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UPPER Hunter residents are pushing back on council plans for an outside provider to lease, operate, or potentially buy community-based aged care facility, Gummun Place Hostel . Login or signup to continue reading Gummun Place was 'built by the people, for the people' critics say and it was 'unconscionable' for the council to consider a sale. There have been several meetings to discuss the issue since the Upper Hunter Shire Council announced on November 7 it was issuing an expression of interest. The details were contained in a letter from Mayor Maurice Collison to the Federal Minister for Health and Aged Care, Mark Butler. It focused on the council's request for "immediate and ongoing assistance" to prevent further closures and financial losses in rural aged care. Merriwa District Progress Association secretary Liz Griffiths said the massive piece of land the hostel is built on was a donation. On top of the land, the community raised money to build it. "I think the real fear is that the facility would be sold and money that this district raised would go into the coffers of the council and we wouldn't see the money," Ms Griffiths said. "It's understandable why they want to divest themselves of running the facility, but the idea that it would be sold-off would just almost be the straw that broke the camel's back out here." Association President Stephen Gowlland said the community saw a need for a hostel like Gumman Place and it was a community effort. "The surrounding farmers all donated a beast at about $1000 a head, and I understand there was probably some government grants as well," Mr Gowlland said. "It was placed in the safe hands of the then Merriwa Shire Council as a trustee , no one foresaw the amalgamation of Scone and Murrurundi." "We need to retain that hostel in Merriwa, it is owned by the people not the council. I don't know who the title of the land is with, but it belongs to the people." There were gaps so far in the information available about the facility such as a breakdown of costs, including the cost of accommodation for the out-of-town chef and nurses flying in from Queensland and Sydney, one critic said. Councillor Troy Stolz, who attended a meeting where the issue was discussed, said the last thing the community wanted was for the facility to close. The Progress Association will be running a survey to get a feel for what the rest of the community, and people across the district, want at the site. Councillor Collison said in his letter to the federal government that small councils were in an unsustainable position, he said, operating aged care facilities like Gummun Place Hostel, a 16-bed facility which serves an average of 14 residents. The council was currently absorbing an annual loss exceeding $400,000 to keep the hostel operational, he said. 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