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. AB - The Terrace Standard, ‘Wednesday, Jeouary 5, 2005

Med. Student tax idea defended

’ THE NORTHWEST mayor who

has floated the idea of’a property
lax to support northern medical

students says there may. be no other,

Way to.demonstrate a commitment

_ to improved health care.

But Sharon Hartwell of Telkwa
says she understands why there j are
objections to the concept.’

“Philosophically they may be

right,” said Hartwell of the objec-
tions. “For me _ itis. about health
fare. If ive believe. in better health

cr then we may
have to help i in some fashion.”

George campus.

Municipalities were then asked
to sign on to help raise the money’
voluntarily but to date. just over
$1.2 million has been raised.

Terrace. for example. has been
asked’ to raise $388.500. part of a

$786,000 goal’ for this-area of the |

north.

The.concept of voluntarily rais-
ing the money in this area comes
at a-ltime when Terrace city coun-

ea CHl still] has a shortfallin its plan’
«lo build a second sheet of ice and:

At issue is the Northern Medical '

“Program Trust, a plan by the Uni--

versity of Northern British Colum:

bia and others to raise a $6 million’

‘trust fund. a

Interest from the fund would
then help pay the expenses of
medical students who started their
training this fall at UBC and will
transfer in the new year to a new
Prince

Barry Pankhurst

Trustee -

| _ opposed |
~ money .
for track

By. ALLAN HEWITSON
Kitimat school trustee Barry:

* Pankhurst is not happy with

a recent Coast Mountains

board decision to
contribute $32,000 towards .
the cost of a rubberized ° «
running track at Skeena
Junior Secondary.

“It’s matching funding

_ with Terrace city council,”

Pankhurst said, adding the |
track would be used primar-
ily by a local running club.

“With -our chronic un-
der-funding in this, school
board, I believe there's a lot
better things we can do with
$32,000 of scarce capital
funding than put in a running

‘track that won't be of any.
use to the majority of our -
‘students in Kitimat, Stewart
or the Hazeltons,” he said.

“Our. schools are .. fall-
ing apart and we need more
text books. I want to see our
education dollars going into
education, not» being used
to support Terrace r running
clubs.”

Terrace sporting goods
retailer Bob Park, who heads ~
up an organization called the
Terrace Track and Field: As-
sociation, says raising fund
for a new track - estimated.
cost $240,000 — has been a

long and frustrating experi-
ence. , ;
“*We have been work-

ing on this for about seven
years.” he said.
“We tried local sources,
lottery funding and even
national sponsors without
success. We kept getting the
same answer: this is school
board property, so the fund-
ing has to come from the

‘school board.” :

Pointing out there were -
proper tracks in. both Smith- .
ers and Prince Rupert, Park
added, “Our kids are still —
running on gravel.” ,

Park says his ‘group

- has only’ been able to raise

* $15,000 for .the track to

_ date. And while the commit-

ments by Terrace and Coast
Mountains are good news,
“There’s a big gap still and
we're hoping the province

"will come to the table.”

_ While he didn’t expect
the track to be in place “any
‘time soon”, Park ‘said the
project should have the sup-
port of Kitimat trustees as |
well as Terrace/Thornhill’s.

“We have to work togeth-
‘er to achieve improvements
for the region.”

Pankhurst said he and
fellow Kitimat trustee Doro-
thy Leuze voted against the

‘grant while colleague Peter
King voted in favour.

meeting rooms:and as an effort lo"

raise as much as $400,000 for. a

new CT scan machine at Mills Mc-°

morial Hospital has just started.
Most of the money raised to date
has.come from Prince George and

«fromthe ndrtheast, area w here the

economy is doing better than in the .

northwest. ,

i

tax would be-cost effective.

“Time. is of the essence.” said
Hartwell. of closing the gap for
the medical trust. “The idea of

show

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CHRYSLER - JEEP.

~ very small

leadership and sees this project
through.”

She ‘savs two options. a parcel
tax applied equally to: each and ev-
ery piece of property in the north
or a more traditional tax based on

a property’s assessed value should ;

he considered.

The parcel tax would cost $36
per property. while the while the
more traditional tax would be just

«18 cents for every $100,000 of resi-

dential assessed value.
“If evervbods
amounts required Would be very.
“said Hartwell.
The objections are framed
around the argument that the pro-
vision of medical care is a federal
and provineial responsibility and

“not one for local governments: to

shoulder. »

“Hf this is something for the
north. then perhaps there isan ob-
ligation. in the north to provide for
the trust.” Hartwell responds.

JER! OFFER ENDS JANUA

is involved. the,

Backers of the trust say helping ~ hospitals.

medical students with-expenses is
one way of encouraging them to

not only ‘take their training ‘in the.»

north but to stay afterward.

The 24 students in this year’s
first-ever class will be farming out
to northwest hospitals for practical
training beginning the third year of
their studies.

About half of the stidents are
from the north.

Terrace city y council has agreed

kind of tax but has not ver put it lo

a final vole,

Trust fund backers still have to
develop guidelines as to how the
money would be administered. .

One consideration is whether
the money’ could be cl awed back if

a graduating medical student does

not stay do practice in the north.
One idea iunder discussion is to
have the trust fund specifically de-
fray living expenses for students
when they venture out to northern

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