Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, the 15 positions the Minister just alluded to are people who are working full-time on community empowerment or community development. They include people who are involved in the co-ordination of training programs. They include community planners. They include people who are involved in community assessments. They also include people who are involved in monitoring and evaluating of community governments. Thank you.
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Jake Ootes Yellowknife Centre
Thank you, Madam Chair. I wonder if I could get a clarification of the kind of experience that may be within this division by these individuals?
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Ballantyne
Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, the experience of the individuals that currently occupy the positions range from the professional community planning expertise the Member first alluded to, to people who have significant regional experience delivering these Municipal Affairs programs in the communities. Without going into detail on the individuals, I can provide an assurance to the Member that the position descriptions for these positions do emphasize a combination of community development expertise and hands-on experience. Thank you.
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Jake Ootes Yellowknife Centre
Do we have anyone in the department that has a certificate in Municipal Administration?
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Ballantyne
Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I confess that I am not intimately familiar with the resumes of every MACA employee, but I do know that we have at least two people in headquarters who have either Masters of Public Administration or who have served as municipal administrators in the Northwest Territories or elsewhere. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Michael Miltenberger Thebacha
Thank you, Madam Chair. Could the Minister elaborate briefly on RICE teams, which I think means regionally integrated community empowerment teams. Thank you.
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Manitok Thompson Aivilik
Thank you, Madam Chair. RICE teams are co-ordinated by our MACA person in each region. It is the regional superintendents that get together and co-ordinate community empowerment within that region. They are just different government employees at the senior level talking with each other and co-ordinating community empowerment for that region, so they know what is going on within that region. That is what RICE teams are. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Michael Miltenberger Thebacha
Thank you, Madam Chair. Could the Minister indicate what other departments work on these teams that MACA plays the lead role in?
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Manitok Thompson Aivilik
Thank you, Madam Chair. It is all the departments that have programs in the communities. It is just about every department that does something within a community that gets together for these meetings. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Michael Miltenberger Thebacha
Thank you, Madam Chair. On a slightly different, but peripherally related issue, the regional directors are now an extinct species and there has been a concern there is a vacuum at the regional level. The assumption by many of us was that the logical department or possibly the lead superintendent, which may be similar to these RICE teams but with a broader scope, would be MACA. Is that in any way formalized at all? It is my concern that there is a vacuum in the South Slave. I know you have just staffed the superintendent's position. Is MACA taking a formal lead role?
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Manitok Thompson Aivilik
Thank you, Madam Chair. I know that Mr. Gilmour from the Executive has been travelling to the communities and talking to these regional superintendents. What happens in the RICE team committees is that MACA co-ordinates the meetings and co-ordinates the agenda for the superintendents and then the chair rotates in the region when the superintendents get together. I think that question would be better answered by the Executive, Mr. Gilmour, because he has been going into the communities and working with these superintendents. The superintendents in the regions alternate the chair. We do the facilitating of the meetings. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Michael Miltenberger Thebacha
Thank you, Madam Chair. The community empowerment initiative is probably one of the biggest initiatives this government is undertaking, other than political ones like division, that has the most potential to change the structure of government. Which is why I was posing the question about MACA as the lead department, and possibly the role of the superintendent of MACA as the lead superintendent, who could address issues that may cross boundaries of departments and bring focus and would be, most importantly to me, seen as the head civil servant in the region people could go to in the communities. Without the regional director, people are now back to the old way of having to go door-to-door trying to find out who is on first and which department should be dealing with this. Does the Minister see that as a possible function for her department at the regional level? It is certainly needed. Thank you.