On May 25, at their press conference, deputies of the Lutsk City Council from the "Our Ukraine" faction expressed dissatisfaction with the coverage by Volyn mass media of the latest council session, reported the Western Information Corporation's own correspondent.
In particular, one of the faction's co-chairmen, Serhiy Havrylyuk, said: "We are not entirely satisfied with the coverage by Volyn media of the events at the latest city council session." The deputies believe that media representatives covered the decisions of the council session only from a perspective favorable to the city mayor and his team. "After the 'Orange Revolution' the ice has broken, deputies are ceasing to be afraid, we can already block council decisions. But, I won't be afraid of this word, the Kuchma system has taken all branches of power, even the judicial one," the deputy stated.
Another co-chairman, Viktor Shostak, declared that the position of the "Our Ukraine" members coincides with the President's position on "ensuring transparency of tariffs." According to the deputies of the "Our Ukraine" faction, the adopted city budget is not entirely transparent. The deputies were not provided with complete information regarding the debts of the Housing and Communal Services Enterprise (more than 13 million hryvnias) and expenditures on capital construction (more than 1 million hryvnias), which were approved as budget expenditures by the latest session of the city council.
Many remarks were made by the deputies regarding the privatization of part of the premises of Music School No. 1, the unfinished pedestrian crossing at the railway station, and the unlit outskirts of the city. As for possible increases in gas and heating tariffs, the deputies consider this inevitable, since energy carrier prices are rising worldwide.