Alfred Moses

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Range Lake, that Bill 18, An Act to Amend the Cities, Towns and Villages Act, be read for the second time. This bill amends the Cities, Towns and Villages Act to authorize councils:

to impose a tax on tourist accommodations; and

to pass bylaws allowing property owners to finance, through local improvement charges, local improvements that are substantively energy efficiency works or renewable energy works.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

The department did meet with the Tuktoyaktuk Hamlet Council in April to start the project and to develop a project plan. Hamlet Council met with private homeowners to explain the projects, and ultimately, eligible homeowners will need to decide if they want to be part of that relocation plan as well.

Structural assessments on homes, as well as geotechnical investigations on the new lots, will be completed this summer, as well as fall of this year. Obtaining gravel, lot development, and the movement of houses will be scheduled based on the ideal time to get this work completed. We are hoping...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. MACA did receive $250,000 through the Federal National Disaster Mitigation Program to complete a disaster mitigation plan for the community of Tuktoyaktuk. This effort was combined with a similar project involving the community of Aklavik. A request for proposal is complete, and a contractor will begin work with the hamlet this spring. The first stage of this project includes community consultations and finalizing a detailed work plan. This project is expected to be complete in the winter of 2018, and the plan will identify various adaptation measures that can be...

As I have just mentioned in my previous response, I would be willing to mediate that as Minister of Homelessness. We have had some great programs in the past. Inuvik Works did something very similar working on seniors' homes, community projects done in the community. I think that is something we can look at and get developed in some of our regional centres, and even small communities. Working with either ECE, also through NWT Housing Corporation, we do have a small community homelessness fund which provides funding for community proponents to deliver homelessness programs and supports for...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. No, there were no requests for funding from the City of Yellowknife. We couldn't even give an answer, because there were no requests for this program. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Range Lake, that Bill 18, An Act to Amend the Cities, Towns and Villages Act, be read for the first time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

On Monday, the NWT Housing Corporation is going to be meeting with the current contractor as well as the structural engineers to look at the redesign, and, as soon as the ferry opens and the road opens, we'll start working on that building again.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to take the opportunity to recognize a former Inuvik resident working here in Yellowknife, Mr. David Bob, as well as Richard Latourneau and Diana Marie-Jacobson. I will also take the opportunity to just thank the official board members for all the work, dedication, and passion that you guys have for languages. Mahsi.

Yes, we're still on target for this fall. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Part of it is the building seasons that we have to do work up in the high Arctic. There were also some discovered structural design issues with that, and we had to do a new design, get a new consultant to develop a design, and then get that to us at the Housing Corporation.