The committee met at 8:20 a.m.

Election of Chair and Deputy Chair

S. Sourial (Clerk Assistant, Committees and Interparliamentary Relations): Good morning, committee members. As this is our first meeting of the fifth session for the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services — and welcome, everybody, to the committee — the first order of business is to elect a Chair.

Do I have any nominations?

N. Simons: I nominate Bob.

S. Sourial (Clerk Assistant): Do you accept, Bob?

B. D’Eith: Yes, I accept. Thank you very much.

S. Sourial (Clerk Assistant): Any further nominations? Any further nominations? Third time?

Motion approved.

[B. D’Eith in the chair.]

S. Sourial (Clerk Assistant): Mr. Chair, congratulations.

B. D’Eith (Chair): All right. Thank you very much.

Next up we have the election of the….

Interjection.

B. D’Eith (Chair): Oh yes. Thank you, Nicholas, for your nomination, and thank you, Donna, for listening to him when nobody else does. Okay….

Interjection.

B. D’Eith (Chair): I know, and that’s on the record.

So election of the Deputy Chair. Do I have a nomination?

D. Barnett: I nominate Doug Clovechok.

B. D’Eith (Chair): We have a nomination. Seconded.

Any other nominations? Any other nominations? Any other nominations?

Motion approved.

B. D’Eith (Chair): Thank you. Well done.

Budget Consultation Planning and
Review of Statutory Officers Planning

B. D’Eith (Chair): Okay. Next up we have 2020 planning. Wow — 2020, the fourth one we’ve done.

For the Budget 2021 consultation, did you want to talk about it?

S. Sourial (Clerk Assistant): I just wanted to check in with Kate, if she’d like to go first and do the statutory officers, just in case.

B. D’Eith (Chair): Yeah. Then you don’t have to stay around.

K. Ryan-Lloyd (Acting Clerk of the Legislative Assembly): That would be great. Thank you, Members.

We have prepared, with Karan’s assistance, a number of preliminary working documents. Much of these details are somewhat administrative in nature. If you’d like, we can continue on the public record, or we can have an in-camera review of these draft materials, with respect to planning for the spring.

B. D’Eith (Chair): Motion to go in camera?

N. Simons: So moved.

Motion approved.

The committee continued in camera from 8:22 a.m. to 9:28 a.m.

[B. D’Eith in the chair.]

B. D’Eith (Chair): Okay, we’re out of in camera. Before we break for today, I didn’t have an opportunity to welcome our new member, Donna Barnett, to the committee.

Thank you for joining.

I also wanted to thank Dan Ashton for his service over the last few years. I really enjoyed working with him, and I’m really looking forward to working with Doug as the new Deputy Chair. I’m sure we’ll get a lot done.

Motion to adjourn.

Motion approved.

The committee adjourned at 9:29 a.m.