Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am here to present Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 4, 2010-2011. This document outlines an increase of $100,000 for operations expenditures and an increase of $1.706 million for capital investment expenditures in the 2010-11 fiscal year. The total supplementary request is $1.806 million.
The major items of the supplementary estimates include:
1. $600,000 for the Department of Transportation
to purchase highway equipment required due to the repatriation of highway maintenance services in the Fort Resolution area;
2. $500,000 for the Department of Health and
Social Services for the purchase of two ultrasound units at Inuvik and the H.H. Williams Hospitals;
3. a $390,000 special warrant was approved on
September 27, 2010, for the Department of Transportation community access and road projects identified under the Canada-Northwest Territories Infrastructure Stimulus Fund 2009-2010 - 2010-2011 Agreement.
I am prepared to review the details of the supplementary appropriation document. Thank you.