Thank you, Mr. Chairman. One of the challenges we face working with communities is that we often get conflicting signals. MLAs will lay out their priorities. In many cases, the signals we are getting from the community governments are not quite the same. The issue is how do you reconcile those two and get all the parties in the room so that if it is going to be dust control or if it is going to be fire hall or some other structure, that there is a way we can come to an agreement or how do we move forward, plus we have also given a considerable amount of authority to the community governments with block funding and with capital planning. It is a challenge that we haven’t fully resolved yet as we listen to the frustration of some of the Members about issues that they consider a priority and how do we move forward on that. It is something we want to keep working on.

We are moving towards things like standard design across the board wherever possible. Schools, health centres, housing, park design, all the things where it makes sense, as the Member indicated, not to keep coming up with all these extra soft costs because we want to be creative or waste those dollars on something that could be better spent somewhere else.

The issue of life expectancy, I agree with the Member. There are things we could learn from the Europeans or some of the other countries where their midlife retrofit would probably be like 150 years old and our standards are much different. That is a challenge that we have to continue to look at, but we are spending enormous amounts of money changing our standards to ensure that we hit the energy efficiency standards to cut our O and M costs, because it is creeping up. The price of oil this morning, I believe, was almost back to $78 a barrel. The pressure doesn’t relent in that area. Thank you.

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. I have nobody on my list. Does committee agree that we have concluded? Mrs. Groenewegen.

I would like to move that we report progress.

---Carried

I will now rise and report progress. I would like to thank the witnesses and if we could get the Sergeant-at-Arms to please escort them out.

Can I have the report of Committee of the Whole, please? Mr. Abernethy.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Tabled Document 1-16(4), NWT Capital Estimates 2010-2011, and would like to report progress. Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with.

Thank you, Mr. Abernethy. Do we have a seconder for the motion? The honourable Member for Sahtu, Mr. Yakeleya.

---Carried

Third reading of bills. Madam Clerk, orders of the day.

Thank you, Madam Clerk. Accordingly, this House stands adjourned until Monday, October 19th , at 1:30 p.m.

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The House adjourned at 13:53.