Thank you, Mr. Villeneuve. Mr. Handley.
Debates of Feb. 13th, 2007
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Joe Handley Weledeh
Thank you, Madam Chair. We are looking at an initiative to train up to 25 apprentices if we can find the money to do that. We have no commitment yet on it. There is no other money in here for apprenticeship training, but I can tell the Member that that is a high priority for us, should more resources become available.
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The Chair Jane Groenewegen
Thank you, Mr. Handley. Public Housing Program funding, operations expenditure summary, $36.895 million.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Jane Groenewegen
Agreed. Thank you. Page 2-170, Public Housing Program funding, grants and contributions, contributions, $36.895 million.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Bill Braden Great Slave
Madam Chair, thank you. On page 2-170, there are a couple of lines there that beg a little bit of review. It's in the area, Madam Chair, of allocations for utilities, for electrical power, heating fuel and water and sanitation. Predictably, Madam Chair, we are showing an increase from this current year from about $5.1 million to $5.4 million for electrical power.
In the other two principal utility areas, Madam Chair, heating fuel and water, we are showing considerable decreases here; $5.7million for heating fuel this year down to $5.1 million and we've dropped about $300,000 off water and sanitation from $6 million. This is an unusual environment here to be forecasting decreases in the cost of heating fuels and water and sanitation. I am wondering if the Housing Corporation can provide a little bit of detail on why we are going that way. It's good news indeed if we are able to see some cost reductions, but why is it and, in fact, are these reductions in the volume, amount or calibre of the service being distributed, Madam Chair?
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Joe Handley Weledeh
Thank you, Madam Chair. There are a couple of things happening here. One is that we want to get more efficiencies, but that doesn't mean we are going to suddenly cut people's heat off or give them less water delivery or sewage pickup and so on. We will,
at the end of the day, pay the actual cost. That's the reality here.
Now the other one is that because we need the subsidies from ECE to be able to pay these costs, it also depends on them being able to find a way of getting the money to us. But no matter how we do it, in the end, we are paying the full cost.
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Bill Braden Great Slave
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So these proposed reductions then in heating fuel, water and sanitation, they are all assumed to be coming from greater efficiencies. That's okay. I don't need any detail there. That's exclusively the cause, Mr. Chair?
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Joe Handley Weledeh
We go through each of them. On the heating and the fuel side, we could realize some savings. On the water and sanitation side, there is a reduction in water rates in some communities through MACA's new structure. So there is some possible savings there. The other is depending on the subsidies we need, we are dependent on the funding from ECE to cover that. At the end of the day, we pick it all up anyway, whether we achieve the savings or not.
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The Chair Calvin Pokiak
Thank you, Mr. Handley. Page 2-170, Public Housing Program funding, grants and contributions, contributions, $36.895 million.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Calvin Pokiak
Page 2-171, lease commitments infrastructure. Page 2-172, infrastructure investment summary.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Calvin Pokiak
Page 2-176, infrastructure acquisition plan, total department, $18.343 million.