Thank you, Mr. Chair. Is that a recreational coordinator hired by the municipality or by the GNWT?
Thank you. I'll go to Deh Cho.
By the municipality.
Okay, thank you. I'll go to the Minister.
I would have to say that's depending on what the job description is for the facility, rec facility maintainer. I mean, some facilities or some municipalities like Fort Simpson, for an example, you know, being a bigger facility would need a recreational coordinator or recreational facility maintainer more qualified than some place like a recreational coordinator in, let's say, Jean Marie River for an example. So, yeah, depending on what kind of facilities they're operating is the type of training they would need. Thank you.
Okay, thank you. I'm going to go to the Member from the Deh Cho.
I don't have anything further on that. Thank you.
Thank you. Is there any further questions from Members? No further questions, please turn to page 352.
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Agreed.
Thank you. Moving on to the directorate beginning on page 355. Are there any questions? I'm going to go to the Member from -- Great Slave. Sorry about that.
That's okay, Mr. Chair; we're getting late into the evening.
So my question for the Minister is around the legislation for MACA. Will we be seeing an amendment to the Property Assessment Taxation Act in the life of this Assembly, and will it be developed under the legislative development protocol? Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you. I'm going to go to the Minister.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Finance is leading that section.
All right, thank you. I'm going to go to the Member from Great Slave.
I just thought it might have some interplay with MACA due to your assessments. But what input will you be providing? Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you. I'm going to go to the Minister.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. The department is supporting the working group for that. Thank you.
Thank you. I'm going to go to the Member from Great Slave.
Nothing further. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Okay, thank you. Next on my list I got the Member from Range Lake.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. So under the partner contribution funding, it's $460,000, and it's provided to them NWT Association of Communities, the Local Government Administrators of the NWT organization, and the Arctic Energy Alliance. I understand the contributions to LGANT and NWTAC. Can you explain the nature of the contribution to Arctic Energy Alliance. Thank you.
Thank you. I'm going to go to the Minister.
I'm going to ask the deputy minister to respond to that. Thank you.
Thank you. I'm going to go to the deputy minister.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yeah, so we do pay a nominal amount to the Arctic Energy Alliance just because of the work that they do on climate change in the North, and we utilize some of their services at times. So I'm not quite sure of the amount, but I think it's around $20,000 per year. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Okay, thank you. I'm going to go to the Member from Range Lake.
Thank you. And is this a defined contribution, or is it a -- is it something more like core funding? Thank you.
Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.
Thank you. I'll pass that to the deputy minister to respond.
Thank you. I'll go to the deputy minister.
I believe that's core funding. Thank you.
Thank you. I'll go to the Member from Range Lake.
Thank you. I'm on a continuing mission to find out who we core fund and who we don't. So that's helpful.
As to the 2023-2024 actuals compared to the revised estimates, financial services, policy planning and regional management are basically cut in half. Can you explain why that is the case.
Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm going to ask Catherine to respond to that. Thanks.
Thank you. I'm going to go to the director.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just to clarify the Member's question, I believe you're referring to the actuals are twice as big as the budget. So it's over expenditures due to such things as unfunded positions, various other -- I think it's unfunded positions. I'll leave it at that, Mr. Chair. Thank you.
Okay, thank you. I'm going to go to the Member from Range Lake.
Thank you. So you've -- so the -- is this part of the sustainability exercises? Thank you.
Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.
I'll ask the deputy minister to respond, please.
Thank you. I'll go to the deputy minister.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yeah, so, no, that's not related to fiscal sustainability exercises or any other type of reduction. It's just an overspend in 2023-2024. As Ms. Boyd alluded to earlier, some of it was basically unfunded positions, and also during that year we had the incremental expenditures related to some of the disasters, including the fires that year. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you. I'll go to the Member from Range Lake.
Thank you. So these -- so we're not anticipating that we need to maintain the same level of resource for this upcoming year I guess on -- like, hopefully we're not anticipating another evacuation or something like that. I just want to make sure, like does the department have the resources in these functions that it needs to maintain its level planning and preparedness in case there is an emergency? Thank you.
Thank you. I'm going to go to the Minister.
Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair. We do feel comfortable that we have the right amount of staff right now. We also have standup staff available that we've recruited for in case of emergencies, and think that's still an active posting on the GNWT website there.
Okay, thank you. I'll go to the Member from Range Lake.
Thank you. Nothing further, Mr. Chair.
Thank you. Next on my list I got the Member from Inuvik Boot Lake. No further questions? Okay, thank you. Is there any further questions from the Members? Seeing none, please turn to page 356.
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