Mykolaiv deputies to consider budget, privatization and reforms

A regular session has been scheduled in Mykolaiv. The deputies are to discuss key issues of the budget, municipal property and the structure of the council's executive bodies that will determine the city's development in the coming years.

The relevant order was signed by the mayor , Oleksandr Senkevych.

Mykolaiv City Council has announced that the regular forty-seventh session of the VIII convocation will be held on August 28, 2025 at 11:00 am. The plenary session is scheduled to be held remotely in the form of a video conference. The event will be traditionally broadcast online.

The agenda of the session includes budgetary, land and current issues of the city community.

It is planned to adopt decisions that will affect the management of municipal property and the structure of the city council. In particular, the deputies are to amend the decision of May 29, 2025, on the list of small-scale privatization objects to be sold at auction, as well as update the decision on the establishment of permanent council commissions, approving their personal composition and electing their chairmen.

In addition, the session will discuss streamlining the structure of Mykolaiv City Council and its executive bodies, approve their new structure, and amend the Program for Reforming and Developing the City's Housing and Utilities Sector for 2025-2029. These decisions are aimed at improving the work of the authorities and more efficient management of municipal infrastructure.

In August, it was planned to increase the budget ofthe Mykolaiv Parks utility company. Its funding has increased from the initial one million hryvnias to one hundred million, and compared to the latest version of the project, it is an increase from 80 to 100 million. The explanatory note states that these funds have already been provided for and transferred from the city budget during 2023-2025.

The Mykolaiv Health Department also decided to merge city hospitals to save money in wartime. The goal of the reform is to reduce six hospitals and one maternity hospital to three facilities. The emergency hospital and hospital No. 4 are to be merged with hospital No. 1, and maternity hospital No. 3 and children's hospital No. 2 are to be merged with hospital No. 3 in Dubky. At the same time, hospital No. 5 in Korabelnyi district will not be affected by the changes.

Анна Бальчінос