Private administrators of municipal housing sector are not ready for heating season

Some 38% of the apartment blocks administered by the Associations of Privatized Dwelling Owners, 8% of the blocks run by the House Building Cooperatives and 12% of the departmental houses were issued with technical passports enabling them to receive heat. The situation regarding the municipal enterprises administering the housing sector is different. Some 95% of the blocks managed by these enterprises received such passports so far. At Monday’s meeting of the Chisinau City Hall, Mihai Arusoi, commercial director of the heat-supplier Termocom SA, said that about 70% of the technical passports issued until present were signed by Termocom on certain conditions and the administrators have to remove the identified drawbacks by the start of the heating season. These refer especially to the quality of the hydraulic prophylaxis and to the thermal insulation of the pipelines. According to Termocom’s representative, the deadline by which the indebted consumers are to settle the debts for the heat supplied during the previous heating season, according to the debt rescheduling timetable, expires on November 1. If they do not pay off the debts, they could be cut off from the heating system. Mihai Arusoi said that the Hydrometeorology Service forecasts insignificant ground frost for the next days. Afterwards it will warm up. The previous years, the heating season in Chisinau municipality was opened after the thermometers showed temperatures of under 8 degrees Celsius during three consecutive days. Mayor of Chisinau Dorin Chirtoaca said that the city will be connected to the heat supply system in due time and that this service must be of a high quality. In this connection, Chirtoaca asked the General Housing-Communal Division to complete the repair works on the roofs of the blocks run by the municipal enterprises administering the housing sector. A number of 2,842 blocks of the 4,684 in the municipality are supplied with heat in a centralized way. As many as 1,620 blocks (70%) are managed by the municipal enterprises administering the housing sector, 622 – by the Associations of Privatized Dwelling Owners, 320 – by the House Building Cooperatives, 243 are departmental blocks and 273 are private houses. The consumers paid 75% of the heating bills for the previous season.