Thank you, Madam Chair. MACA staff work with community governments to help them develop five-year capital plans. So annually, we sit down with community governments, help them review their plans, look at their infrastructure needs, look at what the cost impact is going to be.
We try to assist them with doing projections around, you know, supply chain issues, rising costs of materials, and what impact that may have on their ability to fund what capital.
Community governments also -- many of them have really good relationships with each other. You know, they get information from each other. They also frequently will hire technical expertise to help them, you know, develop their capital plan and to better understand what kind of costs they may face in the future so they do that planning ability annually to help recognize that costs may rise, and many community governments also have capital reserves to be able to draw on if they are experiencing cost overruns in their capital projects.
And as Minister Thompson stated, there is federal funding available as well for all community governments to assist with some priority projects. Thank you.