Size matters when it comes to the new addition to the Kincardine Medical Clinic but it’s not what you think.
Council spent part of last night’s Corporate Services meeting going back and forth on how the size and price of the proposed addition suddenly ballooned.
Councillor Marsha Leggett says when a committee selected Parkin Associates to design the new addition, the archetects were given specific instructions to design a seven to ten thousand square foot building that would fit a budget of two million dollars.
Last month Archetects Brent Wightly and Lynne Wilson-Orr unveiled a draft design that showed a ten thousand square foot building for the doctors and staff AND a four thousand square foot addition for McKechnie Pharmacy.
The price of the new addition would have cost the Municipality five million dollars.
Mayor Larry Kraemer says Council never had a direct discussion with the archetects to discuss their expectations.
He says staff will arrange to have Council sit down with the archetects at a special meeting that will be held at a later date.
Kraemer says the archetects first went to the doctors, nurses, and staff at the clinic to get a wish list together.
He says they are in a situation where the wish list is bigger than the size of the wallet.
Kraemer says when you have 9 people trying to decide what course to take it is a lot more difficult than having one individual making the decision.
He says if one person in the group can’t convince the rest on the validity of their suggestion then you’ve got problems.
All of the doctors are currently working out of the main floor of the clinic after mould was discovered in the basement back in July of 2007.
McKechnie Pharmacy had to move their store to the former Westario building at the South end of town.
