The meeting is scheduled for this Friday, October 20.
At the meeting, they plan to listen to representatives of TG, district administrations, heads of communal enterprises, structural divisions of TG and administrations.
The working group included representatives of the Lviv Regional Government and law enforcement officers. The working group will meet weekly and its activities will be transparent and public.
“Last month, I signed an order according to which the communities were to analyze the expediency and priority of the announced procurements and those that are planned to be carried out by the end of the current year within a week. The majority of TGs identified their purchases as priority and necessary for the proper functioning of communities during the period of martial law. Only 22 purchases decided to cancel and only one terminated the already concluded contract. Money from the regional budget, which was supposed to go to sports infrastructure facilities, which is UAH 38 million, was directed to health care, IDPs and the security sector. Considering the rather sluggish approach of local self-government bodies to determining the priority of purchases, this month I signed the order “On limiting non-priority expenditures of local budgets of the Lviv region in the conditions of martial law”, – noted the head of the Lviv OVA, Maksym Kozytskyi.
With this document, the head of the Lviv Oblast obliged both managers of funds at the regional level and communities to primarily finance protected and expenses related to repelling armed aggression, territorial defense and civil defense, passing the heating period, and the social sphere. These priorities should also be preserved during the formation of local budgets for the next year.
Only since the beginning of October, the customers of the Lviv Oblast have announced more than 9,000 purchases with an expected value of about UAH 1.4 billion.
“Given such a scale, it is necessary that the residents of the region continue to exercise public control in the future. We need your help. If you find non-critical and, in your opinion, non-priority procurements, inform the Lviv OVA and raise this issue directly with the procurement customers,” Maksym Kozytsky emphasized.