We recently reported that Lubin County Head Adam Myrda attended the February session of the Bolesławiec City Council. Among other things, the local government official spoke about Lubin County transferring upper-secondary schools and roads to the City of Lubin for management. (Details in the article City councillors lobby for the County to transfer schools and roads to the City).
County officials addressed the issue during a press conference attended by Deputy County Head Marian Haniszewski, full-time member of the County Executive Board Stanisław Chwojnicki, Secretary Radosław Palczewski and Chair of the County Council Karol Stasik. K. Stasik:
One of the media outlets held a discussion about the possibility of the City of Bolesławiec taking over the county’s education and roads. These areas may serve as examples of the County’s good work. We have very good results in education, somewhat better than those of the city schools. You do not sell something that functions so excellently.
The second issue is roads. By the end of this year, approximately 80 percent of county roads will have been reconstructed. Show me another county within the Lower Silesian Voivodeship that has achieved so much in road infrastructure.
He added: “We have repeatedly wanted to transfer to the City various roads that do not have the characteristics of county roads. Spacerowa Street is an example. What kind of county road is that? And Lubin looks beautiful in the centre. Have you travelled around Lubin County? I encourage you to do so. You will change your opinion about what the Lubin County Head said. The mayor is clearly moving towards a city with county rights. And I think he should first make Bolesławiec reach a mayoral-city size, that is, 50,000 residents. For now, we have just under 40,000 inhabitants.”
“The City does not talk about this,” the Council chair continued, “but please point out the next areas for residential construction that the City intends to transfer and sell in the coming years. When will we equip the next areas with infrastructure? This is an important task for the Municipality of Bolesławiec, which should carry it out.”
Another problem of the Municipality of Bolesławiec, according to K. Stasik, is the fact that someone once drew the city boundaries very poorly, because Rakowice, Bolesławice and Łąka should be part of Bolesławiec. “Such decisions were made in the past, and now they are coming back to haunt us,” the Council chair concluded.
R. Palczewski joined the discussion:
Lubin County has 100,000 people, of whom around 75,000–85,000 live in Lubin. Bolesławiec County has 90,000 people, of whom 38,000–40,000 are residents of Bolesławiec. We must take this into account when comparing ourselves with that county.
We will return to this topic.