. Thank you. One community having some difficulty right now is Aklavik. The Department of Municipal and Community Affairs has reviewed the current budget and is working with the hamlet staff to monitor their performance. We have Paulatuk, where the department's regional staff is currently working with the hamlet staff to eliminate the factors or the problems that are causing a denied audit opinion. In Fort Resolution, the department has prepared an operational evaluation that is currently being reviewed by the regional superintendent in Fort Smith. Contracts that are currently due have been postponed for about three months to determine the cost benefit analysis of the same. In Fort Good Hope, the hamlet has recently hired a SAO. The department's staff is working with the hamlet's staff to develop a revised budget and a recovery plan for a debt that they have. In Rae-Edzo, in April of this year, the department was advised that the hamlet would not be able to meet its payroll if funds were not advanced. The Department of Municipal and Community Affairs' staff travelled to Rae-Edzo to meet with the hamlet office several times and developed a debt recovery plan that would reduce the expenditures. Eventually, this will eliminate the accumulated deficit. At a later date, there was an advance of money that was made to the hamlet to help their short term crisis. This advance has been agreed upon by the hamlet in the debt recovery plan. We are continuing to work with the hamlet and with the auditors to finalize the community's March 2000 financial position.
Those are some of the communities that we find are having some difficulties. The department is travelling with the financial analysts to the communities to continue to provide support. This is where the $550,000 is used, to do this type of work. Thank you.