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16 Wednesday February 3 2016 www.auroracollege.nt.ca The Honourable Alfred Moses Minister of Education Culture and Employment is seeking applications from Northwest Territories residents interested in serving as a public member on the Board of Governors for Aurora College. A public member is currently being sought to fill a vacancy from the North Slave Region representing Behchok Gamet Wekweet and What. ApublicmembershareswiththeChairandotherboardmemberstheresponsibilitiesofgoverning the College evaluating policies enabling the Board to make responsible decisions on fiscal and academic matters establishing the purpose and vision of the College and having a commitment to the academic financial and social well-being of the College and to adult learning generally. To be eligible you must be a resident of a community within the North Slave region that you will represent. You should have a demonstrated interest in Northern adult and post-secondary education and an awareness of issues affecting education and the training of adults in the NWT. Interpersonal skills and the ability to deal effectively with other board members and a variety of interest groups are required. Important assets for this position include experience serving on educational committees or committees that support community development experience in community-based and Aboriginal education and research a background in professional andor businessindustry and an understanding of financial matters. Other demonstrated community service experience would also be an asset. Appointment A public member is appointed for a term of three years. Board members are required to attend three face to face meetings a year for two to three days and members are required to sit on board committees which meet either in person or by teleconference between meetings. There is no salary available with these appointments. Honouraria and travel expenses according to GNWT policies plus designated per diem rates are paid when members attend meetings. If you are interested in this unique opportunity please forward a resume and a letter of interest outlining your reasons for wanting to sit on the Board by February 19 2016 to Heather Meacock Executive Assistant to the President Aurora College Board of Governors Box 1290 Fort Smith NT X0E 0P0 Phone 867 872-7009 Fax 867 872-5143 Email hmeacockauroracollege.nt.ca www.auroracollege.nt.ca PUBLIC MEMBER REQUIRED North Slave Region AURORA COLLEGE BOARD OF GOVERNORS www.auroracollege.nt.ca The Honourable Alfred Moses Minister of Education Culture and Employment is seeking applications from Northwest Territories residents interested in serving as a public member on the Board of Governors for Aurora College. A public member is currently being sought to fill a vacancy fromtheSahtuRegionrepresentingNormanWellsTultaDlnColvilleLakeandFortGoodHope. ApublicmembershareswiththeChairandotherboardmemberstheresponsibilitiesofgoverning the College evaluating policies enabling the Board to make responsible decisions on fiscal and academic matters establishing the purpose and vision of the College and having a commitment to the academic financial and social well-being of the College and to adult learning generally. To be eligible you must be a resident of a community within the Sahtu region that you will represent. You should have a demonstrated interest in Northern adult and post-secondary education and an awareness of issues affecting education and the training of adults in the NWT. Interpersonal skills and the ability to deal effectively with other board members and a variety of interest groups are required. Important assets for this position include experience serving on educational committees or committees that support community development experience in community-based and Aboriginal education and research a background in professional andor businessindustry and an understanding of financial matters. Other demonstrated community service experience would also be an asset. Appointment A public member is appointed for a term of three years. Board members are required to attend three face to face meetings a year for two to three days and members are required to sit on board committees which meet either in person or by teleconference between meetings. There is no salary available with these appointments. Honouraria and travel expenses according to GNWT policies plus designated per diem rates are paid when members attend meetings. If you are interested in this unique opportunity please forward a resume and a letter of interest outlining your reasons for wanting to sit on the Board by February 19 2016 to Heather Meacock Executive Assistant to the President Aurora College Board of Governors Box 1290 Fort Smith NT X0E 0P0 Phone 867 872-7009 Fax 867 872-5143 Email hmeacockauroracollege.nt.ca www.auroracollege.nt.ca PUBLIC MEMBER REQUIRED Sahtu Region AURORA COLLEGE BOARD OF GOVERNORS By CRAIG GILBERT An infrastructure infusion from the fed- eral government seems so likely the GNWT has been asked to submit even more projects for consideration. Speaking via conference call from a mining gathering in Vancouver on Jan. 26 Premier Bob McLeod said the GNWT is still work- ing on a wish list for a second submission. Three major priorities were put in about 18 months ago ongoing maintenance of the existing road network extending the all- weather road network north into the Slave Geological Province SGP and building a per- manent link between Highway 3 and Whati. The GNWT has also applied for funding to build the Mackenzie Valley highway from Wrigley to Norman Wells. We have it in writing that Prime Minis- ter Trudeau and the federal government is committed to investing in infrastructure he said. The Building Canada fund announced by the previous government provided for 28 million a year or about 260 million over 10 years and the current government of Can- ada has asked us to provide more projects be- cause of the fact theyve doubled the amount of money thats available. Were waiting for that process to be unveiled and were look- ing forward to these infrastructure projects going forward. Highways command the vast majority of the department of Transportations DOT at- tention. Of the 6.6 billion in infrastructure needs identied over the next 20 years high- ways account for 5.5 billion. There are more than 2200 kilometres of road and 100 bridges in the numbered highway system alone and vehicles logged 167.7 million kilometres on them in 2014. Ongoing maintenance of the existing road system is the most signicant item in the DOT budget as much of it was built to minimum standards in the 1960s through the federal Roads to Resources program. The highway system has the greatest level of outstanding capital needs of all GNWT infrastructure categories the govern- ments 2015-2040 transportation strategy reads. Highway Functional Assessments completed in 2014 indicate that signicant reconstruction eorts are required across the system. Another priority is linking more of the population to year-round road access. In 2014 only 12 communities or just more than a third of those in the NWT had such a con- nection and another six have seasonally in- terrupted access to the permanent highway system. About a third of the population is served only by winter roads. The plan in the 1960s was to either build a road up the Mackenzie Valley to serve the comunities or alternativley build a road into the SGP that would angle northeast into Nun- avut terminating at a future port in Bathurst Inlet on the Arctic coast. Those two compet- ing road plans continue to alternate places as the rst priority today. The communities along the Mackenzie still want road access and there is continued pressure from indus- try to convert the winter road north of Yel- lowknife to all-weather. Both are very costly. McLeod met with Yukon cabinet ministers at the Vancouver conference who are look- ing at improving access through the How- ards Pass Access Road a private road run- ning from Selwyn Chihong Mining Ltd.s zinc mine to the Yukon border then south through the Sahtu and Dehcho before connecting to the Nahanni Range Road back in the Yukon. It was built in the late 1970s and Selwyn Chihong spent more than 13 million in 2014 to upgrade it to a one-lane all-season road. The company has applied to the Mackenzie Land and Water Board to upgrade it again to a two-lane all-season road. Were looking at those potential infrastruc- ture projects as well McLeod said. GNWT highway priorities remain tied to resources Cars Trucks and Roads in the NWT - The Northern Journals Annual Auto Section Much of the NWTs highway network was built in the 1950s and 60s to access mineral resources. Today the motivation to build roads is still driven by underground treasure. PhotocourtesyofGNWT