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Barrie is in talks to sell an often-filled parking lot across from City Hall and the MacLaren Art Centre.

EDEV Real Estate Advisors, based in Toronto, wants to develop the Mulcaster Street site. EDEVs projects have included the Toronto Stockyards, which turned an environmentally damaged, depressed area into townhomes and a commercial hub.

It would be fantastic. Its the last corner of Collier and Mulcaster (streets). Right now its just a parking lot, Barrie CAO Carla Ladd said.

Were hoping well have another successful development kitty corner to another one, she added in reference to the Collier Centre, which is under construction.

The staff report on last nights general committee agenda gives EDEV six months to do its due diligence and design a development concept.

Any development must retain the historical and architectural significance of the neighbouring armouries, the city said, and Heritage Barrie will be consulted.

The Fire Fighters Memorial would also remain in public hands.

City councillors have a preliminary site appraisal, which is confidential.

The cash from the sale of the lot, located behind the historic armouries building, will go into the citys parking reserve, which is falling into the red because of $10.5-million debt associated with the Collier Street Parkade. The debt payments ring in at $965,000 a year.

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Another Kasich administration cabinet member is leaving, this time Department of Health Director Dr. Ted Wymyslo.

Gov. John Kasichs press office announced Wymyslos departure today in a news release. Wymyslo will leave at the end of the month and has has decided to return to private medical practice, according to the release.

Kasich will name a replacement by the end of the month. The states health director holds a great deal of influence over whether or not abortion clinics in Ohio can stay open or must close.

The strides Ohio is making in health care are because were putting the needs of people first, and were being good stewards of Ohioans resources, Kasich said in an emailed statement. Weve done it with the help of sound thinkers with frontline experience like Dr. Wymyslo and Im sad to see him go but I respect his desire to return to his first passion, which is practicing medicine and working with patients.

Last month Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Nally abruptly resigned from Kasichs cabinet.

Wymyslo drew fire from abortion rights supporters for ordering several abortion clinics shut down for violating Ohio law. Just last month he ordered a facility near Cincinnati closed because it did not have a valid transfer agreement required of all ambulatory surgical centers in the state with a local hospital that would agree to accept patients if necessary.

However, he also drew a bit of criticism from abortion rights opponents because he sometimes took several months merely to decide whether to uphold an abortion clinics appeal.

Shortly after the resignation became public, NARAL Pro-ChoiceOhio tweeted call Kasich NOW and tell him new dir must put health over politics.

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NEW DELHI: Setting the ball rolling for acquisition of new VVIP helicopters, the defence ministry has written to the cabinet secretary to get all stakeholders on board to decide the future course of action in getting plush and secure rotary rides for the President, PM and other top dignitaries.

The defence ministry has "requested" cabinet secretary Ajit Kumar Seth to get the PMO, ministry of home affairs and Special Protection Group (SPG), which provides proximate security to the PM, to begin the joint consultation process with IAF and others on the VVIP helicopters, said sources.

"All have to come together to finalize the mandatory operational or technical requirements for the new choppers depending on the latest inputs. The RFI (request for information) and the eventual RFP (request for proposal) can then be floated to international vendors," said a source.

The worry is that the process must be kick-started at the earliest because the five Mi-8 helicopters currently with the IAF's elite Communication Squadron, which ferries the President and PM, are fast coming to the end of their operational life.

"In fact, the first of these saloon-version Mi-8s is slated for retirement this month. But their operational lives will be extended for a couple of more years, six months at a time. These Mi-8s or the newer Mi-17s can be used as an interim solution. But there is no option but to acquire specially-configured VVIP helicopters," said another source.

The VVIP helicopters, after all, need to have all-weather and night flying capabilities, advanced navigation aids and auto-pilot, self-protection anti-missile suites and bullet-proofing, data links and medical evacuation systems, among other things.

The cancellation of the 556 million euros deal with AgustaWestland on January 1 has led to mothballing of the three of the 12 AW-101 helicopters already delivered before payments were frozen last year, as was reported by TOI last month.

It was way back in August 1999 that IAF had first proposed replacement of the Mi-8s due to their inability to operate in night and adverse weather conditions as well as at altitudes beyond 2,000 metres.

The long-winded selection process, with technical parameters being controversially "tweaked" midway to broaden the competition, finally led to the Rs 3,546 crore deal being inked with AgustaWestland, the UK-based subsidiary of Italian conglomerate Finmeccanica, in February 2010.

The three-engine AW-101s defeated American Sikorsky's S-92 Superhawks in the extensive field trials, overseen by both IAF and SPG, because the latter were found "non-compliant" with respect to the missile approach warning system, service-ceiling of 4.5-km, the drift-down altitude and hover out-of-ground effect.

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