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Donations to the Lasqueti Last Resort Society help to provide a locally run, integrated health care system and elder housing for Lasqueti. Your donation makes you a champion of a powerful idea.
- Make a gift by cheque or e transfer payable to the Lasqueti Last Resort Society. Mail to: #1 China Cloud Bay Road, Lasqueti Island, BC V0R 2J0 (Tax ID#861119261 RR0001)
- Make a one time or monthly gift directly from your credit card: Click the PayPal or CanadaHelps links. Please note that PayPal & CanadaHelps take a charge of about 4% for your transaction.
- For one time or monthly electronic funds transfers from your bank account email healthcentre@lasqueti.ca or phone (250)333-8891 for assistance.
Current News:
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Here is a link to a Life/Development/Maintenance Plan developed by Tom Carter, Sandy Morrison, Ezra Auerbach and Ray Lipovsky.
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Here is a link to the Operations Committee Report authored by Peter Johnston, Bruce Grant & Shelley Garside.
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PUBLIC INFORMATION MEETINGS: FOLLOW-UP
The links below are Minutes from the August 18th; July 28th; and September 22, 2018 Public Information Meetings; FAQs; the 2017 Revenue and Expenses document and the presentation made at the Annual General Meeting.
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS ISLAND MAILER
A remarkable amount of donated time, labour and money over the past 16 years has provided us all a new health centre (and 1 of 6 allowed elder cottages). As a community we are now faced with maintaining, staffing and expanding the building and its’ facilities. To explain this there have been three community meetings on the island this summer as well as a mailer to all islanders (July 25) answering frequently asked questions about the operation of the centre. A referendum to decide whether we will accept a property-based tax to ensure the health centre’s ongoing functions and its’ future expansion will take place October 20.
Current usage: The health centre is home to the weekly nurse’s visit, the doctor’s quarterly clinic, a telehealth monitor, storage for food bank supplies, a respite suite, and the many other activities listed in the July mailer. The nursing and quarterly doctor clinics alone reduce the number of trips off Lasqueti for medical appointments, making life easier for working people, young families and the elderly. The health centre contributes to the vitality and attractiveness of our community. If you have not had the opportunity to visit the clinic or simply to walk in the garden, please come by and enjoy it! It’s yours!
Current sources of funding:
1) Island Health contract for nursing services: stable
2) Rental of space: such as practitioner’s use & meetings is minimal now; unlikely to increase rapidly.
3) Fund raisers: unpredictable; compete with other island activities.
4) Donations: major source, ongoing even if referendum successful but always unpredictable.
These funds combined do not cover the costs of running the centre. In 2017, all sources of funding left a shortfall. This cannot continue; either costs must fall, funding increase or some of both occur.
Options to fund centre:
1) Status Quo (SQ): This will perpetuate a deficit which is both unsustainable and irresponsible.
2) Decrease operating costs: A detailed development plan will be published in the coming weeks. If one were to accept as part of that plan a sizable reduction in the paid hours of our professional administrator we will require regularly scheduled, knowledgeable volunteers to maintain some services. Heating the health centre (and cottage) is most efficiently done with dry wood, a luxury we lacked last year but have now. Wood has been costed compared to oil and propane; dry wood is much cheaper (and environmentally more responsible).
3) Increase revenue: Private funding to complete more elder cottages would give the centre some profit. A very generous donor has given us the means to begin this, but we will need more donations to proceed.
4) Tax Levy: This, in the opinion of the Board, is the only way to provide stable, secure funding to the health centre. The tax requested will allow the Board time to seek supplementary services and support not available here but available on other islands.
To be clear, we have asked for a tax levy of UP to $45,000. This equals $28.70 per $100,000 of assessed residential property value.
There are costs that have to be repaid for a successful referendum. The $10,000 cost is an estimate of the legal fees to review the contribution agreement and any other costs that are incurred to set up the service such as the ads that the RD needs to place. It will be the actual costs that need to be paid back once the service is established, not the $10,000 estimate. There is also an annual administrative cost payable to the regional district of $1,500. If the referendum is not successful there is no extra cost to Lasqueti.
Should the referendum pass, the money is released to the Board of the LLRS to use for operating expenses of the health centre. The Board is required to draw up an annual operating budget and an annual report on how the funds were spent and submit them to the qathet (Powell River) Regional Board. In five years, the LLRS will review the requirement for a tax levy with the community.
If any portion of the levy is not spent in any one year, it is carried forward to the next year for LLRS use only. For example: The LLRS might provide a budget request for $40,000 to be used for the 2019 operation of the Health Centre. If the LLRS only spends $38,000 in 2019 the LLRS would include that in its annual report to the RD. The unspent $2,000 would then be used by the LLRS for Health Centre Operations in 2020. On that premise, if the LLRS projected that it would need $40,000 again in 2020 for the Health Centre operations the LLRS would use the $2,000 that was left over from 2019 and only ask the RD to tax a further $38,000 in 2020 to fund the projected $40,000 operational costs for 2020.The regional district will not be able to use any of these monies of any other service.
We ask you to carefully consider all of this and ask any board member for clarification. Please vote YES on October 20 to give the health centre the funding it needs for a great future.
Thanks!
Tim Peterson, Nicole Murphy, Marilyn Darwin, Sandy Morrison, Tom Carter, Doane Grinnell, Gwen Bigsby, Eric O’Higgins, Ron Abrahams, Robert Wallace, and Frank Buffam.
You can find out more about voting on a service establishment bylaw at: http://www.powellriverrd.bc.ca/inside-the-prrd/elections-and-voting/
A remarkable amount of donated time, labour and money over the past 16 years has provided us all a new health centre (and 1 of 6 allowed elder cottages). As a community we are now faced with maintaining, staffing and expanding the building and its’ facilities. To explain this there have been three community meetings on the island this summer as well as a mailer to all islanders (July 25) answering frequently asked questions about the operation of the centre. A referendum to decide whether we will accept a property-based tax to ensure the health centre’s ongoing functions and its’ future expansion will take place October 20.
Current usage: The health centre is home to the weekly nurse’s visit, the doctor’s quarterly clinic, a telehealth monitor, storage for food bank supplies, a respite suite, and the many other activities listed in the July mailer. The nursing and quarterly doctor clinics alone reduce the number of trips off Lasqueti for medical appointments, making life easier for working people, young families and the elderly. The health centre contributes to the vitality and attractiveness of our community. If you have not had the opportunity to visit the clinic or simply to walk in the garden, please come by and enjoy it! It’s yours!
Current sources of funding:
1) Island Health contract for nursing services: stable
2) Rental of space: such as practitioner’s use & meetings is minimal now; unlikely to increase rapidly.
3) Fund raisers: unpredictable; compete with other island activities.
4) Donations: major source, ongoing even if referendum successful but always unpredictable.
These funds combined do not cover the costs of running the centre. In 2017, all sources of funding left a shortfall. This cannot continue; either costs must fall, funding increase or some of both occur.
Options to fund centre:
1) Status Quo (SQ): This will perpetuate a deficit which is both unsustainable and irresponsible.
2) Decrease operating costs: A detailed development plan will be published in the coming weeks. If one were to accept as part of that plan a sizable reduction in the paid hours of our professional administrator we will require regularly scheduled, knowledgeable volunteers to maintain some services. Heating the health centre (and cottage) is most efficiently done with dry wood, a luxury we lacked last year but have now. Wood has been costed compared to oil and propane; dry wood is much cheaper (and environmentally more responsible).
3) Increase revenue: Private funding to complete more elder cottages would give the centre some profit. A very generous donor has given us the means to begin this, but we will need more donations to proceed.
4) Tax Levy: This, in the opinion of the Board, is the only way to provide stable, secure funding to the health centre. The tax requested will allow the Board time to seek supplementary services and support not available here but available on other islands.
To be clear, we have asked for a tax levy of UP to $45,000. This equals $28.70 per $100,000 of assessed residential property value.
There are costs that have to be repaid for a successful referendum. The $10,000 cost is an estimate of the legal fees to review the contribution agreement and any other costs that are incurred to set up the service such as the ads that the RD needs to place. It will be the actual costs that need to be paid back once the service is established, not the $10,000 estimate. There is also an annual administrative cost payable to the regional district of $1,500. If the referendum is not successful there is no extra cost to Lasqueti.
Should the referendum pass, the money is released to the Board of the LLRS to use for operating expenses of the health centre. The Board is required to draw up an annual operating budget and an annual report on how the funds were spent and submit them to the qathet (Powell River) Regional Board. In five years, the LLRS will review the requirement for a tax levy with the community.
If any portion of the levy is not spent in any one year, it is carried forward to the next year for LLRS use only. For example: The LLRS might provide a budget request for $40,000 to be used for the 2019 operation of the Health Centre. If the LLRS only spends $38,000 in 2019 the LLRS would include that in its annual report to the RD. The unspent $2,000 would then be used by the LLRS for Health Centre Operations in 2020. On that premise, if the LLRS projected that it would need $40,000 again in 2020 for the Health Centre operations the LLRS would use the $2,000 that was left over from 2019 and only ask the RD to tax a further $38,000 in 2020 to fund the projected $40,000 operational costs for 2020.The regional district will not be able to use any of these monies of any other service.
We ask you to carefully consider all of this and ask any board member for clarification. Please vote YES on October 20 to give the health centre the funding it needs for a great future.
Thanks!
Tim Peterson, Nicole Murphy, Marilyn Darwin, Sandy Morrison, Tom Carter, Doane Grinnell, Gwen Bigsby, Eric O’Higgins, Ron Abrahams, Robert Wallace, and Frank Buffam.
You can find out more about voting on a service establishment bylaw at: http://www.powellriverrd.bc.ca/inside-the-prrd/elections-and-voting/
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The Judith Fisher Centre Provides Services for All Ages:
2018 Events Timeline
- Every Thursday - Nursing Clinic - 11:00 am to 3:00 pm
- Every Monday & Thursday (except statutory holidays) - Health Centre open 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
- Next Board of Directors Meeting: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 at 4:00 PM at the health centre
- Next General Membership Meeting, Wednesday, October 17, 2018 at 5:00 PM at the health centre
Our Corporate Sponsors:
"Lasqueti Island typifies many of the small off the grid communities we work with around the world. People treasure their independence and learn to get things done on their own. When I learned that the Lasqueti Last Resort Society had already raised over 70% of their $750,000.00 budget on their island of 400 permanent residents, I was confident that they would finish the project and that our contribution would make a real difference." |
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