Verkhovna Rada Committee for Family, Youth Policy, Sport and Tourism holds offsite meeting at Moloda Hvardiya Ukrainian Children Center in Odesa
08 April 2015, 10:24
The meeting considered ways of improvement of state support to the Ukrainian Children Center in the context of provision of quality recreation and rest for children in summer 2015. Participants of the event discussed important issues of functioning of the Ukrainian Children Center, in particular: indebtedness of the Center to the state budget; issues of land allocation; privileges in land tax payment; putting of the Center-based school onto the single register of Ukrainian educational establishments; capital reconstruction of buildings of the Morskoy summer camp.
Committee Head Artur Palatnyi noted that to support the Center “the participants have to guarantee the implementation of four major tasks:
— full loading of camps of Moloda Hvardiya and implementation of legislation requirements as to procurement of resort vouchers at budget funds;
— commencement of Center reconstruction in 2015;
— adoption of the State Ukrainian Children Center Development Program before September 1, 2015;
— provision of the Ukrainian Children Center with State Act confirming ownership of its land before January 1, 2016.
Before the meeting, member of the Committee had studied the state of facilities of the Morskoy summer camp, which need immediate reconstruction.
As earlier reported, since 1998, one of structure divisions of the children center — Morskoy summer camp — stopped functioning and acceptance of children due to technical reasons. Today, Morskoy needs reconstruction to increase the number of children at the center by 5,200 persons a year and ensure functioning of the children center at its total capacity (1,200 children in autumn-winter period and 1,500 children in summer). Besides, it is said that the implementation of the project on reconstruction demands additional funds of UAH 30 million in 2015. It would allow dismantling existing buildings, creating new water supplies and water drainage infrastructure, creating new electric energy and heat supplies networks, constructing basements and erecting new building frame.
Besides, participants of the meeting pointed out that continuous all-year operation of the children center is possible only following full reconstruction of heat supplying network via construction of modern gas-boiler house instead of environment unfriendly and inefficient heating by oil-fuel boilers.
It was also mentioned that Committee members plan to tackle the issue of resumption of additional privileges as to land payments for children recreation establishments, which envisioned in draft laws on introduction of amendments into the Tax Code as to guarantees to stable development of physical culture and sport sector (registered under No. 2068) and on introduction of amendments into the Tax Code as to resumption of terms that envision exemption from payment of land tax (registered under No. 1850-1).
Palatnyi also stressed that “open talk that took place at the Committee meeting will allow all central executive bodies, local self-government bodies, and administration of the children center to ensure effective development of Moloda Hvardiya and comprehensive recreation of children not only this year.”
By tradition, participants of the meeting planted trees at the Parliamentary Park.
Meeting participants were members of the Committee, representative of the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine, State Sanitary Epidemiological Service of Ukraine, representatives of Kherson, Mykolaiv and Odesa city and oblast councils.
Before the start of the meeting held under the auspices of Head of the Ukrainian Football Federation Andrii Pavelko and the Verkhovna Rada Committee for Family, Youth Policy, Sport and Tourism, the president of the Odesa Oblast Football Federation Petro Chylybi handed over 50 footballs to young sportsmen.