Don Stewart

Sorry about that. It is an older school but it was renovated in 2002, so it’s about 13 years since the last renovation there.

The renovation at Princess Alexandra was 2002.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just in terms of the schools in Hay River, as the Member noted, Ecole Boreale was constructed in 2005, so it’s about a 10-year-old school, so it would be a while before it would be in a retrofit situation. Diamond Jenness was just completed in 2012. In the case of Harry Camsell, it was constructed in 1990 and had a renovation in 1996, so it would be starting to get to that point where I think it would be getting towards that point of looking at another retrofit, although obviously it has to be assessed against all the others that are in that timing as well.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I know we have done a technical assessment of the building in the past. I don’t have the information right in front of me, but we did look at what would be required to get it back operational and that’s something we would consider in setting the purchase price. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just quickly, as the Member is aware, we went to a bulk procurement process for our LHOs, and part of the reason for that was to some of the issues that you raised, was to make sure that there was a consistent approach to being used to inventory control and that there was some thinking behind what they bought and where we get it.

For last year’s bulk procurement, 100 percent of the tenders in there, the contracts went to northern companies. Eighty percent were local and the other 20 percent went to companies in other regions, when we did it by region by region.

Certainly...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, the $26 million is for the utilities we would pay to operate the public housing or the housing stock across the NWT that we own. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The allocation of our public housing stock is obviously done at a community level. Fort Resolution has 75 units that you would expect to see in public housing. They currently have 75 units, excluding those eight that are being sold. So to put those back in the stock would change the community allocations and then we would have to find the extra resources to provide the subsidy there as well. They are at their allocation currently. Thanks, Mr. Chair.

I believe the 2014 result was 24.6 percent of the dwellings were in core need.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I believe the Member is talking about the eight-plex in Fort Resolution. There were some land issues that we had to straighten out to be able to get the proper land tenure there. We are prepared to sell that unit off, if there are interested parties in that. However, there has also been interest expressed recently to use that property for other purposes within the community that we’ve heard from the community leadership. I think Public Works and Services is looking at that request to see if it’s appropriate for what they would like to use, so we’ll hold off selling it...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Just on the comment around other departments and their role in homelessness. As the Member is well aware, homelessness is a complicated issue where there are lots of facets to it, but other departments do continue, even though there was some consolidation, to play an important role. For example, there are a number of emergency shelters that receive funding through ECE as part of the per diem that they get for income support-type payments. There are family violence shelters that are funded through other departments that are important parts of that. The Day Shelter in...