Population: 10,942. Area: 289 km². Total revenue: PLN 5,098,104, including own revenue of PLN 3,087,573.
The past year was the first full period during which the socio-economic tasks in our municipality were carried out in accordance with the directions set by the Municipal Council in the programme of action adopted for the current term. It included both tasks continuing investments begun earlier (water supply systems in villages, construction of transport routes, improvement of the educational facilities, sanitary and hygienic conditions in educational institutions, and the development of physical education for schoolchildren) and entirely new tasks. The latter included intensified environmental-protection efforts involving the creation of comprehensive programmes for gasification and sewerage in the municipality, as well as the organisation of solid-waste management.
The most important tasks completed in 1995 included the construction of water-supply systems for the villages of Chościszowice, Kozłów, Stara Oleszna and Suszki. The only water-supply system still to be completed in our municipality was the one for the village of Krępnica, whose construction was scheduled for 1997. Other important tasks included the construction of approximately 19 km of municipal roads, including 7 km with asphalt surfaces, the completion of gasification in the village of Kruszyn, and the construction of a gas network for the villages of Dobra and Łąka. Construction and assembly work on the sewerage network for the village of Nowe Jaroszowice was completed, and the technological start-up of the reed wastewater-treatment plant began. Together with the Voivodeship Directorate of Roads, work began on the construction of a concrete bridge over the Bóbr River linking the villages of Krępnica and Dąbrowa. Comprehensive liming of the soil was carried out. In cooperation with the city of Bolesławiec, a solid-waste management programme was prepared.
Considerable importance was attached to projects aimed at improving the technical facilities supporting the municipality’s social and cultural development. Modernisation and renovation work was carried out at the primary schools in Trzebień and Łaziska. Only the facilities in Brzeźnik and Kraśnik Górny—just two of the thirteen operating in the municipality—still require a substantial improvement in teaching and sanitary and hygienic conditions. Construction of the gymnasium in Ocice was completed, the gymnasium in Trzebień was modernised, and a similar project was begun in Kraśnik Dolny. Construction began on a village community centre shared by the villages of Bożejowice, Rakowice and Otok. A summer holiday programme was organised for schoolchildren from environmentally endangered areas, involving 300 people.
One of the undoubted successes was maintaining the high level of investment and renovation expenditure in the past year, at approximately 60% of total budget expenditure. This was possible thanks to great discipline in collecting receivables constituting own revenue and a very substantial reduction in tax arrears to approximately 48%, including their complete elimination by the Agricultural Property Agency of the State Treasury.
However, 1995 was not exclusively a series of successes for our local government. The greatest failure was the lack of any progress, or even further prospects for improving telephone communications in the municipality. It is small consolation that this problem affects most Polish municipalities, particularly rural ones. The lack of a strong local-government lobby that could be an equal partner for the Government of the Republic of Poland, especially the Minister of Finance, in discussions aimed at establishing favourable and lasting principles for financing the municipality and counteracting the tax authorities’ efforts to systematically restrict budget-revenue sources through regulations issued without proper legislative procedure is also a source of deep concern. The assumption of responsibility for primary schools will also affect the financial condition of local governments, and therefore of Bolesławiec Municipality, in the years to come. The need to secure a minimum level of current expenditure preventing the deterioration of educational facilities forces local governments to draw on their own funds to supplement subsidies. This will adversely reduce the investment capacity of municipalities, including those considered more prosperous.
Head of the Municipality
Kazimierz Gawron
Chairman of the Council Władysław Majkowski