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2008 Premier’s Award
MACA Recipients
Sabrina Broadhead – Premier's Award for Excellence
The Premier’s Award for Excellence recognizes and rewards the outstanding achievements of individuals and teams within the Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) who continue to strive for excellence, best practice management and improvements in the workplace. This year, the Premier acknowledged Ms. Sabrina Broadhead of Hay River.
Over her 22 years of service with MACA, Ms. Broadhead has developed and sustained credibility with community governments and leaders through her dedicated efforts. Her expertise has also helped communities identify resources and skills needed to address local issues and implement solutions. Ms. Broadhead has improved community involvement levels in developing government policy, processes and decisions and initiated major changes that benefit the communities.
New Deal Capital Planning Task Team and Administrator’s Working Group - Collaboration Award
The Premier’s Collaboration Award recognizes the outstanding achievement of GNWT employees who work in partnership with other government and non-government employees to improve services for NWT residents. This year, the Premier acknowledged the New Deal Planning Task Team Administrator’s Group, which included:
Thomas Beard, MACA, Yellowknife |
The New Deal Capital Planning Task Team and Administrator’s Working Group showed considerable collaboration to achieve outstanding transformations for communities. Over a three-year period, the New Deal Administrators task team, which included MACA staff and senior administrators from the NWT Association of Communities and three community governments, led the development and implementation of a capital funding formula for NWT community governments.
The task team’s work resulted in a new approach to providing infrastructure for 33 NWT communities. For the first time, all communities have the ability to make decisions about their own infrastructure priorities. This was a huge policy shift for the GNWT about how infrastructure is provided to communities.
The Capital Planning Task Team then worked with communities to develop capital investment plans, supporting the implementation of the New Deal. The considerable collaboration shown by the various Parties involved resulted in a more effective way of doing business.