The session of the Odesa City Council highlighted the following features

On December 12, the Odesa City Council adopted the budget for the next year, which provides for revenues of UAH 16.4 billion, which is 2.5 billion more than in 2025.

The Accent analyzed how much this is and what made the session so remarkable this time.

Expenditures will amount to UAH 15.4 billion. UAH 5.6 billion is allocated for the social sphere (education - UAH 3.5 billion, social protection - UAH 1.2 billion, medicine - UAH 646 million). UAH 1 billion 800 million is allocated for housing and communal services, UAH 1.3 billion for transport and roads, and UAH 3.5 billion is allocated to the reserve fund.

UAH 6.37 billion is planned to be allocated for the implementation of municipal target programs. UAH 6.51 million has been allocated for energy services in educational institutions.

"As for me, there is at least one positive change: the budget is almost a third higher than last year, and we are catching up to the level of the mid-2000s. If you translate it into dollars, for example. In my opinion, we have been consistently underfunded despite decentralization, despite the fact that the personal income tax on military personnel remained in Odesa for a long time, the city has been underfunded for a long time. Of course, it remains to be seen how effectively the budget will be used. This year, it seems that 2 billion hryvnias remain unused, and this is bad," said Valeriy Bolgan, editor-in-chief of Intent.

Кирило Бойко