NOVOSIBIRSK, April 16 Elected by deputies on Tuesday Novosibirsk Mayor Maxim Kudryavtsev told reporters that he was planning administrative reform at the mayor’s office, and considered cleaning the city his first task.
The Council of Deputies of Novosibirsk at a session on Tuesday for the first time since the abolition of direct elections for the mayor elected Maxim Kudryavtsev, the vice-governor of the Novosibirsk region, as the new mayor.
«We are ready to move. I have already noted the first steps in my program. I see the primary task for the Novosibirsk mayor's office in organizing the cleaning of the city. There will be a range of tasks that I plan to tackle quickly enough, because I know how the processes in that or another area, additional immersion will be needed. But the primary task is to prepare the city as much as possible for the May 9 holiday, and in the future to build systematic work to make the streets, squares and sidewalks of Novosibirsk more comfortable and attractive,” the elected official said. mayor during his first conversation with reporters.
Kudryavtsev also said that administrative reform is overdue at the mayor's office.
«It is necessary. In order to substantively understand what structural transformations are needed, some more time is needed. These are joint powers and work with deputies of the city council… In the future, we need to look at the principle so that the responsibilities coincide with the powers and opportunities for every civil servant in the mayor's office,» he said.
The elected mayor said that he plans to form a team in the next 2-3 months, “but some decisions may be made almost immediately.”