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Patience runs out because of mayoral thick-headedness
On Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, employees of the municipal company Stroycom are second month without wages. They perform their official duties of cleaning the city, but the municipality does not sign the waste collection acts and there is no reason for people to report their work and get their money. The situation, which we have written about repeatedly, was created in August by the temporary mayor Stoyan Dulev, who signed a cleaning contract with Beev and Beev Ltd. with a preliminary execution clause. The preliminary execution in question was suspended by two orders of the District Court, which Mr. Dulev does not comply with to this day. A court case is also ongoing in the case, but at the December 17 meeting from Beev and Beev once again did not appear and it was postponed.
Efforts to get Stroycom out of the agony were also put by the Municipal Council, but all its decisions in this direction were challenged by Mr. Dulev and then referred to the court. And at their last meeting on October 16, the councillors voted a decision obliging Mr. Dulev to bring the necessary BGN 160,000 to Stroycom. The money should de facto have them in the municipal treasury, because for the first 7 months for cleanliness were spent 370,000 levs and remain unappropriated another 280,000 levs provided under the plan-account for 2004. Whether this is so did not become clear, as the interim mayor and the chief accountant were not present when discussing the topic. In turn, several councillors announced that they had information that the interim mayor was funneling money for the cleaning of Beev and Beev, although he declared that he would not do it until the judicial procedure was completed. A day after the session, 93 employees at Stroycom sent a notification letter to the manager of the company, Todor Kyutov, asking him: when their salaries will be paid and when the necessary funds and conditions for normal work will be provided. We know that it is not your fault, but our patience is being worked out, people declare and announce that from December 20 civil disobedience begins, which will be expressed in blocking the building of the municipality and at the entrance of the city at the bridge of the Mutnitsa River.
The notification letter was sent by Mr. Kyutov to the chief of the police station - Velingrad and to the mayor of the municipality on December 17. Lightning Mr. Dulev issued an order prohibiting the conduct of civil disobedience on the indicated dates and times. Last new notification letter from Mr. Kyutov to the secretary of the municipality stating that by decisions of the Municipal Council, Mr. Dulev's powers as interim mayor were terminated and until the Supreme Court decision was announced he had no right to issue individual administrative acts such as the order to prohibit disobedience. On the evening of 17 December, the police station - Velingrad issued a police order to the manager T. Kyutov to prevent the blocking of the municipal building and the road.
On the morning of December 20, the people of Stroycom complied with the police order and gathered in front of the municipality building. The police, unlike the protest of supporters of F. Beev and St. Dulev days ago, did not allow protesters to stand in front of the entrance to the municipality. At first, people protested silently, "We are hungry, but we are peaceful," one of the women said. Everyone was waiting for the appearance of the temporary Mayor St. Dulev. Neither he nor his two deputies S. Chavdarova and R. Hodges didn't show up for their jobs. Mr. Dulev did not answer the phone, no one from the administration made even an attempt to dialogue with the protesters. Deputy Mayor Recep Hodzhov, who was also the chairman of the contested public procurement for the cleanliness, was at F. Beev against the municipality. Reasonably, the question arose actually from which building and by whom is the Municipality of Velingrad currently led. The growing tension led to the chants "Give us the money", "Down with Dulev", "We want Vodev". After the regulated 2 hours, the protesters left, determined at this complete disregard of their demands by Mr. Dulev on December 21 to move to a blockade at the entrance of Velingrad.
Elena Baeva