Thank you, Madam Chair. Yeah, so there's several stages of doing the asset management work. The frontend piece is a -- it's information gathering. So, you know, so the community government gathers all the information on its assets. MACA also has information it gathers. You know, the preparedness piece is a big part of it. Just gathering all the information, determining what tool is best for which community; you know, do they need -- do they need a spreadsheet or do they need a full compute program. You know, like, the City of Yellowknife is going to be different than -- you know, they're going to need a different asset management system than a smaller community. There can be a lengthy data collection process depending on the community government and what tool they're using. There's -- could be software training. So there's several steps, and MACA does support them throughout all of that work. Using funding from Federation of Canada Municipalities, the NWTAC is looking at options and templates for asset management plans. And we have been working with select communities to pilot those plans. As well, last November the NWTAC along with MACA and ENR and Infrastructure, hosted an asset management and climate change conference and funding was provided to each community government to send two representatives to that to assist with the training and with their training on the importance of asset management, what it is and how to do it. So MACA has several tools in place and supports in place to help community governments with this, recognizing they are at very different stages of work on their work to get their asset management plans in place. Thank you.
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Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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