Significant discrepancies between the statements and the real first steps of the new Lutsk authorities headed by city mayor Bohdan Shyba and the parliamentary majority of representatives of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc in the city council continue to cause surprise. Deputies from the "Reforms and Order" party Dmytro Moskvych and Oleksandr Martyniuk have already informed journalists about the paradoxical situation that has developed with the city budget funds planned for financing energy-saving measures in educational institutions. According to an interview with the city mayor in the "Volyn-nova" newspaper, active measures for re-equipping energy supply systems in the city's budgetary institutions are planned for the summer, but a few days later, not without the mayor's involvement, a draft amendment to the city budget appeared, in which the already meager funds for energy saving were proposed to be withdrawn for other needs. The vivid rhetoric of the city's leaders also concentrates on the topic of communal property. This concerns the creation of a register of communal property objects, a review of approaches to privatization in the direction of increasing the transparency of privatization processes and effective management in the city. And again reality takes its toll: at the city council session held on June 3, at the last moment, in violation of the temporary Regulations of the council, a draft decision appeared on including two shops in the list for sale: "Kvity" on Peremohy Avenue and "Lileia" on Medviediev Street. The draft was supported by a reliable majority of representatives of the BYuT and "Our Ukraine" factions, while the proposal of deputies from the PRP regarding the unacceptability of such a decision was ignored. "The motivation that someone will take the objects away through court and sell them for a pittance," says deputy Dmytro Moskvych, "does not withstand any criticism. The shops belong to the communal enterprise 'Flora-service,' look decent and are not loss-making; after their sale, the communal enterprise 'Flora-service' may lose its last mechanisms for selling its products and go bankrupt. Several dozen people will be left without work, and Lutsk flower beds will become overgrown with weeds." The enterprise did indeed owe another communal structure, "Lutskteplo," several hundred thousand hryvnias, but the debts did not arise of their own free will. Approximately the same amount was not paid by the city executive committee for services provided by "Flora-service," of which about one hundred thousand hryvnias were for the last few months. Thus the motivation for the city council's decision is at least unclear, if not prompting reflection on a possible interest on the part of potential buyers, realized through the community's elected representatives. Representatives of the PRP in the city council also critically assess the proposed structure of the city council's executive bodies with artificial superstructures in the form of departments, whose significance and functional essence none of the authors of the proposed innovations was able to explain to the deputies. And the decision to halt the construction of the railway crossing, according to deputies from "Reforms and Order," is not explained by any economic logic at all.