(KZN.RU,
February 26). The budget of Kazan remains socially oriented. 71% of
expenditures are spent on education and branches of the socio-cultural sphere.
Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of the Tatarstan’s capital, announced this today at
the meeting of the reporting XXXII session of the Kazan City Duma in the City
Hall. As part of the report on his activities in 2018, he spoke about the
formation and execution of the city budget for 2018.
The
execution of the Kazan budget for 2018, with an approved volume of 21.6 billion
rubles, amounted to 27.1 billion rubles. Additionally, the budget received
about 5.5 billion rubles. The increase in the city’s own revenues amounted to
more than 2 billion rubles. Another 3 billion 271 million rubles additionally
went to the Kazan budget thanks to the help of the republic and Rustam
Minnikhanov, the President of the RT, said the Mayor.
He also
added that thanks to the initiative of the Kazan City Duma deputies, 481
million rubles were additionally directed to the social needs of citizens. They
include subsidized meals for schoolchildren, compensation for part of the
parental fee to certain categories of citizens for visiting preschool children,
paying extra to parents who adopted children in foster families. In addition,
property tax exemptions were established for families with disabled children
(more than 4.5 thousand people), and also support was provided to private
kindergartens in the form of a reduced land tax rate.
“The
requirements of the May decrees of the President of Russia to achieve the
established level of wages for certain categories of education and culture
workers are fully implemented”, the Mayor added.