On February 16 this year, the City Council adopted the city budget for 1993.
Revenues are planned at 70,945,202 thousand zlotys and expenditure at 77,149,461 thousand zlotys.
The budget surplus from previous years, amounting to 7,204,259 thousand zlotys, was allocated to cover the budget deficit of 6,204,259 thousand zlotys and repay the first installment of the loan taken out from NFOS for the construction of a wastewater treatment plant—in the amount of 1 billion zlotys.
WHERE WILL THE CITY’S REVENUE COME FROM?
The 1993 budget revenue plan provides for:
- Taxes and fees from legal entities – 20,403,800 thousand zlotys
- Taxes and surcharges from individuals – 15,757,400 thousand zlotys
- Income from municipal property – 4,480,000 thousand zlotys
- Other income (including advertising fees – 918,000 thousand zlotys, administrative income, bank interest, etc.)
- Shares in the State Budget’s revenue – 19,650,000 thousand zlotys (personal and corporate income tax)
- Bolesławiec municipality subsidy for public transport – 858,000 thousand zlotys
- General subsidy – 2,592,102 thousand zlotys
- Subsidy for delegated tasks – 6,285,900 thousand zlotys.
WHAT WILL THESE FUNDS BE USED FOR?
MUNICIPAL SERVICES 19,388,000 thousand zlotys (including public transport, street cleaning, maintenance of greenery and local roads, street lighting, interest payments, other activities and municipal investments)
HOUSING 17,410,000 thousand zlotys (including geodetic studies and preparing properties for sale, municipal residential buildings and delegated tasks)
EDUCATION AND UPBRINGING 9,716,000 thousand zlotys (including subsidies for kindergartens and preschool classes. Primary education is financed mainly through subsidies from the State Budget)
CULTURE AND ART 5,390,000 thousand zlotys (including BOK, the Museum of Ceramics, the Public Library, municipal cultural events and TLB)
HEALTHCARE 1,140,000 thousand zlotys (including a subsidy for the nursery, co-financing for two neighborhood clinics and the anti-alcohol commission. Healthcare is financed mainly through subsidies from the State Budget)
SOCIAL WELFARE 9,617,000 thousand zlotys (including benefits and in-kind assistance, MOPS and the Day Care Center)
PHYSICAL CULTURE 3,030,000 thousand zlotys (including a subsidy for MOSiR and municipal sporting events, as well as funds for organizations promoting physical culture)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND MISCELLANEOUS ACTIVITIES 10,756,202 thousand zlotys (including, among other things, the City Council, the Executive Board, committees, delegated tasks, renovation of the town hall, contributions to the Regional Assembly and Euroregion, international cooperation and a publication about the city)
GENERAL RESERVE FOR UNFORESEEN EXPENDITURE 652,259 thousand zlotys
Compared with the previous year, the city’s revenue will be higher by 18,330,345 thousand zlotys and expenditure by 12,219,355 thousand zlotys. Budgetary establishments (MZK, MZGK, MZGM, ZUI, public kindergartens, the Museum of Ceramics, MBP, BOK, TLB, the nursery, the Day Care Center and MOSiR) will generate a combined 56,262,150 thousand zlotys in own revenue for the city budget in 1993.