Additional funds of the budget of Minsk will be directed to improvement, education and ecology

Today, September 25, during the 21st session of the Minsk City Council of Deputies with the participation of the Chairman of the Minsk City Executive Committee Vladimir Kukharev, changes were made to the budget of the capital, the correspondent of sb.by reports.

Speaking with a report to the deputies, Head of the Main Financial Department of the Minsk City Executive Committee Vladimir Zhukovych noted that the draft decision developed and submitted for consideration and approval of the Minsk City Council of Deputies provides for changes in individual budget indicators.

- The total income of Minsk is increasing. In connection with the increase in revenue, the existing savings in certain areas of expenditure, as well as taking into account the involvement of budget balances formed by the beginning of the year, it is proposed to increase spending in some areas, said Vladimir Zhukovych.

In the field of housing and communal services, funds will be added for the maintenance of improvement facilities, sanitary maintenance of local territories, existing repair of housing stock and green areas. In the Education sector, additional money will be allocated for the ongoing repair of educational institutions. The funds will also be allocated for environmental protection activities – the purchase of planting material, the removal of dangerous fallen trees, as well as the disposal of mercury-containing waste.

In addition, in accordance with the decision, the volume of the investment program will be further increased. Part of the funds are redistributed due to existing savings. These funds will be used for the construction and reconstruction of important facilities for the city.

- Additional money, in particular, will be spent on the construction of engineering and transport infrastructure of the North Shore quarter, financing the reconstruction of the buildings of the 6th City Clinical Hospital and the construction of a snow alloy point near the intersection of Timiryazev Street with the Moscow Ring Road, said Vadim Pichits, First Deputy Chairman of the Construction and Investment Committee of the Minsk City Executive Committee.

Also, due to the redistribution of funds within the program, budget allocations will be directed, in particular, to the development of project documentation - the construction of a street that will stretch from Ciurlionis Street to Korzhenevsky Street with the construction of a car overpass, as well as the continuation of the construction of a secondary school in the residential area of Sokol.

The deputies of the Minsk City Council considered the work with the orders of citizens and adjusted the city budget for 2026