Mr. Speaker, I have a Return to Written question 15-16(2), asked by the Member for Frame Lake, Ms. Bisaro, on May 30, 2008, to the Hon.
J. Michael Miltenberger,
Minister responsible for the NWT Housing Corporation, regarding the Somba K’e Healing Lodge.
The lodge was not operational from 2003 to May 2008. It was last utilized by Northern Addiction Services. The lodge is not designed for the purposes of housing to residents in the Northwest Territories.
The lodge can be refurbished to be operational based on a purpose that is aligned with the design of the lodge.
While the facility was vacant, the NWTHC North Slave District Office (NSDO) staff members monitored the facility on a daily basis, and the NWTHC bore the cost of keeping the facility in operational status. The NWTHC is not funded by the GNWT for these expenditures or for the monthly mortgage payments. Staff time is not included in costs.
Since 2004–05 the NWTHC has funded the following operating and maintenance costs for the facility: