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Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 46)

We are considering Fort Good Hope school at the time and the Inuvik school will be down the road, once the new school facility is completed. Thank you.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 46)

Mr. Chairman, we certainly agree with the Member’s comments about the TSC and the services and especially in the area of health, improving services to our smaller communities. We do provide support across the board. Usually the health authorities are in a position to have their own staff on board to help them with the technical side of the repairs or upgrades and things of that nature, but we also provide broad support to all of the communities.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 46)

Mr. Chairman, as I indicated, all of our summer purchases are done and have been delivered. Most of our winter supply is in the communities. We are not very concerned at this point with the prices up to now. We have a fairly good reserve in the tanks in Inuvik. That will help us offset some of the future costs. Right now it is difficult to predict what our summer purchases will come in at. I would expect, as the Member has indicated, that it will come in a lot higher. Thank you.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 46)

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We will gladly do that. Thank you.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 46)

Mr. Chair, we have hired outside help. We have a consultant hired to do the analysis and we’re also working with the Arctic Energy Alliance and we are looking at the business case to see if it’s viable. The Member is very adamant about actual numbers and we want to ensure that we have this calculated properly and bring this forward if everything goes right. Thank you.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 46)

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I thank the committee members for the comments that were raised and concerns and issues that they have brought to our attention.

First of all, I will just say briefly that the program that we initiated for settlement maintainers is something that seems to be working quite well. We have been able to fill most of the positions. There is still one position in the community of Wrigley where there is an outstanding vacancy. We are going back to re-advertise and see if we can find somebody that will fill that void and help us with the maintenance.

The issue that has been...

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 46)

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We’d be happy to share the summary report on the demolition of the Tulita school with the Member. We’d also be happy to supply information on our findings with the Good Hope school. As to the Colville Lake school, there is a contract that will be going out in this coming fiscal year to install a water tank in the school that would allow us to have running water, and that is being discussed with a local contractor to provide that. Thank you.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 46)

Yes I would, Mr. Chairman.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 46)

Both demolition projects that we had on the schedule for last year went very well. It was well received by the communities, it generated a lot of employment and it also allowed for recycling to happen with a number of the products that came from the school. In terms of what the status of the Fort Good Hope School is, we are right now at the stage where we’re doing an assessment of the facility. We’re doing some environmental testing to see what types of hazardous materials are in the facility and we plan to move forward with the same goals in mind of doing the demolition on this facility and...

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 46)

Mr. Speaker, if the Member would care to put it in writing, I would certainly consider it. Thank you.