In Bilhorod Dnistrovskyi district, budgets were checked and found to be transparent and chaotic

The Center for Public Investigations checked how the communities of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi district complied with the law on publishing decisions on local budgets for 2025.

The analysis covered all 16 communities and showed a sharp difference in approaches to openness.

Starokozatske, Shabivske, Lymanske, Petropavlivka, Serhiyivka and Uspenivka councils were the best performers: their websites published budget decisions with annexes in convenient sections, with search and in formats that meet legal requirements.

For instance, the website of Starokozatske village council has a section 'Documents Archive' that is easy to see and has a search system. Resolutions and annexes to resolutions are available and published in formats that comply with the law. Similarly, the website of Shabivska village council has a section on 'Official Documents' with a working search engine. The budget resolution with annexes is available. Data formats comply with the formats established by law.

The website of Lyman village council has a separate section on 'Session resolutions' with a search engine. The budget resolution with annexes is available, and data formats are presented in a machine-readable format. Petropavlivka village and Serhiyivka settlement councils have also taken care of transparency: in the 'Official Documents' section, one can easily find budget resolutions with annexes. The submission formats meet the requirements. The Uspenivka village council posted the budget resolution with annexes in the section on Budget Policy.

At the same time, in Molohivska, Bilhorod-Dnistrovska city, Kulevchanska, Saratska and Tatarbunarska communities, the documents were available, but in inconvenient or scanned PDF files, which made machine readability impossible and contradicted the requirements of openness.

However, in Marazliyivska, Tuzlivska, Diviziyska, Karolino-Buhazka and Plakhtiyivska communities, the decision on the budget for 2025 could not be found at all: sections were empty, documents were outdated or missing.

As a result, only 6 communities in the district fully complied with the law, 5 more limited themselves to formal compliance, and 5 community websites did not have budget decisions.

Кирило Бойко