Permit fee waived for clinic upgrade
Township council has agreed to a request from the Mapleton Health Centre for permission to make some minor changes to the nursing station area in the clinic. The health centre will pay for the cost of the improvements.
At the recommendation of chief building official Patty Wright, council also agreed to waive the $100 building permit fee.
Plans involve moving the nurse’s station into the current file room, which is in the centre of the building and create a “hub” for the nurses at the clinic.
“We are trying to utilize every space we have. We have a physician’s assistant, nurse practitioner and four physicians and we have also become a teaching centre for medical students so we need all the rooms,” explained clinic manager Rosie Landman in an email.
Wright said, “I have no issues with it. It’s going to be a very small renovation.” She suggested council waive the fee “as they are absorbing the cost of renovations” on the township-owned building.
