At the last city council session, Piotr Roman informed councilors that he would dismiss Małgorzata Dłużyk, director of the Municipal Social Welfare Center.
“The Public Finance Discipline Ombudsman contacted me in March this year,” said Mayor Piotr Roman. “He informed me that there had been a breach of financial discipline at MOPS in a public procurement procedure for the provision of care services and specialized care services for the center’s beneficiaries.”
Małgorzata Dłużyk accepted an offer from a company in Głogów that had been submitted after the deadline specified in the procurement procedure, thereby violating public procurement law. “This is only one of the reasons for the dismissal,” Piotr Roman informed. “After an inspection of services provided to people with mental disorders, carried out by the Voivodeship Office, it turned out that the employees providing them did not have the required qualifications.”
Because of the director’s errors, the Voivodeship Office will not reimburse the costs of these services. They will have to be covered from the municipal budget. “I do not know the exact amount,” said the mayor. “But it will be several thousand złoty. Errors in accepting the public procurement procedure adversely affected the center’s financial situation and its ability to provide assistance to city residents entitled to it,” Roman explained.
The mayor also decided that Małgorzata Dłużyk had lost the ability to properly manage the institution, as demonstrated by her inability to resolve the conflict with the staff. We alone had been writing for two years about the conflict at MOPS: “The Invisible Conflict at MOPS,” “The Conflict at MOPS Is the Mayor’s Responsibility.” We emphasized that Małgorzata Dłużyk was not the best director, divided the staff, treated employees poorly, and even threatened with dismissal workers belonging to the NSZZ “Solidarity” trade union.
Marta Waniszewska, chairwoman of that union, no longer works at the Bolesławiec MOPS. Asked for a comment, she declined to provide one. “I resigned from my job myself,” she added only, then paused.
Only one councilor spoke after the mayor’s statement about dismissing Małgorzata Dłużyk. Civic Platform councilor Wojciech Kasprzyk began fervently defending the director. He asked the mayor merely to punish her with a reprimand. He considered the allegations Roman made against the director a “minor shortcoming.” “Ms. Małgorzata Dłużyk has managed the center for so long and is presumably an excellent director,” the inexperienced councilor argued.
Piotr Roman stressed that no criminal proceedings were being conducted against Małgorzata Dłużyk and that no fiscal offense had been committed at MOPS.
(report: Grażyna Hanaf)