LODGING SALES, GOOD NEWS FOR THE CFR - SA EMPLOYEES

    There are several thousand lodgings built with the company’s own funds since its establishment. They have been classified, according to their destination and location, into employee buildings and intervention buildings.
    CFR buildings were distributed according to the following criteria:
            - the company’s operating interests;
            - the solicitors’ state of health and the number of family members;
            - the family’s monthly revenue;
            - the chronological order of the requests for lodging;
    According to current railway regulations, intervention buildings are those that are within 20 m of the railroad and are within the safety area. They are granted only to a certain category of railway employees, who by their attributions are obliged to intervene in an operative fashion to remedy problems or ensure functionality, generally in direct relation with railway safety.
    The job positions that entitle to an intervention lodging are: station chief, section chief, deputy section chief, deputy station chief, traffic supervisor I and II, district chief, crew head, track inspector, hazardous points inspector, SCB, TTR, IFTE electromechanical, etc. This type of lodgings cannot be sold.
    Workers buildings are, in their turn, separated in two groups:
            - buildings that can be sold according to Order no. 31/15.06.1999 by the CFR - SA general director, on the management, utilisation and sale of the CFR buildings fund;
            - buildings that remain under CFR - SA ownership and are or will be leased according to the company’s interest.
    On September 22, 1999, the total number of lodgings owned by CFR - SA was 10,544, of which 8,159 were intervention buildings and 2,385 were workers buildings. Based on data collected last year from all regional companies, 1,754 lodgings and 460 rooms in bachelors and family hostels were offered for sale. This situation of the lodging fund was approved by the CFR - SA Board of Administration on September 22, 1999. Sales are carried by the Patrimony Branch within CFR - SA, which manages, according to Order no. 58/1998 of the former SNCFR, all lodgings owned by the company..
    Sales of the workers buildings are in accordance with Ordinance no. 12/1998 of the Romanian Government, based on Law no. 85/1992 on social protection - republished in 1998, and of Decree no. 61/1990.
    Sales started in December 1999, and by December 31 contracts were signed for around 100 lodgings.
    The selling prices have been established by audits carried out by authorised evaluators. The land afferent to the building, as determined by the building authorisation or the technical measurements, is assigned to the buyer.
    According to art. 33 of Order no. 31/15.08.1999, CFR workers lodgings that were free at the time of the order’s enforcement will be sold only via public tenders, organised according to existing regulations.
    The sale of working lodgings has a double motivation, as Dan Saileanu, director of the Patrimony Department, said: first, the railway must retain a limited number of lodgings, only those that are strictly necessary, which it can maintain, and secondly, this will solve the social problems of CFR - SA employees.

Silvia Mitulescu