Zoo Ostrava The Annual Report 2009

Staff costs involving salaries as such, mandatory social and health insurance, allocation to the social fund
(FKSP), employer’s co-funding to staff boarding and medical examinations, accounting for some 41% of
total costs, increased by 8.1%, meaning that a total of 22,060 thousand CZK could be paid to 97.35 FTE staff
members and the average zoo salary could finally rise by full 1,850 CZK to reach 18,719 CZK, which following
the drop of salaries in 2008 brought a desirable increase by 11% approximately. This success was possible
thanks to upgraded tariff classes in specific lines of jobs, but also through the legal 3.5% increase in schedule
salaries. The fact that the level of this average salary for the zoo as such is affected by recruiting low-skilled
workers through Labour Office (VPP = publicly beneficial work) is something which continues to apply, as
for comparison, the average salary throughout Moravian-Silesian Region amounted to 21,524 CZK within the
same monitored period.
Information on the assets
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Total assets 546.223 Total liabilities 546.223
Long-term tangible & intangible
assets
579.020 Asset funds 488.647
Accumulated depreciation - 97.179 Financial and monetary funds 39.938
Inventory 7.262 Profit/loss (profit) 767
Includes: Animals 6.803 Provisions 10.640
Receivables 1.121 Short-term liabilities 5.794
Financial assets 55.712 Long-term liabilities 0
Temporary accounts of assets 287 Temporary accounts of liabilities 437
The Statutory City of Ostrava awarded its zoological park in 2009 the highest capital grant in the
zoo's history amounting to 109,139 thousand Czech korunas!
Out of the allocation above, the zoo managed to spend over CZK 88.4 million, which allowed for funding
the second largest capital operation in the zoo's history - the Chitwan exhibit complex for bears, langurs and
other animals. The second major founder's investment was completion of technical background of for the
horticulture department - a set of glasshouses and other associated structures including a biomass-fuelled
boiler plant. Further, the attractive exhibit named Little Amazonia topped the process of reconstruction of the
entry area of the public relations department. Also, the redesign of the Children's Zoo was launched following
a long time of preparation and the restraint box for the elephant male constructed inside the elephant house.
The grant allocated for modernisation and redesign of certain structures and buildings provided financial
means to reconstruct aviaries for birds and outer cages within the animal breeding facility, replace four front
barriers at the feline carnivore house and redesign one of the small carnivore house outdoor enclosures.
Instances of design work included finishing a part of design for construction of the House of Evolution (zone
planning design phase) and Visitor Centre encompassing a restaurant and conservation education centre. The
designing activities launched could also include the work on four new structures and complexes of exhibits,