Where does strength lie, voter? A deputy's strength lies in the truth!

On April 10, another session of the city council of Kivertsi, Volyn Oblast, took place. At the session, the mayor's report on the work of the executive committee of the city council was heard; at the initiative of the deputy group of V. Yushchenko's bloc "Our Ukraine" - "Our City," a proposal was submitted to strengthen control over compliance with legislation by the managers of discos and bars that have been granted permission by the city council to carry out their activities. The session also approved new market fee rates, adopted decisions "On the fee for issuing permits for the placement of trade and service sector facilities," "On carrying out work on the delimitation of state and communal property lands," "On the city council's accession to the Association of Ukrainian Cities," terminated the right of permanent use of a land plot of the former giant enterprise whose products (artistic parquet) were known throughout the world — OJSC "Kivertsi DOK," which became the next victim of privatization. With the assistance of the deputy group, decisions were sent back for revision: "On issues regarding the management of communal property objects of the territorial community of the city" due to non-compliance with legislation and logic of some articles of the appendices (it is worth noting that the decision was adopted at sessions of the oblast and raion councils). The council unanimously supported the proposals of the deputy group regarding the non-acceptance of the land plot from SMP "Kivertsiagrobud" until recultivation is carried out there, and the replacement in the draft decision "On discussion of the draft Law of Ukraine 'On Amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine'" of the proposal "to approve" with "to take into account."

Under the "Miscellaneous" item, the possibility of discounted transportation for pensioners within the city, the problem of youth drug addiction and the sale of alcohol to children were discussed; deputies expressed views on the possibility of creating an Order Guard.

The deputy group failed to defend the non-introduction of amendments to the regulations, including the point "Deputies have the right to publish materials and decisions prepared on their behalf" (as a consequence — they do not have the right to publish materials and decisions prepared by other deputies).

The incident of the session was the issue of transferring the city stadium for shared use to the Public Organization "Sports Club 'Volyn-1'." The problem is as follows: during the parliamentary campaign, the enterprise "Volynlis" (which supported the "For YeDU" bloc) undertook the reconstruction of the stadium; as a result, soil was removed and benches were dismantled. The elections ended, and with them — the reconstruction that had begun, for which not even the necessary documents had been processed. In the autumn of 2002, the city council adopted a decision on shared use of the stadium with SC "Volyn-1," but the deputy group expressed remarks regarding the proposed text of the agreement, which consisted of changing the point that provided for holding sports competitions without SC "Volyn-1" only by agreement of the parties. That is, if a public organization, school, etc. applies to the executive committee, and SC "Volyn-1" does not give consent (the circumstances under which consent is not given are not stipulated), then the executive committee will not be able to do anything. In addition, the agreement does not include a plan for the investment of funds, and the stadium is transferred free of charge for 20 years! The essence of the incident: on April 10 (the day of the session), the deputy head of the raion state administration came with a proposal to include in the agenda the issue of transferring the stadium and approving the agreement. The proposal was not supported; the main argument was that the draft decision had not been discussed at any commission, which is a violation of the regulations. The official from the raion state administration was not satisfied with such a position of the council, and during the break he conducted active "persuasive negotiations" with the deputies. After the break, the issue was nevertheless included in the agenda, after which the mayor read the draft agreement, in which the point regarding the use of the stadium without the public organization had not been changed, but which provided for a business plan as an integral part of the agreement. When the head of the deputy group "Our Ukraine"-"Our City," Oleksandr Melnychuk, emphasized the unchanged nature of the disputed point and the absence of a business plan as such, and proposed to consider this issue in a month, the deputy head of the raion state administration displayed "telepathic abilities" by saying that the words of the head of the deputy group should not be taken literally but read between the lines, and that in reality the deputy does not want improvement but is looking for ways to make things worse. And the representative of SC "Volyn-1" asserted that no business plan would be submitted, since such a document is needed when taking a loan from a bank, and in this situation it is irrelevant. In the end, a decision was adopted to postpone consideration of the issue for 6 days, for which a commission was created.