About 90 employees of Chisinau Mayoralty’s and CMC’s staff will be dismissed

The Chisinau local authorities will dismiss about 90 staff unities, complying with a Governmental decision. At the Thursday meeting, on June 8, the Chisinau Municipal Council (CMC) approved after several hours of debates, only the issue on reducing the personnel, postponing for the next meeting the problem of the staff chart. Initially, a part of the councilors proposed rejecting the draft decision justifying that it is not perfect, it was not examined by all the specialized commissions of CMC and it is not appropriate to merge some departments, and the names of some departments are not proper. The AMN councilor Oleg Cernei pleaded for giving up to the reduction of the personnel and changing the staff chart justifying that there is only a year to go till the local elections, but also because that “chaos will establish” within the subdivisions because the employees will not know whether they will be working or not. Also the councilor of “Ravnopravie” Movement, Valeri Climenco pleaded against the changes, because this is a new “orange-red colored” political action, which needs a new structure to win the local elections. Several councilors claimed the high costs of the eventual reform. On their request, the head of the General Finance Department, Tatiana Cunetchi mentioned that the whole reorganization of the departments will cost the local budget about 2 million lei, and the money are planned to be taken out of the sources destined for supporting the persons that will be dismissed. The interim Mayor of Chisinau Vasile Ursu, states that optimizing the structure of the Mayoralty and of the CMC subdivisions is made in order to modernize and to make more efficient the activities of the departments. In the end, for the reform pleaded the councilors of the Communist Party and of the People’s Christian Party (PPCD), a councilor of the “Moldova Noastra” Aliance and several independent councilors.