Take everything into account and anticipate everything - with this requirement, the head of the Chuguiv city military administration, Galina Minaeva, began today's meeting of the city headquarters on preparing the community's infrastructure for work in the autumn-winter period. The reasons for this requirement are clear, because experts are already predicting the extreme complexity of the upcoming heating season due to constant Russian shelling of energy facilities and the general difficult economic situation caused by the war.
Each manager who spoke at the staff meeting emphasized what was done at the enterprise he headed to ensure that it could provide services to consumers even during power outages. The availability of generators and fuel for them, the readiness of cogeneration units, the provision of firewood or other types of fuel - these and other components of the energy independence of the communal sector of the Chuhuiv community were discussed very meticulously and in detail.
But if utility companies, with the support of the city government, find ways to solve the above-mentioned issues, they do not have many options to improve their financial situation. And all this is due to the difference in tariffs for services and their cost. The tariffs of most enterprises were approved long before the start of the full-scale invasion, so they have long since ceased to correspond to the cost of any of their components. Heat producers are especially affected by this problem, because the moratorium on increasing their tariffs is in effect throughout the country. At the same time, communities do not receive compensation for the difference between the tariff and actual costs from the state budget.
But this is only part of the problem. Another is the large debts of the population for consumed utility services. There are many reasons for this, from objective (a drop in living standards due to the war) to purely subjective ones, such as the absence of homeowners in the community or the unsubstantiated belief that utility debts will be written off after the war.
Impressive figures were presented at the meeting: in some apartment buildings, for example, Kochetka, owners of two or three apartments pay for housing, and then because of the fear of being left without a subsidy.
Galina Minaeva noted that so far the only lever of influence on debtors is explanatory work. People must understand that without their participation, without timely payment for housing and communal services, the community simply will not be able to prepare for the winter in a quality manner, and in conditions of war it is literally a matter of survival for each of us.
At the end of the meeting, the head of the Chuguiv MVA reminded the heads of organizations and institutions of their personal responsibility for the timely completion of the community's preparation for winter and thanked the work teams, who in extremely difficult conditions are doing everything in their power to ensure that the autumn-winter period goes smoothly for all of us and without emergencies.