Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have cut this department right to the bone. We have cut 67 PYs and, I believe, $27 million out of this department in the last couple of years. We have worked with all the client departments, and it affects the majority of the client departments in Yellowknife on this new office plan. We worked with SCOF to change the office plan. I think I'm on phase 10 or something of this office plan, reworking it. We have put a lot of work into it. So we have to establish a person year for a three-year term, and it started in April 1994. It's to be sunsetted on March 31, 1997, and it's to manage projects proposed in the office plan; projects to be undertaken in the revised Yellowknife office plan.

There are approximately 25 separate projects included in the office plan, of various sizes, to renovate offices, move staff, new equipment and furniture and re-establish communication networks. Each of these projects requires consultation with the departments and staff involved, hiring of consultants to program, plan and design the final layouts, trade contracts and put them in place, and to ensure the clients are satisfied with the final products.

Additionally, there is an ongoing role to review the effects of the current fiscal year changes in allocation with the GNWT inventory of space, analyze the effects of new changes in projects and those effects in future year plans. Therefore, one project officer is required to manage these projects. Got lots of work.