Let’s head back to the April 1969 pages of the Optimist when plans were discussed for a new medical health centre next to Municipal Hall.
The municipality and Boundary Health Unit planned to build the $132,000 unit, which received a $40,000 grant from the province.
The growing municipality at the time, which still didn’t have its own hospital, was seen as requiring its own health centre to meet the needs of residents.
Fast forward to 2023 and Fraser Health’s South Delta Public Health Unit has relocated from the building adjacent to the current Delta Municipal Hall in the Ladner Civic Precinct.
The city earlier this year issued a request for proposals for a qualified consultant experienced in space planning to undertake an assessment of workspace needs for the employee complement that currently works out of city hall.
The study is to include the adjacent building, which had been vacated by Fraser Health. The building is seen as a new potential space where one or more city departments currently operating out of city hall could relocate.
