Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to provide just a little background. We also have a territorial park within the municipality of Hay River that has a beach and it's going on many more than three years without lifeguard services posted as unsupervised, as is the beach at Long Lake. We have had some discussion with the city. This is ongoing. In the summer of 2003 we offered $12,000 to the city in an effort to jointly cost share this program. The city, unfortunately, wasn't able to find lifeguards that year. The following year, the summer of 2004, we upped that to $15,000; again an attempt to cost share. The city insisted that we had to pay the full burden, which they estimated, for the number of hours and days and the level of service that they wanted to provide, at $21,000. That's where the discussion fell apart. Over the fall and winter we continued to discuss this issue. We've broadened it to try to encourage the city to in fact take over the operation of the campground, because we feel that they would be more able to do the job that they want to see happen out there and that's the discussion that's ongoing. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Brendan Bell on Question 538-15(3): Lifeguard Services At Yellowknife Fred Henne Park
In the Legislative Assembly on March 3rd, 2005. See this statement in context.
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