The number of officials of the Odessa City Hall will be increased by 100 people. In the mayoralty, the increase in staff is associated with new powers.

According to the decision of the deputies, now the number of officials of the mayoralty will be 1850 people, which is caused by the delegation to local governments of new powers in the field of monitoring compliance with labor and employment legislation. In other words, there are more functions and tasks, and there are not enough performers.

It should be noted that the previous number of 1,750 people was established in March 2016.

The increase in staff has caused some controversy, as the number of city officials is growing significantly in recent years. Mayor Gennady Trukhanov was not able to answer the question about the state of the municipality in other cities with population over one million, for example, in Kharkov.

I do not know how many in Kharkov.

We bring it in line with the adopted laws, the service for children should now work according to the principle: for 2000 children - 1 person, this is the requirement, therefore, we increase by 41 people in this direction. And the functions of the state are transferred to places, so we are increasing it, "he said..

Note that in 2011 after the first administrative reform of the mayor Alexei Kostusev, the city was ruled by 1,434 officials. At Hurwitz there were almost 1800.