Glen Abernethy

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The GNWT has accepted and utilizes the National Building Code.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The position is currently out for competition. We hope to have it filled very shortly.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. With me, immediately to my right is Paul Guy, the deputy minister. On my left is Steve Lewis, the director of corporate services; and on our far right is Laurie Gault, the director of the Technology Service Centre.

Mr. Chair, there are a significant number of accommodation cases in the Government of the Northwest Territories. We have our officers and staff working with the different departments to accommodate those individuals. As with any accommodation, it takes work on behalf of the employee being accommodated, the department that is doing the accommodation and HR providing the advice with respect to the policies and procedures.

Our first priority is to get some of this backlog down and to get as many people accommodated as possible, understanding that it does take all three parties to find a reasonable...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I actually think the TSC chargebacks appear on 7-13 in the correct line as opposed to HR where it was in the wrong line under TSC chargebacks under $951,000. The $951,000 on this page is for computer hardware and software. The reason that TSC chargebacks would fall on this department is because this department is still utilizing the services of the TSC to manage and administer computer services. So like every other department, we have to pay our share of the TSC services.

That would be $916,000, similar to previous year.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am pleased to present the Department of Public Works and Services’ main estimates for the fiscal year 2012-2013.

The department’s main estimates propose an operations expenditure budget of $93.6 million for 2012-2013, an increase of 0.7 percent over the 2011-2012 Main Estimates. This change can be primarily attributed to the following adjustments:

increased maintenance and utility funding associated with new GNWT facilities coming into service;

addition of two positions in support of the ongoing implementation of the government’s new Document Management System; and

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Yes, the Member is correct; we have done the survey. We’ve gone out and collected a bunch of data. I do have to say that we had a technical difficulty with the computer system that people could enter their information to and it put a bit of a delay in, two or three weeks, but it has closed. We’ve got the data and the analysis and a report is expected towards early June. Hopefully, we will see something during this sitting.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Originally I committed to providing the list of the infrastructure, but we can actually provide the costs, as well, and make it a little bit easier for you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. It’s a change in line items. If you look at TSC chargebacks in previous years, in 2010-11 it was $907,000 and in 2011-12 it was $916,000. You’ll notice that its zero on this line at this point. That’s because this number has been moved up into the new fees and payments and that’s where it is showing now.