Floyd Roland

Thank you, Madam Chair. With pulling the position in for training here in headquarters we have not let any duties go or delayed any other work that is occurring, so we're functioning at the level prior to that. That was one of the reasons of having to bring that position in to headquarters to receive some of the training to move up to the next level. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I will give an opportunity for Mr. Rattray to get on record here and he can give you some detail.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The training period is going to take two years. So in two years' time that position will be back to Fort Simpson. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. It would include items such as the phone bills and the telephone system rentals. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. There are two active employees within headquarters. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The other expenses for the directorate, travel and transportation, $142,000; materials and supplies, $201,000; purchased services, $217,000; contract services, $256,000; fees and payments, $36,000; other expenses, $1.034 million; computer hardware and software, $37,000; totalling $1.923 million. I should note that the other expenses category is for the systems communications and TSC chargeback agreements. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The departments themselves do not qualify for subsidies. For example, within the Housing Corporation, they do not qualify for the power subsidy that there is for residents. The same with all the other departments, they do not qualify for the subsidies that are available to residents of the Northwest Territories. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess it depends on what level you want to go down to because you get down to the level of contract regulations where there is some direction for the involvement of Public Works and Services, but departments, through the changes in systems they have had the opportunity and can go to their own sources if they want to. For projects themselves in the capital area they’ve been consistent in coming back to us, because, again, we have that expertise level within the department. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. In the area of costs by other departments, the work is done by those departments. At one time Public Works and Services used to be more involved in the delivery and costs for those departments, but as the result of user pay/ user say, departments have taken on a lot of those initiatives and account for them in their own budgets. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The only two areas we would have a chargeback are accounted for in our budget, and that would be the petroleum products revolving fund as well as the systems and communications. The project management end, we don’t charge departments for that service. That is a cost that the department eats. So we don’t have a setup or an arrangement of that nature. Thank you.