The Canadian Champion, Tuesday, July 10, 2001-7 CCAC was afrai from AREA on page 3 tC. Ii IINIo ni i I k c j'.. S w15 iIc ii I. IL: workers, which would have attracted and kept then in this area and not lose them to hospitais and institutions." Ail services are contracted after requests for proposais, a process which was mandated by the Province severai years ago. There are three companies providing homemaking, three for nursing and tive for rehabilitation services. Ms Harvey said two of the service providers approached the CCAC early last year asking for an ircrease to their rates. The board heard the request, deliberated, and asked CCAC staff to meet with the service providers and look at an appropriate rate. "The agencies were expressing concemn about retaining and maintaining their staff," she said. -We were being hit by service provider shortages and flot able to provide client services because there weren't enough nurses and homemakers out there." Last year, the CCAC had a $336,000 deficit, which was absorbed into this year's operations, said Ms Harvey. Mr. Jackson suggested the request for the Haiton CCAC for a large increase this year was rejected because it would have involved breaking an existing home care contract with a private provider. The original CCAC budget in 1997 was $21.2 million and it has increased by about 60 per cent since that frst year. Said Mr. Jackson, "the CCAC board has to know that it's making decisions to reduce service in order to give more money to these private companies. 'The money shouid be going to front-uine services. It sbouidn't necessariiy be going to increasing compensation for contracts" he said. "Wbat's the sense of writing a contract if you're going to open it six months after you've signed it?" Ms Harvey acknowledged that the CCAC could have heid irm, but said the board was more concemed about the possibiiity of not being able to provide services to clients for lack of staff. "We did do a market survey and found we were one of the low- est-paying CCACs in our surrounding area for our service providers, particularly for homemnaking," she said. "Other CCACs had increased the rates, and it did put pressure d of losing staff on us to look ai ring mn corne tip with somne kind oi changein our Halton MPPTcd Cbudleigh was also critical of the local CCAC, calling for an audit of its books. "They seem to have an unquench- able demand for free services," said Mr. Chudleigh. 'Me Tory MPP said the 20 per cent increase was requested to cover projected growtb, but Halton's senior population isn't increasing by 20 per cent. He believes the agency's funding is ade- quate and said it can't bondie its budget as well as some other CCACs seem to. The provincial govemment now bas the autbority to audit its funding partners and Mr. Chudleigb said be would encourage Tony Clement, minister of bealtb and long term care, to audit the Halton CCAC. Got a hot scoop? 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