Councillor Pascoe is calling on residents from all parts of the Riverina to join a rally on Sunday, August 8, in Wagga's main street.

The state government has allocated $90 million to start redeveloping the hospital, but beyond that the current state government has not committed additional funds.

"We want to make sure that the $90 million is going to be spent in the right places," Cr Pascoe said.

"We want an ongoing commitment after the $90 million and want to see the money will be spent appropriately."

A rally calling for a new hospital was held in March 2007, attracting more than 2000 people calling for a start date for the project.

But Cr Pascoe said even more people than last time would have to attend Sunday's rally to make a difference.

He argued that with so much time spent on planning, with the expectation a new hospital would be built, Wagga Base had now reached the stage where just a refurbishment would not do.

"While the promise of a new hospital was being held before us, the hospital was allowed to slip into a state where it is no longer economically prudent or viable to do another turn-around and simply offer a plan for refurbishment," Cr Pascoe said.

"It is quite clear what the community of Wagga and the surround region wants: a new hospital."

He said six years of planning had already gone into the project, but the with allocation of $90 million for the first stage of work, the city was now stepping away from existing plans.

"We're going to get a patch-up job and if we get that, it's going to be undoing a lot of the work we've been doing," Cr Pascoe said.

"We're quite concerned with what's actually going on with the funding that's been allocated."

Cr Pascoe has been contacting residents across the Riverina, including Ungarie, West Wyalong, Narrandera, Gundagai, Tumut and Tumbarumba to drum up support for the rally.