Lawmakers in Mykolaiv were asked to consider 73 draft resolutions by voice vote

Mykolaiv Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych convened city council members on July 30 for a regular session, which is scheduled to be the 56th. 

As usual, the meeting will be streamed online.

The tentative agenda includes 15 items, almost all of which concern land; there are no other categories. However, there is an additional list of 73 items that may be added to the agenda during the session, and the majority—53 of them—also pertain to land.

Among the land-related projects, a decision to consolidate five adjacent plots along Kherson Highway (Nos. 112 and 116) and Troitska Street (No. 163), with a total area of 180 hectares, to create an industrial park —this is the largest project by area on the agenda. A separate opinion from the council’s administrative staff regarding compliance with the Rules of Procedure has been attached to the proposal.

Council members will reconsider three additional projects—they failed to secure the necessary votes during the previous, 54th session on June 30: the lease of a plot to “Buzky Boulevard” LLC for recreational facilities on Lazurna Street, the National Police impound lot on Lagerne Pole, and the renewal of the lease for Avdoshkina’s kiosks (this time with a term reduced to four years).

In a separate block—four proposals by the Mykolaivvodokanal Municipal Utility Company in the area of Fontanna Street, related to the development of a backup emergency water supply from underground aquifers.

Current issues include appeals by council members to the President, the Verkhovna Rada, and the Cabinet of Ministers regarding the revision of financial and social benefits for military personnel, as well as the refusal to recognize land plots as naturally forested based on a decision by the district administrative court.

All agenda items were approved by the Standing Committee on Ecology, Spatial Development, and Land Relations on July 23—however, as of the time of publication on the council’s website, the minutes of that meeting have not been made public.

Among the items to be voted on are a set of budget-related proposals—amendments to the Community Digital Transformation Program and the Fire Safety Program for Multi-Unit Housing. These proposals were not reviewed by any relevant committee prior to being brought before the session.

Five draft resolutions amending the list of small-scale privatization properties are a resubmission of decisions that had already failed to pass during the June 30 session; the Housing and Utilities Committee did not review them again; the document contains only a reference to prior approval dated June 29.

The proposal to transform the municipal enterprise “Sviy Dim” into the LLC “Svoia Domivka” is being brought up for the third time: the Budget Committee did not support it back in April, the vote at the session failed in June—and now the item is being brought back without further review by the committees. Meanwhile, this very municipal enterprise was supposed to implement a project to build five modular homes for internally displaced persons (IDPs)using Danish funding, and land was to be allocated to it, but the deputies did not vote in favor of this precisely because the municipal enterprise is being transformed into a limited liability company.

Another resolution—which is not the first time it has been brought before the deputies—concerns the allocation of land to the National Police for an impound lot. This issue was not approved at the June 30 session. 

Кирило Бойко