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Openness, ambition and cooperation
Interview with the mayor of Wrzesnia, Maria Taciak.
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- Września's location - by
the intersection of the main traffic routes near
Poznań - is undisputedly an asset attracting investors.
Does the Town offer them any other advantages?
- Speaking of Września's location, it is worth
highlighting that the junction of the future A-2
freeway will be located in the area of the municipality.
In order to encourage the investors, a number
of rebates and preferences have been introduced
in our municipality. Property tax is one of the
lowest in the Wielkopolskie voidvodship and it
is PLN 13.70/sq.m. for buildings used for business
purposes. The facilities for business activities,
such as production and services, are exempt from
property tax for the period of 3-5 years. In addition,
the Town and Municipality Office may pilot the
formal and legal activities.
Września also has a well-developed network of
banks and the institutions offering legal and
administration services. Both the town and the
rural areas have all the utilities supplied.
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Urząd Miasta i Gminy
ul. Ratuszowa 1,
62-300 Września
tel. 48 61 43 60 880
www.wrzesnia.pl
e-mail: wrzesnia@wrzesnia.pl
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- Wrzesnia's assets are not limited to the
technical infrastructure. Its strengths also include
education, culture and leisure
- Within the area of the Września municipality
there are 5 kindergartens, 16 primary schools
and 4 gymnasiums. Young people can choose from
several secondary schools, including: General
Lyceum, Dairy School, Agricultural School, and
Vocational Schools. There is also Non-Public Post-Lyceum
Economic School and the Dairy Education Center.
Culture is promoted in the area of Września town
and municipality thanks to the town's Community
Center. It performs its tasks by means of offering
regular thematic classes. It also organizes outdoor
events (Września Days, Września Name Day).
In addition, we have the Public Library with six
branches, Pedagogical Library, Regional Museum
and Wrzesnia Children Fund, Community Music Center,
Cinema "Trojka". There are 14 Rural Community
Centers and a few Associations operating in the
area. We also have leisure facilities, such as
the Municipal Stadium with full-size football
pitch, four tennis courts or "ŁAZIENKI" swimming
pool with two swimming sections, a slide and a
skating rink. We are also proud of our Aqua World
CENOS with indoor swimming pool and the Sports
Hall of Gymnasium no. 2 with full-size volleyball,
basketball and handball courts and a spectator
seating capacity of 500 people.
- We can certainly regard Września as a municipality
that is open to the world. It has contacts with
partners from both the West and the East of Europe.
What is this cooperation mainly concerned with?
- For eleven years, we have been maintained contacts
with Garbsen in Germany and Nottingham County
in Great Britain, we also continue our cooperation
with the Wilno region in Lithuania and the Ramso
municipality in Denmark. It is also possible that
we will soon sign a partnership agreement with
the town of Bruz in Brittany, France.
Partnership contacts mainly involve education,
culture and sport, they also cover contacts between
businessmen and also voluntary fire brigades.
- What undertakings will be realized in the
near future, which of them do you personally hold
to be most important for the Municipality and
its residents?
- The share of our own investments in the municipality's
expenses in the past years is as follows: 12.6%
in 2000, 13.0% in 2001. In the current year, there
is capital expenditure planned in the amount of
15.5%. The major completed tasks include the rebuilding
and modernization of the municipal swimming pool,
development of the sewage system at the detached
housing estates: Sławno, Lipówka and Sokołowskie,
as well as the modernization of Słowackiego street.
In the draft strategy of Września Town and Municipality
development for 2002-2016, there are plans involving
the construction of sanitary and rain sewage systems
in areas on Wrzesnia's outskirts, expansion of
sewage systems in adjacent areas, construction
of local biological treatment plants, building
and modernization of roads and car parks, as well
as developing a network of cycling routes. Utilities
will be supplied to new areas earmarked for construction.
New social apartments will be built. Also planned,
is the development of the Social Housing Association,
gasification of the town and a new primary school
in Kaczanów. It is, actually, impossible to name
all the undertakings. What is important, we are
not short on enthusiasm.
- Thank you for the interview and good luck.
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