HELD SECOND (SECOND) SESSION OF THE COUNCIL FOR DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOUTH-EAST PLANNING REGION

On November 30, 2021 (Tuesday), in the municipality of Gevgelija, was held the second Session of the Council for Development of the South-East Planning Region.

The session was attended by the Mayors of the municipalities within the South-East Planning Region and the Director of the Center for Development of the South-East Region, Ms. Julieta Gjurkova.

At the session, Ms. Gjurkova presented to the audience all the steps taken and activities that have been done so far in cooperation with the municipalities within the projects “Construction of two shelters for homeless animals 1st and 2nd phase.” After an exhaustive discussion, all Mayors agreed that everyone in their municipality together with the administration, the population and the councilors should discuss the further functioning of the built shelter and then each municipality to give the conclusions at the next session of the Council for Development of SEPR.

Ms. Gjurkova also presented all the steps and activities taken for the construction of the regional landfill for the South-East Planning Region, the introduction of the regional integrated municipal solid waste management in the South-East Planning Region.

At this session, a decision was made to hand over a building (road) built within the project “Construction of the local road v. Zubovo junction with the road v. Novo Selo – v. Mokrievo “.

PRESS RELEASE

The Centre for Development of the South-East Planning Region informs the public that on 24.12.2021 (Friday) starting at 14.00 in the premises of the municipality of Valandovo will be held a Constituent Assembly of the Council for Social Protection of the South-East Planning Region.

The Council for Social Protection of the South-East Planning Region is established for the purpose of planning and development of the network of social services in the region. The council consists of all mayors of the local self-government units that are part of the planning region and all directors of the centers for social work from the area of ​​the planning region. The following will be discussed at the Constituent Assembly:

DAILY ORDER

 

1.Constitution of the Council for social protection of the South-East planning region.
2.Adoption of the Rules of Procedure of the Council for Social Protection of the South-East Planning Region
Election of the President of the Council for social protection of the Southeast planning region
3.Adoption of the Proposal for the need for development of social services in the South-East planning region, type and manner of establishment of services

Sincerely,Center for Development of the South-East Planning Region

New President of the Council for development of the South-East planning region

On November 23, 2021, in Strumica, the Council for development of the South-East planning region held its first (constitutive) session, on which all Mayors of the ten Municipalities of the region were present, as well as the director and representatives of the Centre for development of the South-East planning region.

According to the agenda of the meeting, the mandate of the Mayors was verified and after the constitution of the Council, the Mayor of Municipality of Gevgelija Mr. Andon Saramandov was unanimously elected for President who will chair the Council for development of the South-East planning region with a mandate of one year. He expressed gratitude for the trust of his fellow mayors and pointed that priority should be given to regional projects that are sustainable and of high quality in the long run and that lasting solutions are needed for better and improved quality of life in both rural and urban areas. All mayors, as members of the Council of development of the South-East planning region, have an obligation in the upcoming period to raise living standards and investments of this part of the country.

During the session, the Council adopted a Decision on initiating a procedure for electing a representative of the business community for a member of the South-East planning region and a Decision for announcing a public call for electing a member of the Council for South-East planning region – a representative of the associations that will be published in the next period. After the adoption of these Decisions, and in accordance with the Law on balanced regional development, one representative from the business community and one representative from an association will enter as members of the Council for without the right to vote for a term of four years.

At the end of the session, the director of the Centre for development of SEPR Ms. Gjurkova informed the members of the Council about the current projects implemented by the Centre and the activities that are responsibility of the Council for development of the South-East planning region in the following period.

The thirtieth (XXX) Session of the Council for Development of the South-East Planning Region was held

The Council for Development of the South-East Planning Region, on 06.09.2021 (Monday), held its thirtieth session. Due to the situation with COVID-19, it was held online on the ZOOM platform.

The session was attended by the Mayors of the municipalities within the South-East Planning Region and the director of the Centre for Development of the Southeast Region, Julieta Gjurkova.

At the session, the Decision for approval of the project “Early detection of fires and their movement for prevention and disaster management” – eFIDAR with the new budget in accordance with the negotiations before signing the agreement and the Decision for approval of the project “Business Ecosystem as Integrated System” were unanimously adopted. – Be In with the new budget in accordance with the negotiations before signing the agreement, and are financed through the Interreg IPA Cross-Border Cooperation Program between Greece and the Republic of North Macedonia.

The twenty-ninth (XXIX) Session of the Council for Development of the South-East Planning Region was held

On August 18, 2021 (Wednesday), the twenty-ninth (XXIX) Session of the Council for Development of the Southeast Planning Region was held, online through the virtual platform ZOOM.

The session was attended by the Mayors of the municipalities within the Southeast Planning Region and the director of the Center for Development of the Southeast Region, Julieta Gjurkova. At the session held, a Decision was made to determine the participation of members in the Administrative or Supervisory Body of the municipalities in the Joint Public Enterprise for Catching Stray Dogs “ASTRA-LUNA” – Strumica.

The Director of the Center for Development of the Southeast Region, Ms. Gjurkova informed the members of the council that the Joint Public Enterprise for Catching Stray Dogs “ASTRA-LUNA” – Strumica is registered and in accordance with the decision to establish an acting director veterinarian Ms. Suzana Stojkova, on behalf of the President of the region, the Mayor of the Municipality of Strumica Mr. Kosta Janevski. She explained that it is necessary to issue a Permit from the Food and Veterinary Agency, so that the hospital can start working.

These documents must be approved by the Board of Directors, which makes it necessary for its rapid formation. For that reason, the Municipal Councils were given a timely deadline to nominate members of the Management and Supervisory Boards, while the selection decision will be made by the Council for Development of the South-East Planning Region.

The Program for development of the Southeast planning region for the period 2021 – 2026 was adopted

On April 15, 2021, the twenty-seventh (XXVII) regular session of the Council for Development of the Southeast Planning Region was held, at which the Head of the Center for Development of SEPR, Ms. Julieta Gjurkova presented to the audience the Program for Development of the Southeast Planning Region for period from 2021-2026.

The elaboration of the new Program for development of the Southeast Planning Region 2021-2026 is based on the selfless involvement of all stakeholders from the public, private and civil sector, and especially from the employees of the Local Economic Development Departments in the municipalities of the Southeast Planning Region, in order to create on a quality medium-term strategic document and basis for future cooperation and joint implementation of the Program.

Following the prior consent of the Council for Balanced Regional Development of the Republic of Northern Macedonia, the Program for Development of the Southeast Planning Region for the period 2021 – 2026 was unanimously adopted by the Council for Development of the Southeast Planning Region.

The preparation and content of the Program is fully prepared in accordance with the framework and content of the Rulebook on the methodology for preparation of planning documents for regional development, adopted by the Ministry of Local Self-Government and is harmonized with the Regional Development Strategy of the Republic of Northern Macedonia 2021 – 2031 .
The process of preparation of the Program for Development of the Southeast Planning Region is supported by the Ministry of Local Self-Government through the project “Sustainable and inclusive balanced regional development”, which is implemented with the support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation in Northern Macedonia.
The program can be found at the following link:https://southeast.mk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B0-%D0%B7%D0%B0-%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%98-%D0%BD%D0%B0-%D0%88%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BE%D1%82-%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8-%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD-2021-2026.pdf

Twenty-sixth (XXVI) session of the Council for Development of the Southeast Planning Region was held

On March 31, 2021 (Wednesday), the twenty-sixth (XXVI) Session of the Council for Development of the Southeast Planning Region was held. Due to the pandemic, the session was held online through the electronic application Zoom.

Due to the legal changes, the adoption of the new Law on Balanced Regional Development in the first part of the session online joined Mr. Goran Milevski, Minister of Local Self-Government and Mr. Ramiz Redzepi, Director of the Bureau for Regional Development. In their presentations, they introduced the members of the Council with the novelties and amendments to the Law on Balanced Regional Development as well as the Program for Balanced Regional Development for 2021.

At this session were adopted the Final Accounts for 2020 of the Center for Development of the South-East Planning Region, the Annual Report on the work of the Center for Development of the South-East Planning Region for 2020 and the Annual Report for implementation of the Program for Development of the South-East Planning Region for 2020 year.

The twenty-eighth session (XXVIII) of the Council for Development of the Southeast Planning Region was held

On June 23, 2021 (Wednesday), the twenty-eighth (XXVIII) Session of the Council for Development of the Southeast Planning Region was held.
At the session, a decision was made to relinquish the bridge under the project “Construction of a bridge on the river Turija on a local road in the village Prosenikovo – v. Saraj ”funded by PRRR for 2020, which project was completed in March 2021, and the municipality of Strumica participated by co-financing it.
Decision was also adopted on the adoption of the Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan for the South-East Planning Region, implemented within the Project “Common Strategies for Biodiversity Protection and Sustainable Development of the Bilateral Network of Protected Areas – COMBINE2PERET” The Cross-Border Cooperation Program between Greece and the Republic of Northern Macedonia, implemented by the Center together with Aristotle University in Thessaloniki – Special Unit for Research Funds – Department of Biology, Greece, State Environmental Inspectorate, RS Macedonia, Region of Western Macedonia, Greece.
The adoption of this Decision was the reason for launching an initiative for protection of Mount Belasica together with the Monospit marsh.
The Council for Development of the Southeast Planning Region, due to amendments to the Law on Balanced Regional Development, had a legal obligation to amend the Rules of Procedure of the Council, and therefore adopted the Decision on Adoption of Rules of Procedure of the Council for Development of the Southeast planning region.

The twenty-fifth (XXV) session of the Council for Development of the South-East Planning Region was held

On 02.02.2021 the twenty-fifth (XXV) session of the Council for Development of the South-East Planning Region was held, which due to the Covid-19 pandemic, was held online, through the ZOOM platform. The session was attended by the mayors of the municipalities in the region and the Manager of the Centre for development of the South-East planning region.

On the session it was mainly discussed on the manner of treating mosquitoes in the territories of the municipalities in the South-East planning region for 2021. A Decision was made for mutual activity of the municipalities for treatment of mosquitoes in 2021 by land, on the basis of which two larvicidal and three adult treatments against mosquitoes will be performed, i.e. three terrestrial aerosol dеsinsections against adult mosquitoes with ULV method and two larvicidal dеsinsections on the territories of the ten municipalities in the region.

This Decision was adopted earlier in order to meet the deadlines and recommendations of the Public Health Centres for timely mosquito spraying and to follow the recommended spraying and treatment intervals to increase efficiency, get the best result from this process and protect the health of the citizens of our region.

At the same time, a conclusion was adopted to ask the Ministry of Transport and Communications to include the area of ​​Monospitovo swamp in the locations that are priority for mosquito spraying by the Ministry as an example for Lake Dojran from our region. Namely, due to the unavailability of the terrain, there is no possibility to perform terrestrial (from the ground) aerosol dеsinsections and on the other hand this swamp is the largest source of mosquitoes in this region.

At the twenty-fifth session of the Council of SEPR, the Decisions for sale of the old  motor vehicle and for purchase of a new official motor vehicle for the needs of the Centre for development of the South-East planning region were unanimously adopted.

At this session was determined the amount of funds that each of the municipalities in the region will allocate annually for financing and smooth operation of the Public Enterprise for Catching Stray Dogs “Astra – Luna” – Strumica, for which a decision was made by the Council.

Adopted the Financial Plan for the work of the CPRIP and the Action Plan for implementation of the Program for balanced regional development of the South-East Planning Region for 2021

On December 30, 2020, due to the pandemic Covid-19, through the ZOOM platform, the XXIV (twenty-fourth) and last Session of the Council for Development of the South-East Planning Region for 2020 was held online, attended by the mayors of the municipalities in the region and the Manager of The Centre for development of the South-East Planning Region.

The Manger of the Centre Ms. Zhulieta Gjurkova presented the draft Financial Plan for work of the Centre for development of the South-East planning region for 2021, as well as the draft Action Plan for 2021 for implementation of the Programme for balanced regional development of the South-East region which were unanimously adopted at the session.

At this Session, the decisions for handover and transfer of use and maintenance of the local road from the village of Borievo to the village of Koleshino in the municipality of Bosilovo and the municipality of Novo Selo were also unanimously adopted; the decision for handover and transfer of use and maintenance of the local road from point with R 604 road Strumica – Dojran with junction P-611 road Valandovo – Gevgelija in the municipality of Dojran and the decisions for handover and transfer of use and maintenance of the road Bogorodica – Stojakovo, crossroads with regional road Gevgelija – Bogorodica first phase of the municipality of Bogdanci and second phase of the municipality of Gevgelija, were also adopted.