Meeting participants reviewed the results of monitoring the implementation of regional targeted programmes by the Russian regions and the fulfillment of specific terms for the provision of financial support at the expense of the Fund’s assets in 2012. They also approved the Fund’s annual report for 2012.
In all, 34.82 billion roubles in Fund assets were allocated last year in the form of financial support for the Russian regions.
Last year, 22.2 billion roubles in Fund assets were transferred to the regions for overhauling multi-storey blocks of flats. With due account for participatory co-financing by the regions and building owners, the total volume of expenditures reached 38.2 billion roubles. These assets will make it possible to overhaul 12,700 multi-storey blocks of flats with a total area of about 40 million square metres. This will improve the living conditions of 1,665,000 people.
In all, 12.9 billion roubles in Fund’s assets were spent on the relocation of tenants from rundown housing through 2012. With due account for participatory co-financing by the regions and municipal budgets, 22.1 billion roubles was spent on the relocation of tenants from rundown housing last year. In all, this funding is to help relocate over 44,000 people from 2,600 rundown buildings.
The reports on the results of 2012 show clearly that 42 regions failed to fulfill their obligations. These regions will have to correct all identified shortfalls over a period of four months.
Minister of Regional Development and Supervisory Council Chairman Igor Slyunyayev drew the attention of Board members to the need to more closely oversee the quality of housing renovation. Furthermore, with due account for the results of the Minister’s business trips to closed administrative-territorial entities, the Fund’s officials were instructed to draft proposals on the legal resolution of the issue of involving these closed administrative-territorial entities in the Fund’s programmes.
The Minister of Regional Development told members of the Fund’s Supervisory Council and Board to focus on the Presidential directives that were issued in Elista on April 16, and the need to cooperate more actively with the regions during the relocation of tenants form rundown housing.
Currently, the Fund’s members have signed agreements with 57 Russian regions. In all, 27 regions have already drafted their respective programmes to relocate tenants from rundown housing in 2013-2015.
