The takeover of primary schools by the city, effective 1 January 1996, resulted in numerous debates, meetings, discussions and efforts to improve the educational, pedagogical and material situation of educational institutions. The Youth Cultural Centre, which has rendered distinguished service to the town on the Bóbr, also expressed its willingness to be taken over by the municipal self-government community, as did the Music School of the first degree, which hopes that a second-degree institution will also be established here. In principle, no one questions the validity and legitimacy of these requests; the issue of budgetary resources remains open, however, as there simply is no money for these purposes. The ministry’s education subsidy will not only fail to cover, for example, teachers’ salaries in full (due to faulty calculation algorithms, such as the p.w. coefficient), but also does not provide funds for the day-to-day operation of educational institutions (telephone, electricity, gas and cleaning supplies, not to mention so-called teaching aids, equipment or repairs). The proverbial uphill task therefore awaits the councillors and city authorities from the very first days of the New Year 1996...
Meanwhile, on 12 December 1995, three specialist committees debated cooperation in the area of broadly understood prevention and the organisation of free time for children and young people (education, culture and sport, families, and health). Two priests took part in the discussion, including the dependable parish priest Władysław Rączka. Although no specific joint action programme was established (an impassioned protest against “wasting time” by generalising psychological and pedagogical issues in correlation with identifying local conditions), the meeting can be regarded as a successful step in the right direction. It is simply impossible to escape the dramatic issues of social problems in family and community life.