Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Mr. Minister.
Debates of Feb. 14th, 2012
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Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
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Michael Miltenberger Thebacha
Thank you, Madam Chair. This particular program is application based, and we just finally got word from the federal government that we were successful in our application for this fourth component. Thank you.
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The Chair Jane Groenewegen
Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Community justice and corrections, not previously authorized, $908,000. Ms. Bisaro.
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Wendy Bisaro Frame Lake
Thank you, Madam Chair. I just had a question with regard to the last item, the funding required to address the increased costs of food. Like other Members, I’m having great difficulty understanding why we couldn’t have seen that we were going to need a higher budgeted amount for food costs at our corrections facilities across the
territory. My understanding is that we have budgeted the same amount for corrections facilities for food for about the last three, four or five years. To the Minister, I’d like to know how often we adjust our base funding. I know sometimes it’s done every year, but in this particular case it’s been four or five years since the base funding has been adjusted. Do we have any method by which we do an analysis of what we’re spending? Do we look at trends over, say, the last two years and determine that there needs to be an increase in base funding, or do we wait four and five years before we do that analysis? Thank you.
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
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Michael Miltenberger Thebacha
Thank you, Madam Chair. As we’ve discussed throughout this supplementary appropriation, the process here is fairly set in that there hasn’t been, in many cases like forest fire fighting, or the food in this case, adjustments to the base budget. Rather, we’ve kept coming back and making a case through supplementary appropriation if that’s necessary. In this case, it’s a lot driven by the fluctuating inmate count. Thank you.
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Wendy Bisaro Frame Lake
I guess I would like to know from the Minister, you know, I understand that this is something that we do. We keep the same amount of money for a number of years, but does the department do an analysis of trends from one year to the next or over the last two or three years and, therefore, look at increasing base funding based on trends? Thank you.
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Aumond
Thank you, Madam Chair. Through the annual business planning process, primarily through the forced growth, departments make submissions for forced growth to their base funding if they can demonstrate through factual information that they’re actually incurring these costs and they have no other options to mitigate those costs. In some cases the costs of the item which they are looking for is volatile – sometimes it goes up; sometimes it goes down – and in many cases departments have abilities to mitigate the impact of cost increases. It’s only when they can’t mitigate and they can substantiate the request through that one time of the year, which is the business planning process, that they’re allotted forced growth. If they can’t, and otherwise they get caught by surprise throughout the year for unexpected circumstances which they could not have anticipated or they could not mitigate, then they come through the supplementary process. Thank you.
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The Chair Jane Groenewegen
Thank you, Mr. Aumond. Community justice and corrections, not previously authorized, $908,000.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Jane Groenewegen
Total department, not previously authorized, Department of Justice, $1.748 million.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Jane Groenewegen
Thank you. Department of Education, Culture and Employment, operations expenditures, activity, education and culture, not previously authorized, negative $28,000.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Jane Groenewegen
Moving on to the Department of Transportation. Activity, airports, not previously authorized, $280,000.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
The Chair Jane Groenewegen
Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment, operations expenditures, activity, economic diversification and business support, not previously authorized, $63,000.
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Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Some Hon. Members
Agreed.