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“Laughter, and that’s all.” The scandalous 44th meeting of the Tomsk Duma

“Laughter, and that’s all.” The scandalous 44th meeting of the Tomsk Duma

On September 10, 2024, the 44th meeting of the Tomsk Duma took place. Babr will talk about the most interesting and exciting issues. Was MP Denis Yarmosh deprived of his mandate? What claims did the Tomsk prosecutor make? And why does the city continue to be in such a terrible state?

“Laughter, and that’s all.” The scandalous 44th meeting of the Tomsk Duma

The meeting was attended by the mayor of Tomsk Dmitry Makhinyaprosecutor of Tomsk Ilya Ovdiychuk and Chairman of the Accounts Chamber of Tomsk Lyudmila Smolnikova. Only 26 deputies were present at the meeting.

The session began with the awarding of certificates of honor and congratulations to the deputies who won the elections to the Tomsk Duma. First, it was decided to listen to the statements of the deputies. What turned out to be funny was that the main theses of the past year Vasily Eremin highlighted the following:

“It’s time to save Tomsk” And “like the mayor, like the roads”.

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He considered these statements to be the most objective, not even embarrassed by the presence of the mayor at the meeting, calling his team out-of-town (Mahinya came to manage Tomsk from Omsk). He also expressed hope for the effectiveness of the city administration.

Problems with roads, with the supply of water to specific houses, and the construction of children’s playgrounds became acute problems for the deputies. Let’s see if they pay attention to this or let everything take its course again. Elena Ulyanova and began to quote Jesus Christ, after which she asked other deputies to help the city administration, without blaming the mayor for failing to cope with his duties. It was an interesting start to the meeting.

The repair schedule for school No. 49 has been missed again, and Tomsk residents are proposing to write a statement to the investigative committee. Now the renovation is planned to be completed by September 1, 2025, and the contract with the contractor SK Continent (OGRN 1173850002040) has still not been terminated. The mayor said that the contractor really did not fulfill his duties, so the contract was terminated after all, and heating in the school would be installed in the near future.

The question of depriving a deputy of the Tomsk Duma of the seventh convocation Denis Yarmosh It was decided to hold the mandate behind closed doors so as not to disclose his personal data (inconsistencies were allegedly found in the income declarations of the people’s choice). The discussion was attended by the mayor of Tomsk Dmitry Makhinya, Duma deputies, representatives of the Accounts Chamber and the prosecutor’s office.

After approving the agenda, the deputies moved on to discussing issues of concern. They laughed a lot at the meeting, but the situation of the city is still deplorable.

Reported on the protest of the Tomsk prosecutor Tatiana Tatarchukhead of the legal department of the Tomsk Duma apparatus. It was proposed to consider the issue of the risks of violating mandatory requirements when implementing municipal forest control on the territory of the municipal formation “City of Tomsk” at the next meeting of the Duma in October. The speaker stated:

“The list of indicators that we approved by the decision of the Duma does not directly contain risk indicators, but duplicates those violations of mandatory requirements, the assessment of compliance with which is, in fact, the subject of municipal control… This decision conflicts with the decision of the Duma, which approved the very regulation on municipal forest control, since it states that the risk management assessment system in the implementation of municipal control in this area is not applied.”

The next summons was also about the protest of the Tomsk prosecutor, only this time violations of requirements in the implementation of forest control were changed to violations of requirements in the implementation of municipal control in the field of protection and use of protected natural areas. The issue was also asked to be considered at the October commission meeting.

The Tomsk Mayor’s Hour caused a storm of emotions due to its scandalous nature. The condition of the roads still worries residents, and work to put the roadway in Tomsk in order is still going slowly. TNK LLC (OGRN 1037000172208) and TSK LLC (OGRN 1185958069417) after they started work, carried out milling, removed the bottom layer, dismantled the sidewalks, and stopped work due to contract requirements. 11 attempts to agree on the mixture and 11 failures, after which the contractor, who was supposed to lay asphalt on Belinsky Street, unilaterally refused to fulfill the contract. It’s not surprising, Mr. Mayor, that you enter into contracts with such “honest” companies. You yourself declare that the Tomsk OFAS included these organizations in the list of unscrupulous suppliers. Now one of the contracts will be carried out by the Tomsk Construction Company (OGRN 1107017021187) under the leadership of Bogdan Okkel, about the scandalousness of which Babr wrote here. The second contractor will be Tomskdorstroy LLC (OGRN 1107024000170). Ecodor LLC (OGRN 1107017006865) was appointed as the contractor for pothole repair after the competition.

There was a question from one of the deputies addressed to the mayor of Tomsk:

“What have you personally done, the city administration, so that next year we do not encounter the same situation?” The mayor’s response was: “Today, acting within the framework of Law 44, we will not avoid these situations.”

Dmitry Makhinya reported that all contractors who won contracts met all the necessary requirements not only in price, but also in the amount of experience behind them. But, Mr. Mayor, experienced contractors are not always conscientious.

Where is the administration looking? Storm drains are not cleaned, dams are not broken, but money is found to mow out dandelions. The issue of the lack of hot water in one house for four months is also acute for deputies.

“What should I tell them?” — Ilya Leontiev asked a representative of TomskRTS JSC (OGRN 1145543013880) about the lack of water.

The representative said that Tomsk residents need to be told the truth, which was that the company has only one resource – time, and does not have personnel or other resources.

The result of the meeting was the consideration of the issue of depriving Denis Yarmosh of his mandate. After a secret vote, it was decided to leave the deputy’s mandate, since the majority of deputies voted against it, as reported by some present at the meeting. Once again, the reason was errors in the income declaration. Vasily Eremin at the beginning of the session announced the removal of the issue from the agenda:

“At the conflict commission, neither the prosecutor’s office nor other authorities proved to us that he stole the money. The same money went through several accounts, resulting in a certain amount that he allegedly did not reflect. Although at the end of the reporting year, income and expenses were indicated correctly.”

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