KP Parks will take a loan of ₴43 million for new equipment, Denmark will help pay

The municipal enterprise Mykolaiv Parks plans to take a loan in the amount of up to 43 million hryvnias to update special equipment that will be used for winter and summer cleaning of the city.

The relevant project of the decision is published on the website of the Mykolaiv City Council, NikVesti writes.

An advance payment of 40% of the total amount will be covered by grant funds from the Danish Export Investment Fund.

The company appealed to the city council with a request to give consent to conclude a credit agreement within the framework of the state program «Affordable loans 5-7-9%». The interest rate on the loan during the first two years will be 1% per annum, and from the third year it will increase to 5% per annum. Repayment of the loan is planned to be carried out monthly, with the possibility of early repayment.

«The term of the loan will be up to 3 years from the moment of signing the contract, and the implementation of the project will not require the allocation of additional funds from the budget of the Mykolaiv city-territorial community,» the draft decision states.

After signing the loan agreement with JSC Ukreximbank, it is planned to hold a tender for the purchase of equipment through the Prozorro system. The control over the implementation of the project will be carried out by the permanent commissions of the city council.

As you know, during the two and a half years of the full-scale war in Ukraine, the Mykolaiv parks utility company, which is engaged in tree trimming and landscaping in cities, updated its equipment for 35 million hryvnias. Even before the full-scale invasion, as of January 2022, the utility company had only one specialized machine, now the number of special equipment has increased to 52 units.

It was previously reported that the Mykolaiv Parks utility company plans to purchase five units of specialized cleaning equipment.

As a reminder, the financing of the Mykolaiv Parks utility company has grown significantly over the past five years — from 8.6 million hryvnias in 2020 to 167.2 million hryvnias in 2023. This year's budget of the enterprise is 144 million hryvnias, which is slightly less than in the previous year.

At the same time, as of August 2024, there are 262 full-time employees at the Mykolaiv Parks utility company. This is six times more than in 2021, when this indicator was 39 people.

Read also the article NikVesti: «How does the communal enterprise Parks green Mykolaiv during the war?».