Thank you, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, I guess I should first of all commend the community of Fort Good Hope for all of their efforts and their ability to work together during this real tense time this spring, when we were experiencing some severe flooding in that community. I would also like to commend the MLA for that riding for all of his good work in keeping the communications line open during that difficult time.
Madam Speaker, we are, as the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs, working with a number of other departments within this government to ensure that there is a smooth effort or action plan undertaken to allow people to return to a normal routine in their lives. We have had our emergency management coordinator in the community for several days over this past week to do an assessment of where and how things can be dealt with. We have assessed that the damage is well over $1 million in the community. That does not include some of the damage that has happened to some of the houses for the NWT Housing Corporation.
We have had, along with our coordinator, an insurance adjuster in the community doing an assessment, and we have also contracted a disaster services agency from Yellowknife to help us put together an action plan and start doing some of the recovery. We have already seen the Fort Good Hope Band Council do a lot of the work that is required in terms of cleanup. They have cleaned up some of the contaminated public areas and worked on some of the flooded-out roads. We are doing everything in our power to ensure that this is done quickly. We have done a lot of work to put together an action plan; we have a lot of people in the communities from the government. I did a quick count and we have at least 25 people from the different departments in this government do their assessments and go into the community and look at their responsibilities. We are trying to package all that up and have the people back in their houses and have the seniors' home up and running.
The Minister responsible for the Housing Corporation informs me that the renovations to the seniors' home is 95 percent complete, so that is something that we could look at opening fairly quickly, depending if it passes the inspections that are required. Thank you, Madam Speaker.