“A noise impact assessment has been submitted and now the decision is up to the State Inspectorate, which I believe will give a positive opinion. After that, the Transport Ministry is expected to issue an operating licence. I hope everything will be over in a few weeks’ time and the cable car will be put into operation,” the mayor said.
The price list for tickets for the new cable car will soon be made public.
Asked if it was true that the city did not pay all of its bills to the Austrian company Doppelmayr, hired to maintain the cable car, Tomašević said that that was the first time he heard anything of the kind.
“(Doppelmayr) is a top company specialising in the manufacture and maintenance of cable car equipment and it is crucial that we have good relations with it because the cable car and equipment itself are worth HRK 111 million in a project worth a total of more than half a billion kuna. That is crucial because of the warranty, which was issued by Doppelmayr,” he said, adding that he believed those relations are good but that he will check if there have been any payment delays.
Đerek was candidate for head of City Assets Management Office
Answering a reporter’s question, Tomašević confirmed that whistleblower Maja Đerek was a candidate for the head of the City Assets Management Office but eventually withdrew.
He said the call for applications for the post was cancelled so that more candidates could apply.
“This is the second most demanding office in the city administration and given that applications will be invited for a dozen offices for the first time since the Decision on Reorganisation took effect, we will once again invite applications for that office,” he said.
Asked if all city institutions had avoided gas price hikes and if so, how that had happened, Tomašević said that there was a central public procurement system for city institutions just as for the City of Zagreb.
“I believe the contract was signed back in 2020 for two years, and the price was fixed. The fixed price was insisted on for gas purchases and the largest quantity of gas was bought from suppliers at a fixed price,” he said.
Asked why businesses had been given annexes to their contracts while city institutions had not, the mayor said that depended on the kind of contract signed and whether it envisaged a fixed or a variable price.
He stressed that the Zagreb Gasworks has a new management after the old one was replaced over omissions.
The mayor also said that the Gasworks management had informed its clients that they could cancel their contracts and transfer to other providers if that was more favourable for them.
