Ilsur Metshin inspected the “house-phantom” №21 on Khalezov Street

(KZN.RU, February 15, Mikhail Chentsov). Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, inspected the house №21 on Khalezov Street in the settlement of Derbyshki. In 2013, major repairs were carried out here but local residents remained unhappy with the work done. During the meeting with the staff of the “Elektropribor”, the Mayor was told about the bad quality of the overhaul by Natalia Ivanova, an employee of the plant. She invited him “to see firsthand what is happening to the “phantom house”, as the tenants themselves called it.

The five-story house №21 on the Khalezov Street was built in 1971. It is a corridor-type hostel, which received the status of an apartment building during privatization. Now it is home to 168 people. The overhaul in the hostel was in 2013. Then, in-house engineering systems of cold water supply and sewerage, electricity supply were updated, soft roofing with insulation was laid, common metering units and a heat metering unit were installed for a total of 6 million 870 thousand rubles.

At a meeting with the Mayor of Kazan, residents eagerly shared with the Mayor sore questions and complained of repair faults. According to them, the entrances were in very poor condition. It turned out that at that time the law of the RT №52 did not provide for the repair of public places due to the capital repair program. As a result, they were not overhauled. Since the contractor doesn’t have the right to conduct work at his own will, the list of work types is strictly regulated. Now the legislation has been amended, which means that it is possible to finish the house.

Niyaz Giniyatov, the general director of the managing company “ZhKKh Derbyshki”, reported to Ilsur Metshin about the current situation in the house. According to him, the work in the house will be completed very soon. “There are two main types of work left: central heating and entrances. We have already changed the communications, bottom bottling, stop valves. We will make entrances this year. This will take about a million rubles”, he reported.

In addition to an incomplete overhaul, the discontent of residents is caused by a neglected yard with garages “ingrown” into it. The Mayor instructed Rustem Gafarov, the head of the Sovetsky district, to study the issue with the garages, which for many years have impeded the free passage to the stops.

Ilsur Metshin assured the residents that all issues will be solved but they will have to wait. “Not all at once. In this summer construction season, we will make repairs in the entrance. Next year, we’ll go into the yard. This year it’s impossible because a water-lowering project is needed here (ed. – depreciation is an artificial lowering of the groundwater level, achieved by pumping or removing them to low places). If we just cover the asphalt, it will not stay, so we need a project”, summed up the Mayor of Kazan. “We will definitely do it in 2019”, promised Niyaz Giniyatov. And for now, the Mayor instructed Rustem Gafarov to find a temporary solution so that the residents could walk normally around the yard.

The problem of the garbage content in the yard was discussed among other issues.

The head of the city urged residents to remain hosts of their home and to bear joint responsibility with the management company for cleanliness, including in the yard. If the MC is obliged to ensure the timely disposal of waste, then the tenants should not scatter garbage but accurately put it in containers.

The head of the city, using the example of this house, answered the question “Where goes our money we pay?”, which residents sometimes ask. According to him, over 10 years 1.5 million rubles were collected for the overhaul from the house №21 on Khalezov Street, whereas the repair work, invested in the house during this time, was 4.5 times more, almost 7 million rubles. “And if we do it as abroad when 60% of all the population's income goes to bills, we all won’t cope”, marked the head of the city.

At the end of the meeting, the Mayor of Kazan noted that there are 5200 houses in the city, many of which have already been upgraded under the overhaul program. But the remaining houses will be fixed step by step. “There will be improvements!”, Ilsur Metshin assured the residents.

Iskander Giniyatullin, the deputy head of the Executive Committee and the chairman of the Committee of Housing and Communal Service, and others also took part in the meeting.