Floyd Roland

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It’s not that the work that we’re going to do expires. It’s that if we’re going to use it for longer than the years we’ve identified, other requirements are going to have to come into place. That’s what we’ve been told from the fire marshal’s office is if we’re going to use it beyond this year, here’s the amount of work that is required. That’s what we’ve based the estimate on. If we’re going to go beyond those years, here are further things that you’re going to have to repair. So that’s what we’ve been directed. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Madam Chair. With me today I have the secretary to the FMB, Mr. Mark Cleveland. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This facility has been looked at for a number of years as to what options could be undertaken to either keep the facility, renovate the facility or replace the facility complete. In our estimates in 2004 for the renovation, it was identified as $12 million. For replacement of the new facility, it was an estimate in 2004, for the same size, was approximately $19 million. The fact is there has been discussion back and forth between Education, Culture and Employment, the community, and options were sought from Public Works. The work that was done and what options may be...

Madam Chair, at this time, the request is for the position so that the Housing Corporation can deal with a majority of land situations or problems they found in communities. They have a backlog of files, to date, that they need to deal with. For example, there are about 600 parcels out there that the Housing Corporation needs to deal with, never mind the ones going ahead. At this point, it's requested to proceed. They are not term positions. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the option of doing nothing would not be the responsible option of government because the fire marshal would, based on the discussions and the requirements that we need to do to keep this facility open for a couple of years until we get to a new facility would be, for example, they require having a plan in place to either bring the building up to code or to vacate the building. The fire marshal at any point here can step in if they feel the minimum upgrades don’t begin ASAP, they may be directed to vacate the building. Closing the building has also been...

Mr. Chairman, I am pleased to introduce Bill 1, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 4, 2005-2006. This bill requests authority for additional appropriations of $850,000 for operations expenditures for departmental over-expenditures in the 2005-2006 fiscal year.

The request is being made to comply with the authorization process for over-expenditures of appropriations as provided for in the Financial Administration Act. Details of the over-expenditures are as follows:

$620,000 for the Department of Justice, which represents the over-expenditure resulting from higher than anticipated costs in...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, we've been told on a number of occasions, do it from within in-house. We get told to go out to the private sector. So we try to accommodate as much as we can on both sides of the scale. I just believe no matter how much homework we do, it's not going to be enough for the Member.

The fact is, we do have people who monitor our assets, our lease arrangements. But the fact is also, we weren't counting on one of our leased facilities that houses four departments to be shut down because of structural reasons, and spread the rest of the departments over a...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Speaking to the motion that’s been put forward of wanting to delete that amount for environmental assessment and prepare a remediation plan for the buildings that have been surrendered on the land and property known as Icicle Inn at Sachs Harbour. The department is requesting $100,000. This fell into their lap in a sense through a process that involves property taxes and the amount there. The Government of the Northwest Territories, due to arrears on that property, took that property over. There are a number of buildings that were built by the federal government...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, as all work we would do, once the work is completed, then we would get a stamped approval or a letter of occupancy or certification. At that point the clock would start ticking. The work would be done once we get approval. If approval is granted by the House, there would be a contract issued for the architectural engineering and then other work would begin once that is done. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, at this time I will not commit to looking at an independent review process. We’ve got a lot of work to do within the amalgamation to complete it before we can do a final review. But at stages, as we are in this case with the Hackett Group, looking at the processes we have, the operating environment and seeing where we need to improve on that, and once we have that established would look at the next phase of how we go about this. But as I said, throughout the amalgamation process and the work we’re achieving, I would be happy to continue to inform...