David Krutko

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, in most cases with the funding that is provided to individuals through an application for a different program, IHP or EDAP or whatnot, we do have a responsibility to ensure that the public funds that are expended are expended through a process, which is in most cases publicly tendered. Then from there, we do have ongoing inspections, like the Member mentioned. Again, it’s at different levels. We have inspections from the foundation, and then you do the framing, and then the insulation and electrical and plumbing and whatnot. But again, it’s the process we...

Thank you, Madam Chair. In regard to the commitment we’ve made, I know in the Sahtu, when we were in Colville Lake we did commit to go into the region and have a workshop with the region with regards to housing and also I had heard similar requests from the Nahendeh riding, I believe, that we were still looking forward to doing this fiscal year. I think that by having seniors involved in these workshops, that will improve our dialogue and allow them input at these regional meetings. We definitely will be going to the different communities and hearing from the public on exactly our mandate....

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, there will be no industry contributions. It will come out of the sale of the units. The number we’re working from is $230 million.

Thank you, Madam Chair. To my left I have the president of the Housing Corporation, Mr. Fred Koe; to my right I have Mr. Jeff Anderson, chief financial officer.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, we will be going into each community and having community meetings and getting community consultation and making them aware of the number of the allocation, the lots that are going to be required, and also with that consultation with the communities where these units should be built. So we will be going community by community in regards to the allocation, and also working with the communities to identify the appropriate lands that are going to be needed to build these. Thank you.

The tenant relations officer pretty well works for the LHO to deal with tenant relation issues. The people hired under the liaison officer position deal with the program side, working with the seniors, the people who are private homeowners. Basically it’s about a $20,000 contribution that’s given to the community for that position.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, presently we do that. We do have a system in place where we take the condition rating of the unit and then we determine what the basic condition rating is and subtract that from the rent. The rent is based on the condition rating of the house right now, so you don’t pay the full cost. You pay based on exactly what the rate of that unit is. It is subtracted from the total price and then that’s the price that we use. So we do that right now, based on the condition ratings that we use for our public housing stock, and that’s how we come up with the...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, under special circumstances, especially for medical reasons, we will hold the person’s unit. If they have to go down south for treatment or whatnot, we will maintain those units. Again, the problem that we’re having, especially with the LHOs, is we just don’t have capacity for the number of people that are on our waiting lists. Roughly right now we have some 410 people on a waiting list to get into social housing. So because of the capacity issue, we’re not able to accommodate, but the LHOs do make the decisions in regards to working with the clients...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we do have various programs at their disposal for people to apply. One of them is emergency repair programs. It falls within that category. We will be able to assist. We have done an in-depth report on the mould problem in Fort Liard, so we are in the process of dealing with that, starting off with the Kotaneelee housing. But there are programs available to residents of Fort Liard to apply, especially the emergency repair funding. With is there. By that process, they can access that through that program. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we have identified dollars in the upcoming budget to deal with emergency cases, such as Fort Liard mould and other situations, to make improvements to bring our houses up to the standard that is liveable. There are dollars allocated in the budget in which we will be reviewing next week. Thank you.