Deputies of the Legislative Assembly propose to pay extra for repairs from the budget

The volumes of capreons planned for 2022 in the Sverdlovsk region can only be fulfilled by half. The profile fund does not have enough funds to work in hundreds of houses, and he does not put them up for auction. One of the reasons, traditionally, is called a sharp increase in the cost of building materials. The increase in savings in the fund at the expense of deductions from citizens “significantly lags behind these rates.” In addition, the fund lost more than a billion rubles from the common pool due to the departure of houses to special accounts, and, as representatives of the regional Ministry of Energy and Housing and Public Utilities note, this is often done “at the initiative of management companies without the knowledge of residents, and the funds themselves are misused and settle on bank accounts. However, criminal cases against such Criminal Codes are initiated by a few.

So far, the Legislative Assembly of the region sees the solution to the problem only in finding budgetary funds and subsidizing the fund – “other regions already have similar experience, in particular, the Tyumen region.” However, unlike its neighbors, the Middle Urals will additionally need not hundreds of millions, but billions of rubles, which in the current situation will be more than difficult to find in the deficit regional budget. And the residents can only wait for better times or “look for ways to independently organize overhauls.”

Today, the deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the Sverdlovsk Region heard the details of the implementation of the overhaul program from the government when, referring to the report, “in 2021, work was carried out in 1055 houses.” This required 5.1 billion rubles, and construction violations are now isolated, said Nikolai Smirnov, head of the Ministry of Energy and Housing and Public Utilities.

However, this year the Capital Repair Fund faced another problem. Although its budget has been increased to 9 billion, “fewer houses will be able to be repaired.”

Contracts have been canceled on 688 houses since October, officials said, although funds were planned to go to 1,323 houses. At the same time, 6 billion rubles will go to the contracts concluded with contractors, and 1 billion rubles of the funds remaining in the common pool will be used to compensate for the costs of replacing elevators. Moreover, almost all houses that send fees for overhaul to the profile fund have replaced elevators that have served for more than 25 years.

Another 1.7 billion rubles the fund is forced to give away from the common boiler in connection with the transition of more than 200 houses to special accounts. Currently, there are about 4,000 houses on them, and fees from them, taking into account the allocated funds, are approaching 9 billion rubles. These funds, as noted by Nikolai Smirnov, are often not spent or are spent inappropriately, for example, for current repairs, the creation of yard areas.

Moreover, as the minister said, the initiators of the transition to special accounts in more than 70% are management companies.

“Judging by the analysis of the protocols, the vast majority of signatures in them are fake”– the minister shared his opinion.

Funds collected from the population on special accounts are often withdrawn to banks that do not have the right to place them. However, cases of criminal prosecution of such Criminal Codes are still rare. So, in the TFR in the Sverdlovsk region there are cases related to the misuse of 32 million rubles accumulated in the accounts of three houses.

“Each UK has its own roof. Why aren’t licenses taken away from these companies? The people are just being robbed.” – Deputy Viktor Babenko was indignant.

However, the participants of the meeting explained to their colleague that there is no legal mechanism to revoke a license in such cases.

However, on the part of residents, there is no confidence in the Criminal Code in terms of raising funds for overhauls. 90% of the debt is formed on special accounts, while the total collection in the region is 96.8%. According to the chairman of the committee, Valentin Lappo, about 500 million rubles are being collected from the population, and a debt of 52 million rubles has been recognized as impossible to collect at the beginning of the year, the fund adds. As the deputies noted, these funds can be compensated from the budget.

However, the overhaul program “in the current situation requires much more significant injections.” Funds for carrying out the work are not physically enough, since the tariffs for the population do not take into account the increase in the cost of building materials, which amounted to at least 30% over the past year, representatives of the fund say.

Moreover, the contractors who signed contracts in 2021-2022 according to the previously developed design and estimate documentation received losses after their closure. Federal documents that made it possible to compensate for the work that had increased during the implementation of contracts appeared only in January 2023.

As a result, this year, some of the contractors refused to continue participating in competitive procedures, and auctions for several houses had to be held 2-3 times due to lack of applications.

The shift in the repair schedule, however, did not solve the financing problem. According to the deputies, “it is necessary to allocate subsidies from the regional budget for the implementation of the program, since it is impossible and wrong to increase the tariff for the population, which is already growing annually at the rate of inflation.”

AT In this, the parliamentarians were naturally supported by Stanislav Sukhanov, director of the Sverdlovsk Region Overhaul Fund, noting that this practice exists in dozens of regions of the Russian Federation, including the Tyumen region. However, the volume of regional support in the latter is limited to about a hundred million. In the Sverdlovsk region, this year alone, at least 2 billion rubles are required, but “it will be very problematic to receive funds for these purposes in the budget with a deficit of 11 billion.”

The editors will continue to monitor the development of the situation.