Photo: PrintscreenWhile Aleksandar Šapić praises the rebalancing of the city budget and announces important changes in the city, parties and movements that are in opposition are finding big gaps day by day. The Center for Local Self-Government indicates that all important jobs have been left for next year
Rebalancing the Belgrade budget is just repacking from one place to another, said Aleksandar Šapić, summing up the first 100 days as mayor of Belgrade and added: "Everything we did - we did the best we could, and we will see to what extent it will be reflected on citizens.".
He specified that the rebalancing was necessary in order to prepare "public utility companies for the winter, to cover or reschedule some debts, primarily of the City Transport Company", in order to enable the payment of kindergartens subsidized by the city, as well as aid to municipalities. The largest number of decisions refers to civil engineering, Šapić said.
All important capital projects that were planned this year and next in Belgrade have been postponed to 2024, said the director of the Center for Local Self-Government (CLS) Nikola Jovanović.
"The reconstruction of Knez Miloša, Francaje and Glavna streets in Zemun has been postponed to 2024. The same applies to the Makiš-Mladenovac regional water supply, the road to Prokop, as well as the completion of Patrijarh Pavla boulevard."
In CLS, they list that the funds for the construction of the main bus station were reduced by 103 million dinars and that they were transferred to 2024, that 170 million dinars less than was planned before the rebalancing was allocated from the city budget for the reconstruction of the Ninth Belgrade High School. They remind that the Ninth Belgrade should have been the biggest project of the Department of Education this year.
They also point out that after the rebalancing, the cost of the work on the school "Svetislav Golubović Mitraljeta" increased by 521 million dinars.
It's a shame that, instead of capital projects, the focus of the new city government is on increasing administration and marketing measures, such as the issue of advertising foils on buses or whether utilities will be called "blue" or "white", Jovanović concluded.
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