Odesa Mayor Calls City Council Session for April 16 - Key Agenda Items Ahead

Odesa Mayor Gennadiy Trukhanov has ordered to convene a regular session of the city council on April 16.

The relevant order was published by the press service of the municipality.

The agenda has not yet been finalized and looks like a list of blocks of issues:

• On the activities of the Odesa City Council and its executive bodies.
• Budget and finance.
• Target programs, concepts and urban planning.
• On municipal property.
• Taxes and fees.
• On land relations.
• On the establishment, termination, change of name, approval of charters (regulations) of municipal enterprises, institutions, establishments and their activities.
• On deputy inquiries.

Intent will traditionally broadcast the meetings online. Meanwhile, preparations for the session are underway. In particular, meetings of permanent deputy commissions are taking place to consider issues that may be submitted to deputies for consideration at the sessions, and Intent monitors these meetings.

There are 12 standing committees in Odesa city council, but as of February 22, 2025, the standing committee on culture, tourism and international relations and the standing committee on regulations, deputy ethics and corruption prevention cannot make decisions, as they currently have less than three deputies.

The April session is to be the second this year. During the first session, a well-known artist and deputy, Oleh Filimonov, who was elected to the Odesa City Council from the Servant of the People party, decided to retire from politics. Other deputies approved his resignation.

At the XXXVIII session of the Odesa City Council of the VIII convocation, which is scheduled for February 5 at 10 am, deputies will be asked to vote on almost 60 draft decisions.

Кирило Бойко