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At the 20th session of the Sarajevo City Council, which was presided over by Jasmin Ademović, the chairman of the City Council, the city councilors paid tribute to the members of the Military Police of the Army of the RBiH and the MOI(MUP) of the RBiH who were killed on this day in 1993, during the action “Trebević 2” and to the murdered police officers Adis Šehović and Davor Vujinović, who was killed four years ago in Alipašino Polje, while performing their regular tasks, by reciting the Fatiha and observing a minute of silence.

The session began, after the previously adopted agenda, with the decision to appoint the Committee for the awarding of the “Sixth April Sarajevo Award” in 2023, which consists of members of the Committee for Selection and Appointment of the Sarajevo City Council and prominent public officials – prof. PhD Jasmina Selimović, prof. PhD Hadžan Konjo, assistant professor PhD Šahim Kahrimanović, Mirsada Murtić, PhD, Mirza Pašić and Edin Deljkić. With the adoption of this Decision, conditions were created for the constitution and work of the Committee for awarding the “Sixth April Sarajevo Award” in 2023.

After the chairman of the City Council, Jasmin Ademović, acting as a city councilor, had submitted proposals for awarding the “Plaque of the City of Sarajevo” to Lejla Njemčević, Edina Selesković and Mladen Solomun, the Committee for Selection and Appointment adopted the proposed decisions and sent them to the City Council for consideration. Thus, the City Council, at today’s session, adopted conclusions on the awarding of the “City of Sarajevo Plaque” to Lejla Njemčević, the best cyclist in Bosnia and Herzegovina who writes the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina in golden letters of sports, Edina Selesković, an interdisciplinary artist with an impressive international exhibition experience, and Mladen Solomun (DJ Solomun), a world-renowned artist – musician and producer.

At the proposal of the City Councilors Club of Our Party, the Committee for Selection and Appointment determined the proposed decisions to award the “Plaque of the City of Sarajevo” to Lana Pudar, a swimmer and Olympian from Bosnia and Herzegovina and to Faruk Šabanović, an artist, animator, screenwriter and director who combines generative art, software development, computer animation with film, installation, and theater, and the “Sarajevo snowflake” award to Luna Jusufović, a twelve-year-old member of the Sarajevo Equestrian Club, who achieves significant results in her category and group whose members represent the Bosnian team at the 63rd International Mathematical Olympiads (IMO), namely: Adisa Bolić (student of the Faculty of Science, UNSA), Benjamin Mujkić (Second Sarajevo gymnasium student), Boris Stanković (Second Sarajevo gymnasium student), Haris Imamović (Second Sarajevo gymnasium student) and Emira Ibrahimović (Second Sarajevo gymnasium student). City councilors supported all proposed decisions.

The award winners will be promoted, and the Mayor and the chairman of the City Council will present them with charters or diplomas at the ceremony.

The Decision to give consent for the establishment of the regional Network of Project Teams was also adopted during the session. In this way, the City of Sarajevo will formalize cooperation between nine cities in six countries of the Western Balkans and, for the first time, will be the coordinator of the regional network of project teams. The network is not only going to be used to increase the capacity of cities to attract funds and use available funds, but also for networking and knowledge transfer and to prepare towns for proposing projects based on needs and finding solutions for specific challenges.

The city councilors also adopted the Decision to revoke the Decision on giving consent to the mayor of the City of Sarajevo to join the procedure of purchasing (repurchasing) a steam locomotive for the needs of the Bistrica station. Namely, as a result of the expressed dissatisfaction of the citizens of Zavidovići, with which the public is familiar through the media, the Mayor of the City of Sarajevo understood the commitment, wishes, and needs of the citizens of Zavidovići to preserve the locomotive as part of the heritage of the city, and proposed that the decision to purchase a steam locomotive for the needs of the Bistrica station, adopted at the 16th session, will be revoked, which the City Council supported.

Through the report, the city councilors were informed about the implementation of the Decision on the use of the coat of arms, name, and display of the flag of the City of Sarajevo, with the fact that the Committee for Local Business and Tourism, which considered the report in the preparation of the session, in its opinion requested certain additional information and the news, in the content as submitted, it was not adopted.

With its earlier Decision on erecting a monument to the Bosnian king Tvrtko I Kotromanić, the city council defined the location for erecting this monument in the park between the Presidency building and the Sarajevo Canton Government by Elaborate on possible sites for erecting the memorial, that is, with the previous positive Opinion of the Municipality of Centar and the Planning Institute of Sarajevo Canton. However, the Committee for the Preservation of National Monuments gave a negative opinion on the submitted conceptual solution for the proposed location, referring to the Decision on the Declaration of the Historic Urban Landscape.

In this regard, at today’s meeting, the city councilors considered the Draft Decision on the amendment of the Decision on the erection of the monument to the Bosnian king Tvrtko I Kotromanić, in which a new location was proposed that is not included in the Decision above of the Committee for the Preservation of National Monuments. The proposed site is located next to a replica of the medieval stećak at Marijin Dvor, which represents the historical period of the Middle Ages, as well as the period of the reign of the Bosnian king Tvrtko. The Draft determined in this way, by the conclusion of the City Council, was sent to a public hearing.

Afterward, the City Council also considered the Draft Decision on erecting the Memorial Plaque to Marko Didoji – Markan.

After the mayor’s opening speech, a discussion was held in which the city councilors made specific proposals about the Draft Program for erecting monuments and artistic sculptures of importance to the City of Sarajevo, for which the City of Sarajevo is an investor in 2023.

Both considered drafts were submitted for public hearing.

Conclusions that will also be submitted for a public hearing and refer to the drafts of the Work Program of the City Council of the City of Sarajevo for the year 2023 and the Program of International Cooperation of the City of Sarajevo for the year 2023 were also adopted.

The information on the cooperation and relations of the authorities of the City of Sarajevo with religious communities and churches and the Information on the co-financing of the association’s work for supporting children with developmental disabilities and disabled persons were received.

At the end of the session, several counselor questions and initiatives were addressed. Thus, city councilor Adi Škaljić took the initiative to improve the left bank of the Miljacka river bed, between the Otoka settlement and the Otoka stadium/Istiqlal mosque.

City councilor Vedad Deljković also submitted an initiative for the City of Sarajevo to allocate funds to purchase a book collection for equipping the library and reading room of the Mechanical Technical High School.

The Deputy Chairman of the City Council, Mirela Džehverović, launched an initiative to establish an open library – “take it and leave it” in the area of ​​the city of Sarajevo, but with a construction that, compared to before, will be such that it can be used in all weather conditions.

City councilor Seid Škaljić, among others, submitted an initiative to the Ministry of Health of Sarajevo Canton to return the treatment of children up to the age of 18 to the jurisdiction of the School Department of the Health Center. He explained the initiative as the need to show the particular sensitivity of the community for young people, bearing in mind the conditions in family medicine clinics, where children are now treated from the age of 14.

Today, the 19th session of the City Council of the City of Sarajevo was held in the City Hall, chaired by Jasmin Ademović, the Chairman of the City Council.

The work of the session according to the adopted agenda began when, on the proposal of the city councilor Toni Vukadin and the occasion of certain public statements made by the President of the Republic of Croatia, Zoran Milanović, regarding Bosnia and Herzegovina, the City Council of the City of Sarajevo considered the Declaration on condemned the attitudes of Zoran Milanović towards Bosnia and Herzegovina, which he considers “disproportionate and harmful to the relations of two friendly countries.” After a discussion in which city councilor Adi Škaljić made specific comments on the proposed text of the Declaration, city councilor Toni Vukadin, as an authorized proposer, suggested that the debate on the proposed action be postponed to shape the Declaration to have it supported by consensus by all city councilors. The City Council adopted the presented proposal on deferring the discussion.

In the continuation of the session, the Decision on the conditions and method of awarding the “April 6 Award of the City of Sarajevo” was discussed and adopted. Namely, after the practical difficulties that the Committee for awarding the “April 6 Award of the City of Sarajevo” encountered in the process of applying the Decision on the conditions and method of awarding the “April 6 Award of the City of Sarajevo” (“Official Gazette of the Canton of Sarajevo,” number 28/19), specific solutions and the need to make a new decision were proposed. After a public discussion, the City Council of the City of Sarajevo adopted the Decision on the conditions and method of awarding the “April 6 Award of the City of Sarajevo” as proposed and changed in accordance with the accepted amendments by Mayor and the Selection and Appointment Commission. In accordance with the adopted Decision, i.e., adopted amendments of the Committee for Selection and Appointments, it was decided that, among other things, a maximum of two Awards can be awarded in one year, regardless of the field and regardless of whether it is an individual or collective Award.

The city councilors adopted the Decision to consent to the Program of Activities for the Day of Commemoration of the Victims of Genocide in Srebrenica for the year 2023.

By adopting the Decision to give consent for the participation of the City of Sarajevo in the European Capital of Democracy program, the City of Sarajevo expresses its readiness to make its immeasurable contribution to the development of democracy in Sarajevo, Bosnia, and Herzegovina, and through cooperation with other European cities and in Europe.

The City Council adopted the Decision to give consent to the Mayor of the City of Sarajevo to sign a Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Rome, the Republic of Italy, and the City of Sarajevo, Bosnia, and Herzegovina, which contains a detailed description of the activities that the two capital cities will undertake and represents an opportunity to create numerous innovative areas of cooperation between the City of Rome and the City of Sarajevo.

At the initiative of the Chairman of the City Council Jasmin Ademović, from the last session, a conclusion was adopted that resulted in today’s adoption of the Decision to join the project of renovation and adaptation of the DPO building. The concluded Agreement on the transfer of ownership rights and possession of the DPO building without compensation to the City of Sarajevo, i.e., the registration of the ownership rights of the City of Sarajevo over the DPO building, created the conditions for the justified investment of financial resources in the renovation of the DPO building, which has not been renovated. With the realization of this project, the City of Sarajevo will get its representative building – the Administrative Building of the City of Sarajevo.

In the continuation the session, the Decision on annulment of the Decision on the lease of business premises in Dejzina Bikića street number 4, entrance three was adopted of.

The City Council adopted the Decision on Amendments to the Decision on the Organization and Scope of Administrative Bodies of the City of Sarajevo by which, in place of the current City Service for Information Center Affairs, the establishment of an administrative organization – Information Center Sarajevo, as part of a single executive body.

The city councilors considered and adopted the Report on the execution of the Budget of the City of Sarajevo for the period 01.01.-30.06.2022. years.

Then the drafts of the Decision on commemorating the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Crimes against Humanity in Prijedor and its surroundings, the Decision on the adoption of the City of Sarajevo Plan for the prevention and reduction of food waste and food losses in 2023-2026 were discussed. Years and the Code of Ethics of the elected and appointed officials of the City of Sarajevo and referred to the public discussion by the conclusion.

The session was attended by Samra Ramić in front of the OSCE Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which, among other things, advocates the adoption and application of ethical codes of elected officials at all levels of government.

Information on the implementation of the Youth Action Plan was received.

Information on the semi-annual work and operations of the Public Enterprise for the Management, Protection, and Maintenance of the City of Sarajevo’s facilities and performing communal and other activities of public interest of the City of Sarajevo “Sarajevo” limited liability company, JP “Olimipijski brazen Otoka” d.o.o. Sarajevo and Public Institutions “City Museums.”

The City Council also received Information on the status of the registration of ownership rights of the City of Sarajevo regarding the real estate – the object of the Administrative Building of the DPO, which the public is already aware of.

City councilors and the public were informed about the justification for investing budget funds in the organization of a public New Year’s celebration. Analysis of the Sarajevo Economic Institute explained by prof. Ph.D. Maja Arslanagić Kalajdžić confirmed the justification of investing budget money in this event and gave a projection of the justified amount of investment for the public New Year’s celebration in 2023, as well as the following years.

At the end of the session, several counselor questions and initiatives were addressed.

On the initiative of the Chairman of the City Council Jasmin Ademović and deputy chairman Mirela Džehverović and others. Dragan Stevanović, the City Council supported the conclusions related to the systemic management of watercourses under the jurisdiction of the City of Sarajevo, which initiates the execution of preliminary actions prescribed by law, which are the basis for the adoption of a new city regulation on the management of watercourses under the jurisdiction of the City of Sarajevo.

The initiatives of the deputy chairman of the City Council, Dr. Dragan Stevanović, initiated a better presentation of the historical sights of Sarajevo, especially the sites and artifacts of the Butmir culture and those from the Roman period. The fact is that Sarajevo is not recognizable as a location with a continuity of organized human communities for thousands of years.

In addition, the installation of appropriate billboards has been initiated, which will direct citizens and tourists to the national monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina from all later periods, which bear witness to the various influences on the fabric of Sarajevo.

The Chairman of the City Council, Jasmin Ademović, also sent a council question to the Mayor, which refers to the search for a solution in a situation where the City of Sarajevo is unable to adopt regulatory plans and in connection with the conclusion of the Assembly of the Canton of Sarajevo on the application of the results of the study on the protection of ventilation corridors by which they commit plan makers to apply measures for the protection of ventilation corridors from the analysis above when making plans. It follows that such a conclusion is above the Law on Spatial Planning of the Canton of Sarajevo, that is, the Spatial Plan of the Canton of Sarajevo 2003-2023. and planning and normative solutions from the Urban Plan for the urban area of Sarajevo (Stari Grad, Centar, Novo Sarajevo, Novi Grad, Ilidža, and Vogošća) until 2015, and it should not be.

On this day, 30 years ago, at the cemetery in Boljakov Potok, near the “Umihana Čuvidina” elementary school, nine of our fellow citizens were killed and 20 more seriously and lightly wounded by a shell fired from the aggressor’s positions.

On this occasion, city councilor Enisa Spahić, on behalf of the City of Sarajevo, laid flowers and paid tribute to the people of Sarajevo who lost their lives on September 28, 1992, while praying for the funeral of fellow citizen Fatima Jusić.

On that tragic day, Asim Cvrk, Meho Čakarić, Alija Čaušević, Imšir Kerla, Mustafa Karajčić, Ibrahim Šehović, Ramo Veljan, and two unidentified men were killed.

The families of the victims, delegations from the Canton of Sarajevo and the Municipality of Novi Grad, and representatives of the Union of Civilian War Victims of the Sarajevo Canton, the Association of Civilian War Victims Svjetlost and the local community also laid flowers today at the place of suffering.

At the press conference, which was held today in the City Hall, the concert of the band “Dubioza kolektiv” was announced, with which the citizens and guests of Sarajevo will welcome the New Year 2023.

The representatives of the institutions participating in the organization of the event: Prime Minister of the Sarajevo Canton Government Edin Forto, Mayor Benjamina Karić, Deputy Chairman of the City Council Mirela Džehverović, Director of the Sarajevo Canton Tourist board Kenan Magoda and Maja Arslanagić-Kalajdžić, professor at the Faculty of Economics in Sarajevo all addressed the present representatives of the public information media.

With an invitation to fellow citizens and guests to join the public celebration of the New Year in Sarajevo, the deputy chairman of the City Council, Mirela Džehverović, emphasized the commitment of the City of Sarajevo to return the public celebration of the New Year to the streets of Sarajevo after the pandemic, which took its toll on every aspect of society and reminded of the multiple benefits of the organization of this event: economic, cultural and social.

She added the efforts of the City of Sarajevo to always offer the best and thereby position Sarajevo as a cultural center not only of the Western Balkans but also beyond. She wished the guests to bring back good stories and memories from Sarajevo.

She introduced the performers with the words: “The Dubioza kolektiv is an example of a work ethic that is worthy of respect and proof that our creative industry can find its place on the contemporary international stage if it acts bravely, decisively, persistently, freely and inspiringly.”

She ended her speech by inviting her fellow citizens and guests to spend the “craziest night” in Sarajevo, adding: “The New Year is a new beginning, and there’s no better way to start it than with our domestic brand that is recognized all over the world – “Dubioza kolektiv.”