Municipality to create Centre to manage foreign funded projects

The City Hall will create a special Centre that will work out and create projects needed for the complex development of the municipality of Chisinau, which would be proposed to the international donors for financing. The initiative belongs to Mayor General Dorin Chirtoaca. The Mayor welcomed the activity of Gratiesti and Budesti communes which managed to attract foreign financing in the settlements by means of projects and in this way to improve the infrastructure and their rating. At the same time, he urged the other mayors to launch such projects and get advice in this respect from the two Mayors, Valentina Patras and Nina Costiuc, who are excelling in the number of projects that they manage to attract. Also, the mayors were advised to ask for help the Ministry of Local Public Administration. The Mayors were summoned at the Chisinau City Hall to evaluate the situation of city suburbs. Although their situation is different, several of them being more or less provided with infrastructure, the majority of the heads of local public administrations said they have problems related to the access to the water supply network and sewerage systems, public illumination, roadworks, schools and kindergartens, the situation of public transport etc. They were all displeased with the poor budgets which do not include resources for major repairs. At the same time, several Mayors claimed there is a lack of collaboration with the structure of the Chisinau City Hall. Also, they were displeased with the fact that the water, gas and power networks built on taxpayers’ money are administrated by the suppliers. According to them, if the spent money would have been paid back to the settlements, they would have sufficient resources to implement the projects needed for the community. Dorin Chirtoaca got informed about the problems of each settlement, but he mentioned that the Mayors will subsequently receive a special printed form where they will describe the way the localities are provided with all types of utilities, as well as the most urgent problems of the communities. This measure will help systemise the information in the municipality and will further allow launching priority projects. “We must work as a team and be motivated, regardless of the political party that we represent”, Chisinau Mayor General told the suburban mayors.