A Public Council of Lutsk has been created in the regional center of Volyn. As reported by the authorized representative of the assembly of the public council of Lutsk, Mykola Nikitiuk, the creation of this organization was preceded by several weeks of negotiations between leaders and representatives of 14 public organizations of Lutsk regarding the creation of the Public Council of Lutsk. A particularly heated discussion arose during the consideration of the statute of the future public association. The Public Council of Lutsk includes representatives of various spectra of Lutsk's public life — left, right, centrist, and openly apolitical. According to Mykola Nikitiuk, today the issues of development and improvement of Lutsk are carried out without consideration of public opinion, authoritarianly; no one has witnessed tenders being held to determine the best options for carrying out certain works or the best contractors for them. One gets the impression that for some reason they fear the development of public self-governance and a competitive environment in the activities of the city community's leaders. That is precisely why the idea of creating the Public Council of Lutsk arose. There are already certain developments in the work of the Public Council. As reported by Mykola Nikitiuk, an appeal has already been adopted to the city council with a proposal to rename Kuibyshev Street to Gongadze Street. The Public Council has appealed to the Lutsk City Council, the regional council, and the Lypynska village council of Lutsk district with an initiative to create in Lutsk, near the St. Nicholas Church, a memorial park for Ukrainians — victims of the totalitarian regime in the past century. Also, at the request of Lutsk residents, the council appealed to the city council with a proposal to extend the route of minibus No. 15 or 15A to the Northern Market and to open a new circular route — Old Market-Vyshkivske intersection-automobile plant. Reference: The following public organizations joined the Public Council of Lutsk: Volyn Regional Committee of Youth Organizations, Union of Young Socialists, Volyn Association of Engineers, Volyn Branch of the public organization "Public Control", Forum of Young Deputies of Volyn, Consumer Rights Protection Union, Ukrainian Student Union, Union of Ukrainian Youth, Volyn Regional Fund for Investment and Development, Volyn Branch of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine, Young Movement of Volyn, Association of Veteran Rocket Forces, public organization of labor and military service veterans "European Integration Fund".