The capital's district councils have not formally liquidated their properties in four years, but 15 properties that belonged to them as municipal property have already been sold. This information was announced today during a meeting of the Kyiv City Council Commission on Law Enforcement, Law and Order, and the Fight against Corruption.
As KV has discovered, the Kyiv City State Administration's legal department informed Kyiv City Council member Olena Yeskina that, in accordance with the Kyiv City Council's decision "On the Organization of District Management in Kyiv" of September 9, 2010, only the Pechersky District Council was liquidated. All other district councils are officially still in the process of being liquidated.
According to Yeskina, since the Kyiv City Council has already begun raising the issue of creating "liquidated" councils again, wouldn't it be easier to stop the liquidation of the old ones? Especially since the legality of the decision made in 2010 is highly questionable.
In particular, district councils, as public law entities, cannot be liquidated like ordinary legal entities. According to the deputy, this gravely violates citizens' rights: after the district councils' liquidation process is complete, they will have no one to file their property claims against. In this case, we are talking about municipal property, which, according to the Law "On Local Self-Government in Ukraine," belongs to the district community.
However, the city authorities didn't even wait for the district councils to be liquidated as legal entities. According to Tatyana Shevchuk, Deputy Chair of the Public Council at the Kyiv Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, who also participated in the commission's work, since the Kyiv City Council adopted the relevant decision, 15 cases of expropriation of municipal property previously owned by the district community have already been recorded in Kyiv.
According to Tatyana Shevchuk, this property should be taken away from its new owners and returned to municipal ownership. However, some members of the Kyiv City Council's Commission on Law Enforcement, Law and Order, and the Fight against Corruption, for some reason, deemed this impossible, arguing that "it would violate the rights of the new owners."
A comment from the audience about the violation of Kyiv residents' rights in the current case went unnoticed.
Following the commission meeting, a decision was made to instruct the Kyiv City State Administration's legal department to provide a legal assessment of the process of liquidating district councils, while also considering the possibility of halting it.
Violetta Gromova, KyivVlast
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