Report on Resources

		Resource Summary by Core Business Areas

Comments

In 2003/04 the ministry received additional funding for direct fire-fighting costs due to the severity of last year's fire season.

BC Timber Sales under-expended their budget by $53 million, which allowed them to return $101 million in net revenue back to government.

Variances reflect the impact of the following:

• Redefinition of costs reported under each Core Business Area;
• The ministry's over-consumption of FTEs utilized for the severe fire season;
• A delay in the start up of new administration for the South Moresby Forest Replacement Account;
• Approved re-distribution of expenditures between Core Business Areas to respond to operational requirements such as softwood lumber legal costs and the response to the Filmon Firestorm 2003 Provincial Review; and
• Adjustments to Government-wide employee benefit liability.