Michael Miltenberger

The design is a metal clad building on a foundation suitable for an unheated environment on permafrost.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There’s been no formal assessment done of the nature that the Member has characterized.

There are two factors, of course. There is the condition of the road and the condition of the vehicle. We have, clearly, responsibility for the condition of the road and the maintenance that we provide. But as I indicated, the normal course of practice is that we don’t pay out for complaints for damages for people just driving on a road that we are maintaining. The other question that we don’t have a lot of awareness of, of course, is that when we get a complaint, the condition of the vehicle may be involved, that resulted in the complaint. That’s the current status. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Member raises some good points. We are in a time of transition with the planning process. This is our first cycle through, for example, having changed the capital planning process to the fall. We’ve struck an infrastructure subcommittee to look at a lot of the issues in regard to this process. We all know very well, those of us that have been here any length of time…. The North Slave Correctional Centre, the first P3 they built in Fort Smith back in the 13th Assembly, was the last one they built at the time, as well, because of all the issues that came out of it.

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The Member’s made the case repeatedly. We’ve responded repeatedly as to why we’re proposing what we are proposing. Ninety-three per cent of the space we now have is either leased or rented. The balance of most portfolios would be 60 per cent leased or rented and 40 per cent owned. A lot of the buildings we’re replacing are our own. They are old and aged, showing the wear and tear — advanced stages of decrepitude in some cases. We’re of the opinion that this is the best way to proceed.

I anticipate, as we come forward to do the O&M and business plans, that we’ll be able to have a more fulsome discussion. We’ll have the deputy here and all the appropriate staff to deal with that particular issue.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just to summarize once again, there is movement on this project. The functional review that Education is doing for their program requirements is going to be concluded, hopefully, by the end of October. We’ve committed for Public Works and Services to take a look at that and do their design work once they know what the educational footprint is going to look like. If all those pieces go in sequence and there are no extensive delays for whatever reason, then we’ve committed to the Minister of Public Works, who has indicated he’d be prepared to come to FMB, if there’s a...

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have with me Margaret Melhorn, deputy minister of Financial Management Board, Mr. Russ Neudorf, deputy minister of Transportation, and Mr. Mike Aumond, deputy minister of Public Works and Services.

Mr. Chairman, MLA Roland provided a letter of support for the issue supporting the negotiated contract. That was the only letter of support that was given by the MLA for Inuvik Boot Lake. Any further business following that was just a matter of taking care of business in his capacity as the Chair of the FMB. There were no further letters of support of any kind for anything further, so the issue of potential conflict occurred when the negotiated contract was brought forward and there were letters of support from all the MLAs from the region as well as all the aboriginal governments as well as...