A warm welcome awaits you in the city of Kok-Jangak.

The city of Kokjangak is one of the smaller, compact cities of the southern region of the Kyrgyz Republic. The city has a developed infrastructure for electrical power and heating, a communal hot water central heating system, drinking water supply and sewage. It also has centers for education, health care and culture.

The city has a highway and rail roads that connect it to the other oblast centers of Jalalabat and Osh, and gives the city access to neighboring and distant countries, such as Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, China and Turkey.

Surrounding the city are mountains that are covered by lush grass, making for good pastures. There are many bushes of wild cherry-plum, blackberry, apples, hawthorn, pistachios and almond-trees. The presence of large, natural, widespread forests of walnut gave the name to the area ? Kokjangak (Green walnut). The city itself has mostly fruit orchards (apple, pear, cherry, red currant and raspberry, etc.). The soil is good for cultivating grain crops of all types, vegetables, potatos, melons and gourds and oil crops.

We present to you our profile of Kokjangak city, with a view to impress upon you that the city is an excellent place for mutually favorable cooperative activities. We are sure that you will find this information very useful.

Contact data:
4, 40 let Oktyabrya prospect
715610, Kokjangak city, Jalalabat oblast
Kyrgyz Republic
tel: (996-3743) 2 ? 18 ? 33, 2 ? 15 ? 35,
fax: (996-3743) 2 ? 15 ? 35
E-mail: [email protected]

• GENERAL INFORMATION

Kokjangak city was established in 1943 to support the ?Kokjangak? coal mine and is situated in the Jalalabat oblast. It is located 660 km from the capital of the Republic, Bishkek, and is 35 km from the Jalalabat oblast?s center ? Jalalabat city. The city has a railway station, which connects it to the other regions of the Republic and neighboring countries. Road transport is supported through a major highway. The city is divided into following microdistricts: the Center, the Eski Kokjangak (old Kokjangak), the Kolmo, the Sputnik, the Cheremushka, the 20th Quarter and the 40th Quarter.

GEOGRAPHY

The city is located in the Northeastern part of the Jalalabat oblast at an altitude of 1200-1450 meters above sea level. The landscape is mountainous across the region. The climate is cool in summer and cold in winter. The winter season lasts from October to March. In spring and autumn there is a considerable amount of rainfall, which frequently turns into heavy showers. Total snowfall in winter reaches up to 1,000 mm. The temperature in the wintertime falls to -350 ? and in the summer the temperatures reach to +370 ?.

Natural resources include coal deposits, loess-like loam suitable for manufacturing construction bricks of 75/100 and higher grades, large-scale deposits of ledge clays (of tertiary age), which in combination with loess-like loam constitutes a good raw material for manufacturing quality tiles, dolomites suitable for production of crushed stone for construction, and quartz sand for use in glass manufacturing and construction.

Total area of the city is 1,213 hectares (ha), excluding 370 hectares of agricultural land (this includes 189 hectares of land belonging to the Fund of Redistribution of Agricultural Lands FRAL). The agricultural land is divided into:

• arable land 162 ha (including 54 ha of irrigated land and 108 ha of dry land)
• pastures 133 ha
• grassland 12 ha
• perennial plantations 51 ha (including 36 ha of irrigated land).

POPULATION
The population of Kokjangak city is 10,341 or 1.2% of the total population of the oblast. The number of employed is 1,630 people. Representatives of about 30 ethnic groups live in the city, including:

• Kyrgyz 8.4 thousand people
• Uzbeks 0.64 thousand people
• Russian 0.54 thousand people
• Tatars 0.21 thousand people
• Kazakhs 0.14 thousand people
• Other ethnicities 0.411 thousand people

2. ECONOMY

Main part of the city?s economy is based on agriculture. The table below shows the analysis of total volume of produced goods for the period of 1999-2003:

Structure of the Kokjangak city economy (in thousand soms)

Volume of goods produced by agriculture decreased in 2003 by 1,761,700 soms due to the reduction of live-stock products, which occurred because of the decrease in the number of cattle, sheep and goats (source: agricultural census of livestock and paltry held on January 1, 2003) and lower yields of agricultural crops.

The variability of the transport sector is cause by a drop in the demand for the transportation of goods beyond the city.

For the past few years, goods produced by private enterprises composed the largest part of the total volume of production, thus demonstrating favorable conditions for investment.

There are public institutions, businesses, administration organizations for ministries and agencies in the city. Besides these there are:

There are also: 4 oil pressing shops, 4 mini-mills, 2 joiner's shops and 7 bakeries in the city.

MAJOR COMPANIES, THE GOODS PRODUCED AND THE TYPES OF OWNERSHIP:

Coal mining companies:
?Gornoye Bogatstvo? company - coal, private ownership.
The ?Kokjangak? enterprise run on a paying basis - large deposits of coal. State ownership.
The ?Ugolyok? company - coal, private ownership
The ?Emerdin? company - coal, private ownership

Machine building and metal-working:
The ?Jetigen? JSC ? formerly the ?Profil? plant. It specializes in the production of dry tube-type electric heaters for electric ovens, water heaters for boilers and spare parts for oil pumps used by oil processing companies based in the Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbek Republic and Tajikistan (by contracts), crown-covers for sealing mineral water and beer bottles, parts of hay-cutters and harvesters, bicycles, glasses for medicines, oil pressing machines, three types of buttons, metal inserts for military shoulder straps, kitchen knifes, socket plugs, mini-flour mills. Recently the company started producing hydrants for the supply of drinking water to the population. The company is under collective ownership.

The ?Kokjangak Farma? JSC. The company is completing the construction of a factory for the manufacture of chloride of lime and is in the process of installing and setting up the technical equipment. Additional financial support (0.7 mln soms) is needed to complete the construction and to begin production, i.e. for the purchasing of equipment and establishing an enterprise for mining and supplying the raw material (salt).

Among the under-exploited economic potentials of the city, the following are notable:

• The city has quite large natural resources. Coal mining should be increased to normal levels of operation. Capital investment from the Republican budget is needed to achieve this goal.
• It is desirable to build a mini-plant for producing bricks and tiles (able to use local coal for firing).
• It is desirable to build mini-plants for producing glass and processing tomatoes, juice production, jams and other canned food.
• There are springs of half-mineralized drinking water, which could be bottled for the needs of the population and other industrial-technical needs.
• Tourism has a promising future in the city, especially when you consider the growing globalization of tourism and the presence of unique, natural, historical and cultural sites.
• The old sand-pit is used for fish-farming (carp, sazan and other fish)
• The Academy of Science of the Kyrgyz Republic is conducting scientific work (growing new varieties of almond) on a 10 ha area of the Kolmo district. The city community has raised the issue of taking the model farm of the Institute of Biosphere under city ownership, since the land rental term expired in 1996. If this issue is resolved positively, there is a further possibility of developing almond growing and this will partial resolve the problem of attracting additional funds to the city budget.

BANKS AND OTHER FISCAL INSTITUTIONS

- Kokjangak city financial department

• Kokjangak regional branch of the Treasury
• The Chyrak Ata Credit Union
• The Jalalabat branch of the AKB ?Kyrgyzstan? Bank
• The Jalalabat branch of the Kyrgyz Agricultural Financial Corporation.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTIONS

• The City Council for Protecting Entrepreneurship
• The City Economic Council for Attracting Investments
• The Working Group for Attracting Grants
• The City Department of the Employment Center

STRUCTURE OF HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURES (in %)

• Purchase of food products for households ? 48.6
• Purchase of foodstuff ? 26.4
• Purchase of convenience goods, medicines and detergents ? 12.2
• Payments for social-household services ? 12.8

EMPLOYMENT OF THE POPULATION

Number of able-bodied citizens is 4896 and number of registered unemployed people is 923. In accordance with the order of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection # 1-12/206 issued on November 4, 1998, the inter-district crediting center of the oblast has issued 100,000 soms as micro-credits to 20 unemployed people.

Number of unemployed people for 2000-2004 period

Years	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Number of unemployed	981	1049	938	850	923

In 2003, 580 new jobs were created:

• Using own funds of enterprises -30
• Using funds of businessmen ? 70
• Using funds of local budget ? 30
• Using funds generated from development of small and medium businesses ? 70
• Thanks to development of agriculture/ the ?Charyk Ata? credit union - 50
• By the fund of assistance to employment - 243 jobs (paid public works and microcredits)
• Jobs found by vacancies ? 57
• Using the investments ?30

Labor resources	2003	2004
Employed population	1656	1628
Found jobs	580	57
Professional training	220	72
Paid public works (PPW)	153	98
?/C ?(microcredits)	90	20
Unemployment allowance	176	125

FORECAST OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PLAN TO IMPROVE THE LABOR MARKET

Indicators	2003	2004 (6 months) actual
Total jobs created	580	256
Using funds of businessmen	70	52
Using funds of local and Republican budgets	30	-
Using funds generated from development of small and medium businesses	70	50
Further development of agriculture	50	36
Using funds of foreign investors	30	-
Using own funds of enterprises	30	-
Employment newly created and temporary jobs through the Fund of Assistance to the Unemployed	300	118

3. STRUCTURE OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT

The city Kenesh (Council) consists of 15 deputies. The following standing deputy commissions have been established:

• Commission for budget, economy and financial issues ? 3 deputies, Chair ? U. Omurzakov
• Commission for protecting law, deputies? ethics, public organizations and local self-government ? 2 deputies, Chair ? Z. Arzykulova
• Commission for healthcare, education, economy, culture, sports and tourism issues ? 3 deputies, Chair ? B. Ryskulov
• Commission for construction, transport, communications and agrarian issues issues ? 3 deputies, Chair ? G. Musaev
• The administrative commission ? 3 deputies, Chair ? K. Sarybaev

The Head of the Kokjangak city administration, Mr. T. Turkbayev also occupies the position of the City Kenesh Chair. He is also a member of the Commission for budget, economy and financial issues. He cannot occupy the position of a Chair of a permanent commission since he is the City Kenesh Chair.

ORGANIZATIONS PROVIDING PUBLIC SERVICES IN THE CITY

ORGANIZATIONS	Number of employees
The city administration	22
City Department of Municipal Property - municipal property	7
City Department of Culture ? municipal property	29
The City Department of Social Protection ? municipal property	20
The City Department of Social Fund ? reports to the Suzak District Department of Social Fund	2
The City Department of Education ? reports to the Oblast Department of Education.	400
Territorial hospital of the city ? reports to the central hospital of the rayon.	147
The City Center of Employment - reports to the Oblast Department of Employment	5
The City Association of Employment - reports to the Oblast Department of Employment	3
The City Sanitary-Epidemiological Station ? reports to the Rayon Sanitary-Epidemiological Station.	19
The Group of Family Doctors #28? reports to the Rayon Center of Family Doctors.	30
The City Fire Brigade #54 reports to the Oblast Department of Fire Security.	15
The City Veterinary Station ? reports to the Oblast Department of Veterinary.	7
The Separate Mobile Mountain-Rescuing Platoon -5 (SMMRP) ? reports to the Ministry of Environment and Emergency Situations	16
The City Police Department ? reports to the Rayon Department of Internal Affairs.	12
The City Library ? municipal property	5
The City ZAGS (department for registering civil status)? reports to the Rayon ZAGS	1


The offices of the prosecutor, the National Security Service and the State Registrar are located in the center of the Suzak district.

COMMUNAL ENTERPRISES AND ORGANIZATIONS

Names	Number of employees
Department of communal property under the city administration	7
The City branch of the power network under the oblast joint stock company DES ?Jalalabat-electroenergo?	18
The Kokjangak City branch of the ?Teplocommunenergo? under the oblast department of ?Communteploenergo? - state property.	6
The city department of water and sewage ?Sharbulak? under the city administration	12

MAJOR CHALLENGES:

• Additional funds are needed for development of the Territorial Self-Government Organs (TSO), but there are no funds in the city budget.
• Creation and development of new condominiums in the city. Two condominiums in the city work inefficiently due to the inadequate collection of payments from the condominium members.

4. PUBLIC SERVICES:

4.1. HEALTH CARE

Title of the health care institution	Types of provided services
Kokjangak city territorial hospital	Provides ambulance service. Specialized medical-sanitary service in the Ambulatory (mobile)-Diagnostic Examination Department (ADE) The sanitary service is divided into Emergency non-mobile and planned non-mobile services
Group of Family Doctors #28	Primary medical-sanitary service. Specialized medical-sanitary static and mobile services. Supply of medicines. Dental service. Acoustic prosthesis and supply of glass optics. Sanitary-hygienic and anti-epidemic measures.
City department of the sanitary-epidemic station	Conducting state sanitary-epidemic control for protecting residents? health. Preventing initiation of infectious diseases. Conducting sanitary-epidemic and preventive activities through vaccination. Limiting measures (quarantine measures) aimed at the cessation and prevention of mass infectious disease outbreaks and infectious poisonings. Conducting laboratory testing of foodstuffs, drinking water and issuing certificates about safety for consumption. Conducting social-hygienic monitoring ? this is a system of control of the status of the population?s health, analyses and status forecasting. Conducting activities aimed an hygiene education and training the population Conducting certification of goods, services and works that carry a potential health hazard to humans. Conducting activities aimed at bringing to account all violations of the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic regarding the sanitary-epidemiological safety of population.

The above health care institutions provide services not only to Kokjangak city residents, but also to the inhabitants of the neighboring rural areas.

1. Number of doctors per 1,000 of population ? 5
2. Provision of hospital beds ? 65 beds, 84,6%
3. Index of infant mortality ? none
4. Index of maternal mortality ? none
5. The plan of immunization of children under 1 is fulfilled by 54,3%, from 1 to 7 ? by 50%.

MAJOR CHALLENGES:

1. Need for medical equipment for the complete examination of patients.
2. Modern diagnostic equipment
3. X-ray machine
4. Insufficient quota for electricity, absence of funds for the timely payments for the electricity used.
5. Shortage of funds for the purchase of medicines and medical equipment for providing emergency medical services

4.2. EDUCATION

The city department of education, in cooperation with the department of communal property under the city administration, monitors and controls the management of city schools and kindergartens located on the city territory.

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND NUMBER OF STUDENTS

#	Type	Number of seats	Number of children
1	Secondary schools? 5	2516	2696
	Including: standard buildings ? 4, remade buildings? 1	2516	2096 600
2	Kindergartens, standard buildings ? 4	350	265
3	Children?s and Youth sports school #1, remade building	Used area 1200 ?2	320

There is also a city professional-technical lyceum #71 with 380 students.

MAJOR CHALLENGES:

1. 60 % of buildings of schools, kindergartens, non-school institutions and proffessional-technical lyceum #71 require major repairs.
2. Insufficient provision of school furniture and teaching materials.
3. Absence of a laboratory-practice equipment and materials
4. Shortage of qualified personnel due to low salaries.
1. CULTURE AND SPORT

The library stock of the central city library is 98,199 books, including a children?s section with 38,012 books. The city museum of military history makes a big contribution to the education of the younger generation, providing information about the history of the city. The museum holds excursions for students of secondary schools and the proffessional-technical lyceum #71.

The city history museum was established in 1983. It is located in the city Home of Culture. Its total area is 36,72 m2 and it has two exhibition halls. About 2,500 people visit the museum annually.

The city has a central park of 3.6-hectares. The city department of municipal property used its own funds to repair visitor attractions and to fence off the park.

Within 2 km from the city, in the Old Kokjangak district, there is a children?s recreational center called Barchyn, which was constructed in 1976. The camp?s has a capacity for 320 and has 80 beds. About 250 children visit the camp annually in three shifts. For the last two years the children?s recreational center did not function due to the shortage of funds. In order to provide children with good facilities for recreation during the summer holidays, it is necessary to carry out major repairs of all buildings, the swimming pool, and purchase furniture and equipment.

The Home of Culture, which was built in 1948, is situated in the center of the city. It has a capacity for 600 visitors. The city Home of Culture has recreational groups for singing, choirs and folklore. There is also a disco-club and a center for the city radio broadcasting. At the present moment, the city Home of Culture requires a complete major repair and renovation of its equipment.

There was a city printing house, which published the city?s daily newspaper ?Put Gornyaka? from 1948 to 1994. From 2000 to 2001 there was a newspaper called ?Kokjangak Kabarlary?. Unfortunately, the city printing house does not operate now due to the deterioration of the printing presses.

There are 9 trainers and 280 teenagers attending the Children?s and Youth?s Sports School #2. Until 2003 the school was located in the building of the ?Shakhtyor? cinema theatre, which is under ownership of the oblast fund called ?Kinofication?. Construction of a new sports hall began in 2004.

There is a central city stadium with a capacity for 2000 spectators. It was built in 1958. Partial repair works were carried out at the stadium quite recently.

There is an Art School downtown. It has 11 teachers and 154 students, which study the playing the accordion, bayan, piano, komuz and guitar.

MAJOR CHALLENGES:

1. All buildings for cultural and sports institutions require major repairs
2. They all require new furniture and equipment
3. It is necessary to purchase new musical instruments, teacher?s aids and books for cultural institutions
4. The sports school and the city stadium lack sports equipment
1. HOUSING

There are 456 apartments with total area of 22420.5 ?2 and living space of 15083.2 ?2 registered by the city Department of Communal Property. Out of these, 430 apartments have been privatized and 26 apartments with total area of 1241 ?2 and living space of 869 ?2 have not been privatized. Five blocks of apartments are united into two condominiums: 3 blocks of apartments with 148 apartments on the Oktyabrskiy Street, two blocks of apartments with 86 apartments on the Lenin Street and 5 yards.

1. SOCIAL PROTECTION

The Kokjangak city Department of Social Protection is responsible for the implementation of the Republican, oblast and city programs on social protection of the population. The Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, in cooperation with the city administration and the Department of Social Protection, have designed programs aimed at supporting low-income families through issuing compensations for paying communal-household services, electricity and a program for medical support. In 2003-2003, the ?Jardam? (assistance) foundation was established and the ?Novoye Pokoleniye? (new generation) was designed.

POVERTY LEVEL IN 2003

Status	Families/people	%
Extremely poor families with income less than 352 soms	550/1834	18.0
Poor families with income less than 584 soms	1170/ 3902	38.0

MAJOR CHALLENGES:

1. There is a necessity to issue grants to organizations and low-income citizens so they can start their own businesses.
2. It is necessary to open a rehabilitation center for disabled orphans
3. Hot food should be provided to lonely, elderly people. This requires issuance of a grant and assistance from the city administration.
4. It is highly desirable to establish a subsidized farm for families with disabled family members.

4.6. MARKETS AND POSSIBILITIES FOR DISTRIBUTION

There is a central market, 5 mini-markets, 2 stationary stores, 64 private shops, 2 canteens and a cattle market in Kokjangak city.

The city administration issues licenses for opening and operating the markets. The retail trade is completely managed by private entrepreneurs. About 200 entrepreneurs are involved in the retail trade at the city markets. The turnover of the retail trade is 15,358,500 soms, which is 15.6% more than in the previous year.

4.7. Water supply

Drinking water is supplied to about 70% of the city population. Currently it is impossible to supply drinking water to all residents due to the deterioration of water intake and equipment. The water supply is managed by the ?Sharbulak? water and sewage company (Vodokanal). The remaining 30% of the residents get their drinking water from wells and fresh water springs, because of the lack of a water supply network in their districts.

The Kokjangak city water and sewage company was established in 2000 on the basis of the ?Sharbulak? company, which provides services to civil institutions, businesses and to the people of the city.

The Vodokanal provides services to 1060 residents and 30 city enterprises and organizations (as of 01.06. 2004). Water is taken from two water sources. Total number of working hydrants for residents? use is 285.

1. The main water intake in the 8th quarter has 3 tanks with 500 m3 capacity each. It was build between 1936 and 1938.
2. The distribution water intake 6th quarter has 2 tanks with 2000 m3 capacity each. It was build between 1985 and 1986.

The budget funded organizations and entities consume 860 m3/day, industrial entities ? 60 m3/day and the population consumes 2,500 m3/day.

Total length of water pipes of the city is 27 km (as of 01.06.2004), out of which 14 km were laid between 1936 to 1938, 9 km ? in 1970 to 1985 and 4 km in 1986 to 1987.

Financial status of the ?Sharbulak? vodokanal company for 2003.
Actual income was 153,000 soms and expenditures were 157,200 soms. The volume of services provided to the population is satisfactory (1060 recipients including 456 apartment tenants). Water is provided according to a schedule of 4 to 5 hours a day.

Tariffs for drinking water supply:
Population ? 15 soms per 1 m3
Population?s debt ? 17,000 soms.
Budget-funded organizations ? in accordance with an agreement between the ?Sharbulak? vodokanal and
companies and organizations of the city.
Debt of the companies and organizations - 73,300 soms for 2003 and first half of 2004.

MAJOR CHALLENGES:

1. Repair of the water distribution network.
2. Large amounts of debts: the total debt was 90,300 soms as of 01.06.2004, including 17,000 soms of the population?s debt and 73,300 soms of companies and organizations? debt.
3. Shortage of irrigation water for irrigating home yards in the summer.

4.8. SEWERAGE

Total length of sewage pipes of the city was 8 km, including 6.5 km in residential areas and 1.5 km from organizations. The sewage system is maintained by the Department of Communal Property under the city administration. The sewage system totally belongs to the Department of Communal Property. Accrued income was 92,100 soms and expenditures were 30,000 soms in 2003. (are these the accrued expenditures or actual ones?)

Until 2003 the sewage system was on the books of the ?Kokjangak? mine and in 2004 it was transferred to the city Department of Communal Services.

About 16% of the population can use the centralized sewage system.

Services are provided in accordance with the agreements with the condominiums and chairpersons of the quarter committees. The population pays for sewage service 0.85 soms/person and it owes 6,255 soms. The budget-funded organizations pay in accordance with contracts and they owe 85,900 soms.

The debts originated when the sewage network was transferred to the balance of the Department of Communal Property after restructurization of the ?Korgontash? mining company by a Special Administrator.

MAJOR CHALLENGES:

1. Large debts of the population and budget-funded organizations
2. It is necessary to carry out repair work of 6.5 km sewage system
3. Shortage of disinfectant solutions
4. It is necessary to carry out major repair works of 65% of the sewage disposal plant

4.9. POWER SUPPLY

The power supply is provided by the Kokjangak department of power networks under the Jalalabat-electro JSC. Total length of 6 Kwt power lines is 14.6 km, Vl (?) ? 0.4 Kwt is 29.7 km. Number of operating transforming sub-stations is 42. Number of consumers (subscribers) in the city is 2244 (including the Uch Malay village). The local organizations and entities consumed 2.84 mln Kwt of power in 2003, which amounted to 2,272,000 soms. The population used 2.812 mln Kwt amounting to 1,209,100 soms. Total amount collected from the population, organizations and entities for electric power amounted to 2,165,500 soms in 2003.

The power company branch?s expenditures on maintenance of the power network made up 430,800 soms in 2003. The branch had no income due to debts: of the population ? 1,534,300 soms and of organizations and entities -3,388,700 soms.

MAJOR CHALLENGES:

1. It is necessary to replace 2 transformers with 250 Kwt capacity, 4 transformers with 160 Kwt capacity and 4 more with 100 Kwt capacity.

4.10. COMMUNICATION

Telecommunication services of the city are provided by the ?Kyrgyztelecom? JSC. There are 900 subscribers. The Telecommunication exchange works at 90% of its capacity. The ATSK exchange needs to be replaced by modern equipment. The monthly amount collected from subscribers is 44,550 soms. Amounts paid for communal services make up 480,000 soms annually. Number of employees is 18. Total length of communication cables is 35.7 km. There are 4 post offices with 16 employees providing telecommunication services.

MAJOR CHALLENGES:

1. The Telecom company should renew cables that have deteriorated or been stolen: 200 ? 2 = 4 km., 100 ? 2= 4 km., 50 ? 2 = 2 km, 30 ? 2 = 2 km, 10 ? 2 = 2 km. Total ? 35 km.
2. Low paying capacity of subscribers and budget funded organization, because of which the service is cut frequently.
3. Low quality of telecommunication between the subscribers due to the physical deterioration of cables, network and communication equipment of the ATS.
1. HEATING

Heating is provided by the ?Jalalabat Teplocommunenergo? company?s boiling center and several other smaller boiling centers belonging to other organizations. The city administration has its own 5 boiling centers, the city hospital has 1 and the Proffessional lyceum #71 has another. The number of ?Jalalabat Teplocommunenergo? company?s individual clients is 282 and they owe 87,250 soms. The budget-funded organization owed 110,000 soms as of 01.06.2004.

MAJOR CHALLENGES:

1. The city Education Department?s debt for supplied coal is 110,000 soms for the period from 1999 to 1.06.2004. The debt originated due to a shortage of funds provided by the Oblast budget to the Education Department.
2. Equipment of the boiling centers at 4 schools requires major repairs.
3. Heating system pipes at all schools and kindergartens should be renewed.
4. The debt of residents of apartment blocks for heating comprises 87,250 soms for the period from 1996 to 2004.
1. SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT

The Kokjangak city is divided into 8 micro-districts. There are 52 garbage-collecting sites in the city. Due to the absence of a garbage-collecting transport and a container truck, removal of solid wastes is conducted only when the garbage cans are filled up.

About 1,500m3 of solid waste have accumulated over several years, which creates the conditions for the spread of infectious diseases. The Department of Communal Property is responsible for collecting and removing garbage. The Department has no garbage-collecting transport, a container truck or an excavator. The Department hires a loader for loading the garbage on a dump truck. The dump trucks are leased from the ?Tulpar? JSC.

The Department collected only 87,000 soms for solid waste removal services from the population and organization in 2003. This happened due to financial restraints of the clients. At the same time the Department spent 306,000 soms on solid waste removal. It spent a total of 216,000 soms on the complete removal of solid waste.

Solid waste is removed from 1,552 houses, which comprise 82% of all houses in the city. The rest of the population collect garbage and bury it in their own yards. The volume of garbage removed annually is 1,350 m3. The volume of garbage removed monthly is 112, 5 m3.

The city disposal garbage pit is located in 3 km to the south from the city, in the territory of the Bagysh rural administration. The Department of Communal Property also maintains it. No reclamation or leveling works are carried out due to a lack of a bulldozer T-130.
The individual clients are charged 2.5 soms for garbage removal and they owe 65,750 soms. Budget-funded organizations are charged 150 soms and their debt is 137,350 soms. Other organizations are charged 150 soms and their debt is 72,300 soms for the 2002 ? 2004 period.

MAJOR CHALLENGES:

1. The garbage cans are physically deteriorated and require replacing.
2. A loader and a container truck are required.
3. The Department of Communal Property has to purchase following machines to maintain acceptable sanitary conditions in the city: 2 ZIL dump trucks, 1 Belarus loader and 2 container trucks.
4. Equipping the 52 garbage collection sites with new garbage cans.
1. ROADS

.
There are 27.2 km or roads in the Kokjangak city, including 22.6 km of asphalt roads, 3.3 km of pavements, 0.5 km of squares and parks, and 0.8 km of boulevards. All of these roads are the responsibility of the Department of Communal Property and funds for their reparation are provided by the city administration.

1. LAND USE PLANNING AND PERMITS

Planning of land management and registration of immovable property rights is conducted by the Suzak district (rayon) department of management planning and immovable property rights registration. It has two sections: immovable property rights registration section (homestead lands) and immovable property rights registration section (land allotments). Total number of the Department?s employees is 54, including 24 permanent employees and 30 contracted employees. Total number of the Suzak district department of architecture?s employees is 12.

The Suzak district department of architecture is responsible for issuing documents for the approval of building designs, alterations / repairs to buildings and the construction of new buildings.

The General Plan for the future development of Kokjangak city was in written in 1976 by the Design Institute.

The following are the terms of issuing documents permitting construction, in accordance with the Governmental Decree:

1. capital construction - is not authorized by the rayon department.
2. Individual construction ? 30 days.
3. Re-building ?30 days.
4. capital construction on investment projects - is not authorized by the rayon department.

MAJOR CHALLENGES:

1. The staff members spend their own money to provide services to register documents proving property rights on property and land allotments.
1. ENVIRONMENT

A representative of the Oblast Department of Environment is responsible for issues related to environmental protection.

The Department of Communal Property is responsible for the improvement of environment and the planning of green plantations in the city. Months of cleaning and planting of greenery are carried out in the city every year from March to May. During the same months, planning of such activities is made. Every organization pays attention to the appearance of the city, drawing pictures, slogans and posters, and the reparation of statues. Many works are not completed due to a shortage of funds.

MAJOR CHALLENGES:

1. Shortage of funds for carrying out sanitary cleaning, planting greenery and removing garbage.
2. Absence of proper machinery for the removal of garbage
3. Shortage of funds for rodents (rats) control.

4.16. CIVIL DEFENSE.

The civil defense of the Kokjangak city consists of the following services: engineering service, communal-technical service, warder and communication system, medical service, material-technical provision service, public order service and chemical control service.

4.17. TRANSPORT

New routes are opened in accordance with the decisions of the oblast Tender Commission. The tariffs are determined by the Permanent Commission on Transport issues under the city administration.

Transportation services in the city are provided by the ?Tulpar? JSC, which has 2 buses and 6 trucks. There is a Kokjangak-Jalalabat-Uzgen bus route.

Trucks operate in accordance with contracts signed with local organizations.

MAJOR CHALLENGES:

1. It is necessary to purchase three vans for public transport and to improve the comfort of passengers.
2. Shortage of funds for purchasing spare parts for trucks and buses.

The railway station.
There is a 97 km long railway line to the city of Jalalabat. It was built in 1932, but its currently not in service due to a lack in demand for the transportation of goods.

5. MAIN FINANCIAL INDICATORS OF THE CITY BUDGET

In 2003, utilization of the local budget was achieved at a level of 9.3 mln soms. The reduction in the city budget is explained by transference of funds for financing the ?Healthcare? sector from the city budget to the oblast.

Revenue part of the budget of Kokjangak city (thousand soms)

Revenues	2001 actual	2002 actual	2003 plan	2003 actual	2004 plan
Republican taxes
Income tax	80.5	42.0	73.5	96.6	70.0
Profit tax	1.1		2.1	1.8
Total Republican taxes	81.6	42.0	75.6	98.4	70.0
Local taxes
Land tax from individual owners	3.4	7.3	20.0	24.2	20.0
Land tax from the legal entities	20.4	70.9	-	50.4
Land tax from agricultural land.				29.7
Tax for providing paid services	65.3	73.7	73.0	75.6	60.0
Tax from vehicle owners	9.0	18.0	-	10.6
Confiscation and fines	2.1	2.4	-	3.7
Total local taxes	100.2	172.3	93.0	194.2	80.0
State duty	7.5	1.3
Total tax and non-tax incomes	189.3	215.6	168.6	292.6	150.0
Special funds and other non-tax incomes	240.9	278.0	197.0	319.4	197.0
Categorical grants	5503.8	6081.4	4181.5	4181.5	4568.1
Equalization grants	218.8	266.0	102.4	93.7	308.8
Funds received from the Republican budget	137.6	-	139.9	98.2
Mutual settlements with the Republican budget	532.5	-	518.0	805.4
Subventions	3578.3	3744.0	3836.6	3476.6	3811.1
Total incomes including grants	10401.2	10585.0	9144.0	9267.2	9035.0

Expenditure part of the budget of Kokjangak city (thousand soms)

Expenditures	2001 actual	2002 actual	2003 plan	2003 actual	2004 plan
Expenditures by sectors
State services	1089.7	1118.4	1308.7	1210.4	1147.9
Defense	61.3	72.2	82.0	79.0	88.6
Education	5342.1	5884.2	6374.0	6736.0	6289.9
Health care	2629.3	2332.6	-	-
Social welfare	668.0	682.6	807.2	753.2	820.2
Housing and communal services	385.9	294.5	300.4	307.2	430.0
Culture	161.9	200.5	271.7	181.6	258.4
Agriculture	63.0	-	-	-
Total expenditures	10401.2	10585.0	9144.0	9267.4	9035.0
Expenditures by items
Salary	5668.8	5918.8	5076.9	5083.1	5143.7
Social Fund payments	1629.4	1482.8	1263.0	1265.8	1285.6
Travel expenses	66.8	77.2	94.7	101.1	129.8
Purchase of equipment and materials	153.0	134.5	206.8	185.2	320.7
Medicines	52.8	39.6	-	-
Food	546.4	239.0	207.0	207.0	383.5
Transport expenses	111.6	117.0	125.3	138.4	131.3
Communal services	1319.8	1557.1	1068.1	1185.0	469.2
Others	690.8	759.9	755.4	790.4	716.6
Major repairs	88.4	155.5	180.3	214.1	268.2
Benefits to the population	73.4	86.5	115.2	97.3	135.1
Loan repayment	-	17.1	51.3	-	51.3
Total expenditures	10401.2	10585.0	9144.0	9267.4	9035.0


6. ASSETS UNDER COMMUNAL OWNERSHIP

Eleven assets (buildings, constructions and communications) are under municipal ownership. Their total book value is 10177,9 thousand soms.

ASSETS UNDER COMMUNAL OWNERSHIP

?	Title	Put into operation	Length (km)
1	Asphalt roads	1943-1970	22.6
2	Canals and irrigation networks	1934-1994	12.4
3	Pavements	1954-1961	3.3
4	Bridges and crossings	1934-1950	56
5	Squares	1960	0.5
6	Boulevards	1962	0.8
7	Cemeteries	1934-1970	3
8	Street lighting networks	1934-1960	26.8
9	Trees along the roads and pavements	1965-1990	6.960

7. NGOs AND ORGANIZATIONS ESTABLISHED BY COMMUNITIES.

The city is divided into 8 quarter committees of public territorial self-government.
There are 12 registered NGOs:

1. In education and science ? 4
2. Protection of consumer rights ? 1
3. Women ? 2, refugees? 1, health care? 1,
4. Attraction of investment ? 2, charity ? 1

8. OTHER

There is 1 mosque and 1 Russian orthodox church in the city. There are also Russian, Uzbek and Tajik national cultural centers. There is a printing house publishing the ?Kokjangak Kabarlary? newspaper, circulation of 1,000 copies. Unfortunately the printing house has suspended its operation due to the deterioration of its printing presses. Information for the Kokjangak city is distributed through a Suzak district newspaper called ?Kogart Nuru? and an oblast newspaper called ?Akiykat? in Kyrgyz, which provides a one-page supplement about Kokjangak city.




Development strategy



Development strategy for THE city of Kokjangak for 2004 ? 2015

1. DEVELOPMENT OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT ALONG WITH THE URBAN COMMUNITY	2. CITY INFRASTRUCTURE
1.1. Improvement of the structure and authorities of LSG	2.1. Improvement of the main roads
1.2. Strengthening LSG financial base and discipline	2.2. Improvement of the communication systems
1.3. Strengthening the working and development of TPSGs and NGOs	2.3. Strengthening the utility department?s logistics
1.4. Development of urban community institutes	2.4. Strengthening the logistics of ?Sharbulak? city water channel
3. ECONOMY AND FINANCES	4. SOCIAL POLICY
3.1. Economic policy	4.1. Social protection and mobilization of the population
3.2. Creation of a favorable investment climate	4.2. Educational policy
3.3. Carry out advertising and marketing activities	4.3. Youth policy
3.4. Development of available industrial potential	4.4. Improvement of medical services
3.5. Creation of a food processing industry	4.5. Development of healthy lifestyles
3.6. Development of animal breeding and horticulture
5. DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATIVE ECOLOGICAL TOURISM	6. ECOLOGICAL, WATER AND ENVIROMENT PROTECTION MEASURES
5.1. Opening of a tourist foot-path track	6.1. Organization of natural resources protection
Arrangement of the riding cruises for tourists	6.2. Water protection measures
5.3 Arrangement of a rest zone for tourists	6.3. Organization of ecological measures

Detailed information on town strategies you may download ?