Vince McKay

Thank you, Mr. Chair. A lot of it relates to reporting from the communities and capacity and the timing of projects. Like, sometimes communities may not be able to get them started right away. So these funds are all allocated. It's just a matter of reporting to transfer the funds to the communities and being able to -- yeah, essentially being able to get them reported in order to get the funds out. It's not that the funds go away. They're spoken for, and they'll get transferred to the communities once everything's in line. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yeah, so just so the Member's aware, again all these -- all the community funding goes out to the communities which they allocate through their funding -- or their capital planning, and we document it here as part of their -- as part of the large capital for the communities. But every community has their own large capital spending which we have broken up, but if we want to go by community or region for the Member at what she would like to know, yeah, we can share that. Although if you will recall, and I can do it again, but last year I sent out community fact sheets that...

Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. The sports and recreation area there, they've never really had a vehicle to operate, and I think a lot of times they're using their personal vehicles which is not supposed to be allowed. But, essentially, it's for running around, doing the work with the Western Canadian Lottery stuff and also doing -- you know, picking up and dropping off mail for all the Nevadas and 649 stuff and delivering it throughout the community and also bringing it to, like, the mail and whatever else to get out to the communities. So thank you, Mr. Chair.

Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. So prior to the Member entering the House, MLA for Yellowknife asked about this and it was on page 77 where it shows a light duty sport utility vehicle of $51,000, and this is designed -- or used for the sports and rec department to have a vehicle in place because they currently don't have one. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair. I can't speak directly to individual facilities in the community; however, I will share with the Member their funding formula and what they have available. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair. So, again, this funding is all the funding that we distribute to all the communities. All 33 communities get a pot of this -- a part of this funding. It's distributed through the community allocation model, and every community has an opportunity for all these funds, and it's based on the formulas that we've had in place for the last little while here. We just recently went through a -- you know, a change of the formula. We had briefings on that and stuff. So all the funds that we have are transferred out through the community funding allocation. So it's up to the...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. To my right, deputy minister Gary Brennan. And to my right, Catherine Boyd, director of corporate affairs.

Yes, thank you. This program is designed to basically support, you know, critical infrastructure for housing. It's not for -- it's not actually for houses but it's designed to, like, build subdivisions or water works and everything like that. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, again, going forward, you know, there's been more clear communication. There have been more working amongst departments with the ICS system. There's been more communication between departments and, just to highlight, communication has always been an issue and it's still an issue on many emergency scenes, and communication is usually highlighted in every after-action review. So it's definitely something that needs to be worked on, you know, all the time, just to understand that. So although, you know, the review explained about Enterprise, you know, there was a lot of things going...

Yeah, this program it will.