Repairs and replacements for community learning centres need to be a higher priority, several MLAs reinforced to Patterk Netser, minister responsible for Nunavut Arctic College, on Monday.

Netser presented the collegeSA国际影视传媒檚 $10.6 million proposed 2020-21 capital budget for approval in the legislative assembly. The largest single allotment SA国际影视传媒� $8.5 million SA国际影视传媒� will go toward ongoing construction of the new Kitikmeot campus building in Cambridge Bay.

While some MLAs lauded that initiative, they urged the minister to fix eight community learning centres in various communities, some very old, some overcrowded.

Aggu MLA Paul Quassa pointed out that the regular MLAs made that concern clear during last yearSA国际影视传媒檚 budget cycle.

Netser replied that he only took over the Nunavut Arctic College portfolio in June.

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Quassa, who said some facilities are in such poor condition that safety could be an issue, insisted the minister and his staff should quickly finish visiting the learning centres in every community to assess the structures.

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