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Mayor lobbies for Centre Roger Séguin
GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
Clarence-RocklandMayor Guy Desjardins has strong words of support for the people who are trying to find the money needed to upgrade the long-term care home in Clarence Creek and a few short sharpwords for the provincial government for deman- ding the upgrade without providing more support.
Le centre d’accueil Roger Séguin is in need of some major renovation work to meet new provincial construction guidelines for long-term care facilities and retirement homes. The non-profit group which operates the Clarence Creek facility is working on a plan but the key to success is first creating a $7-million construction reserve.
Mayor Guy Desjardins
«The province has great ideas,» Mayor Desjardins said, «but they’ve got nomoney.» The mayor referred to a past revision of the provincial construction guidelines for
senior and long-term home care facilities like Centre d’accueil Roger Séguin in Cla- rence Creek. The non-profit corporation which owns and operates the facility has
until 2025 to upgrade the centre tomeet new construction design guidelines approved in 2009. A consultant’s report pegs the cost of upgrade at between $17 million and $29 million, depending on whether the non- profit group chooses to renovate the existing premises or build a new complex. Right now, the group is reviewing both options and also working on a fundraising plan to build a $7million reserve fund which will provide the leverage needed to support an application to the province for amortgage loan guarantee, which would help secure the remaining financing needed for the upgrade. The United Counties of Prescott-Russell (UCPR) has agreed to increase its 2016 bud- get allocation for Centre Roger Séguin to
$500,000, instead of the $250,000 which was in the original budget draft. Mayor Desjar- dins promised to keep lobbying the counties council for further financial assistance every chance he gets. Themayor also indicated that the city will help as much as it canwith other fundraising efforts for Centre Roger Séguin. But, he said, the municipal budget itself cannot stretch to provide the non-profit group withmoney towards building up the reserve fund. «We just don’t have the budget for that,» he said, and also noted that other senior and long-termcare facilities in Prescott-Russell may also be facing the same kind of upgrade demand from the province as Centre Roger Séguin.
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