In 2009, the Irkutsk Duma and city deputies will hold monthly hearings and meetings to review key city issues, from medicine for beneficiaries and municipal property management to the budget and social programs. March will be the busiest, with reports on 2008 development, national projects, healthcare, police work, the 350th anniversary, preschool education, paid parking, and Duma elections.

In 2009, city deputies will traditionally gather once a month for council hearings. The most information-rich month will traditionally be March, the time for annual reports from all branches of the executive authority.
In January, deputies will hear a report on the provision of medicines to certain categories of citizens entitled to receive state social assistance. In February, the concept of managing municipal property and land resources of Irkutsk will be considered, and the Committee on Social Policy will also present the results of an experiment to introduce a results-oriented budgeting system (ROB) in a number of pilot educational institutions.
In March, the results of the socio-economic development of Irkutsk for 2008, the progress of implementing priority national projects in the city, and a report on the work of municipal healthcare institutions and internal affairs bodies in Irkutsk will be considered.
April will be devoted to analyzing the activities of municipal enterprises. In May, the results of the IV City Educational Forum “Education of Irkutsk 2009” will be summed up, and there will be clarity on the list of events for the celebration of the city’s 350th anniversary. Departments of the city administration will report on the measures carried out in the field of energy conservation in municipal institutions of Irkutsk, as well as on measures to prevent socially significant diseases (tuberculosis, HIV infection) and on interaction between local self-government bodies and the population managing Irkutsk’s apartment housing stock (HOAs, housing cooperatives, territorial public self-government bodies).
June council hearings will concern the prospects for the development of the municipal preschool education system and the creation of conditions for organizing leisure activities for young Irkutsk residents during the summer holidays. As well as the organization of paid parking in the city.
At meetings of the Irkutsk City Duma in January, deputies will consider issues related to the work of the Committee for Municipal Property Management. Deputies will approve the register of municipal property, revise the Duma’s 2004 decision on granting benefits for the lease of land plots, and approve the procedure for actions when reserving land for municipal needs.
In February, deputies plan to consider reports on the implementation of municipal target programs in 2008. The end of the first quarter – March 2009 – will be the time when the Committee for Economics and Finance of the Irkutsk City Administration sums up the results of budget execution for 2008 and can forecast budget execution for 2009. In March, deputies will be asked to make amendments to the municipal target programs for capital construction.
In April, the city Duma plans to approve current amendments to the Irkutsk 2009 budget at a meeting. In May, measures of additional support and social assistance for certain categories of citizens will be considered.
June will be a month of preparation for elections to the Irkutsk City Duma. Deputies will consider the scheme of single-mandate electoral districts for holding municipal elections of deputies to the Irkutsk City Duma of the fifth convocation.