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Thank you, Madam Chairperson. The numbers that we have come up with are the accumulated debt over the years that have accrued and added to that as well as some of the administration, but Minister Miltenberger may have further details that he can provide to Members.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, once again, for that detail on absolute homelessness to relative homelessness, I go to Mr. Miltenberger, please.
Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, in the area of doubtful accounts, within the Department of Finance, there is a built in reserve for accounts where we send out invoices on an annual basis. Once Municipal and Community Affairs has done their assessments, that comes over to us and we send out invoices on an annual basis around property taxes. As we realize through the year that the account isn’t being paid and if it carries over to the next year, then we have to realize that account as unlikely to be paid. So we have to build in a reserve. This is an accounting exercise that we put in...
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Weledeh, that Bill 19, Appropriation Act, 2005-2006, be read for the third time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Madam Chair. With me tonight is Mr. Lew Voytilla, the secretary to the Financial Management Board.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Again, maybe the Minister responsible, Mr. Miltenberger, could give some detail on that.
Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, as the process would work, the department comes forward with a request for money for either a new program or programs that they didn’t have enough funds for, if the usage was too high. In this particular case, we have requested and there is work underway within the department to come up with an approach to deal with this. We are looking at, once this is developed, that it would become part of the business planning process, not being dealt with strictly through a supplementary appropriation process. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I have a motion to move. I move that the schedule to Bill 20 be amended to
(a)
increase by $311,000 the supplementary appropriation amount set out in part 1 item 10, "Transportation", by
(i) striking out "$1,069,000" and substituting "$1,380,000" in the column entitled "operations excluding amortization", and
(ii) striking out "$1,069,000" and substituting "$1,380,000" in the column entitled "supplementary appropriation by item";
(b) increase by $311,000 the amount set out in part 1 as the "total supplementary appropriations for operations expenditures"...
Thank you, Madam Chair. I am pleased to introduce Bill 21, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 3, 2004-2005. This bill requests authority for additional appropriations of $16.813 million for operations and expenditures.
Major items included in this request for operations expenditures are:
1.
A total of $11.1 million for the Department of Health and Social Services, including:
$4 million for the additional costs incurred for the provision of hospital services for NWT residents in hospitals outside of the NWT;
$2 million for the Dogrib Community Services Board's accumulated deficit and increased...
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, there could be further financial implications as we go forward. It again all depends on the final outcomes of the processes in place. So there is that that we could be coming forward for further requests in the future. Thank you.