At the Lutsk City Hall, at a regular meeting of the "Lutsk European" press club, initiated by the heads of Lutsk's housing and communal enterprises, the optimization of tariffs for housing and adjacent territory maintenance was considered.
Utility workers describe the situation that has developed in Lutsk with housing stock maintenance as critical. Current funding allows for mostly emergency repairs only. In order to maintain the minimum defined in the list of services that form the apartment fee tariff, there is an urgent need to increase the charges. Since 2002, this tariff was 37 kopecks per square meter for buildings without elevators and 50 kopecks for buildings with elevators. Since then, almost all components of the tariff have become more expensive, and the minimum wage has increased. Therefore, they propose to more than double the tariff, respectively 88 kopecks/sq.m for buildings without elevators and 1 hryvnia and 8 kopecks for buildings with elevators. Utility workers say they see no other way.
Although, in their opinion, apartment owners have a choice – to manage themselves or to hire private structures.