At the session, they did not agree on the decision to transfer the MART TV channel to full support at the expense of the budget of Mykolaiv

The Mykolaiv City Council did not approve the decision to change the size of the authorized capital of the utility company Teleradiocompaniia MART in the amount of 12.7 million hryvnias.

The corresponding decision was made during today's meeting of the session, December 23, the correspondent of NikVesti reports.

It is worth noting that at the beginning of the meeting, it was proposed to exclude from the agenda the draft decision on the size of the authorized capital, the renaming of the utility company MART Television and Radio Company, and the approval of the Charter in the new version. However, deputies failed to vote twice.

Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych presented the draft decision for consideration by deputies without discussion.

«We understand this draft decision, it did not pass the committee. I put it to a vote without discussion. We tried to exclude him from the agenda of the session, but we did not have enough votes,» said Mykolaiv City Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych.

As you know, the municipal enterprise Teleradiokompaniia MART of the Mykolaiv City Council addressed a letter to the mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych, in which he asks to provide 12.7 million hryvnias in the city budget for financing the TV channel in 2024. The company made calculations taking into account the possible adoption by the deputies of the decision to reform «MART» from a communal enterprise (KP) to a communal non-commercial enterprise (NPC).

Later, this issue was considered by the city council's legality and transparency commission. However, the deputies did not support this decision and recommended that this draft decision be removed from the session.

During the commission, the deputy of the Mykolaiv City Council, Serhii Kantor, expressed the opinion that he considers the decision to reform the communal TV channel «MART» and to allocate 12.7 million hryvnias for its maintenance in 2024 to be inappropriate.

The director of the utility company MART Vitalii Meheda explained that the full maintenance of the television and radio company in 2024 by the budget of Mykolaiv «needs the community», as this way residents will be able to receive information about the work of local authorities.

The head of the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration, Vitalii Kim, who is also a deputy of the city council from the «Servant of the People» party, expressed the opinion that the city's communal television channel must be maintained at the expense of the budget until the end of martial law, and only then make a decision on its sale or transfer to a collective property of journalists.

We will remind that in November, the MART TV channel purchased a 5 by 3 meter LED screen for 1.5 million hryvnias.

According to the search and analytical system 007.org.ua, from the beginning of 2023, the MART TV channel received 5.5 million hryvnias from the budget of Mykolaiv and the Mykolaiv region, as well as the state budget, under contracts for the production of stories and posting of information. Most of the activities of the TV channel were financed by the Executive Committee of the Mykolaiv City Council, allocating a total of 3.5 million hryvnias.

It was previously reported that the municipal enterprise of the Mykolaiv City Council TV and Radio Company MART congratulated and praised the mayor of Mykolaiv Oleksandr Sienkevych, who was elected to the board of the international movement of mayors for the fight against climate change at the summit in Dubai.