In Odesa region, some village councils hid their budgets

Significant differences in the openness of budget information were found in the communities of Podil district. Some councils publish documents systematically, while others hide or complicate access to them.

The Center for Public Investigations continues to check how communities comply with the law on publishing decisions on local budgets for 2025.

This time, attention was focused on Podil district, where 12 councils operate. Openness with nuances In several communities, budget documents were found with all the annexes and in the correct formats, although the search sometimes took time.

The Kuyalnytsia village council has a detailed website with an "Official Documents" section, where decisions on sessions are published systematically. The Lyubashivska and Oknyanska communities also published budgets with annexes, but the search is limited or non-existent.

The Ananievo city council has become a kind of "budget quest": decisions, protocols and orders are mixed, dates are missing, and files are named in Latin. Nevertheless, the necessary documents have been found and meet the legal requirements. Podil city council publishes decisions in the archives without searching, but the formats are correct.

ILLUSTRATION: CPR

In Savranske village council, files are also grouped by sessions and placed in archived packages with a list of all decisions. Available, but inconvenient In Kodymska and Pishchanska communities, decisions on the budget for 2025 were found, but they are in the format of large PDF files, which makes it impossible to read and does not meet open data requirements. Formally, the information is available, but it is difficult to process. In some communities, the documents are either outdated or missing altogether.

On the website of the Balta City Council, the sections "Budget Decision" and "Open Budget" are empty, while the portal of the Dolyna Village Council has the latest updates dated back to 2024. The decision on the budget for 2025 could not be found.

Thus, the level of transparency in the communities of Podil district varies significantly: some comply with the law and provide access to documents, while others are limited to formalities or do not publish decisions at all. As a result, residents cannot always check how local budget funds are spent.

At the same time, four of the six communities in the Izmail district fully comply with the law and publish budget decisions with all annexes in the required formats. At the same time, some communities do not publish the documents in full, most often missing annexes, without which the decision loses its full meaning.

Анна Бальчінос