The Chisinau City Hall and heat supplier Termocom have different views as to the preparation of houses for the cold season. “The works go better than the previous years,” vice mayor Vlad Cotet said on Monday. Yet a press release issued on Sept. 29 by SA “Termocom” reads they find “a critical situation, the general picture being flooded underground rooms, not isolated thermal grids, broken windows,” Info-Prim Neo reports. Vlad Cotet has told the City Hall's sitting all the houses from the municipality will be ready to receive the thermal agent till October 15. There are only 8 large buildings left needing additional prophylactic works. Some Private Dwellers Associations and Cooperative Construction Entities are still late in ending the preparation works, the municipal authorities say. “It's not a new situation. The people managing their houses on their own try to save money,” said the Centru district praetor, Vladimir Sarban. The vice mayor replied not all the housing managers have pipe washing equipment and have to borrow it from the municipality after it ends its works. In another context, general mayor Dorin Chirtoaca has said the Finance General Direction offered the Municipal Council's committee a draft decision on paying SA “Termocom” a part of the debt, and namely 50 million lei. This debt emerges as the Chisinau administration pays for more than a half of the dwellers' heat charges. Now the City Hall's debts to Termocom is assessed to be 220 million lei. The remaining amount will be payed in stages, the mayor says. According to Termocom, it has signed only 10% of the permits with dwellings' managers which enable the heat supplier to deliver the thermal agent for the 2008-2009 cold season.