Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The department staff has been keeping in close contact with community governments on the implementation of the Water/Sewer Subsidy Program. Generally, communities have made adjustments to how they deliver services. Some communities have had to take a look at how services are delivered and identify other ways to become efficient in order to live within the subsidies that are provided. The same level of subsidy has been provided, generally, over the last two fiscal years. What the department is doing this year is taking a look at the distribution of the funding to communities under the program, recognizing that there have been some changes in some communities resulting from metering; for example, in the town of Inuvik if there have been substantial changes in population to warrant some adjustments. We are not anticipating there would be significant adjustments for this coming year in the distribution of the funding budget we are working with. We are taking a look at the allocations to see if there have been some significant changes that might influence the allocation to individual communities. We are working with a pot of money, a budget, and it is a distribution formula that we use. In this fiscal year, we distributed an amount of about $10.1 million and we are looking at a distribution of $10.4 to $10.5 million in 1998-99. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Christensen on Committee Motion 12-13(5): That Maca Coordinate A Comprehensive Community Development Training Program
In the Legislative Assembly on February 12th, 1998. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 12-13(5): That Maca Coordinate A Comprehensive Community Development Training Program
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 11th, 1998
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