Floyd Roland

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the negotiations that were concluded were the capital program. The negotiations for O and M were always ongoing and no conclusion has been brought to those. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yes, Mr. Chairman, the client department has made a decision to replace this facility with a new facility. But as I stated, now the process would be required that it would go into the capital planning process that we have established, and then we would have to identify the money or make a decision to go to a leased facility once that is approved within the capital plan and business plan process. So the decision has been made to go to a new facility. Unfortunately, we're in a situation where we have to make the minimal code requirements to continue with this...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, the issue of gridlock, when we hit gridlock, if you talk to a number of departments they would say that we are already at that stage. The capital program we approve on an annual basis does not permit us to deal with all the requests departments put in. The process would work as we do our business planning and look at our capital program. The projects that would be approved by this Assembly, we would go back to the drawing board in the sense of a capital program that may have been approved. If there isn’t an actual contract tie to that project, it would...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the work that’s been done with the fire marshal on continuing the occupancy for a minimum amount of time to get us to the situation where we would have a new facility in place, the required amount of work based on our estimates and in discussions with the fire marshal’s office as well as electrical inspectors is going to cost $3.5 million is our estimate. Whether or not we decide we are going to shut down other portions of the building, I am not sure what the impact would be on these estimates. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In the area of the recovery being sought from CATSA, the department has identified the fact that most jurisdictions right now are having their difficulty accepting what CATSA has put forward as their amount. There seems to be a unified amount for these areas of O and M. I don’t believe many jurisdictions have agreed to that, so the discussion is ongoing. For further discussion around the CATSA discussions, we could probably have the Minister of Transportation provide a little more detail in that area in what has occurred in other jurisdictions as well. Thank you, Mr...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I've just been provided a note that the Deh Cho Hall right now is 320 metres squared, existing facility. I don't have the detail of the actual new building that would be required. The fact is, the client department would have to make a decision based on information provided, and they would have to decide whether they would renovate, how much they would renovate, if they didn't like the options or they wanted some change in the scope of the review, that they would go back to Public Works and Services for that information.

As I stated, there was plenty of...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, a number of factors, as I already laid out, have built to the size of the supplementary appropriation. For example, I’ll just run down and give it a department-by-department breakdown of the capital portion of this supplementary appropriation. Municipal and Community Affairs is just over $3.7 million; Public Works, $7.8 million; Health and Social Services just over $7 million; Justice, $1.7 million; Education, Culture and Employment, over $13 million; Transportation, $5 million; Industry, Tourism and Investment, $600,000; and Environment and Natural...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the money right now identified to keep the facility open would be charged against Education, Culture and Employment. There is no grant-in-kind being proposed to those other organizations. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, the question of the role of Municipal and Community Affairs and the Housing Corporation when it comes to lands, the Municipal and Community Affairs’ role in land development is one that is responsible for administration and control of Commissioner’s land in the Northwest Territories. It involves transferring land in fee-simple title or through lease arrangements to community governments, or to the Housing Corporation to be made available for residential use. Land development would be the area of subdivisions, whether it be residential, commercial or...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, what I've been saying for a number of responses now, the community has been involved in this process. Initially we tried to accommodate the request of the community to stick to a renovation rather than going to a new facility. But all our work, the accountant looked at the value of dollars spent and the lifespan of the facility; going new is the best method to use. Yes, like I said, the department has now made the decision that they'll go to a new facility. As a government, if we say it will be a leased facility, we can go out there for space and...