Sergey Levkovich: "The law is at the core of resolving issues"
…The woman has a residence permit in Belarus. She received it a year and a half ago, having moved to her historical homeland from Latvia. She works at one of the state enterprises, wants to change her job, but cannot provide the new employer with the necessary package of documents. The applicant claims that other expatriates from abroad also face the problem of not being able to provide a reference from their previous place of work or a work record book. However, they could be useful in the labor market in Belarus.
Sergey Levkovich noted: the woman's example confirms that a reasonable manager will find an opportunity to hire an employee needed by their enterprise. Bureaucratic obstacles should not arise when it comes to specialists confirming their qualification level or when hiring for jobs that require unskilled labor.
He instructed the Committee for Labor, Employment, and Social Protection of the Regional Executive Committee to study the situation with holders of temporary and permanent residence permits and to propose mechanisms for their integration into the region's economy within a month.
– I hurried with the improvement of common lands in the village of Shultsevo, – the next applicant began his story. – Near the plot allocated to me for personal subsidiary farming, I carried out sanitary logging of willow.
That's what the man thought. But the district inspection of natural resources and environmental protection viewed his actions from a different perspective. For unauthorized removal of vegetation, he was presented with a claim for compensation for the damage caused in the amount of 1.8 thousand rubles. In case of voluntary compensation, administrative measures in the form of a fine will not be applied.
During the meeting, the citizen was explained that it is forbidden to cut down healthy (non-emergency, non-dangerous) trees on common lands. The decision to remove woody and shrub vegetation within the framework of improvement is made by a commission. This is preceded by the development of a general plan for the further development of the settlement and a felling project. The very procedure for creating these documents requires significant financial investment.
– The district budget initially allocates 160 thousand rubles for improvement, – said the chairman of the district council of deputies, Viktor Dorozhkin. – For this money, we need to clear snow, top up roads, mow grass…
Sergey Levkovich summarized that even acting with good intentions, one must not break the law. The applicant can undertake the task of removing excess vegetation in the settlement only if the executive committee makes an appropriate decision.
But the problem of overgrowth is characteristic of many villages in the region and has large-scale implications. It may be necessary to raise the issue to a higher level with initiatives to simplify the procedure for sanitary felling on settlement lands.
Other issues raised by citizens to the President's aide concerned: maintenance of private housing stock, a dispute over land boundaries, and a production conflict. All problems will be studied within a month, and applicants will be given answers.