Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am here to present
Supplementary Estimates (Operations
Expenditures), No. 1, 2015-2016. This document proposes an increase of $11.3 million in operations expenditures for the 2015-2016 fiscal year.
The more significant items included in the proposed supplementary estimates are:
1. a total of $4.6 million for the Department of
Transportation associated with runway service improvements at the Yellowknife and Inuvik airports, of which $1.6 million is offset by a lapse in the prior year;
2.
$2.4 million associated with various departments to provide devolution transition funding for the continued transition of authority of Territorial lands, water and resources, of which this full amount is offset by lapses in the prior year;
3. $1.5 million associated with the Population
Growth Strategy which includes:
• $1.3 million for enhancements to the NWT
Student Financial Assistance Program, and
• $215,000 to support the GNWT Immigration
Program.
I am prepared to review the details of the supplementary estimates document.