Ilsur Metshin: “Systematic work in the housing sector is carried out in Kazan”

(KZN.RU, January 26, Alsu Safina). 7 objects have been further renovated in 2016 thanks to savings on the basis of the overhaul program of apartment houses, and additional work was performed in 31 houses, which were participating in the program. Iskander Giniyatullin, the deputy head of the Executive Committee and the chairman of the Housing Committee, reported this today to Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, summing up the past year.

The speaker reminded that the 165 apartment buildings totaling 1.45 billion rubles were repaired in 2016 in the overhaul program. “In the past year, savings in the amount of 45.3 million rubles were obtained. Additional items have been included in the program due to this”, said I. Giniyatullin. As an example, he cited the restored house №7 on the Lebyazhye Lake Street, which is located on the shore of Glubokoe Lake. The coastal slope under this and the neighboring houses was fortified in the amount of 10.7 million rubles. Bearing capacity of foundation and the integrity of the walls were restored in total amount of 18 million rubles in houses №1, 9 on the Novatorov street.

This year, it is planned to overhaul 244 houses, in 2018 - 270, in 2019 - 291. As I. Giniyatullin explained, this is preliminary numbers. The program will change with the inclusion of measures to transfer the houses to the individual heating units.

In addition, maintenance was carried out in 1044 apartment buildings in the amount of 523.34 million rubles last year.

Speaking of social facilities, the deputy head of the Executive Committee reminded that the 17 schools were repaired in the amount of 415.08 million rubles and 3 kindergartens in the amount of 87.06 million. Measures to create a “barrier-free” environment were carried out under the program “Available environment” in 3 schools and 2 kindergartens of Kazan, and an elevator was installed in the school №78 of the Privolzhsky district.

Also, 3 teenage clubs were renovated last year, and for 2 years of the program implementation – 8 ones, and 5 yards, sweeping 25 apartment buildings, were landscaped.

According to the speaker, 205 plots of orphan heating networks with total length of 25 km were referred to the operation of AO “Tatenergo” for the first time in Kazan. I. Giniyatullin also noted that last year the AO “Kazenergo” reconstructed more than 12 km of networks. “Over the past few years, we managed to solve a number of problems of heat supply. The new heat line in the South Industrial Park was built. Dilapidated heat lines in the streets Saidashev, Krasnogo Pozharnika and in the Staro-Tatarskaya Sloboda were shifted, intra-circuit heating systems on the street Korolenko in the Novo-Savinovsky district was changed. Modular boiler house in the Voenny Gorodok-32 was built”, said the deputy head of the Executive Committee.

He also cited data on the “Open Kazan” system, which operates in over five years. More than 1.5 million applications from residents of the city have been processed during this time. As I. Giniyatullin noted 23 management companies, 220 contracting companies and 5 main resource-providing enterprises are in this system now.

He said that the committee has been working to reduce the time for the provision of municipal services for the recognition of the dwelling unfit for habitation and apartment house as emergency and subject to demolition or reconstruction. Now normative term of the service is 30 days, in fact it takes place within 25 days. The task is to bring the review and decision-making up to 20 days. 197 applications for municipal services were discussed at a meeting of city interdepartmental commission last year.

Also, 44 vacant illegally occupied municipal premises were identified during the inventory of the municipal housing stock in last year. The number of such facilities reached 261 for three years. 88 of them were renovated.

Marsel’ Abdulhakov, the chairman of the Housing Policy Department, also reported on the results of operations for the 2016 year during the meeting.

“Systematic work in the sphere of housing and communal services is carried out in Kazan. This is the most complex industry after agriculture. But if the work is carried out in the zone of risky agriculture in the village due to weather conditions, in the housing sector, it is in the face of constant changes in the federal legislation”, marked Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Tatarstan's capital, commenting on the results of work in 2016.