Issues related to housing and communal services, landscaping, leasing of a lake, use of family capital, and more were considered during a personal reception of citizens by the President's Aide – Inspector for the Vitebsk Region, Sergey Levkovich.
Two residents of Vitebsk, living in a multi-storey building on Titova Street, attended the reception with the President's Aide. One of them, who lives on the first floor, shared the problems faced by the residents:
– Due to a leak in the basement, there is an unbearable smell in the apartments. Recently, there was a sewage system failure – all its contents ended up in the toilet and bathtub. The emergency service eliminated the malfunctions and cleared the external networks.
The Chairman of the City Executive Committee, Alexey Geroev, confirmed that the problem is known and the external networks have indeed been inspected. However, according to him, the situation requires further attention.
– Violations are often detected in this building when foreign objects are removed from the sewage system, – he noted.
– Some neighbours use the sewage system as a rubbish bin, and it is difficult to find those responsible. Our task is to convince the residents to use the benefits of civilisation correctly. If accidents do occur, services must respond promptly, – noted Sergey Levkovich, emphasising the importance of a swift response from utility services in this case.
The President's Aide instructed to develop measures to eliminate the unpleasant odour from the basement and apartments.
The second resident, a mother of many children, raised the issue of using maternity capital to purchase a house.
– I am raising six children alone, and I would like to buy a small house so they can spend time outdoors and get hardened, as the children are often ill, – she said.
A representative of the Committee for Labour, Employment and Social Protection of the Regional Executive Committee explained that the maternity capital had already been partially used, but there is still an opportunity for early use of the remaining amount. However, for this to happen, the applicant must be registered as needing to improve their housing conditions. In this specific situation, the woman already owns two apartments in Vitebsk in the Bilevo microdistrict and on Titova Street.
– The state has fulfilled its obligations to provide your family with housing, – the President’s aide noted. He added that to purchase a dacha, the woman should consider other options, such as a loan, and also pay attention to other areas of using the family capital, which may be no less important.