Kindergarten in Chisinau may be demolished

Kindergarten no. 5 from Bogdan Voievod str., Rascani district, may get demolished, as a living block is planned to be built instead. The decision belongs to SA “Bucuria” -- the owner of the building, Info-Prim Neo reports. Deputy mayor of Chisinau Mihai Furtuna told the City Hall's sitting on Monday the kindergarten belonged to the state when the company Bucuria was run by the state, but as the latter one was turned into a joint stock company, the kindergarten was transformed into assets of the company. The candy-maker Bucuria managed to obtain a court writ obliging the City Hall to pay for renting the kindergarten in June 2007. “All the departmental kindergartens were rendered to the local public administration. Yet SA “Bucuria” did not do so,” said Furtuna and described the behavior of the company as out of common. The City Hall has not paid for the rent an amount of 2.164 million lei, because of scarcity of means. As a result its bank accounts were sequestered and the City Hall sued the decision. On June 20 and July 3, Bucuria officially asked for the children to be evacuated, for the necessary urbanism certificate to demolish the kindergarten and for the permission to blueprint the dwelling block. The City Hall proposed instead a number of unused buildings with the same area, but the company rejected them. There are some 600 children waiting for a place in the kindergarten in Rascani sector only.