WITH PROJECTS ON THE WAY TO EUROPEAN UNION

19.06.2009.

Ninth meeting of Palilula Assembly was held on June 18 2009 in NKC building. Having legitimating the Agenda from the eight meeting, the councilors brought the Decision on forming the Board for European integrations that will have seven members. They also brought the Decision of forming Board for the cooperation with Steady conference of cities and municipalities.

 PhD Igor Novakovic addressed to the councilors and aldermen. The president spoke about the significance of the projects and approved financial resources to Palilula Municipality for these projects. The following projects are being realized at the moment: `Solving the housing problem of the people with slide ground problem of Mramor-Krusce`, `Forming the Center for entrepreneur development of Palilula` , `Increasing the capacity of SMEs and Palilula Municipality by introducing ISO 9001”2000 standard`, `Cleaning of the terrain for forming paths on Bubanj`, ` For ecologic coast`- cleaning of wild garbage dumps and employing Roma population – emphasized Novakovic.

Boban Mikic, Municipal councilor, gave the introductory speech for the Solution on forming the Commission for the elaboration o the strategy of SMEs and entrepreneurs.` Palilula Municipality, together with Danish donor LEDIB programme, have started many activities and entered the competitions with many projects, connected to the improvement of Municipal capacities, as well as the creating one good ambience for SME sector development. One of these activities should be bringing the Strategy of SME development of Palilula Municipality. With the elaboration of this strategic document many things will be clearly defined: current state, advantages, weakness, chances and threats from outside to this sort of sector, as well as the way we want to go along. We, on the territory of the Municipality, do not have any more big systems like MIN or Electronic Industry are, that is why SME sector has the highest number of employees-emphasized Mikic. Like responsible local government we have to hear the problems this sector daily meets and we want to help them in improving their businesses. Our aim is to create conditions for new investments, increase the competence of our firms over quality standard, introduction, then to help SME sector over the cooperation with professional centers and scientific institutions to increase the level of innovations. We also want to provide, over profiling of dominant production-services, their connecting into clusters and other types of cooperatives which will have for its result- new work places opening. To reach this objective it is necessary to have mutual trust of all the factors of local community, public sector, then all the relevant political organizations, NGO sector, scientific sector and SME sector itself. For this sort of joined and mutual work, we will get Strategy of development of Palilula Municipality, the document that will give us, as local community, a sort of reference of one serious community that has clear vision which way it should take for its SME sector, which will us allow to come faster to available funds and allow the improvement of their firms capacities.

With the Article 36. of Palilula Municipality internal rules document, it is provided that the Assembly can form intermittent work bodies for the elaboration of certain matters, and with the Article 64 of this document it is provided that the Assembly can form intermittent commissions. With the Decision on commission forming, the activities of this commission are determined, including their tasks and the sphere of activity. Because of the significance of the decision and its legal basis, I call all the councilors and aldermen to vote for the proposition on forming Commission of the elaboration for SMEs strategy development, for it is not political issue, but the interest of all those who work and do something and those who would like to work, but are jobless at the moment`.

Commission that will deal with the sector of small and medium enterprises and entrepreneurs, numbers 48 members –employed, elected and office bearers from Palilula Municipality, then representatives of small and medium enterprises and entrepreneurs, NGO representatives, scientific institutions, public enterprises and LEDIB programme consultants.

The aldermen and councilors gave their opinion for the Plan of detailed regulation of nine streets in Gorica area and for the Plan of detailed regulation of residential buildings `Svetopreobrazenska` in Nis.  The answers to aldermen questions and initiatives were also given during this meeting.