happen. They told the Council
the estimated project cost is $M2.2 and the plans and specifications
are complete to tender stage.
The
Trust has now raised $770,000 toward construction but Council was
warned the availability of more than $500,000 in funding from several
trusts and groups expired later this year increasing the urgency of
construction. We asked the Council to use the money raised by the Trust
to start construction this year and to then commit their funding in the
2010 financial year.
The outcome of the Council deliberations will be announced in mid June. Read the report in the "Waikato Times" on 15.5.09 here.
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