Mr. Chairman, it is too bad that an impression was left that somehow an agreement was reached. There seems to be a fundamental difference between interpretations of that meeting. I'll ask Mr. Kaulbach, who was at that meeting, to speak in a few minutes. On the matter of the renovations to the east wing and the idea of it moving to Arctic College, the advantage of that was we would have one central location for the delivery of both adult and school-aged children educational program delivery.
As a result of that change, what we did was added five new classrooms, one science class, library and resource area, increased staff area, dental suite and internal renovations to the west section. What we also have just approved is $180,000 worth of work that was supposed to be carried out next year, to be carried out now so that we can renovate the classrooms. That is going ahead already.
I think the problem, with the letters going back and forth, is that there has either been a misunderstanding or an unwillingness to go back to what was actually said at the meeting. As far as the staff is concerned, and I have to believe Mr. Colbourne and Mr. Kaulbach, the issue is, there would need to be an appropriate community educational plan that dealt with future educational development. That was the basis of the discussion. There was an agreement that we would do the renovations and, in the future, that our 1998-99 commitment is an additional new wing for $1.48 million. That would also address the college programming. It would allow us, if it were necessary, to get rid of the east wing, depending what we saw as the need and use of that section.
That, generally, is the impression that was left in the information I have received so far. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.