Balmoral Hotel 24/7 Staffing Issue?
The following item appears on the South End Community Associations website which are notes relating to their November meeting.
"Balmoral Hotel –
problem with lack of funding for 24/7 staffing. A SECA member suggested
letters of support for funding to MLAs and Councilors. A form letter a
possibility for neighborhood to send."
I was familiar with this old building on Haliburton Street, before it was purchased by the Canadian Mental Health Association. The previous owners did not maintain it and it was a known “problem”.
ReplyDeleteFunding was provided by the provincial and municipal levels of government ... at least $50,000 from the City towards a new heating system, as the CMHA advised City Council that there had been no heat for two years.
Mayoralty candidate, Jim Routledge, wrote that he toured the Balmoral in September, 2011 and he said: “Inside the 19 rooms have been renovated. All but 2 are occupied with 15 men & 2 women.” He goes on to say, “I met a dozen staff from Outreach to Accounting ... “
I wonder why there were two vacancies at the time? And it would be interesting to know why a dozen staff members are required for seventeen tenants, or at the most, nineteen tenants. Nanaimo’s voters should be asking their elected decision-makers a lot of questions.