Floyd Roland

Thank you, Madam Chair. The breakdown of that, I don't have the specific numbers, but the majority of that are the fees that are charged to the organizations. The fines make up a small portion of that $632,000. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, one of our practices is to work with other jurisdictions and look at best practices that are out there. Again, if we can adopt something that is working well in other jurisdictions and make it fit better in the Northwest Territories, then we will work with those models that are out there. Our intention is to work with the Members of this Assembly, come up with a model that will be beneficial to our staff and to how we carry on the business of hiring and dealing with our staff. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yes, we will have that provided to the Member from the other department. In this section of directorate, I believe the Member is referring to the $1.142 million and breaks down in this way: travel and transportation, $173,000; materials and supplies, $54,000; purchased services, $89,000; contract services, $133,000; fees and payments, $4,000; other expenses, $689,000.

Thank you, Madam Chair. To my right is the deputy minister of the Department of Finance, Margaret Melhorn; and, to my left is Mr. Mel Enge, director of finance and administration.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will respond to the question that in the report he has referred to that all of the recommendations in there would be part and parcel of our review and what areas we can go forward with. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The Member is correct. Every department, as we go through this exercise, will have a similar page of revenues, recoveries and transfer payments. For example, Transportation charges fees for licences and so on. They account for it in their section of the budget and if there are any specific agreements that are dealt with by department by department, that’s where it would be accounted for. That’s why we don’t have the total amount here. At the end of it, it’s all in the consolidated revenue fund and that’s where we come up with the $917 million of revenue. Thank you.

Mr. Chairman, as I stated earlier, we continue to monitor the workload and requirements in each of the regions. When that is increased to a sufficient amount, we would look at transfer of positions to ensure that we continue to meet that demand placed on the Financial Management Board Secretariat. As well, in this area, we should make the point that as the Sahtu is developing, a lot of that is a result of the self-government discussions that are ongoing right now in the Beaufort-Delta. The government has been proactive in the sense of preparing the Sahtu after self-government discussions are...

Yes, Madam Chair, I would like to have the witnesses come in. It might be a few minutes before they can make it down here.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the exercise we are going through now, we are trying to meet the next business planning process. So we are hoping to have some initial numbers or information for June and then finalizing things in September as we begin the business plan process. Thank you.