výroční zpráva 2009 ( 4,12 MB ) - Zoo Ostrava

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% oftotal costs, increased by 8.1%, meaning that a total of 22,060 thousand CZK could be paid to 97.35 FTE staffmembers and the average zoo salary could finally rise by full 1,850 CZK to reach 18,719 CZK, which followingthe drop of salaries in 2008 brought a desirable increase by 11% approximately. This success was possiblethanks to upgraded tariff classes in specific lines of jobs, but also through the legal 3.5% increase in schedulesalaries. The fact that the level of this average salary for the zoo as such is affected by recruiting low-skilledworkers through Labour Office (VPP = publicly beneficial work) is something which continues to apply, asfor comparison, the average salary throughout Moravian-Silesian Region amounted to 21,524 CZK within thesame monitored period.Information on the assets20CZKthousandCZKthousandTotal assets 546.223 Total liabilities 546.223Long-term tangible & intangibleassets579.020 Asset funds 488.647Accumulated depreciation - 97.179 Financial and monetary funds 39.938Inventory 7.262 Profit/loss (profit) 767Includes: Animals 6.803 Provisions 10.640Receivables 1.121 Short-term liabilities 5.794Financial assets 55.712 Long-term liabilities 0Temporary accounts of assets 287 Temporary accounts of liabilities 437The Statutory City of Ostrava awarded its zoological park in 2009 the highest capital grant in thezoo'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 fundingthe second largest capital operation in the zoo's history - the Chitwan exhibit complex for bears, langurs andother animals. The second major founder's investment was completion of technical background of for thehorticulture department - a set of glasshouses and other associated structures including a biomass-fuelledboiler plant. Further, the attractive exhibit named Little Amazonia topped the process of reconstruction of theentry area of the public relations department. Also, the redesign of the Children's Zoo was launched followinga 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 financialmeans to reconstruct aviaries for birds and outer cages within the animal breeding facility, replace four frontbarriers 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 (zoneplanning design phase) and Visitor Centre encompassing a restaurant and conservation education centre. Thedesigning activities launched could also include the work on four new structures and complexes of exhibits,