Mr. Chairman, last September, September 2002, there was a request for a special warrant from MACA for the $1.3 million for the road. The FMB looked at it. The reason it qualified on all three counts were, number one, the road was in terrible shape and they were going to lose the base of the road, the top was worn right off it. Second is that the gravel crusher was in the community, and we could only get gravel on the winter road. The gravel crusher is scheduled to leave the community this summer and I believe go into the Sahtu. To wait would have meant keeping that gravel crusher for an extra year in the community. Second, we probably would have lost that road altogether. So those were the conditions for approving the special warrant last September. Then the gravel was hauled over the winter. The gravel crushing I believe has been largely completed and the road is in the process of being finalized. That's why we have the carryover of the $123,000 here. So each situation where we are asked to approve a special warrant has a little different circumstance, but we always use the same criteria. Thank you.
Joe Handley on Bill 18: Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 1, 2003-2004
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Bill 18: Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 1, 2003-2004
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 12th, 2003
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