Vince McKay

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am going to pass this off to the deputy minister to answer. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair. It's an admin position in community governance.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So if everything works out here, there will be an increase to training funds for communities for emergency services and part of that the ability to use that for first aid training in the communities and that can be arranged, you know, with the community so that they can train local people to do first aid and, hopefully, at some point being able to use those individuals to be part of this pre-facility transport. Thank you.

Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair. So that thought was given, but this is part of implementing the recommendations of the after-action review. There's already people doing some of this work off the side of their desks, and it's to essentially give this priority -- or give this a priority to implement the after-action review. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So some of the programming dollars that were essentially given to schools all the time have already done that, and we did that last year. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair. So part of this is the whole picture of operating the fleet management. You know, so part of this is also installing programs to monitor our fleet, you know, usage of vehicles, wear and tear, location of vehicles. So this all relates to the whole big picture of fleet management. These positions will help coordinate all this and help operate the whole fleet management program throughout the Northwest Territories. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So it was for a bit, but -- so a lot of this is related to the community operations. This was a position that had been there for a while. Communities are responsible for operating their own water treatment plants and utilidors, and this position was there. So this is part of our fiscal sustainability and our reductions, and this one was vacant. So they have somebody that does it, and this position was there, so we cut this position. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I will start, and then I will just ask the deputy minister to elaborate a little more. But our goal, obviously, is to try to get these positions out to the communities or out to the regions. You know, we do have -- in Hay River, we have a couple positions that are -- as part of like MTS and stuff like that. So, you know, we're definitely trying. It's sometimes not always easy to attract these positions, and it's not always easy just to move them. So maybe I will just get the deputy minister to elaborate a little more. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Sorry, I should have added that in. Yes, and I will follow up. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair. So the goal is to save money and, you know, at the end of the day what we're trying to do is have a better management of our fleet and our operations and, you know, basically know where our fleet is, the age of the fleet, the maintenance of it, the required maintenance, the locations, and everything else. But it's also, you know, being able to check the lifecycles, making sure that we're utilizing our fleet in its proper means, and basically the type of equipment and everything like that. Thank you, Mr. Chair.