Deputies of Odesa City Council decided to convene an extraordinary session

On August 1, 2025, the XLII extraordinary session of the Odesa City Council of the VIII convocation will be held in the session hall of the Odesa City Council on Exchange Square. The beginning is at 10:00. The meeting will be broadcast live on YouTube.

The following preliminary agenda is recommended for the extraordinary session:

• On amendments to the City Target Program "Unbreakable Odesa" for 2024-2028, approved by the decision of the Odesa City Council of April 24, 2024, No. 2021-VIII.
• On amendments to the decision of the Odesa City Council of December 04, 2024, No. 2578-VIII "On the Budget of the Odesa City Territorial Community for 2025".

On Thursday, July 2, members of the Odesa City Council gathered for a regular session. At the plenary session, the councillors made changes to the city's program for providing housing for orphans, children deprived of parental care, persons from among them, and large families raising five or more children for 2023-2025. According to the draft decision, they were proposed to provide orphans with money to buy their own housing instead of receiving housing from the city. The deputies also allocated 800 thousand hryvnias to OdesaPolytechnic National University to develop a project to repair a dormitory that was damaged by a Russian missile strike.

The Commission on Housing and Communal Services approved changes to Odesa's city target programs until 2028. At a meeting on Thursday, Deputy Mayor Anna Pozdnyakova explained that millions and billions of hryvnias were added to the programs to enable the city to attract international technical assistance in the future. The official clarified that starting in 2026, the format of financing capital expenditures will be completely changed. The concept of public investment is now emerging.

Катерина Глушко