David Krutko on Committee Motion 83-16(2) Deferral Of Consideration Of Education And Culture Activity In Education, Culture And Employment Capital Estimates (Td 93-16(2)) (Committee Motion Carried)

In the Legislative Assembly on October 20th, 2008. See this statement in context.

Committee Motion 83-16(2) Deferral Of Consideration Of Education And Culture Activity In Education, Culture And Employment Capital Estimates (Td 93-16(2)) (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters

October 19th, 2008

David Krutko Mackenzie Delta

Mr. Chairman, this was an issue that came forward that I raised in regard to the Department of Environment moving out to Shell Lake. They were saying they don’t know how they’re going to fill that space. That space is still vacant. No one has moved into that space in regard to the Department of Environment relocating to Shell Lake. There’s also the Professional Building in Inuvik which has a floor that’s basically vacant. So out of that, there’s almost 7,000 square feet of office space that’s vacant in Inuvik. I know that in regard to the Perry Building, that basically was a question of structural soundness of the building and how much weight was being distributed on the different floors. That’s why Public Works is on the first floor. Yet there’s still a cost associated with

those three floors being vacant in Inuvik, regardless if anybody is in there or not.

When you’re talking about moving Public Works and Services, the Department of Education, Culture and Employment, the Financial Management Board Secretariat, Municipal and Community Affairs, the Beaufort-Delta Health and Social Services Authority by way of setting up a health clinic, for me that’s a lot of bodies and a lot of space that’s going to be required in regard to where these people are going to come from. If you have a market that can only sustain, say, 10,000 square feet and you’re adding another 10,000 to the market, you do have more space that you have on the open market, which will cost someone not having the ability to maintain that space.

Right now there’s 7 per cent vacant office space in Inuvik, from what I was told this morning. So how can you use the argument without doing a survey to state that basically there isn’t going to be an effect on the market when you didn’t even do a survey yourself? All I’m asking is that we as government take the time to do an independent review and survey on exactly what space is available, where the space is, who owns that space. Putting 47,000 square feet of office space into Inuvik, what impact will that have on the market?

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David Krutko on Committee Motion 83-16(2) Deferral Of Consideration Of Education And Culture Activity In Education, Culture And Employment Capital Estimates (Td 93-16(2)) (Committee Motion Carried)

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