New Deputy Mayor for Social Protection and Investments appointed in Odesa

Odesa has a new deputy mayor who will be responsible for social protection, economic development, and auditing the city hall. She has experience in state audit and the fiscal service.

The decision was made at the executive committee of the Odesa City Council.

Odesa City Council has a new deputy mayor, Alla Bekh, an auditor from Zhytomyr. Acting Mayor Ihor Koval said that Bekh will be responsible for social protection, economic development and investment policy, as well as auditing the activities of the city council and municipal enterprises.

Currently, acting Mayor Igor Koval already has four deputies: First Deputy Oleksandr Filatov, acting deputies Volodymyr Domnitsak and Kostyantyn Talalayev, and manager of affairs Oleksandr Tikhovsky. Alla Bekh will become the fifth.

She has a law degree and a master's degree in public management and administration. She started her career in the tax authorities and the State Audit Service in Zhytomyr, and headed the local department of the fiscal service. Zhytomyr media wrote about her declaration for 2021: her salary amounted to more than UAH 250 thousand, cash savings - USD 8 thousand and UAH 400 thousand. The declaration did not include any real estate or land plots. She also owns a 2014 Renault Megane.

For comparison, the head of the Odesa military administration, Serhiy Lysak, has four deputies: first deputy Nadiya Zadorozhna, Serhiy Krasilenko, Olga Lozova, and Gennadiy Raskin.

Earlier, the acting mayor of Odesa decided to dismiss Valeriy Silin from the post of deputy mayor. The dismissal took place on the basis of the official's personal statement. In addition, the former official is to be paid monetary compensation for 98 calendar days of unused annual leave.

Serhiy Kondratyuk, the head of the Peresypskyi district administration of Odesa, was also recently dismissed. His duties were transferred to the first deputy, Svyatoslav Glazanovsky.

Kondratyuk was appointed to the position in July 2018, and in late August, the Department of Strategic Investigations notified him of suspicion of abuse of office against the head of the district administration.

Анна Бальчінос