Reftinsky is preparing a change of head. 700 million strategic project under threat
It is planned to invest in the state district power station and the poultry farm. The project of reconstruction of treatment facilities, which is strategically important for the settlement, is rising in price before our eyes. The initially terminated contract of 540 million has already been revalued to 704 million, and in the future it will grow to 900 million rubles. At the same time, the business is investing only tens of millions in the project, which is largely aimed at additional wastewater treatment, declaring large-scale development plans for Reftinskaya Poultry Farm. In the municipality, whose budget is comparable to the cost of construction, they hope for federal and regional tranches. However, in order to provide them, the city needs strong lobbyists, and the deputies of the local Duma emphasize careful control over the spending of funds.
At the same time, its full-fledged organization is questionable – the Duma and the mayor’s office are in constant conflict, and a number of deputies are hinting at the resignation of the head in various ways. However, the forces of the opposition somewhat weakened with the departure of several parliamentarians from the Duma and the intervention of the prosecutor’s office. The general tension in the representative body, which will have to approve budget adjustments upon receipt of funds, remains, and supporters of the city administration are preparing for the next stage of confrontation.
Reftinsky’s Duma complied with the presentation of the Asbest prosecutor’s office, which demanded that deputy Yegor Perminov, who was found guilty of violating Part 1 of Art. 264.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (driving a vehicle while intoxicated by a person subjected to administrative punishment or having a criminal record). It is noteworthy that the verdict was handed down on October 26, 2021, and the prosecutor’s office received a submission at the end of December 2022. The deputy himself did not inform the Duma about the shameful misconduct and during the last year and a half actively participated in the meetings. At this time, another deputy Artem Gusev left the Duma.
The administration agrees with the presence of accounts payable, but emphasizes that it is not overdue, and MUPs are secured. In addition, almost all Sverdlovsk municipalities face the problem of a shortage of funds, and Reftinsky, with accumulated creditors, is far from being in the top ten, the interlocutors of the publication in the Legislative Assembly of the region add.
The speaker of the Duma expressed his position when evaluating the activities of the head in 2022, but it had little effect on the outcome of the vote. The opposition bloc at that moment, according to the chairman, disintegrated under the influence of the city-forming enterprise – the deputies working at the Reftinskaya GRES refused to give a negative assessment of the head, and the leadership of the party’s regional department influenced the representatives of A Just Russia.
Alexander Pasynkov made his second attempt to influence the balance of power in the municipality in December 2022, proposing to the City Duma to change the principle of forming a competition commission to select the head. In particular, to elect its chairman with the right of a decisive vote only from among the deputies of the Duma. Similar attempts were made in the thoughts of Beloyarsky and Malyshev during the change of heads, but resulted in protests from the prosecutor’s office. A similar reaction was received from the prosecutors in Reftinsky.
In the regional Duma, Pasynkov’s attempts to change the current mayor, to whom, by the way, the regional authorities have no complaints, were associated with the speaker’s plans to take a leadership position in the municipality. He made attempts to be elected in 2015 and 2020.
The contract for the construction of treatment facilities was signed in June 2022 with City Building LLC, while the price of 540 million announced at the auction almost immediately increased to 550 million. from Reftinskaya Poultry Farm, the contractor is due by the end of 2023. However, for the first six months of work, the actual work was completed by 2%.
The reason, according to Pasynkov, was the initial reconstruction project “written on the knee”, which now has to be completely rewritten. In this part, the City Building agrees with the criticism, with the efforts of which the preparation of a new document is currently underway, and the operating treatment plant Reftinskoye MUOP.
However, the declared 704 million rubles is not the final cost of a large-scale construction project. As Vitaly Chachin, director of City Building, notes, due to the sanctions imposed, foreign equipment included in the project had to be abandoned, and now its analogues are being selected.
In the MU OP “Reftinskoye” they are ready to pay for the work in stages, but the acts of the Constitutional Court are to be signed only in 2023. While the contractor is working, mainly due to the received advance payment of 160 million rubles. It should be noted that initially most of the project is financed from the federal budget, 480 out of 550 million rubles were planned for proceeds from it, 34.5 million from the regional treasury, 5.3 million from the municipal treasury. ” and “Reftinskaya GRES”, – 28.5 million rubles were pledged. As the cost of the project grows to 704 million, additional revenues from the federal budget are expected. Significant adjustments and additional lobbying for the provision of both federal and regional funds will be required after the re-appraisal of the project. It is possible that the Reftinskaya poultry farm, 49% of whose shares were sold to Rashid Sardarov’s YuUPK LLC in May 2022, will also be offered to increase its share.
So far, representatives of the poultry farm, which is under the control of the Ural Agro-Industrial Group, are officially talking only about the allocation of 20 million, the agreements on the provision of which were reached initially.
The interlocutors of the publication in the Legislative Assembly of the region, who are familiar with the project, add that the necessary funds for the construction are reserved in the Sverdlovsk budget. However, their admission to the MUOP will require adjustments to the local budget, depending on the positions of the deputies of the City Duma.