Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I could speak to whether or not there is some confusion coming out of the department and obviously we regret that if it has been caused. I think, however I need to draw a difference between the work that we have been doing in partnership with the board around services for the cognitively impaired, as it relates to a service that the Fort Smith board could provide to more than the residents of their catchment area or their community.
What we have found though in the process of a series of discussions with the board is that there had not yet been adequate work done between that board and the community it served around the very basic or primary or the basket of services that need to be provided for that community.
What we have simply said to the board is forget about designing services for people beyond your board until you get the work done in terms of meeting the needs of the residents that you serve most directly. Once that is done, there is still opportunity to look to services beyond their boundaries, but we thought it imperative that they first deal with their own community and designing services to meet the needs of those people first. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.