Thank you. There were a number of challenges with the way the funding for this program would flow. When the initial projections and estimates and budgets were drawn up, it was assumed that we would pass the Waste Recovery and Reduction Act earlier in the life of the 14th Assembly. It ended up not being able to be passed in the spring. We had to wait until fall to get this through the Assembly, which ended up delaying us because it would take we estimated a year to create the regulations and make sure we had the program in place. So some of the money that was to be spent in 2003-04 ends up being spent in 2004-05. Specifically I can give some detail of that $65,000. There was an administrator's salary and benefits, there were some public education materials, there was depot process centre staff training, and the creation of the advisory committee and I'm just underway now with that. So those expenditures are in fact going to happen in 2003-04 here, but this was not the manner that the cash was originally to be rolled out for this program, but obviously the adjustments had to be made. I can reassure the Member that the overall price tag of $1.143 million over the two years is in fact still the same, it's just a matter of the cash flow timing.
Brendan Bell on Committee Motion 3-15(3): To Delete $120,000 From The Financial Management Board Secretariat Budgeting And Evaluation Re Foregone Interest, Defeated
In the Legislative Assembly on March 22nd, 2004. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 3-15(3): To Delete $120,000 From The Financial Management Board Secretariat Budgeting And Evaluation Re Foregone Interest, Defeated
Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
March 22nd, 2004
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