A city-wide meeting was dedicated to the issue of repaying debts for housing and communal services, attended by deputy mayors Sviatoslav Kravchuk and Leonid KyryLchuk, director of the municipal enterprise "Lutskteplo" Anatolii Luchko, directors of housing and communal enterprises, and representatives of the education sector, including secondary specialized and higher education. The traditional reason was the unsatisfactory level of payment for housing and communal services used, both in previous years and for the current one - for January. As Sviatoslav Kravchuk noted, after the elections ended, energy resource companies intensified their work. And, of course, they are most interested not in promises of payment, but in real revenues for energy carriers. Unfortunately, for now Lutsk is not an ideal city in this regard (if such a thing even exists in Ukraine), despite the fact that last year the city established itself as a stable and reliable payer. In Anatolii Luchko's apt expression, Lutsk residents "ate up" the credit limit with both the authorities and gas traders in January, when the level of payment for housing and communal services fell to 72% (for comparison – in 2004 this figure was at 94%).

Deputy Mayor Sviatoslav Kravchuk reminded those present that there are no objective reasons for low payment, wages in the budgetary sector are being paid stably, and the subsidy assignment system is functioning clearly. Therefore, it is difficult to explain, for example, the debt of 300 thousand hryvnias "accumulated" by employees of two universities in Volyn. According to Sviatoslav Kravchuk, the activity of heads of housing and communal enterprises is low, as in the first winter month they filed only 10 lawsuits, which does not correspond at all to the debt picture. Analyzing the situation, the Deputy Mayor once again emphasized that neither the city executive committee, nor the housing and communal enterprises, nor the heads of debtor institutions (who could use intensifying work with their charges to clarify the reasons for non-payment) will solve the problem on their own. Only cooperation in this area will allow the situation to change for the better.

Of course, Lutsk residents can sympathize while watching the news in warm apartments with the residents of Kirovohrad, Zaporizhzhia, and other residents of Eastern Ukraine, where gas pressure has been reduced due to debts. Today nothing prevents the department of NAK "NaftogazUkraine" from reducing gas pressure for Lutsk as well, the consequence of which is also a decrease in temperature in the premises. The latest fax message on the eve of the meeting warned of the arrival of a commission in the city to study the situation with the city's payments for gas, the conclusions of which rarely favor heat consumers. Actually, the issue will be resolved in everyone's favor if everyone follows the algorithm "I receive services – I pay for them."