Agreed. Page 8-17, another information item, executive, operations expenditure summary. Questions?
Debates of Feb. 7th, 2006
This is page numbers 793 - 842 of the Hansard for the 15th Assembly, 4th Session. The original version can be accessed on the Legislative Assembly's website or by contacting the Legislative Assembly Library. The word of the day was housing.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair David Ramsay
Agreed. Thank you, committee. Page 8-19, information item, planning, programs and strategic direction, operations expenditure summary. Any questions?
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair David Ramsay
Agreed. Thank you. Page 8-21, information item, finance and strategic investments, operations expenditure summary. Questions? Mr. Braden.
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Bill Braden Great Slave
Okay, we've got a couple of variances in here, Mr. Chairman, that deserve a bit of explanation. Compensation and benefits will take a substantial jump in the finance and strategic investment area, Mr. Chair, from what is anticipated to be about a $1.265 million expense this year to almost $1.9 million, over $600,000 almost a 50 percent increase in compensation and benefits, Mr. Chair. Could we get some explanation of that? Thank you.
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Anderson
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The increase that we have there is related to some internal shuffling of positions. Finance and strategic investment has been increased seven positions with a corresponding reduction in other head office departments, and that refers to five IT/IS positions and two property management positions that have been moved into this division. Thank you.
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Anderson
Thank you. There's five positions reduced under the planning, programs and strategic direction division, and two positions out of operations. Thank you.
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Bill Braden Great Slave
Okay, it's a little bit easier if we got a page number to refer to, Mr. Chair. Thanks.
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The Chair David Ramsay
Thank you, Mr. Braden. Back to page 8-21, information item. Oh, Mr. Anderson.
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Anderson
Yes, thank you. The five position reduction was in 8-19 and the two position reduction is in 8-29. Thank you.
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Bill Braden Great Slave
Thanks, Mr. Chairman. Okay, well perhaps it's explained then if we're adding some other positions here. There's again quite a jump on the travel costs forecasted for the department, from $56,000 to $99,000. What's the explanation there, Mr. Chair?
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Anderson
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The corresponding increases in compensation and benefits for those seven positions also impacts on other O and M, so those costs were also moved over from those other two divisions. Thank you.
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Bill Braden Great Slave
Mr. Chairman, in earlier discussion I believe Mr. Koe told us that there is no direct sort of program expenditure budget in this appropriation related to the Novel housing project, but there is obviously an ongoing need to keep the negotiations and the arrangements going with the planning committee. There's travel et cetera and I'm wondering is it in this finance sort of strategic investment area that I anticipate some of these expenses would be coming from? We've also heard quite a bit about extensive tours being hosted by the Housing Corporation to Calgary. Where is that money
coming from, and does the corporation have some anticipation of what it will be spending this coming year? Thank you.
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Koe
Mahsi. Depending on which committee is meeting, we have different staff members assigned to the different working committees. So it could be out of operations; it could be out of finance. The majority of the expenditures would come out of executive, and all the tours that were done have been done this fiscal year. We're not projecting any significant expenditures for next year. Anything that we're going to be doing is going to be covered in our regular operations.
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