Mayors of the Chisinau suburban localities disagree with the new rules imposed by the Government

The mayors of the localities from Chisinau municipality disagree with the rules recently imposed by the Government limiting access to fuel and telephone services. Related to the last Government decisions for establishing fuel quantity limit depending on the distance between the locality and the regional centre and regarding the interdiction to use more than one telephone per 3-5 employees, the mayors declared for Info-Prim Neo that this rules disturb their activity, fact that influences negatively upon the well being of the local communities. According to their opinion, the bodies that imposed this rules either are not accustomed with the specifics of the local public administration or have bad intentions. According to the mayor of Ciorescu commune, Boris Plesca, 60 litres of gas per month are hardly enough for coming for 4 times a month to the Mayoralty ordinary meetings and to other meetings, paying visits to high-ranking officials or inspectors. Meanwhile, in order to run a commune with 3 villages and 7 thousand inhabitants, official trips are needed in different areas or at different distances. Just during this month when a cleaning campaign was announced, daily trips at school, kinder gardens or to people’s houses have been taken. Besides that, the Mayor of the Ciorescu village states that Mayoralty has only 4 employees that can not solve properly the problems that in soviet period were solved by tens of employees of the Village Soviet (soviet village council) and by the leadership of the Kolkhoz (soviet collective farm). The interdiction to increase the number of the personnel imposes less fair solutions like cumulating 3-4 jobs by an employee, paying them and using more telephones on extra-budgetary money, says Boris Plesca. In this context the mayor of Gratiesti village, Valentina Patras, states that she averted for many times the leadership of the country about the impossibility to sustain a productive activity without sufficient personnel. Valentina Patras declared that a single tax collector can not face the requirements by oneself and without a farm engineer people are easy determined to sell their lands because they do not know how to farm them. Also because the Mayoralty doesn’t have a sports expert the education of the young generation faces serious problems. As a consequence, the ones to lose in this situation are the citizens that are not guilty for the rigid saving money system imposed by the government. For the Gratiesti commune that has 2 localities and 7 thousand people the 50 litre of fuel limit is too low and not justified. Maria Iarmenco, mayor of Colonita village agrees with its colleagues and states that the local elected authorities don’t have proper work conditions and can not be understood by those “that do nothing”. “We have been elected to solve people’s problems, not to stay in the offices and wait until these problems will be solved by themselves. Maria Iarmenco is sure someone creates impediments in order to stop the activity of the local authorities. The fuel limit could be sufficient only if the localities would be entirely supplied with modern technologies, added the mayor. The mayor of Durlesti town, Veaceslav Nedelea declared for Info-Prim Neo that only using extra-budgetary money could allow maintaining the situation under control. The same method was used to hire a tax collector and a vice mayor. “This limits and the reduced personnel structure makes impossible managing a locality with 20 thousand people and 15 thousand land and house owners”, states Veaceslav Nedelea. The mayors of the suburban localities of Chisinau are puzzled by the resignation of the local authorities from other places that accepted these indications of the central administration and will have to knock at the doors of the leaders of the government. “At the moment the rural localities have a lack of real local public authorities, there are only “village soviets”, authorized solely to release documents,” concluded the mayors.