Will the former Primary School No. 2 be granted to the Piarists for use?

We wrote about the matter, among other places, in the article Roman wants to open a Catholic school, which was discussed during a joint meeting of the Education, Culture and Sport Committee and the Health, Family and Social Affairs Committee of the City Council, held on 20 September in the Councillors’ Hall.

At the Council’s next session, to be held on Wednesday, 26 September, councillors will vote on a draft resolution “on consenting to the granting for use of the developed property located at 10 Bankowa Street in Bolesławiec”. If the legal act enters into force, the municipal authorities will grant the former school building, gymnasium and sports field on Bankowa Street to the Piarists for use, without a tender, for 30 years. A public primary school and a public lower-secondary school are to be established there.

During the joint committee meeting, Mirosław Sakowski, head of the Civic Platform councillors’ club, spoke. The councillor asked, among other things, what fees the Piarists would pay for using the plot on Bankowa Street. “The use of this property will certainly be subject to a fee, but as for the amount, I presume it will be symbolic,” replied Jan Kisiliczyk, head of the Municipal Property and Spatial Management Department.

The Civic Platform councillor also asked why the property was to be granted for use specifically for 30 years. “We are not reinventing the wheel,” Bolesławiec deputy mayor Kornel Filipowicz noted. “Such regulations operate throughout Poland. The matter was resolved in an identical way in Poznań, where the municipality granted its property for use for a period of 30 years, and it was designated for the establishment of a Piarist school.”

Sakowski also asked whether, if a private individual approached the municipal authorities with a proposal to establish a school, that person would receive the same support. “If it were an entity with such a rich, venerable and recognised tradition, not only in Poland but also in Europe; if it were backed by extraordinary achievements and if it were a tradition so Polish, so distinctive and so important to the history of literature and the history of our country...” Filipowicz said, “...if such an entity comes forward, you councillors yourselves will know how to answer that question.”

“This expands the educational offering for the residents of Bolesławiec and beyond. Of course, there will be people who criticise the idea, and there will also be those who praise it, but I suspect that both groups would want to enrol their child in such a school,” Piotr Roman’s deputy continued.

Despite the controversy, both committees approved the draft resolution. The only votes against it were cast by Mirosław Sakowski (Education, Culture and Sport Committee) and Andrzej Czeczutka and Stanisław Andrusieczko (Health, Family and Social Affairs Committee).

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