Finance committee  One of the things that I hear from residents who attended is that it's structured so that you call to make a counselling appointment, and you go to your appointment and it's for an hour, regardless of what stage you are at. You've just disclosed this terrible trauma you've experi

Finance committee  It's called the Aspen Apartments, and it's a 36-unit apartment building. It has been empty since 2019. They were looking to transfer it to a local NGO, but the way the transfer program works, the NGO was going to have to put $4.5 million on their books as a liability. For the NGO

Finance committee  The City of Yellowknife has four different ideas that we're looking to pursue. Two of them include motel transformations into single-use apartments. The other one is an old office building that's now vacant. There are 10 storeys that could be transformed into residential units. T

Finance committee  Thanks for the question. Yes. We were definitely grateful for that top-up. We have a lot coming up in our capital plan. It's not those sexy projects that all taxpayers love to talk about. It's our sewage lagoon, sludge removal and waste management. They're not cheap projects,

Finance committee  The discussion that happens in the north is that there are multiple throughout. Here in Yellowknife, we had the Arctic Indigenous Wellness Foundation recently begin. It's now in its third or fourth year and has great success, but it has no core funding. It's really important. Me

Finance committee  Thank you very much. On behalf of the City of Yellowknife, thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak to you today. My name is Rebecca Alty, and I am the mayor of Yellowknife. In our August 2020 brief, we included five recommendations, but since then, we have added two mo