That also includes the taxation revenue, of course?
Debates of Feb. 27th, 2014
This is page numbers 4035 – 4074 of the Hansard for the 17th Assembly, 5th Session. The original version can be accessed on the Legislative Assembly's website or by contacting the Legislative Assembly Library. The word of the day was communities.
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The Chair Daryl Dolynny
Thank you, Minister Lafferty. Mr. Hawkins, any other questions? I am seeing none. Committee, we will continue here with 10-35, information item, details of funding allocated to education authorities. Any questions?
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Daryl Dolynny
Thank you. Page 10-36, information item, education authorities. Any questions?
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Daryl Dolynny
Thank you. Page 10-39, information item, Aurora College funding allocation. Ms. Bisaro.
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February 26th, 2014
Wendy Bisaro Frame Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have a couple of questions here. I’ll start with the numbers on page 39. There’s been about an $800,000 increase in the budget for Aurora College from this current budget year to…sorry, the academic year to the next academic year. Can I understand what this increased funding is for? Thank you.
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Jackson Lafferty Monfwi
Mahsi, Mr. Chair. The increase is due to the fact that there is a Community Skills for Work, $290,000, provided to the college; Teacher Education Program is approximately $70,000; and also the UNW Collective Agreement, $404,000. There are also lease costs of $112,000, and then Geoscience Field Assistant Training program, $54,000. So that adds up to roughly what the Member has alluded to. Mahsi.
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Wendy Bisaro Frame Lake
Perhaps if Members could get that listing, that would be helpful.
The notes indicate that, Note 4 says, “The above excludes $600,000 budgeted for supplementary reserves.” Could I understand what supplementary reserves we are referencing? Is that the GNWT supplementary reserves or is that a reserve for the college? Thank you.
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Jackson Lafferty Monfwi
Mr. Chair, yes, we will be sharing that information with the Members, that detail. The supplementary reserve was originally allocated in 2008-2009 to cover utility costs for Aurora College. Since April 2010 the reserve fund has been used to offset expenditures mainly in the early childhood and school services section. Mahsi.
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Martin
Yes, the supplementary reserve, right now, is under the Aurora College line item but it is being used to offset the early childhood and school services expenditures.
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Wendy Bisaro Frame Lake
And the amount that’s in the supplementary reserve at the moment? Thank you.
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Martin
Mr. Chair, based on the $600,000 is in the Aurora College, as I said earlier. It’s not Aurora College line item under contributions to Aurora College.
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Martin
Six hundred thousand dollars that is right now in the supplementary reserve is shown in the grants and contributions under Aurora College. Thank you.
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Wendy Bisaro Frame Lake
Thanks, Mr. Chair. So I guess now that I know there is $600,000 that the college is using for early childhood, and I don’t disagree with that, but we’ve got a reserve for the college but is it not okay for a school board to have a reserve and I’m having difficulty with equating those two philosophies.
I wanted to ask the question of the department. I think it was over a year ago now, the federal government made an announcement and there was a large amount of money that was given from the federal government to the college for, I believe, adult education. I would like to know if I could get a bit of an update on how that money has been used, if it has been used, and where that program is at. Thank you.
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Heide
Thank you, Mr. Chair. This was federal funding, the CanNor funding, of I believe it was in the neighbourhood of $6 million. That was to fund adult basic education programming and is being used to fund adult basic education funding, I would imagine. They don’t report to us on the expenditures of that money; that would be reported back to the federal government.
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Wendy Bisaro Frame Lake
Thanks to Mr. Heide. So you’re saying that Aurora College does not report to the government, they are reporting directly to the feds. Is that correct?