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The mayor of Timişoara, Dominic Fritz, announced on Saturday night that he requested the support of the Government to ensure the supply of thermal agent to the subscribers of the central heating system, this winter, which is at risk of being left without this service due to “historical” debts and penalties. COLTERM to fuel distributors.
Fritz mentions, in a post on Facebook, that the prefect of Timiş County, Liliana Oneţ, in turn sent the request to the mayor’s office for the Executive to release the necessary money from the Government reserve fund for this purpose.
“We must go through the winter without interruptions in heating and hot water. That is why I asked for the government’s support, three weeks ago, for COLTERM, still without response. We resumed the talks in Bucharest, in the context of the negotiations for the new government, in the one who participated (…) You are connected to COLTERM and almost all the institutions in the city, including the hospitals of the first line of COVID-19, others are not clients, but a good part of their contributions to the local budget go to the company district heating system I didn’t want to mention the ‘heavy legacy’ The reality is that from the first day of the town hall I paid more than 10% of the profits to COLTERM to pay huge debts, fines, updated or up-front bills for gas and coal. All to stop the heat and hot water, “says Dominic Fritz.
The mayor claims that, this year alone, Timişoara City Council paid 82 million lei for COLTERM, while the endowments and equipment for Timişoara hospitals cost 35 million lei in 2020. With the 82 million lei, says Fritz, s – It could have doubled the volume of acquisitions of endowments and equipment for hospitals or it could have built a multipurpose hall with 5,000 seats or 20,000 square meters of housing for Timisoara.
“We could completely modernize either Josefin or Fabric, the historic area. But we will not be able to use this money for the community in 2021 either, due to COLTERM’s historic debts. The truth is that COLTERM’s black hole has been growing for too long. This situation cannot continue, we have initiated conversations that are in an advanced stage with the World Bank, with COLTERM’s suppliers and creditors, with ANAF and with various financial specialists for the recovery of the company, both in the short and in the long term. We have solutions and they can be implemented if there is good faith in the Government and among the local councilors of Timisoara, who are also members of the COLTERM General Assembly Good faith and the ability to look at an issue not from the perspective of the party, but “The politicization of the COLTERM problem only hurts the people of Timisoara”, mentions Dominic Fritz. (source: Agerpres)
