Thank you, Mr. Lafferty. Mr. Rattray.
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Rattray
Mr. Chairman, Public Works and Services pays for lease costs for all general office space for departments.
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Leon Lafferty North Slave
The other departments do not have the capabilities of leasing the buildings themselves? Why is this happening? Thank you.
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Rattray
Mr. Chairman, typically other departments do not have any individuals on staff that do leasing on a regular basis and consequently do not have the skill sets required. We do have those. In addition, typically with government office space, we want some ability to coordinate the acquisition of office space on behalf of a number of departments. It is much easier to coordinate if one group is doing it on behalf of all of the others.
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Leon Lafferty North Slave
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So you do the lease for them. What is the administration cost, part of the $384,000 for 2000-2001?
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Rattray
The administration costs? I am not sure what the Member is referring to. There are no Public Works and Services administration costs on this particular information item. The administration of the individual leases, including all the costs for requesting proposals, evaluating proposals that come in, administering the day-to-day and dealing with tenant complaints and so on, all of that is included within our asset management activity that we dealt with earlier.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Charles Dent Frame Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In looking at the closing balance here for the revolving fund, it would appear we are not doing a great deal to get rid of the deficit. In fact, it looks like it might be increasing a bit in 2001-2002 as compared to what we are expecting to see by March 31st in this fiscal year. Does the department have any plans to bring things into line, so that the revolving fund does work itself back into a situation where it is not in a deficit?
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Rattray
Mr. Chairman, I am afraid we have been a bit at the mercy of the low price for this past year. We did impose a couple of price increases in the past year. Our intent going into those was to try and address our deficit position with respect to the revolving fund.
Unfortunately, the world prices escalated as quickly as our prices did, and we essentially are in much the same position this year as we were forecasting to be in when we put forward last year's budget. It would be our intention to revisit this in the coming months. We are currently doing our winter resupply.
Depending on the outcome of that resupply, it may either give us an opportunity to start to draw down on the debt, or if our costs increase this resupply season, then we may find ourselves in a situation where we may have to increase prices again. The two significant factors that are affecting our bottom line right now are the price we charge and the world price. Most of our other factors are fairly stable at present.
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Charles Dent Frame Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. How big is the differential that we are charged for oil, and what we are selling it at in most communities? Is it fairly close or are we selling it for less than what we pay in some communities?
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