(Hai Fe) - Architect Orit Mertz was elected to the position of Haifa's city engineer. Mertz will replace Ariel Wetterman in his position. Meretz will face difficult challenges, especially with the field of urban renewal, a subject that has been in continuous stagnation for many years.
The Haifa Municipality stated:
The Tenders Committee of the Haifa Municipality chose today (Sunday) Orit Mertz for the position of the new Haifa City Engineer of the Haifa Municipality.
Martz (57), a resident of Haifa, with a master's degree in architecture and urban planning with honors from the Technion, worked in recent years as an engineer for the local planning and construction committee "Morodt HaCarmel", which controls three local authorities - Nesher, Tirat Carmel and Raksim.
Prior to that, Martz worked at the Haifa Municipality for about 12 years as the director of the Master Plans and Policy Unit in the City Planning Department, where she was trusted with the preparation of policy plans, the preparation of claims (city building plans), the approval of construction plans as well as the representation of the municipality in the various planning committees.
In her past, Martz worked for several years in private architectural offices, where she managed projects of public buildings, offices and residences and prepared applications for permits and work plans.
We hope that you will succeed in eradicating the improper conduct in the issuance of building permits that is tainted by long-standing criminality with the encouragement of the legal advice of the local committee.
There are expectations for a fundamental change in the poor mentality that stuck to the director of engineering, which turns residents into municipal servants instead of the other way around.
The time has come for the employees of the engineering directorate, with an emphasis on the construction licensing department, to realize that they are public servants and are supposed to act for its benefit and well-being.
The legal advisory team that accompanies the local planning and construction committee, which directs the local committee and the employees of the licensing department to commit serious violations of the law with an emphasis on the destructive and dangerous TAMA 38, based entirely on a false infrastructure with false statements by the veteran local committee engineer, must be urgently replaced - An engineer who must be released immediately.
At a good hour
Wertman was finally replaced
It should have been done a long time ago
Good luck to her