Mr. Chairman, I believe he is referring to the $400,000 that we were just talking about and the $40,000 that was an engineering study.
Debates of Feb. 21st, 2003
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Committee Motion 3-14(6): To Cease Work On The Main Street Paving Program Until Baseline Data On Dust Levels And Health Information Can Be Collected, Carried
Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Committee Motion 3-14(6): To Cease Work On The Main Street Paving Program Until Baseline Data On Dust Levels And Health Information Can Be Collected, Carried
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The Chair Paul Delorey
Thank you, Minister Steen. I believe he is referring to $440,000 shown as prior years cost, but I'll address Mr. Nitah.
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Steven Nitah Tu Nedhe
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, on this line item, there are three numbers, $440,000 under prior years cost, $400,000 for budget year 2003-2004, $200,000 for budget year 2004-2005 totally $1.04 million, I am just asking you where the $440,000 was spent on prior years cost.
Committee Motion 3-14(6): To Cease Work On The Main Street Paving Program Until Baseline Data On Dust Levels And Health Information Can Be Collected, Carried
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Committee Motion 3-14(6): To Cease Work On The Main Street Paving Program Until Baseline Data On Dust Levels And Health Information Can Be Collected, Carried
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Vince Steen Nunakput
As I was telling the Member $40,000 was spent for an engineering study. The $400,000 is the one we are talking about that the community is asking if we can spend it on the shoreline and the roads rather than on the solid waste site. Mr. Chairman, the other $400,000 is in this fiscal year and the $200,000 is for next year. Thank you.
Committee Motion 3-14(6): To Cease Work On The Main Street Paving Program Until Baseline Data On Dust Levels And Health Information Can Be Collected, Carried
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Committee Motion 3-14(6): To Cease Work On The Main Street Paving Program Until Baseline Data On Dust Levels And Health Information Can Be Collected, Carried
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Steven Nitah Tu Nedhe
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, if I understand this correctly, with an engineering study on the solid waste site, we spent $40,000. There is $40,000 that wasn't spent that is recognized only on the prior years cost, which would leave $600,000 in the total budget of $ 1.04 million. What would happen with that $600,000 now that the solid waste site will not be relocated? The community has made a decision that they will extend the life for another 10 years and is requesting $400,000 that would have been spent on that for the shoreline. So, $600,000, would that money go back into general revenues? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Committee Motion 3-14(6): To Cease Work On The Main Street Paving Program Until Baseline Data On Dust Levels And Health Information Can Be Collected, Carried
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Committee Motion 3-14(6): To Cease Work On The Main Street Paving Program Until Baseline Data On Dust Levels And Health Information Can Be Collected, Carried
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Vince Steen Nunakput
Mr. Chairman, as I indicated to the Member, the community is re-examining, based on the engineering study, what is necessary to be done to the existing solid waste site in order to extend the life of the site because they don't have, at the present time, an option of relocating. They may, in fact, decide that the $400,000 which was going to be spent to extend the life of the existing solid waste site, that is in this year's funding. Thank you.
Committee Motion 3-14(6): To Cease Work On The Main Street Paving Program Until Baseline Data On Dust Levels And Health Information Can Be Collected, Carried
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Committee Motion 3-14(6): To Cease Work On The Main Street Paving Program Until Baseline Data On Dust Levels And Health Information Can Be Collected, Carried
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Steven Nitah Tu Nedhe
Mr. Chairman, I am still not getting my head around this. There is $1.04 million identified here. What the Minister is telling me is that they are not going to relocate the solid waste site because there is no road to the new site. They are going to spend the money to extend the life of the existing one. Is the Minister telling us that we used $400,000 that is identified in the year's budget to do that? Are they also asking at the same time that we split this line item budget in half so that the $400,000 could go to the solid waste site and $400,000 go to the shoreline project? Is that what the Minister is asking us here? Is that what the community is asking us? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Committee Motion 3-14(6): To Cease Work On The Main Street Paving Program Until Baseline Data On Dust Levels And Health Information Can Be Collected, Carried
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Committee Motion 3-14(6): To Cease Work On The Main Street Paving Program Until Baseline Data On Dust Levels And Health Information Can Be Collected, Carried
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Vince Steen Nunakput
Mr. Chairman, at the present time, the funding is still identified for the community solid waste site. Until it receives authority from FMB and this Assembly to use it for capital, it cannot be used for anything except a solid waste site. Thank you.
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Committee Motion 3-14(6): To Cease Work On The Main Street Paving Program Until Baseline Data On Dust Levels And Health Information Can Be Collected, Carried
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Steven Nitah Tu Nedhe
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, we're being asked to approve a budget here of $1.04 million on a project that isn't going ahead. The community is requesting that we take some of that capital and put it somewhere else in the community, which I don't have a problem with. But, we are asked to accept a budget with a number attached for a purpose which won't be carried out. I'm just asking if this is a common practice, Mr. Chairman. Thank you.
Committee Motion 3-14(6): To Cease Work On The Main Street Paving Program Until Baseline Data On Dust Levels And Health Information Can Be Collected, Carried
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Committee Motion 3-14(6): To Cease Work On The Main Street Paving Program Until Baseline Data On Dust Levels And Health Information Can Be Collected, Carried
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Vince Steen Nunakput
Mr. Chairman, I have already indicated to the Member that the point that the community is trying to make here is that they have an engineering study before them suggesting options to extend the life of the existing solid waste site. It may require funding, obviously it will, but the community has the option that, if they no longer have the ability to relocate, then they have the option of extending the life of the existing facility. It may be that they are going to have plans to use that funding for that particular purpose. At this present time, I don't have the figures that the community has in their solid waste site study as to what it would cost to extend the life of the existing site. I don't have that, but they still have the option from a process from last year of relocation to another site. That's what the money was approved for. Thank you.
Committee Motion 3-14(6): To Cease Work On The Main Street Paving Program Until Baseline Data On Dust Levels And Health Information Can Be Collected, Carried
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Committee Motion 3-14(6): To Cease Work On The Main Street Paving Program Until Baseline Data On Dust Levels And Health Information Can Be Collected, Carried
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Steven Nitah Tu Nedhe
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, it's like putting the cart before the horse. We understand through a partnership arrangement between the Department of Transportation and our brothers in the south in the federal government that they are going to build a road to a new solid waste site. That apparently has fallen through. The community does not know if they will build a road, but we are asked to approve a budget of $1.4 million for a project that may not go ahead. I am just asking if that's a common practice. I understand the request from the community to take this capital that's been identified to put it into another area of concern in the community. We normally take care of these...
Committee Motion 3-14(6): To Cease Work On The Main Street Paving Program Until Baseline Data On Dust Levels And Health Information Can Be Collected, Carried
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The Chair Paul Delorey
Mr. Nitah, I will rise and report progress. I would like to thank the Minister and your witnesses for appearing.
Committee Motion 3-14(6): To Cease Work On The Main Street Paving Program Until Baseline Data On Dust Levels And Health Information Can Be Collected, Carried
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The Deputy Speaker David Krutko
Mr. Delorey, could I have the report from Committee of the Whole? Mr. Delorey.
Item 19: Report Of Committee Of The Whole
Item 19: Report Of Committee Of The Whole
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The Chair Paul Delorey
Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Bill 3, Appropriation Act, 2003-2004, and would like to report progress with two motions being adopted and, Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with.
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Item 19: Report Of Committee Of The Whole
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An Hon. Member
Question.
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The Deputy Speaker David Krutko
Question has been called. All those in favour? All those opposed? The motion is carried.
---Carried
Item 20, third reading of bills. Item 21, Mr. Clerk, orders of the day.