Mahsi, Mr. Chair. What the Member has brought up are a lot of points that obviously have been brought to our attention as well. Due to the fact we are investing just over $6.5 million in capital projects, there may not be much out of a $125 million budget, but at the same time we spend well over $290 million over a five-year period when it comes to schools and different educational assets in the Northwest Territories.

Yes, we need to focus on the small communities, as the Member alluded to, small community schools. We’ve done that. There is Lutselk’e school, there is Charles Tetcho School renovation, Colville Lake. We want to do more, but it’s a funding crunch, and all the departments have their own wishes and we do too. We put in as much as we could and this is what we got out of the actual budget.

When it comes to family units, there has been an agreement in place. I totally agree with the

Member; there are three different campuses, 33 communities, 23 community learning centres. How can we best utilize the campuses in the Northwest Territories? There are some campuses that may be a bit empty and some are full. Those are areas that we are currently capturing with the Board of Governors of Aurora College, how to best utilize our spaces, our program delivery as well. Those are ongoing discussions that we are currently having as part of the Aurora College long-term plans, how to deal these areas.

East Three School, the dental office, I’ll get Ms. Allison to maybe elaborate on that a bit. The playground has been brought to our attention as well. It was part of the planning process when the East Three School came up. The JK came after that, so we’ll deal with the JK infrastructure at that level, but this is an area that my department has been working with PWS when we were developing the planning study. Members ask that future plan studies should be capturing these kinds of initiatives. We are hearing the Member and they should be captured. Those are some of the areas that will be discussed as well.

The culture components, the museum will obviously take over the Aboriginal Languages Secretariat, and we have a couple of staff moving to the main floor, working with regional and community levels as to how we can best deliver programs when it comes to the cultural components, or even revitalizing our language. The space is required to do so. So I am glad Members are referring to that where the museum will be the host of that for the regional perspective. We are moving forward on that, but I will get Ms. Allison on the dental office, I guess, with the E3 School.

I will turn it over to Ms. Allison.