One of the items on the agenda of the October session of the Bolesławiec City Council was a vote on a draft resolution concerning the “adoption of a local spatial development plan for the area located within the block of streets: Grunwaldzka – Zgorzelecka – Szkolna – Armii Krajowej in Bolesławiec”.
The issue concerns the development of this area. If that happens, the municipal public toilet will disappear... Piotr Klasa, a councillor from the Platforma Samorządowa, asked about it. He stated that Bolesławiec, which aspires to be a tourist city, would be left practically without a public toilet. Yet the local government can afford a fountain in the Market Square worth several hundred thousand złoty. “I get the impression that we want to build on every piece of green space,” the councillor added.
Łukasz Jaźwiec, head of the Bezpartyjni i Ziemia Bolesławiecka club and a former manager of the Termy, said that a restaurant would be very useful in this area. Customers of the Termy already use the toilets in that facility anyway.
Piotr Klasa replied that there are plenty of restaurants near the Termy. Ł. Jaźwiec clarified that the draft resolution refers to a service function, so a restaurant does not necessarily have to be established there. It could, for example, be a shop selling sports and recreational equipment.
Piotr Roman joined the discussion, emphasising that the history of this public toilet had been one of successes and failures, but that recent years had been “a period of unbelievable failure”. As the mayor noted, very few people had used the facility recently. And no one wanted to run the public toilet anymore. “We decided that the game was not worth the candle,” he said. He added that the municipal authorities were planning to renovate the public toilet in the town hall, but only if the money could be found.
The mayor of Bolesławiec mentioned that the City of Ceramics had already had an unattended public toilet—on Bankowa Street. The toilet’s manufacturer claimed that it was vandal-resistant. It was not. “The public toilet was completely demolished in a short time,” P. Roman recalled. Instead, especially in winter, it served as a place for consuming various kinds of beverages. “An unattended public toilet did not work in Bolesławiec,” the mayor concluded.
Piotr Roman then returned to the matter of the Termy themselves. He pointed out that the facility lacked a food-service function. He added that the aim was for the Bolesławiec baths to expand their functions and start generating revenue. “Because a time may come when we will no longer be able to subsidise the Termy,” he stressed.
The councillors adopted the resolution by 20 votes in favour. Four councillors abstained.
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