The Lutsk Central Park of Culture and Recreation is the only one in Ukraine that has practiced a collective form of management since 1999. The integral property complex covering an area of 60 hectares has been taken on lease. Before that, the park was communal property. It was subsidized from the local budget and was a loss-making facility. Only in the first year of the lease, thanks to the investments of the co-owners and persistent work, the operation of the attractions was fully restored and the park reached a minimal profit. Gross income doubled.
According to the lease agreement, the park took on obligations that are not traditional for a park economy. Namely – all communal works: cleaning the territory, garbage removal, cleaning of channels, care of green plantings. The administration took upon itself the payment of all utility bills. This ensured savings of budget funds in the amount of 400 thousand hryvnias per year. Also, the park gives all those willing its territory for haymaking. Thus, both pet owners and the park benefit, for which mowing the grass (a procedure that is not so costly in terms of money as it requires constant monitoring) is one of the mandatory components of landscaping.
Since last year, the park administration has been working on updating the attraction equipment, which has practically outlived its usefulness and needs replacement. The oldest attraction is neither more nor less – 43 years old (year of manufacture – 1962), and the attractions were last updated in 1985. Equipment of this type is made to order and is quite expensive. To update the entire complex, about 5 million hryvnias are needed. Today, the attraction complex of the Lutsk park consists of 12 facilities, and all of them are at the service of Lutsk residents and guests of the city. Every year all attractions are inspected by a special commission, and if it does not give permission – the attractions are not operated. This year it did not find a single carousel that is dangerous for visitors of the recreation complex.
Before the opening of this year's season, the park administration purchased the "Waltz" attraction for credit funds at a cost of 270 thousand hryvnias. The administration hopes that the costs will pay off in 2-3 seasons. Much depends on weather conditions. There is also an intention to gradually renew the main composition of attraction equipment over 5 years. For example, next year it is planned to purchase in Kremenchuk a four-seat attraction with the promising name "Super-duper". It is worth adding that an agreement has been reached between the administration and the city authorities on the possibility of joint financing.
Since recently, the park (namely the administrative premises and the attraction complex itself) has been guarded by employees of a specialized private firm. Their presence allows the park administration to build new far-reaching plans for arranging the recreation area. Thus, by June 1, it is planned to light the alleys of mass movement of vacationers and to provide sound to the entire attraction zone. As noted at an off-site press conference on the topic "Summer Season and Urban Recreation Zones" by the first deputy mayor Sviatoslav Kravchuk, the hardest thing is not to restore but to preserve the restored facilities in good condition. Confirmation of this thesis can be served by a rather long list of barbaric behavior of individual city residents: repeatedly broken streetlights, broken benches are evidence of this.
In the end, it is worth noting that in the park, attractions are at the service of guests from 12 to 20:30 daily, and on Sunday they work from 10 in the morning until the last visitor.