Thank you, Mr. Chair. First, all the upgrades to Woodland Manor, we’ve received our most recent proposal submission from the proponent on that project on September 18th of this
year, so just over a week or so ago. This proposal is now being reviewed to verify it meets program requirements by ourselves and the Department of Health and confirm it’s within the financial limits that we have for the project. If that’s acceptable, then we’ll award the contract. Once that’s done, the project design will proceed over the winter and construction will start early in the spring and complete it throughout the following year. We expect it to be completed and ready for occupancy in early 2017. That’s Woodland Manor.
The next one I have is the Hay River Health Centre. That project is nearing substantial completion. The contractor has submitted a request for substantial completion inspection, which we have done. During that inspection, and this is normal, we’ve identified a number of deficiencies in the work and those are now being corrected by the contractor and we
expect to have those resolved very shortly. They’re down to a few remaining items on their list of things to do. Once that’s done, they’ll be granted substantial completion and it will be available for us to take over the keys and for the authority to start their process of moving in.
In terms of South Mackenzie, I’m not sure where that is in the capital planning process or whether it’s been considered for mid-life retrofit, but we do consider it as a core piece of government infrastructure and we are making investments through both our regular maintenance and the Deferred Maintenance Program in that particular facility. We’re also doing an evaluation on it, I believe, to see if it is a potential candidate for a biomass installation.