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Published: November 18, 2008 1:00 PMUpdated: November 18, 2008 2:44 PM
Why is there pay parking at Saanich Peninsula Hospital? How much money is made, if any, after the contractor, the parking staff at the health authority and the office staff who issue the parking passes are paid? This hospital is not downtown where parking needs to be monitored. Anyone parking at SPH is using the facility. For over a year, I asked the Health Authority for a copy of the parking contract. They ignored me, so I started a petition at SPH. After 20 days, they removed me saying there were complaints. Clearly 95 per cent of you didn’t complain.
Finally, I received a copy of the contract. There is a clause in the contract that allows the Health Authority to end the contract at no cost.
The hospital is full of our pioneers and veterans, the people who built our roads and the people who gave us a piece of mind to drive on them. They, and their families and friends, should not have to deal with pay parking at a delicate time in life. At the first of this year, I gave the Saanich Peninsula Hospital Foundation a cheque for $5000 and a pledge of $500 a year for the next 10 years, subject to removal of pay parking. We subsidize the hospital through our donations, are we not entitled to as where the money goes? My offer stands until the end of this year. Let us support these very important and often forgotten people in memory of Veronica Keith.
JD Macgillivray Jr,
Central Saanich
