Almost one year has passed since the Konoplyanska amalgamated hromada of the Ivanivka Rayon in the Odesa Oblast held its first elections in December 2016. Since then, a lot has been done, many areas of activity are unique and distinguish this hromada from the others.

According to the Odesa Local Government Development Centre, established with the support of the U-LEAD with Europe programme and MinRegion, the innovative approach of a communal enterprise to work impresses the most. The hromada has recently conducted successful bidding for the purchase of a modern excavator for its own CE. By the way, due to the ProZorro system, the tender allowed to save UAH 150 thousand of budget funds, so the new car cost UAH 790 thousand instead of almost a million. Moreover, the excavator will work in a somewhat unusual area:

“We have concluded an agreement with “Ukrtelecom” company about the laying of fiber optic cable to all 15 villages of our amalgamated hromada. All earthwork operations – the preparation of trenches – will be performed by our excavator. Though the role of the communal enterprise will not finish at provision of a high-speed Internet to our settlements, because it is the CE “Rozenfeld” that will be the very provider of services to the population. Thus, it will allow the enterprise to make money and deliver other, less profitable but very important services for our people. In addition, due to cable laying, we will be able to install video surveillance cameras, that will definitely contribute to safety level improvement in the hromada,” says Oleksandr Voloshyn, head of the hromada.

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