This document has been produced with the financial assistance of the Estonia – Latvia
– Russia Cross Border Cooperation Programme within European Neighbourhood and
Partnership Instrument 2007 – 2013. The contents of this document are the sole
responsibility of Tartu City Government and can under no circumstances be regarded
as reflecting the position of the Programme, Programme participating countries,
alongside with the European Union
General introduction to green
management principles in Tartu City
Government
Rauno Külavee
Tartu City Government
Project coordinator
Table of contents
• 1. Brief overview of history of green areas
management in Tartu city
• 2. Present day structure and tasks
• 3. Future solutions and possibilities
History
• Most of the avenues created 1935-1939
• After WWII local Union of Communal
Enterprises
• 1940-1970 overview absent
• Most green areas built to replace war
wreckage
• From the start of the 70s – the Department of
Communal Econonmy
History
• Random maintenance –only city centre on a
regular basis, others when high demand
(many complaints)
• 1976 green areas maintenance was divided
between institutions and enterprises. House
guardianship establishments and cooperatives
obligated to tend to certain appointed areas
or preorder the maintenance
History
• 1980-82 preparations for Tartu city 950 years
and Tartu University 350 years of anniversary
• 1989 spring the system for perennial
maintenance
• local Union of Communal Enterprises broke
down into small businesses
History
• Ordered works shown in the contract with the
company
• Concrete sums for concrete tasks
• Supervision conducted by the inspection
board
• “Satisfactory” mark – contractual sum
• “Good” and “very good” 10% and 20% bonus
for company
History
• Prices established by mutual agreements with
companies
• Until 1991 punched cards to describe
works/objects of the contractual tasks
(addendums)
• Cards – concrete works, number of repetitions
within certain period, concrete prices (not a
current practice)
History
• Hyperinflation of the beginning of 90s
• Prices for works changed every month
• Factors/coefficients were used, difficult to
estimate
• Coefficients for usability, level of difficulty
• New technologies, new approach
History
• Acquaintance with the Finnish system ->
change (ca 1991)
• “The manual for green areas classification and
maintenance in habitats” -> translated and
implemented
• Classification into 4 categories of maintenance
intensity. Based on result.
• Same classification used nowadays, constantly
upgraded for procurement purposes.
History
• 1996 the procurement law. Number of
repetitions and description of concrete works
discarded.
• Need for cross-usage of data between
different departments
• Specific user interface of a program (RED) was
ordered by a local software company, to be
used by Tartu City Government (more about
this in the next presentation)
History
• Structure:
• 1992 Communal Board was divided into
various different boards
• Board of Green Areas: 3 public servants (chief
specialist, specialist, dendrologist)
• April 1993 creation of the Department of
Communal Services
• 1994 all boards joined back together
Present Day
• Structure
• Tasks/practices
Structure
Tartu City Government:
• 11 departments
• 2 offices
Structure
• Dep. of Communal Services:
• 4 Services
• Public Parks & City Cleaning Service
• (joined 2009)
Public Parks & City Cleaning Service
HEAD
CITI CLEANING
PUBLIC PARKS etc
CHIEF
SPECIALIST
CHIEF
SPECIALIST
CHIEF SPECIALIST SPECALIST-DENDROLOGIST
SPECIALIST (nonstaff)
Tasks
Public parks etc•
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Maintenance and supervision of parks and green areas,
Carrying out procurements, supervision of works
Approvement of related projects
Beaches,
Playgrounds,
Flowerbeds,
Digging,
Estimation of tree condition / counseling
Communicating with citizens,
Solving complaints,
Christmas tree on Raekoja square
Tasks
City Cleaning
• streets
• Trash cans,
• Bus stops
• benches
• Parking lots
• Stairs
• Bridges
• Stray animals,
• Coordination of the work of the board of city
cemeteries
Tasks
• No municipal enterprise
• All works subsribed from private companies
• Procurements -> classification categories by
maintenance intensity
• 2011 – 213 ha of parks and green areas, 81 ha of
forests
• 4 categories, 1st class most demanding
• Height of lawn, cleaning of garbage, transport of
leaves
• Quick questions?
2011 categories of green areas
ha
13
swimming pools
63
forests
81
1st class (city centre)
2nd class (larger parks)
80
7
63
3rd class (suburban
parks, roadsides)
4th class
Procurements
Separately:
• Green areas/parks maintenance
• Flowerbeds
• Trash cans
• Playgrounds
• Boxes for pet-owners
• Designing of technical documentation
• Inventories (benches, picnic places)
• Trees, bushes, planting, maintenance
• Repairworks on green areas (stairs, road repairs)
FLOWERBEDS
Objectives
1) New playground every year
• The surroundings also renewed
• From 2002, created/renewed 6 playgrounds
Objectives
2) Wastelands into parks / for usage (song
festival grounds, Ropka park, Ihaste Oak Park,
Anne Canal )
WASTELANDS TURNED TO PARKS
Objectives
3) Preservation of natural areas
• Ihaste
• Emajõe luhad
• Dendropark
The Future
• Project GreenMan activities:
1) Friendship Alley of Anne canal and sporting
track (2012)
2) Technical documentation for the
reconstruction of Mathiesen Park (2012)
3) Natural Trail (2013)
4) Rozarium (2013)
The Future
5) Updating of green management software
• Realisation of projects currently waiting for
funding (Toomemägi, Uue-Turu project,
Emajõe banks enforcement (Road Service)
• Mapping of new green areas-> land reform
etc. Number of management duties grows.
Thank You!
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Rauno Külavee
GreenMan project coordinator
Rauno.Kulavee@raad.tartu.ee
+372 7361339, +372 53310897 (mobile)