Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, let me see if -- oh, you know what, somebody has it in front of them. May I direct it to assistant deputy minister MacKay.

Thank you. I'll go to the ADM.

Thank you. I'll go back to the Member from the Great Slave.

Thank you. And I assume this is across the whole of the GNWT, but could the Minister please tell me what communities, what facilities, this will apply to in this go-around for this capital asset retrofit fund? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, let me see if I can kind a list (audio). I think everyone is -- the work plan for 2025-2026, Mr. Chair, we have a -- there are some items that are in Gameti, the school, then Gameti has some upgrading. Yellowknife is getting upgrading to the Tatsaoti'ne building, a district heating system. Fort McPherson, Chief Julius School, heat recovery optimization. Sachs Harbour's school is getting heating upgrades. There's some funding allotted for LED lighting upgrades in both fthe Sahtu and South Slave that's yet to be completely finalized. Deh Cho, Fort Simpson, again lighting upgrades. Wrigley, Chief Julian Yendo School lighting upgrades. And then some O and M money set aside to support the LED projects that I've just been describing. Thank you.

Thank you. I'll go to the Member from Great Slave.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And can the Minister speak more to why some of the projects in some of the communities or facilities have not yet been defined; why are we asking for money for projects that aren't yet defined? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, this is one of the areas where there's a funding pot that is in existence, and it remains there at all times even when perhaps projects are not yet defined. So it's an effort to ensure that we're distributing those funds equitably across different regions but at the same time trying to identify projects that are able to move ahead in any one particular year. So the projects that we have now been identified and scoped and are more ready to go, there's others that we're certainly, you know, again hoping to get that money out the door and just wanting to keep some held back so that it can be accessible to different regions when or if a project gets identified. Thank you.

Thank you. I'm going to go to the Member from Great Slave.

Thank, Mr. Chair. So I can appreciate that answer, but if we haven't decided by the time that we're in this House I just -- I don't understand why we would assign money to a hope. Wouldn't we want to come back the next year? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, these are fairly small-scale projects. For example, some of the projects I was describing are under $100,000 or sitting at around $250,000, and for lighting, it's not -- those aren't necessarily projects that are, you know, significant. Heating upgrades, similarly $100,000. So my point with that simply being that while we don't necessarily have everything lined up at this point early on, this is for the 2025-2026 season which does provide a fair bit of time and a fair bit of room to still maneuver, so there will be some money that could lapse certainly but at the same time not -- yes, I mean, wanting to have a little bit of flexibility. Again, the projects themselves, we're talking about LED bulbs and biomass boilers, but particularly the LED bulbs, it is expected that the money can be spent. I can certainly look back and confirm to what extent this set pot does get spent every year versus not. I'm happy to do that.

Thank you. I'm going to go to the Member from Great Slave.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yeah, if the Minister could provide some information to committee on that, that would be greatly appreciated. And, yeah, I don't know if I agree with her characterization that these are small amounts of money, especially when we're looking for every little bit of money we can. So I'll just leave that as a comment. Thank you.

Thank you. I'm going to go to the Member from Monfwi.

Thank you. Thank you. For Dehk'e, Frank Channel bridge, it says estimated completion date 2027-2028. So when is the actual construction going to start for the Frank Channel bridge? I know the last time they said it was going to be last fiscal year. It didn't happen. So now when is the actual -- is there a timeframe for when the construction's going to begin for this project? Thank you.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, this project certainly was -- did get to -- or was delayed over the last short while. I can say that at this point there's been some positive developments that at this point we are working with the Tlicho-Kiewit partnership, and it is expected that there's going to be a start-up project -- start-up discussions have already begun. This -- for this year, this concurrent year, there's a production of aggregate underway and the next stages would have an estimated completion date -- I believe the construction itself will start in 2026, so in the next fiscal, with a completion date -- again, tentatively at this point, but '27 -- it's in the fiscal of 2027-2028.

Thank you. I'll go to the Member from Monfwi.

Well, that's a long time because we know that Frank Channel bridge, there's a lot of people that are concerned about the Frank Channel bridge, you know, even to travel on it. And, like, this -- our school buses go on it every day. And I know I talked to some of the residents. They were really concerned. They said they don't feel comfortable travelling on the Frank Channel bridge. And I thought, you know, the last time, when the other Minister was here, she did say that it was going to start last fiscal year 2024-2025 and to date, it's -- I mean, 2027-2028. So it's a long time to wait, especially for, you know, the condition of the Frank Channel bridge is a concern for a lot of our own community members and it's being used every day. You know, people travel on it and the big trucks travel on it to Yellowknife. So it's just a little disappointing because I know a lot of people have been asking in Behchoko too that, you know -- even in Tlicho region -- when are they going to start the constructions, because they did hear that too because it was said by the previous Minister as well too, so. And it's good that, you know, plow, dump truck in Behchoko, and it's -- so that's going to be -- that's for 2025-2026 fiscal year. So when is it -- when are they going to get this -- like, how many dump truck they're going to get for -- to maintain the Highway No. 3? Is it just only for the Highway No. 3 or within the community access?