Myrhorod was the first among six cities of oblast significance in the Poltava Oblast to begin the process of amalgamated hromada establishment. Since 5 May 2018, the process of accession of hromadas to such cities has been considerably simplified. Almost at once the mayor Serhiy Solomakha officially addressed the heads of a number of rural and settlement hromadas of the Gogol land on accession. In order to assure hid serious intentions, the mayor of the resort city issued an official order "On Initiation of Voluntary Accession of Hromadas" and invited 13 rural and settlement councils of the Myrhorod Rayon to join. The leaders of these councils gathered for negotiations.

Yuriy Kovalenko, head of the Myrhorod Rayon State Administration, and Leonid Yarynych, head of the Rayon Council, joined the debates on the prospects of the decentralisation reform.

These events were preceded by a systemic information and consultation work of the pool of advisers of the Poltava Local Government Development Centre, established with the support of the U-LEAD with Europe Programme and MinRegion.

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