ZSK supported changes in the budget of Kuban for three years

ZSK approved changes to the budget of Kuban for 2026 and the planning period of 2027-2028. The next plenary session was held in Krasnodar on October 28 under the chairmanship of Yuri Burlachko. The work was also attended by the Governor of Kuban Veniamin Kondratiev, acting Prosecutor of the region Alexander Trukhin and the head of the Department of the Ministry of justice on the edge Igor Babayev.

The agenda of the session included almost 40 issues. The first deputies considered the bill on amendments to the budget of the Krasnodar Territory for 2026 and the planning period 2027-2028.

The document was presented by the Minister of Finance of the region Alexander Knyshov. According to him, the amendments specify the amount of revenues, expenses and sources of financing the budget deficit.

In the expenditure part for 2026, taking into account the redistribution of allocations, it is proposed to increase socially significant expenditures.

Additional funds are planned to be used for social support of certain categories of citizens, sanatorium and resort treatment of SVO participants, raising the salary of teachers of municipal preschool organizations to the target indicator, supporting citizens in the gasification of households, reimbursement of costs for housing, heating and lighting for teachers living and working in rural settlements, as well as providing the population with medicines, medical products and specialized medical nutrition.

During the discussion, the leaders of parliamentary factions expressed their positions.

Communist leader Pavel Sokolenko noted a number of negative trends and stressed the need for a responsible attitude to each budget ruble and compliance with budget discipline. Denis Khmelevskaya on behalf of “Just Russia” supported the submitted document.

The head of the faction “United Russia” Yuri Burlachko said that we are talking about verified and reasoned optimization of the budget. He stressed that the focus remains on the mandatory closure of positions to support certain categories of citizens. According to him, even against the backdrop of compression of budgetary opportunities, state investments in social policy are growing: this year the volume of allocations for it is planned to increase by almost 9.3%, that is, by more than 13.3 billion rubles.

Governor Veniamin Kondratiev, commenting on the amendments, said that changes to the law on the budget are necessary to protect citizens and the economy of the region. “We need to respond to challenges in a timely manner and set priorities. Thus, to maintain stability in the region and the stability of the economy. And the changes we made today allow us to respond quickly, to protect citizens, including from threats of an economic nature.

Kondratiev also said that, despite the cooling of the economy, the expenditure part of the regional budget this year will be 588 billion rubles, which is 41.2 billion rubles more than the level of 2025.

Following the discussion, deputies supported the bill by a majority of votes.