Thank you, Mr. Gargan. The motion is in order. To the motion. Mr. Gargan.

Just to tell the rest of the Members that I wouldn't make this an issue if I didn't feel that it was. I think, in this case, the community learning centre has been overcrowded for at least a couple of years that I've gone into the building. There isn't as much storage space as there should be. Most of the storage is kept in boxes and left by the porch or by the stairway. The bathrooms are two steps high. If you're going to go to the bathroom, you have to go up two steps high and these are where a lot of the books and boxes are stored because there just isn't room. Like I've said already to the Members, they have computers and there aren't sufficient plugs so they use an adaptor with the plug-ins. To allow for the amount of plug-ins you need an adaptor to avoid fluctuations. Those are the kinds of things and the conditions that the adults are working under while going to school there.

I know there's some money earmarked for renovations of the main school itself but I really feel that, in this case, there is an urgency to try and address the issue.

Thank you. To the motion. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I understand the concern the honourable Member has raised. I just want to advise the honourable Member and Members of the Assembly that one of the things that we were trying to do is to not create a situation where there is separate learning institution. Deh Ga was the proposal that we were considering as a combination of both; that we would put the buildings basically together. We could take the addition and we would add it to the school. That was the way in which we were looking at this proposal, so that the available facility and the resources available to those in the adult programming would be greater. However, I understand the comments and the motion. I'm not sure how we're going to deal with it but I just want you to be aware of that.

Thank you. To the motion.

Question.

Question has been called. All those in favour? All those opposed? Motion is carried.

---Carried

Total Fort Smith region, $3.863 million. Agreed?

Agreed.

---Agreed

Thank you. Inuvik, total region, $150,000. Mr. Ng.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to ask the Minister, the Arctic College strategic plan has been finalized, I understand, or he can clarify if it hasn't. I know it's under discussion and is supposed to be adopted in the very immediate future if it hasn't already, and in that plan they're going to try to identify programming needs in both the east and west. In recognizing that, are there going to be some costs -- some capital costs -- associated with setting up programming, especially in some of the regions like the Kitikmeot where there are no current facilities, or very limited facilities -- with Arctic College beside the adult education facilities that have been put

in there. I would like to ask the Minister, if that is the case, how his department will be dealing with the Arctic College strategic plan and I would also like to ask what the status of it is at this time?

Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The document is in draft, it has been received by the Arctic College board and will be sent to me and, therefore, my department, for review in terms of the report itself and the whole matter of investment in the future. That's where it's at, at this particular juncture.

Thank you. Inuvik, total region, $150,000. Agreed?

Qujannamiik. Baffin, total region, $40,000. Agreed?

Agreed.

---Agreed

Thank you. Keewatin, total region, $10,000. I have Mr. Arvaluk and Mr. Dent. Mr. Arvaluk.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have a concern with respect to the budget that I knew was a prior year cost but nothing as yet has been done on that. Either it's a lapse or they are getting quotes on it right now, but I don't believe that changing the rug and painting the walls is $220,000, so it cannot be that one. In that case, it's not been done yet.

Mr. Chairman, I had an understanding from my conversations with the community education council on the Arctic College in Coral Harbour, regarding the community learning centres, that there was a deal or an agreement -- a gentlemen's agreement -- struck between the senior officials of different departments. I believe that Mr. Kaulbach from DPW was there; Eric Colbourne, assistant deputy minister of Education; Fraser Hope, director of Keewatin divisional board; Sandy Kusugak, as vice-chairman of Keewatin; the chairman and the whole CEC board council of Coral Harbour, met in May and made an agreement that there would be -- according to the letter from the chairman of the CEC -- a stand-alone school, or Arctic College, built.

But seeing that there is renovation for the community learning centre in Coral Harbour, it's a change without any noticeable adjustment from the regional agreement that the senior officials had with the CEC and the Arctic College.

So what I'm concerned about mostly is why the agreement or some kind of arrangement with those senior officials of the CEC and Arctic College have not been honoured; why there's a change without CEC knowing that this has now been changed to the old school east wing with a renovation rather than constructing a stand-alone learning centre as originally planned. With that, Mr. Chairman, I want to make a motion. I seek support of my colleagues, in support of that regional agreement that was made between CEC and officials of the departments, different departments, in fact. Qujannamiik.

Mr. Arvaluk, are you making a motion here? Mr. Arvaluk, would you read the motion for the record?