Michael McLeod

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I think there were about three questions there. The answer to all three is no, we haven’t looked at it. It’s not a responsibility that falls under the Department of Public Works so we haven’t had any requests come to us about some of the suggestions he’s made and we have not reviewed any correspondence to that effect. Thank you.

The short answer is yes. We’ve taken those costs into consideration when we did the evaluation between the lease and our own ownership, government-owned buildings. Thank you.

Mr. Chairman, yes, we’ll confirm that $8 million is the amount that’s in the budget for deferred maintenance. We have $3 million in O and M and $5 million in capital.

Mr. Chairman, we have contracts signed for three years with our suppliers. Most of our fuel purchases are based on rack price.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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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.