The local administration and the tenants of the building in Skerlićeva street in Pljevlja have reached an agreement that from October the boiler room located on the ground floor of the building, whose use was permanently banned at the end of April due to endangering the safety and health of people, will be operational again from October by the chief thermal energy inspector Slavko Burić.
The tenants proposed a compromise solution to the Municipality that would enable the use of the boiler room from which approximately 400 households and several thousand square meters of business premises are heated until the end of the next heating season.
The tenants' assembly asked the municipality to replace the roof of the building, which had deteriorated due to the operation of the boiler house, the facade, as well as the windows of all 16 apartments, the entrance doors and the doors on the terraces.
It was also agreed that the owners of apartments in that building will be exempted from paying for heating in the next heating season, considering the problems they face every day when the boiler plant is operating.
It was also agreed that the owners of apartments in that building will be exempted from paying for heating in the next heating season, considering the problems they face every day when the boiler plant is operating.
11 tenants voted for the agreement with the Municipality, including the mayor of Pljevlja Filip Vuković, who has an apartment in that building, while two were against. On Thursday, Vuković had a dual role in the talks, because at the meeting he represented the interests of both the Municipality and the tenants of the building in Skerlićeva.
Neđeljko Šljukić was not in favor of an agreement with the Municipality, because he does not believe that anything significant will change with the proposed solutions. He asked the local administration to buy him the apartment he moved into thirty years ago.
As was heard at the meeting on Thursday, the tender for the selection of contractors should be completed by August 4, and the planned works by the beginning of the next heating season.
The tenants said that if the agreement is followed, they will ask the republican thermal energy inspector to postpone the execution of the decision until the end of April next year.
The local parliament recently adopted the conclusions by which it tasked the Municipality of Pljevlja, which is the founder of JP "Grijanje", to find a solution with the Government by July 15, in order to provide heating from the existing boiler room in the next heating season, given that by the time it starts , as stated, it is impossible to find another solution.
In one of the conclusions, the Assembly proposed to buy the apartments on the first floor of the building in Skerlićeva Street, where the boiler house is located, if no compromise is reached with the tenants, and obliged "Grijanje" to replace worn-out installations, and funds for that purpose in the amount of around 50.000 euros will be provided from the permanent and current budget reserve.
Inspector Burić stated in the minutes after the inspection on January 20 that numerous deficiencies and irregularities endanger the safety and health of people. He stated that on the boiler units, as well as on most of the installed equipment, there are no plates with a declaration of product type, serial number, manufacturer and technical characteristics of the plant or equipment, which are mandatory according to standards and current regulations. The space of the boiler room is inadequate, the microlocation is extremely unfavorable, and the chimney height of 27 meters is insufficient from the aspect of air pollution.
The local administration informed the tenants that they hired the company "Topling", which carried out work on the reconstruction of the boiler house three years ago, to inspect the heating plant and propose solutions for eliminating defects.
You cannot live in Pljevlja without heating
The tenants of the building in Skerlićeva decided to give the Municipality a chance, although they had previously been explicit that they would not do it, because they and other households found themselves in a hopeless situation, considering that they do not have the possibility of heating their apartments in other ways.
"The tenants in this building don't even have a basement to store firewood, and considering that it is an older building, the electrical installations would not last if the citizens were to heat themselves with electricity. That's why we decided to give the founder a chance to at least eliminate the deficiencies in the operation of the boiler house, which are causing us major problems," said building manager Žarko Malidžan.
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