Communal privilege

Homeowners Association will receive budget money for repairs
Yesterday, the Government adopted urban technical decision to increase the flow of fiscal transfers, which goes through the housing committee in the newly created citizens associations and partnerships. The budgetary grants will be listed as early as 2008. And they also need to spend before the end of the year.
Determined amounts of subsidies and new concessional categories of citizens to pay for housing and communal services. These are all benefit recipients who live in the homes of any form of ownership. The number of houses that choose its future form of communal existence, multiplied each month. In the new conditions and ways to obtain social assistance for the "communal" lines are changing. Funds for Housing benefits listed structures housing committee directly to the accounts of housing associations or cooperatives.
Besides "grace" flow into new and TSZH ZHSK will be directed budgetary funds for major repairs. At yesterday's meeting it was decided to accept the Government "to the" home repair program houses, which created TSZH, Krasnogvardeyskogo district.
At the government meeting discussed the issue of privatization of public institutions. President of the City KUGI Igor Metel-ский reported on the implementation of the program, which was adopted as early as last year. The amount of revenue the city coffers from the sale of such enterprises amounted to just slightly more than a billion rubles. Private organizations have eleven. For example, the Agency for housing privatization Vyborg, Petrograd, the Central districts. Sold as garden-park company "central" and a number of SUE: road re-montnoe enterprise "Auto-dori", Central Pharmaceutical base city, the company responsible for repairing medical equipment ...
The Government is extremely dissatisfied with the extent of the city of privatization.
-- The implementation of the programme disrupted - such a finding sounded in Smolny. Of the 31 GUPa prepared for sale, only 11 were private. Igor Metelsky explained that it was not possible within the deadline to compile a complete package of documents. After all need to formalize land, technical and cadastre. In addition, the procedure is very long title registration.
-- From the list of privatized, we had to delete several businesses - Metelsky said. -- Some, for example, operational and economic unification of the Kirov region, had submitted incorrect accounts. So now they have no plans to privatization, tax inspection and verification.
PEs and parking garages, which also means in applying for sale in private hands, was excluded from the list. In Smolny decided that they better remain public.

Direct Speech
Valentina Matvienko,
Governor of St. Petersburg:
-- There is a need for the three months to conduct a full inventory of all our GUPov. And on that basis develop a new schedule for their privatization. We must get rid of "dead" institutions.