Goals and main actions in 2004
Continuing a consistent policy of implementing the task of rational mutual placement of the main elements of the functional planning structure and expanding the scale of development of the city's economic complex, including production, the scientific and information base, social and engineering and transport infrastructure, it is necessary to carry out a comprehensive assessment of the territory, which allows, on the basis of the application of state norms and standards, to establish social, environmental, economic, engineering-technical and other needs and restrictions and, consequently, appropriate types and scales of its use. The rational side of this issue is the coordination of the interests of citizens, the territorial community, and the state.In building a democratic society, when fundamental reforms and transformations are taking place in Ukraine, the problem of a new concept for the development of the city becomes relevant, as the city has always been and is the center of socio-economic, political and cultural life and at the same time concentrates all the contradictions and problems of society as a whole. Taking into account today's realities, it should be noted that the socio-economic development of the city is possible upon achievement of the chosen strategies through new modern mechanisms for implementing the planned plans.
The policy of local self-government bodies in 2004 will be aimed at strengthening the positive trends in the city's economic development observed during 2000-2003, as well as achieving tangible qualitative changes in the social and economic spheres.
The strategic goals of the city's socio-economic development are:
- consolidation of macroeconomic stabilization and transition to a trajectory of sustainable economic growth;
- strengthening the revenue base of budgets at all levels through expanding the tax base, liberalization and streamlining of local taxes;
- creation of economic, technical, technological, financial and legal conditions for raising the competitive level of domestic products, supporting domestic producers, reviving the domestic market, and increasing the export potential of the city's enterprises;
- improvement of financial and credit relations in the sphere of production;
- introduction of new network technologies and development of the most profitable segments of the communication services market;
- development of entrepreneurship support infrastructure;
- elimination of legal, economic and administrative obstacles to the development of entrepreneurship;
- implementation of new priority directions for the development of science and technology, priorities of innovation activity in the fields of science, industry, and medicine;
- improvement of the financial and credit system for supporting small business;
- development of stock market infrastructure;
- development of socially significant types of insurance;
- increase in lending volumes for the consumer needs of the population and entrepreneurial initiatives through credit unions by mobilizing citizens' savings that are currently outside economic circulation;
- strengthening the city's investment potential;
- intensification of investment activity, development of infrastructure facilitating investment attraction;
- reduction of specific energy consumption levels;
- Termination of free energy consumption;
- ensuring productive employment of the population;
- raising the income level of the population and its social protection;
- resolving the problem of repayment of wage and social benefit arrears;
- improving the demographic situation;
- improving the system of providing targeted assistance to the most vulnerable segments of the population;
- reforming the social insurance and pension provision system;
- implementing measures to support the unemployed;
- improving the level of occupational safety;
- increasing the number of people leading a healthy lifestyle, primarily by involving them in physical culture and sports and reducing the use of tobacco, drugs, alcohol, etc.;
- expanding accessibility for the younger generation to obtain quality education, expanding opportunities for certain categories of citizens to obtain higher education through the introduction of mechanisms for providing individual loans;
- preserving national cultural heritage and ensuring public access to cultural assets;
- improving the state environmental safety management system;
- real protection of the population and territories from the impact of negative man-made and natural factors;
- increasing the effectiveness of the mechanism of interaction between central and local executive authorities and local self-government bodies in order to reconcile the interests of national and regional development;
- reducing the number and scope of benefits and subsidies to the economy;
- apply a transparent and legally regulated system for obtaining licenses;
- facilitate the provision to small enterprises of unused premises and land plots for production use;
- promote the development of the export potential of small enterprises;
- create conditions for the development of infrastructure to support entrepreneurship;
- increase in the number of small business entities;
- increase in the number of employed persons in the small business sector;
- improve the system for disclosing information on investment objects;
- improve the overall structure of industrial production through economic incentives for the production of final consumption goods;
- growth in the share of domestic products in domestic market turnover and a corresponding reduction in imports;
- reduction in the number of loss-making industrial enterprises;
- reduction in the total share of raw-material and energy-intensive industries in the structure of industrial production;
- develop and modernize telecommunications networks using modern domestically produced equipment;
- encourage young people to participate in scientific and scientific-technological activities;
- develop scientific and technical cooperation with countries of the world and international organizations;
- increase in local budget revenues from innovation activities; increase in the number of industrial enterprises introducing innovations;
- increase in the number of established and effectively operating entities engaged in innovation activities;
- make the transition to state strategic programming of regional development and introduce interconnected development of regional development strategies by local self-government bodies and local executive authorities;
- delimit the functions and powers of central and local executive authorities and local self-government bodies;
- strengthen the role of local executive authorities and local self-government bodies in consolidating efforts to create a favorable investment and business climate in the regions and resolve employment problems of the population;
- improve the system of state regulation of prices for medicinal products;
- improve the state system for environmental monitoring and management of the development of natural resource potential;
- reduction in the volume of discharge of polluted wastewater into surface water bodies to the level of 6.5 thousand cubic meters;
- reduction in the total amount of pollutants emitted into atmospheric air from stationary sources of pollution to the level of 2.4 thousand tons;
- reduction of the total amount of pollutants emitted into the atmospheric air from mobile sources of pollution to the level of 10.0 thousand tons; To specify the main goals and directions of implementation of the defined tasks regarding the socio-economic development of the city's infrastructure, taking into account geographical, economic, and household characteristics, the entire territory was divided into 11 districts: Stare Misto, Center, Zavokzalnyi district, Teremno, Hushcha, Vyshkiv, Dubnivskyi district, Kichkarivka, Krasne, Hnidava, Veresneve.
Taking into account the characteristics of each microdistrict, the opportunities and potential for economic, cultural, and aesthetic development of the district are determined (appendices).