Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 1, 1993-94, requests authority for additional appropriations of $9.829 million. This supplementary appropriation consists of additional appropriations in the amount of $8.660 million in operations and maintenance and $1.169 million in capital. In O and M the most significant amounts are for funding the costs of the decentralization of various government functions from headquarters to communities as announced by Madam Premier in June, 1992. There are one time O and M costs of $2.443 million and ongoing O and M costs of $1 million.
The one time costs include $1.077 million in the Department responsible for Education, Culture and Employment Programs to provide training courses in six communities through Arctic College, also to prepare about 70 students for decentralized positions where we do not expect the present incumbent to move, and for the public service career training program to provide senior level training opportunities for affirmative action candidates for positions which have been decentralized. The one time costs also include recruitment and removal costs, the installation of telecommunications, the redesign and modification of various computer systems, and the cost of running parallel systems for a period of time.
The ongoing costs include office and housing costs and increase in employee benefits costs. A $5 million supplementary appropriation reserve has been established in the 1993-94 fiscal framework for the cost of decentralization.
Mr. Chairman, in Health, additional funding of $1.379 million for medical care programs and $712,000 for the implementation of new phases of the strategy for the prevention of HIV infection. Also included is an amount of $542,000 for the increased requirements of regional health boards.
In Social Services, additional funding of $854,000 is required to address a deficiency in the social assistance and child welfare programs being delivered by the town of Iqaluit. This deficiency was recognized last year but it was too late to include in the 1993-94 Main Estimates.
In capital there is a total of $1.788 million in one time costs pertaining to the decentralization initiatives. These costs include a provision of $972,000 for office improvements, $476,000 to furnish 42 additional housing units, and $340,000 for computer hardware upgrades.
There is also funding, Mr. Chairman, of $1.735 million for the replacement of the school which burned down in Apex; funding of $690,000 for the Trout Lake community assembly and school building; funding of $200,000 to meet the additional costs of the Sachs Harbour school renovation project; and $435,000 for renovations to the hamlet office and fire hall in Whale Cove. These supplementary appropriations are within the estimated supplementary requirements for the year as shown in the summary of projected revenues and expenditures. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.