Floyd Roland

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This has come around as a result of extending the highway season for two more weeks, plus the activity on the winter road up the Mackenzie Valley has added a lot of extra maintenance that needs to be done on that area. The increased traffic as well as the extending of the season has caused the department to come in for this request. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chairperson. The process, as it works, allows for all UNW and excluded employees to appeal, so there could be further appeals. Again, the initial job evaluation methodology that was used when the GNWT went to the Hay job evaluation process that we entered into, came up with a rating. Pay was adjusted on that basis and as a result of that there was a grievance filed on behalf of 42 nurses that triggered this going into action and the re-evaluation of the positions. Again, it is open to employees that feel that they are not getting a fair shake, they can grieve it and if...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I am not willing to stop the process where we are now. We have started on this course. We’ve reviewed the information that has been provided. We have looked at the plans and we are proceeding down that road. We have, as I stated, 140 affected employees. Of that, 50 of them are aboriginal people who have had input into the work that is going on. Through this change, there are going to be some people who are not happy with the results of the changes and how things are proceeding. But at this point, I have no plans of stopping the process to get a...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, this is for land development in the area of a staging site for trucks to either switch off their loads or change loads and be able to have their vehicles there away from the centre part of the community. It’s broken down. Again, this is to put a plan together for the community and about $37,000 of that is for a consultant, then $13,000 to implement the plan. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, when we had the Department of Pubic Works and Services issuing contracts on behalf of all departments within a community, there used to be that opportunity. But as things went to user-pay/user-say, boards would enter into their own contracts. Some boards may enter into contracts to supply fuel, for example, on an annual basis and maybe they will cut a deal, but we are quite fragmented in that area now as we have gone away from the previous contracts that used to be issued and we try to secure the service in bulk. It’s something as we go forward we are...

Thank you, Madam Chairperson. The process we are involved in with our human resource system allows for individuals to appeal the classification that they are in and there are a few outstanding yet that may impact us. It is open for members of our workforce to appeal their classification and, depending on the outcome of those appeals, it could have some impact. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, in the case of Wrigley, the contract that was let for delivery of water services was cancelled and the owner of the business had a unit that was his unit. When the community had to take over that water supply, they did not have a water truck so they had to go and get a water truck. That again was not accounted for in the budget process and was something that wasn’t planned as the contract ended earlier than was anticipated. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As we’ve gone through the Department of Public Works and Services and looked at the area of POL, we would be impacted by the time we went out for resupply to the communities. That is broken down into two areas. One is by ice road and one is by barge system. So at that time, when the contracts are issued, we would have to look at the prices then and make adjustments if we found that the prices had gone up higher than we had anticipated.

For this fiscal year, we feel that we’ve done pretty good and there shouldn’t be much of a change. I believe we have just issued the...

Thank you, Madam Chairperson. With the area of the fuel price increases or the request for supplementary appropriation from a number of the departments is…From within FMB, when departments would come forward and they would request money up front for increasing their budgets based on the possibility of price increases, we would send them back and say come back with actuals, because the price of oil would be fluctuating too much.

This amount goes back to 2002. We feel that with this adjustment, we shouldn’t have to come back with another request for this next year. However, if the prices of...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I’m not aware of any myself. From this end, this was a one-time situation. Unless the Minister is aware of what communities are about to run out of their licences and have to go for renewal. Again, some may already have that, so we’re not sure of that. Right now, as we’ve gone forward with this one, this is a one-time situation. As you see it, we’d have to wait and see for every hearing, I guess, as to what may happen. Thank you.