Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm going to be voting in favour of this motion for a number of reasons. Recently, Yellowknife MLAs did meet with the mayor and city council here in Yellowknife to talk about some issues of importance for them. The mayor has been on the public record as supporting changes to the Cities, Towns and Villages Act to enable the City of Yellowknife to use local improvement charges as one way to set up a revolving fund that would allow residents to access the capital costs of energy efficiency without having to put all the money themselves up-front. They can start to pay for the costs of the capital improvements on their homes through the energy savings that they would get right away. What this motion is doing is putting in our mandate that we enable local governments to do this. It doesn't say they have to do it, but it starts to establish this as a higher priority for us as government to enable our communities to put in place revolving funds that will allow residents to immediately start to save money and also save on greenhouse gas emissions. I do hope that our Members on the other side of the House are going to be supporting this. This is not a major change to the Cities, Towns and Villages Act, it doesn't force anybody to do it, but we have to give our communities the authority to be able to set up a revolving fund and local improvement charges to carry out this important work. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Kevin O'Reilly on Committee Motion 14-18(2): Tabled Document 1-18(2): Proposed Mandate Of The Government Of The Northwest Territories, 2016-2019, Replacement Of Text Regarding Community Governments Addressing Energy Efficiency, Energy Conservation And Climate Change, Carried
In the Legislative Assembly on February 24th, 2016. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 14-18(2): Tabled Document 1-18(2): Proposed Mandate Of The Government Of The Northwest Territories, 2016-2019, Replacement Of Text Regarding Community Governments Addressing Energy Efficiency, Energy Conservation And Climate Change, Carried
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
February 24th, 2016
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