This is page numbers 143 - 180 of the Hansard for the 15th Assembly, 6th 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 communities.

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The Speaker

The Speaker Paul Delorey

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Final supplementary, Mr. Ramsay.

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David Ramsay

David Ramsay Kam Lake

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I'm always impressed with the Minister's responses, especially when we're talking about something as important as this. I think it's important that it starts somewhere. I hear the Minister and I hear the Minister say communities and establishing it throughout the Northwest Territories. Mr. Speaker, $26 million, that's not going to happen right away. What needs to happen right away is this service needs to get started in Yellowknife, Hay River and Fort Smith just for starters. I'd like the Minister to make a commitment today to get his officials at MACA to work with the stakeholders to get this key initiative off the ground. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Supplementary To Question 70-15(6): 911 Emergency Telephone Response Service
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The Speaker Paul Delorey

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Mr. McLeod.

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Michael McLeod

Michael McLeod Deh Cho

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I certainly will continue to pursue this. It's not something that we have as a high priority right now. There is still a lot of communication equipment and communication issues in our communities that we could focus on. There's the issue of self-service, and self-service along the highway would maybe make more sense right now than implementing a huge, costly 911 service that is only going to serve a small part of the whole Northwest Territories. It's something we'd have to sit down and talk with the other departments and the other agencies, but we'll certainly follow up as the Member has requested. Thank you.

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The Speaker Paul Delorey

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Oral questions. The honourable Member for Yellowknife Centre, Mr. Hawkins.

Robert Hawkins

Robert Hawkins Yellowknife Centre

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In my Member's statement today I talked about how and why sustainable and standard design for public infrastructure could help everyone by delivering better products at lower costs. Mr. Speaker, whether it's the designers, the engineers, the community, even government officials and MLAs, I mean, everyone wants the design to the maximum dollars put into the budget and they seem to always want more. One more thing, Mr. Speaker, always wants overtake needs. Has the Minister of Public Works and Services ever considered adopting a template format for construction of public buildings with a modular format so that they can easily be expanded to accommodate future needs of public infrastructure and community? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

The Speaker

The Speaker Paul Delorey

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. The honourable Minister responsible for Public Works and Services, Mr. Krutko.

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David Krutko

David Krutko Mackenzie Delta

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we have been working with departments and also we are looking at the whole energy conservation design of public infrastructure in regards to making sure that we do bring down the cost, but more importantly that we do have something that's affordable and meets our budget amounts. Thank you.

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The Speaker Paul Delorey

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Supplementary, Mr. Hawkins.

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Robert Hawkins

Robert Hawkins Yellowknife Centre

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, would the Minister today commit in this House that he would go out to some type of public consultation to engage our engineers and architects on coming up with sustainable design principles for all our public government infrastructures so the percentage of cost overruns are minimized? For a note to that, Alaska has 15 percent as an acceptable overrun. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Supplementary To Question 71-15(6): Standard Designs For Government Building Infrastructure
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The Speaker Paul Delorey

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Mr. Krutko.

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David Krutko

David Krutko Mackenzie Delta

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we do have an interdepartmental committee that's looking at the whole area of infrastructure. Again, this could be one of the issues that they look at. Again, we are trying to ensure that we find ways not only to deliver our existing infrastructure, but more importantly the infrastructure going forward. Thank you.

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The Speaker Paul Delorey

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Supplementary, Mr. Hawkins.

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Robert Hawkins

Robert Hawkins Yellowknife Centre

Mr. Speaker, I think I heard the Minister say yes, but I'll let him re-clarify. Mr. Speaker, specifically to schools, health clinics, and seniors' facilities, has the department ever done a historical cost overrun overview by doing a 360 degree design evaluation to ensure that bad designs are re-evaluated and that they haven't turned into maintenance nightmares? Further, are we building our buildings for the 1,500-year life expectancy, or are we just designing them to be maintained for the rest of their life? Thank you.

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The Speaker

The Speaker Paul Delorey

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Mr. Krutko.

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David Krutko

David Krutko Mackenzie Delta

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we do design and build to ensure that the capital investment that we are making is there for the long term. Again, we are ensuring that the quality of that infrastructure is going to be able to maintain itself over 30 to 40 years. So again, it is a part of the design, construct, and more importantly ensuring the energy conservation and the style that we use is cost efficient. Thank you.

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The Speaker Paul Delorey

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Final Supplementary, Mr. Hawkins.

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Robert Hawkins

Robert Hawkins Yellowknife Centre

Mr. Speaker, does the Minister of Public Works and Services monitor the percentage difference between contract bids and contract payments and, if so, what is an acceptable percentage if things are over? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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The Speaker Paul Delorey

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Mr. Krutko.

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David Krutko

David Krutko Mackenzie Delta

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in regards to the cost of construction, in most cases we have a rough estimate of what we expect the price to come in on. Again, we do look at what else is happening in other areas, what's in general contracting area, what's happening in the industry, so again we do try to ensure that we do come up with a number that meets our requirements, but more importantly that we can afford to build at that cost and not to build something that's extreme where we cannot afford it. Thank you.

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The Speaker

The Speaker Paul Delorey

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Oral questions. The honourable Member for Monfwi, Mr. Lafferty.

Question 72-15(6): Jimmy Erasmus Senior Home In Behchoko
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May 13th, 2007

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Jackson Lafferty

Jackson Lafferty North Slave

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. (Translation) Mr. Speaker, I have a question for the Housing Corporation regarding the seniors' home in Behchoko. This building has been there since 1986. It's been there for many years now. When I went to visit there yesterday, the ceiling was dripping with water. You can see the water dripping onto the floors. I would like to know when they may replace the building. I asked this question before. I'm going to ask...(Translation ends)

In March, I spoke to the honourable Minister responsible for the Housing Corporation regarding this government's commitment to repair or replace Jimmy Erasmus Seniors Home in Behchoko. Further to this, Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask the Minister what progress has been made

since that session and the subsequent visits by the president of the Housing Corporation to the community of Behchoko. Mahsi.

The Speaker

The Speaker Paul Delorey

Thank you, Mr. Lafferty. The honourable Minister responsible for the Housing Corporation, Mr. Handley.

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Joe Handley

Joe Handley Weledeh

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Housing Corporation has been working on this issue for some time. We have a consultant who did a report. The Housing Corporation received a copy of that report on April 27th and are now taking a look at it. As I had said to the Member before, we plan to have the final report available by June. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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The Speaker

The Speaker Paul Delorey

Thank you, Mr. Handley. Supplementary, Mr. Lafferty.