Thank you, Madam Chair. In my never-ending attempt to understand accounting language, this $552,000 has an offsetting amount which was lapsed in the previous fiscal. Does that therefore make this a carryover but just essentially a carryover that doesn't cost us any money because we lapsed it last fiscal; am I at all on the right page? Thank you.
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Courtoreille
Thanks, Madam Chair. This line item refers to deferred maintenance, and the Department of Infrastructure actually has a regular annual budget for deferred maintenance under the operations expenditures. It's $1.5 million. They were able to demonstrate through the Financial Administration Manual that there's commitments and contractual obligations for the 552 proposed for carryover. The remaining amounts unspent would be lapsed. Next year for the capital budget in 2023-2024, the department would still maintain their $1.5 million budget for deferred maintenance in this area. Thank you, ma'am.
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Rylund Johnson Yellowknife North
Thank you, Madam Chair. Okay, so I do have questions, then.
So we're carrying over about $550,000 of the $1.5 million, meaning the Department of Infrastructure lapsed about a million dollars of deferred maintenance. And I guess my understanding of this happens is because they don't have the contracts in place so they can't say we're absolutely have either a contractual commitment or significant progress under the Financial Administration Manual is why it lapses. But I guess can we get a bit of an explanation of why that happened?
Because I know that the GNWT's deferred maintenance backlog is massive. You know, there's different calculations based on needs but it's fair to say it's in the hundreds of millions of dollars. So how on earth are we not spending a million of it? Thank you.
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Courtoreille
Thank you, Madam Chair. The largest reasons -- or the largest reason for the difference is really capacity, and it relates to the previous line of questioning. We typically put to market about $250 million a year in capital, and that's really just a product of the local industry, the construction resources available. And we're also finding that drawing on construction resources from the south is more difficult right now because of the economies that are opening up down south as well. The resources just aren't there. Thank you.
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The Chair Lesa Semmler
Thank you. Department of Infrastructure, operations expenditures, asset management, not previously authorized, $552,000. Does committee agree?
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Lesa Semmler
Department of Infrastructure, operations expenditures, total department, not previously authorized, $552,000. Does committee agree?
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Lesa Semmler
Committee, can you please turn to page 8 now of the tabled document. Legislative Assembly, capital investment expenditures, Office of the Clerk, not previously authorized, $175,000. Does committee agree?
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Lesa Semmler
Thank you. Legislative Assembly, capital investment expenditures, total department, not previously authorized, $175,000. Does committee agree?
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Lesa Semmler
Thank you. Please turn now to page 9.
Department of Education, Culture and Employment, capital investment expenditures, cultural, heritage and language, not previously authorized, $75,000. Does committee agree?
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Lesa Semmler
Department of Education, Culture and Employment, capital investment expenditures, junior kindergarten to grade 12 school services, not previously authorized, $6,549,000. Does committee agree?
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Lesa Semmler
Department of Education, Culture and Employment, capital investment expenditures, total department, not previously authorized, $6,624,000. Does committee agree?
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.