Thank you. Minister of MACA.
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Kevin O'Reilly Frame Lake
Thanks, Madam Chair. Maybe I'll just be really specific here then. Is there actually going to be any land transferred from GNWT to the City of Yellowknife before the end of this Assembly? Thanks.
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Gareau
Thank you, Madam Chair. The work that we've been doing has been ongoing for a number of years, and we anticipate it will take a while yet. There are a number of partners involved. It's not just MACA's timeline. There's the City of Yellowknife. You know, they have quite a bit of business of their own that doesn't always involve this project. There's YKDFN as well. They have their timeline. You know, we are certainly hoping to get this done in the life of this Assembly but some of the timing is out of MACA's hands, because it's with partners, and it's also dependent on their timing and priorities. Thank you.
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Kevin O'Reilly Frame Lake
Okay, thanks for that. And I'll probably have some questions closer to the end of this Assembly. Thanks, Madam Chair.
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The Chair Lesa Semmler
Thank you. Are there any further questions under community governance? Member for Great Slave.
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Katrina Nokleby Great Slave
Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm just curious of the 12 positions that are located at headquarters for this area. Is there a plan to move any of these positions out of the capital, and also are many of them vacant? Thank you.
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Shane Thompson Nahendeh
No, there's no plans to move any of these positions out. And the vacancy, I think there's two or three. But we can get back to committee with the further detail, that number. Thank you.
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Katrina Nokleby Great Slave
Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess just the fact that it is community governance, it seems kind of ironic that there aren't any members or workers in the communities. So just more of a comment there.
Can the Minister or the department speak around the number for the community planning? I guess my question here is that we have seen -- there was a large or more amount there, sorry, in the 2021-2022 actuals; however, it has stayed steady the last two years and it's a little bit less. Given that we sort of talked a lot about wanting to empower communities and they do have a lot of responsibility for their own disaster mitigation as we learned through the flooding, or disaster planning, can the Minister or department speak to whether we're going to see an increase in funding here coming forward? Thank you.
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Katrina Nokleby Great Slave
Thank you, Madam Chair. Would this not be where the work on the community plans would fall under? Thank you.
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Gareau
Thank you, Madam Chair. As the Minister noted, we don't have any funding increases for staff in these main estimates, and there's no requests being brought forward. However, we are looking at internally where we do need additional support, and community planning is definitely a key area. It drives several other activities in the department, everything from location of infrastructure to, you know, supporting communities for climate change to, you know, helping, you know, attract new business and, you know, make homes available for residents. So it's a very important area. We are looking for options to increase positions in this area by approaching the federal government. But those plans are very, very preliminary, and we don't have any more to report at there time. Thank you.
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