Thank you, Mr. Steen. Ms. Lee.
Debates of Feb. 20th, 2003
This is page numbers 195 - 230 of the Hansard for the 14th Assembly, 6th Session. The original version can be accessed on the Legislative Assembly's website or by contacting the Legislative Assembly Library. The word of the day was communities.
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Sandy Lee Range Lake
Thank you. Thanks for that answer, and I'm going to try to get back to what I was trying to ask before. I should know this, but I remember two or three years ago MACA engaged in a huge initiative to change the formula because it was found that the way the communities were being funded at the time was not standardized or it was not equal. I'm just wondering are we into the new formula now? Has that been implemented? I'm sorry for asking something that I should know, and then I have another question after that.
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Vince Steen Nunakput
Madam Chair, we're in the new formula process, but it doesn't include water and sewage programs. We're still using the old water and sewage formula funding programs, which is based on a separate equation than the formula funding for communities. Thank you.
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Sandy Lee Range Lake
So under the new way of doing things then, where does the water and sewer infrastructure funding come from for the tax-based communities?
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Vince Steen Nunakput
Madam Chair, there is some funding, I believe, for tax-based communities under the block funding program, but there's also a funding program that we share with the federal government and the community where I believe it's one-third, one-third, one-third right now with the federal government, the territorial government and the community. I believe the city has been taking advantage of the program over the last couple of years. Thank you.
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Sandy Lee Range Lake
In that pot then, one-third, one-third, one-third; a three-government funding. So there are six communities in that pot, six communities that can apply for the funding under that pot and you have to line up on the basis of needs or level of extraordinariness of your emergency.
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Vince Steen Nunakput
Madam Chair, it's based on applications from communities, but it's also based on a fixed fund from the feds. For instance, in this year's budget you might see $2.5 million. We're going to have to divide that up between communities as they apply. What they've been getting in the past will be taken into consideration, of course, from this program.
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Sandy Lee Range Lake
I could understand it if the Minister doesn't have this on him right now, but could I get historical figures of what Yellowknife has been getting under block funding, plus the emergency water and sewer program for the last three years? Thank you.
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Delancey
Thank you, Madam Chair. I don't have all the historical information for Yellowknife's block funding. Under the shared Canada/NWT infrastructure program that the Minister referred to, for the current fiscal year, 2002-2003, Yellowknife's total project cost was $3.3 million, of which $600,000 was a federal contribution and MACA contributed $800,000 and the community covered the rest. I can provide information on what Yellowknife was scheduled to receive in 2003-2004 under MACA's community formula funding. I'm not quite sure if that was what the Member was looking for. Thank you.
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Sandy Lee Range Lake
I was interested in figures from prior years, prior to 2002 and 2003, if the Minister has it. Thank you.
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The Chair Jane Groenewegen
Thank you, Ms. Lee. Do you have those figures for prior years, Ms. DeLancey?
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Delancey
We would have to provide that information tomorrow, Madam Chair.
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