ME «Parks» this year spent ₴200 thousand on car watering equipment — half as much as on new clothes for employees

Dried up bushes in the Heart of the City park in Mykolaiv, August 2025, photo by NikVesti

This year, the municipal enterprise «Mykolaiv Parks» plans to install an automatic irrigation system at the Ternivske Ring (Heroiv Ukrainy Avenue). 226,800 hryvnias was spent on the purchase of equipment.

This was reported by Yurii Andrienko, Deputy Mayor of Mykolaiv, in response to an information request from NikVesti.

We asked the city council what measures the city authorities are taking to preserve green spaces in Mykolaiv that are suffering from the heat. In particular, whether there are plans to install automatic irrigation systems in green areas.

The answer states that the Programme for Reforming and Developing the Housing and Communal Services of Mykolaiv includes a separate paragraph on, inter alia, the installation of automatic watering of green areas, which should be implemented by the municipal enterprise «Mykolaiv Parks», «subject to the availability of appropriate funding».

In Mykolaiv, 200 thousand hryvnias were spent on automatic irrigation this year, response to a request from NikVesti

«Municipal enterprise «Mykolaiv Parks» plans to install an automatic irrigation system at the location near the ring «Ternivske» (green area of 1118 m2) in 2025. The company will carry out the work on the installation of this system, the deadline for completion of the work is by the end of November 2025», the document says.

The company has already purchased the relevant equipment and materials at the expense of the Mykolaiv budget for 226,856 hryvnias.

Trees in the Heart of the City park in Mykolaiv, August 2025, photo by NikVesti

No other measures to establish automatic watering in Mykolaiv are planned this year.

It is worth noting that in 2025, the municipal enterprise «Mykolaiv Parks» spent 408,513 hryvnias on clothing for its employees, including

• 100 jackets for protection against general industrial pollution at 1,339 hryvnias each;
• 100 pieces of trousers to protect against general industrial pollution at 837 hryvnias each;
• one 2nd class welder's suit for 2,454 hryvnias;
• 200 T-shirts for 390 hryvnias each;
• 70 elongated raincoats to protect against water at 632 hryvnias each;
• 100 baseball caps for 249 hryvnias each;
• 150 signal vests for 261 hryvnias each;
• 2 pieces of PVC + Nylon waterproof sets (jacket + trousers) for 710 hryvnias each.

In total, since 2022, the company has purchased clothing for its employees for 2 million hryvnias.

Branded uniforms of the municipal enterprise «Mykolaiv parks», photo collage by NikVesti

Read the article NikVesti «How does the municipal enterprise «Parks» green Mykolaiv during the war?».

The article says that as of August 2024, the municipal enterprise «Mykolaiv Parks» employed 262 staff members. This is six times more than in 2021, when the figure was 39 people. At the same time, the utility company has announced plans to increase its staff by 150 employees who will be responsible for landscaping the city's Korabelnyi district.

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