Floyd Roland

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I've just been provided a note that the Deh Cho Hall right now is 320 metres squared, existing facility. I don't have the detail of the actual new building that would be required. The fact is, the client department would have to make a decision based on information provided, and they would have to decide whether they would renovate, how much they would renovate, if they didn't like the options or they wanted some change in the scope of the review, that they would go back to Public Works and Services for that information.

As I stated, there was plenty of...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, a number of factors, as I already laid out, have built to the size of the supplementary appropriation. For example, I’ll just run down and give it a department-by-department breakdown of the capital portion of this supplementary appropriation. Municipal and Community Affairs is just over $3.7 million; Public Works, $7.8 million; Health and Social Services just over $7 million; Justice, $1.7 million; Education, Culture and Employment, over $13 million; Transportation, $5 million; Industry, Tourism and Investment, $600,000; and Environment and Natural...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the money right now identified to keep the facility open would be charged against Education, Culture and Employment. There is no grant-in-kind being proposed to those other organizations. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, the question of the role of Municipal and Community Affairs and the Housing Corporation when it comes to lands, the Municipal and Community Affairs’ role in land development is one that is responsible for administration and control of Commissioner’s land in the Northwest Territories. It involves transferring land in fee-simple title or through lease arrangements to community governments, or to the Housing Corporation to be made available for residential use. Land development would be the area of subdivisions, whether it be residential, commercial or...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, what I've been saying for a number of responses now, the community has been involved in this process. Initially we tried to accommodate the request of the community to stick to a renovation rather than going to a new facility. But all our work, the accountant looked at the value of dollars spent and the lifespan of the facility; going new is the best method to use. Yes, like I said, the department has now made the decision that they'll go to a new facility. As a government, if we say it will be a leased facility, we can go out there for space and...

Thank you, Madam Chair and colleagues. I am pleased to introduce Bill 2, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 1, 2006-2007. This bill requests authority for additional appropriations of $69.246 million for operations expenditures and $45.411 million for capital investment expenditures in the 2006-2007 fiscal year.

Major items included in this request for operations expenditures are as follows:

$33.4 million for the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs to continue to flow contribution funding to community governments pursuant to the community capacity building initiative. These...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The requirement for the upgrades that we’re requesting here would be to allow the occupancy of all those that are presently in that facility. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Madam Chair. It is from our own source. That’s why we’re voting it in in this manner. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, as for the planning and how it got through to this stage, the client department would have to probably best answer that. The square footage, I would have to come back with that number. I know we have it, I just don’t have that level of detail with me. The information I’m provided is the existing renovation estimates based on an estimate done in 2004 is $12 million. That’s for the facility as it is. To replace the facility with the same size as being used and occupied right now with government and non-government occupants, is the $20 million. For just GNWT...

Thank you, Madam Chair. The over-expenditure of $230,000 within the Department of Transportation, as I stated in my opening comments, was due to the fact that we had an unseasonably warm winter, which the department on a normal basis would have budgeted for salt materials and materials for runways to keep them clear, as well as keep the runways safer for planes landing as well. For winter roads, it took more maintenance to keep them operating as long as they did and that was the reason for the over-expenditure. Thank you.