Floyd Roland

Thank you, Madam Chair. The other expenses for the directorate, travel and transportation, $142,000; materials and supplies, $201,000; purchased services, $217,000; contract services, $256,000; fees and payments, $36,000; other expenses, $1.034 million; computer hardware and software, $37,000; totalling $1.923 million. I should note that the other expenses category is for the systems communications and TSC chargeback agreements. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The departments themselves do not qualify for subsidies. For example, within the Housing Corporation, they do not qualify for the power subsidy that there is for residents. The same with all the other departments, they do not qualify for the subsidies that are available to residents of the Northwest Territories. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess it depends on what level you want to go down to because you get down to the level of contract regulations where there is some direction for the involvement of Public Works and Services, but departments, through the changes in systems they have had the opportunity and can go to their own sources if they want to. For projects themselves in the capital area they’ve been consistent in coming back to us, because, again, we have that expertise level within the department. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. In the area of costs by other departments, the work is done by those departments. At one time Public Works and Services used to be more involved in the delivery and costs for those departments, but as the result of user pay/ user say, departments have taken on a lot of those initiatives and account for them in their own budgets. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The only two areas we would have a chargeback are accounted for in our budget, and that would be the petroleum products revolving fund as well as the systems and communications. The project management end, we don’t charge departments for that service. That is a cost that the department eats. So we don’t have a setup or an arrangement of that nature. Thank you.

I would, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The process that Public Works is involved in is when there are other departments that are going to be building facilities or expanding facilities in the communities, we would work with the departments to see what type of materials they would need in the granular area. Based on that, we would then look at getting some work done and having that supplied in the community. So we initially start off working with departments to see in fact how many pads they would need and those types of things, and based on that we would go through the other side and see if a tender needs...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Public Works and Services' role in the drinking water side of the equation is one for the facility itself, in the operation and maintenance of it and the training of individuals who would be in it. Over the years a lot of the maintenance functions have been transferred to communities. One of our roles along with the others is to ensure that the actual facility itself is up to standards, and that maintenance of those facilities are up to standards in that as we replace those types of facilities we are putting in the most current and up-to-date features and controls in...

Thank you, Madam Chair. This includes all of the different sections of the budget that we went through, so this is a total roll up of those numbers. Travel and transportation, $472,000; materials and supplies, $1.191 million; purchased services, $648,000; utilities, $2.697 million; contract services, $17.65 million; fees and payments, $97,000; other expenses, $1.52 million; tangible assets, $36,000; computer hardware/software, $66,000; total, $23,909 million. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. For a number of reasons. Similar to what I responded to with the director position, there are more resources available within Yellowknife and trying to provide that level of training, along with trying to staff that position was difficult. So an agreement was reached to train the individual here in the capital and move that position back out. That was the arrangement that was made; being more effective and being able to provide the level of training needed, as well as the experience. Thank you.