Vince McKay

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.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Again, so some of the line of questioning is related to the after-action review and the recommendations, and what we've done is that those recommendations have been actioned and are being actioned, so we are moving ahead. So although some of the after-action review has said we're not doing some of this stuff, it may have changed already, and we are actually doing some of this stuff.

For an example, you know, with the unified command. So back in 2023, there may have been that confusion on how to operate with the ICS and unified command. Going to today, there's a lot more...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. A lot of this stuff, again, is related to the type of funding that they've applied for, the type of projects they have going on and what funding can be applied for it -- or applied to it. And this particular funding, there is no project in the community that the community's applied for to allocate it in this pot. Thank you, Mr. Chair.