Community projects and new friends for Valea Viilor

02.02.2010

Big plans are brewing in the commune of Valea Viilor, Sibiu County: new headquarters for the City Hall, capitalising the tourist potential of the church, a protected UNESCO monument, or finding new friends and partners in Germany. It’s all on the agenda of the Local Council, which starts 2010 with plenty of work to do.

The mayor of Valea Viilor proposed moving the headquarters of the City Hall in the former Post Office, during the Local Council meeting in December 2009. However, that building now belongs to the Evangelic District Office.

“All local councillors agreed to have a new City Hall, because the building we currently use is quite old and blocks the Evangelical fortified Church, which belongs to the UNESCO World Cultural Patrimony. Along with the move, we can capitalize that monument much better”, Avram Pinte, mayor of Valea Viilor, says.

“We have identified a building that might serve as the future headquarters and we are trying to convince representatives of the Evangelical District Office to offer us the building, where the former Post Office was located. It has a big yard and adequately-sized rooms, creating good conditions for the local administration”, the mayor explains.

Water infrastructure in the works

Another line on the Local Council’s Agenda is continuing to connect the commune to the public utility lines. For almost an year now, works have been under way to build the water supply pipes and the waterborne waste disposal system. The settlement is included in the project “Area system for water supply and waterborne waste disposal in the city of Copşa Mică and neighbouring localities Axente Sever, Târnava and Valea Viilor". The investment amounts to 30.4 million lei, money that came from the European Union and the Romanian Government. Employees of the Italian company that builds the system have managed to finish about a quarter of the project in Valea Viilor. The deadline is 2011.

Twinning with a German City

Until then, city officials have started twinning procedures with Aabergen, a German community. The first steps have already been taken; the mayor and priest form Aabergen have visited Valea Viilor at the end of 2009.

The priest in the German village is originally from Valea Viilor, which makes collaborating much easier. “The mayor and priest have visited and we’ve talked about possibilities of partnering in the future. We’ll see the best ways to accomplish this, so we can succeed in twinning the two communes”, Avram Pinte said.

This year, officials from Valea Viilor will go to Germany. “We have already talked about this and we’ll return their visit. This way, our relationship will grow stronger and we’ll have a better idea about the future projects we might begin together”, Valea Viilor’s mayor says.

So far, German officials announced they will offer an intervention vehicle for the local emergency service. It’s a fire truck that will soon arrive in Valea Viilor.

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