VIII Term of office 2018 – 2023

Mayor of Elk: Tomasz Andrukiewicz

Deputy Mayor of Elk: Artur Urbański, Mirosław Hołubowicz

President of the Elk City Council: Vladimir Szelążek

Councillors for the 2018-2023 term: Ewa Awramik, Adam Bartoszewicz, Łukasz Cegiełka, Adam Dobkowski, Dariusz Cezary Dracewicz, Ireneusz Dzienisiewicz, Hubert Górski, Rafał Karaś, Piotr Karpienia, Nicodemus Wenceslas Kemicer, Robert Klimowicz, Ada Lewandowska, Idzi Henryk Podwojski, Marcin Łukasz Przygodziński, Mirosław Sawczyński, Andrzej Surynt, Włodzimierz Szelążek, Michał Zdzisław Tyszkiewicz, Robert Franciszek Wesołowski, Krzysztof Zbigniew Wiloch, Bogusław Wisowaty, Anna Wojciechowska (until 4 May), Aneta Free.

Present the local government term began in November 2018. From now on, a number of different actions and investments have been implemented in the city, which are now Residents. It is a time of cooperation with NGOs and development of students, athletes and artists.

EU funding and other sources

In a total of 74 contracts were signed for a total amount of EU funding and other sources of PLN 58.7 million for the investments such as: boxing hall on ul. National Army, construction of Cologne and Norwida street, construction of ice rink with facilities, purchase of mammograph and ultrasound equipment for the hospital Pro-Medica, thermomodernization of schools and kindergartens, thermomodernization of the tenement house at ul. Gdańskia 20, the day-to-day operation of the crèche from the "Toddler +" program and purchase of hybrid buses.

Government Local Investment Fund

In 2020-2021, the city has also raised funds from the Government Local Investment. A total of PLN 13.9 million in funding from RFIL was implementation of 4 investments: expansion of Primary School No. 5 to Lake District; thermomodernization of schools and kindergartens, construction of Ul. Norwida on the section from ul. Emilii Platter to Matejki street and the construction of a parking lot on Jeziorna/ul. Worker.

Investments made

amid investments in 2018-2021 should include:

• conclusion construction of the 3rd and 4th stage of copernicus park;
• Expansion Primary School No. 5 on Lake District with the construction of a crèche;
• Rebuilding ul. Polish Army together with the intersection of Castle Streets, The National Army and Polish army;
• Construction ul. Norwida from Emilia Platter to Matejka street;
• thermomodernization schools (SP No. 9 and SP No. 3) and kindergartens (Light; Sunny Eight, Little Explorers, Forget-Me-Not);
• Construction residential building at the ul. Railway (60 apartments);
• Construction sports hall next to the Sports Schools Team;
• Construction covered tennis courts on the city beach (ul. Parkowa);
• Construction bike path on the lake from The Castle Street;
• purchase 6 hybrid buses;
• openly Centre for Social Revitalisation;
• Construction observation tower;
• Expansion Ełcki Cultural Centre (concert hall and music park);
• Implementation Smart Parking project (Kiss&Ride zone).

Infrastructure: parking lots, roads, paths Cycling

In A total of 2.56 km of new cycle paths were built (ul. Polish army, Norwida, Ciepła, along the shore of the lake). There were also 146 parking spaces (m.in. at Miłosza, Workers' Street) that are used by residents of Elk. Modernization was carried out on the streets of Matejka and miłosza and Norwida street was built.

Apartments in Elk

In between 2019 and 2021, a total of 952 apartments were put into operation in the city, including 892 development apartments and 60 municipal apartments.

Economic zone

currently in the Elk Suwalska Special Economic Zone subzone operates a total of 47 companies with 3043 employees.

Scholarships

In the years 2019-2021, a total of 1949 school scholarships, 149 performance grants were awarded 37 artistic scholarships and 89 sports scholarships.

Cooperation with NGOs

In during this period, a total of 523 agreements were signed with EŁGO tasks in the field of m.in, health, sport, sport, culture, tourism, summer and winter holidays.

Planting trees and Shrubs

In years in Elk in different parts of the city (settlements, squares, parks, 739 trees and 1764 shrubs were planted.

Other:

• In Elk was made McDonalds,
• Built Shopping Park "Carousel" and  hypermarket B1,
• Started construction of Via Baltica,
• Announced was a tender for the construction of Rail Baltica – reconstruction of the station in Elk,
• In Elk was found a 17th-century treasure, hailed by the environment archaeological - Archaeological sensation 2020.

In 2018-2021 many residents of the city deserved for their work have passed away, m.in barbara Skopowska, BarbaraSiergiej, Jerzy Czepułkowski, Ks. Józef Kącki, Fr. Zygmunt Sędziak, Ph.D. Prof. UWM Kazimierz Zwirowicz, Dr. Joanna Lisowska.

Prizes awarded and distinctions:

• president Elk and the City of Elk were awarded in the ranking of the "Pearl of Self-Government" of the Daily Legal Newspaper.
• The city of Elk received the distinction "for the city friendly entrepreneur', awarded by the Podlasie Employers' Association (2020 year)
• The city was among the winners  national competition "Innovative Self-Government" organized by Local Government Portal of the Polish Press Agency.
• Bi-week travel industry News Tourist honored the City of Elk with the emblem "Rose of the Regions".