The Chukotka Development Fund took part in the working meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission on the project “Attraction of private investors in the municipal infrastructure systems”

The Fund for the Development of Economics and Direct Investments of the Chukotka Autonomous Region took part in the meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission for the Organization of Interaction between the Executive Authorities of the Chukotka Autonomous Region, Local Governments of the Municipal Formations of the Chukotka Autonomous Region and Organizations of the Communal Complex of the Chukotka Autonomous Region for Implementing the Action Plan for Attracting Housing and Communal Services Economy of the Chukotka Autonomous Region private investment. The meeting was organized under the Department of Industrial and Agricultural Policy of the Chukotka Autonomous Region.

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The project “Attraction of private investors in public utility systems” was created within the framework of the Action Plan on attracting private investments into the housing and communal services of the Chukotka Autonomous Region, approved by the Governor of the Chukotka Autonomous Region from June 20, 2016 No. 161-rg “On measures to attract Housing and Communal Services of the Chukotka Autonomous Region of Private Investments”.

The meeting was headed by Governor Roman Valentinovich Kopin. The moderator of the meeting was Andrei Shamilevich Mingazov, Deputy Head of the Department of Industrial and Agricultural Policy. Representatives of the responsible activities of the Department of Industrial and Agricultural Policy of the Chukotka Autonomous Region, representatives of the Committee for Tariffs of the Chukotka Autonomous Region, representatives of the Anadyr GD, the administration of the Anadyr District, the administrations of the Bilibino District, the administration of the Chukotkommunkhoz State Enterprise, Commercial organizations of the district in the sphere of housing and communal services. By means of telephone communication channels, the heads of other settlements of the Chukotka Autonomous Region were connected to the meeting.

Within the framework of the meeting, the results of the conducted works were summed up, including:

  • organization of the project office on the basis of the State Institution “Management of Capital Construction of the Chukotka Autonomous Region”;
  • conducting a large-scale analysis of consumption standards in the context of populated areas and normative legal acts of the Chukotka Autonomous Region,
  • analysis of resource consumption levels in countries with similar climatic and weather conditions,
  • development and preparation of recommendations for making the necessary changes to the regional legislative base,
  • summarizing the preliminary negotiations with potential and current investors in the housing and communal services sector,
  • requesting and collecting information and materials on the existing schemes for heat, water and electricity in municipal administrations districts, city districts, organizations of housing and communal services, data on facilities and complexes of the infrastructure for generation and transportation of heat, electricity and the system of water supply of settlements of Chukotka,
  • etc.

The Department of Industrial and Agricultural Policy of the Chukotka Autonomous Region, the results achieved within the framework of the project “Concessions – Challenges for Entrepreneurs of Chukotka” are assessed as acceptable.

The main theme of the speech of each of the parties involved is the stages and mechanisms for optimal phased interaction in the implementation of the large-scale Chukotka Autonomous Region Project “Attraction of private investors in communal infrastructure systems” and the construction of a plan for its further successful implementation.

The main message of the report for the Fund is the potential growth in investments in the housing and communal services sector and the need to search for new ways to optimize investor costs and apply existing support mechanisms to investors in the region. It is also proposed to apply the existing mechanisms of the Beringovsky PDA, regional programs for supporting investment projects and public-private partnership mechanisms with the support of the Government of the Chukotka Autonomous Region during the period of the phased implementation of the Project.

Fund87, 08.07.2016