Ms. Young.
Debates of Feb. 28th, 2023
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Young
Madam Chair, there's a variety of stages that communities are at with regards to their planning, asset management planning. So 15 communities are at a preparation stage; five are in the data collection stage; six are in the training stage; and six are using their plan that is developed. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Kevin O'Reilly Frame Lake
Thanks, Madam Chair. Yeah, boy, that's -- only six have plans in place and they're using them. That's a lot of catchup. Are the ones that have them in place and they're using them, is it the tax-based communities, or is it a mix, or where are we at? Thanks, Madam Chair.
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Young
Thank you, Madam Chair. It looks to be a mix of communities. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Kevin O'Reilly Frame Lake
Okay. And thanks, Madam Chair. Yeah, and look, I don't want to single out any communities. I just don't think that's terribly helpful at this point. But what specific support then do we offer to help communities get their plans in place and know how to monitor and use them? Thanks.
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Shane Thompson Nahendeh
Thank you. So we do have the training through the school of community government. That's provided to municipalities. We also have regional staff that work with the communities on that. So, again, it's a very lengthy process, and we work together with them at the speed of the communities. So, again, depending on the community's speed, where they want to be and the availability of the staff, that's how we work on it. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Kevin O'Reilly Frame Lake
Okay, thanks, Madam Chair. I guess I was wondering do we have, like circuit riders; people that you send out to the communities to work with them on this? Do we have templates of the documents that people can just use as a basis for putting these things together? And, you know, how much money do we actually devote to this? Thanks, Madam Chair.
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Shane Thompson Nahendeh
So we have four staff that are actually to do that. But we had vacancies. We just filled the two, and we're working on filling the other two. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Kevin O'Reilly Frame Lake
Okay, thanks, Madam Chair. Do we actually have, like, document templates that people can use and they can plug their information into? The four staff, is this the only thing that they do, or do they have lots of other stuff on their plates? And, you know, is there money for travel in and out of the communities? I'm just trying to get a sense of what the support is. Thanks, Madam Chair.
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Gareau
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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Kevin O'Reilly Frame Lake
Thanks, Madam Chair. I didn't think I was going to go this deep on this dive but, look, if we don't have -- if we only have six communities that actually have a completed asset management plans and they're using them, how can we calculate a municipal funding gap? Thanks, Madam Chair.
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