Lutsk Mayor Anton Kryvytskyi believes that the unused reserve for the city's development lies not in financial and material resources, but in civic activity and initiative. The presidential elections in Ukraine made it possible to demonstrate the influence and significance of citizens' active stance, when the community felt that their opinion and their actions could really influence the situation. In this connection, Anton Kryvytskyi directed the department of internal policy toward ideological work as a priority. There is hardly likely to be a better opportunity to direct citizens' activity for the benefit of the city and each resident personally, he believes. Attention must also be paid to fostering self-respect among citizens. It consists in the active stance of every Lutsk resident in identifying certain actions that contradict moral or legal norms, but which, unfortunately, still occur constantly. These are situations such as being shortchanged in a store, poor service in a restaurant, inattention to people with disabilities on public transport, etc. Through information about such facts, the "offending" institutions or individuals will receive negative citywide publicity. Therefore, they will be forced to improve the quality of their services. In short, the effective force of change in society is civic activity, whose resource until recently was not fully used.
The mayor also focused the attention of those present on the need to step up work with citizens' appeals. From the departments that have perhaps the largest number of appeals and complaints "with beards" [long-pending], Anton Fedorovych demands consideration of the latter within a five-day period, after consultations with deputies, if such are necessary. And he will personally devote weekends to resolving the most complex ones. Overall, he noted that the intensification of work will not be burdensome for the apparatus staff. Such an incentive could be a general meeting of city executive committee employees, at which both the quality of work of each department and of each employee with citizens' appeals will be assessed.
The mayor is also concerned about budget revenues, which so far cannot meet minimum requirements. As of today, the shortfall is significant – UAH 1 million. And there are no objective reasons – both industrial production volumes are high and wages are paid on time. According to the mayor, the work of the tax authorities should be stepped up.
Payment for housing and communal services does not lose relevance, especially in light of events in some cities of Ukraine, where, due to disconnection for debts, schools are forced to hold unscheduled holidays. Debt for housing and communal services in the city has decreased by 60% over the past year alone. However, the low level of payment for January is grounds for stepping up work on utility payments. Despite this, the Lutsk mayor warned energy resource companies against manipulating valves and switches. As was the case with the power cut to the dormitory of the "Lutskplastmas" plant. There are debtors there, but 85% of residents pay for services. The way out of the situation lies in individual work with non-payers, especially since there is a technical possibility of depriving individual consumers of electricity supply services