The specialized commission of the city council approved the budget of Mykolaiv for 2025

The specialized commission of the Mykolaiv City Council approved the draft budget for 2025, which will be submitted for consideration at the session.

The corresponding decision was made on Tuesday, December 17, during a meeting of the city budget commission, NikVesti writes.

The city's general budget for 2025 provides for revenues of 5 billion 414 million 344 thousand 400 hryvnias and expenditures of 5 billion 285 million 321 thousand 829 hryvnias.

According to the director of the finance department of the Mykolaiv City Council, Vira Sviatelyk, the increase in expenditures was made possible by the receipt of subventions, in particular, an educational subvention in the amount of 515 million hryvnias, which will be used for the first part of the year (from January to August). Social subventions have also been received from the regional budget.

According to the draft budget, expenditures will be distributed as follows:

• Executive Committee — 885 million 904 thousand hryvnias.
• Department of Education — 1 billion 850 million 560 thousand 183 hryvnias.
• Health Department — 199 million 100 thousand 819 hryvnias.
• Department of Labor — 224 million 814 thousand 438 hryvnias.
• Department of Culture — 212 million 415 thousand 994 hryvnias.
• Department of Physical Culture and Sports — 169 million 558 thousand 146 hryvnias.
• Department of Housing and Communal Services — 1 billion 22 million 320 thousand 215 hryvnias.
• Department of Energy — 58 million 132 thousand 43 hryvnias.
• Capital Construction Department — 120 million 911 thousand 413 hryvnias.
• State Traffic Safety Administration — 10 million 540 thousand 590 hryvnias.
• Emergency Management Agency — 94 million 631 thousand 43 hryvnias.
• Communal Property Management — 8 million 957 thousand 656 hryvnias.
• Department for the Provision of Administrative Services — 37 million 870 thousand 431 hryvnias.
• Department of Finance — 78 million 183 thousand 668 hryvnias.
• Department of Internal Financial Control — 13 million 583 thousand 867 hryvnias.
• Zavodskyi District Administration — 73 million 548 thousand 482 hryvnias.
• Korabelnyi District Administration — 71 million 746 thousand 384 hryvnias.
• Inhulskyi District Administration — 75 million 988 thousand 814 hryvnias.
• Tsentralnyi District Administration — 76 million 553 thousand 637 hryvnias.

In addition, 2.6 million hryvnias are planned to be allocated for the purchase of furniture for shelters in schools. Work is also underway with donors to provide educational institutions with the necessary equipment for shelters.

MP Ramil Ahabekov raised a question regarding funding for the security of the Navy Officers' House. To which Yurii Liubarov, head of the culture department of the Mykolaiv City Council, reported that the 2025 budget does not provide funds for the security of this facility, but additional costs may be covered if additional funds are received during the year.

The budget also includes 3.8 million hryvnias for the activities of the Homeless Rehabilitation Center. Director of the Social Protection Department Serhii Vasylenko noted that these costs may be specified after the tender is completed.

Mykolaiv City Council deputy Fedir Panchenko drew attention to the problem of insufficient funding for the needs of the military, who apply to the city council. According to him, in order to meet all needs, it is necessary to additionally provide about 40-50 million hryvnias in the 2025 budget.

«From the pace and volume of applications from the military that we constantly receive and looking at the 2025 budget, I see that we are short by about 40-50 million hryvnias. We need to find sources of funding for these purposes and in the near future provide proposals for additional sources of funding,» he said.

Director of the Finance Department, Vira Sviatelyk, emphasized that there are hopes for additional subsidies from the state budget, which will help compensate for losses from the reduction in military personal income tax.

As is known, expenditures on salaries of employees of executive bodies and budgetary institutions will amount to 38% of the total budget of Mykolaiv in 2025, however, this figure may increase after the approval of subventions from the state budget for teachers' salaries. The main filler of the budget is income taxes paid by the residents of Mykolaiv.

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