An investor who has a project that the city authorities consider good for Budva will have full support from the Municipality, its secretariats and services, so that all bureaucratic obstacles can be removed and implementation can begin as soon as possible.
This is one of the goals of the working team that the newly elected Mayor Nikola Jovanović plans to form.
Presenting his platform "For the Saving of Budva", with which he received support for the nomination, in addition to the European Union and the Civic Movement URA, from the opposition Democratic Party of Socialists, whose support was crucial, Jovanović announced the formation of a working team for monitoring and implementing capital investments that will provide professional support to investors in the implementation of projects on the territory of the Budva municipality.
The first man of Budva is categorical that there is no place for corruption when it comes to a working body, rejecting speculation that the formation of such and similar bodies, and the long-standing Montenegrin practice, would open the possibility for individual investors to be favored and public officials to benefit.
The realization of such a plan also implies the elimination of the previous centers of power, from which leverage was pulled, especially in the construction business, and which were displaced from the local government, and through which they made moves through key municipal officials and provided individual investors with an easier path.
"The working body will decide on investments in a systematic and joint manner. The goal of forming this working body of the Mayor is to systematize all bodies, secretariats in the Municipality in a way. So that it does not happen that an investor individually negotiates with one secretariat, and that another colleague has no idea what is lacking in his colleague's report, but that in a comprehensive manner, under the control of the Mayor as a person who will participate and perhaps be the president of this working body, it reviews and decides," Jovanović explained the idea of how Budva will attract investors.
Also, as he added, in addition to legality in the procedure and verification, the goal is to enable faster implementation of the investment.
"So, if it is assessed that this investment is good and healthy for this city, it should be provided with logistics in terms of removing all bureaucratic loopholes, certain traps or problems. Because, it is precisely this body that ensures that no one employed or outside this system is recommended to investors as a link with the local administration. The doors of the Municipality will be open to all investors, and these investors will not have the same obligation as before in a bad way towards anyone in this Municipality, including the vice president, and onwards, the secretary, the director, everyone...", emphasized Jovanović.
He claims that everything will be public and that meetings with investors will not be held behind closed doors.
"Everything will be open and transparent. I have no problem with these meetings being recorded and made publicly available to everyone, if investors agree," he stressed.
According to him, the agenda of local government work in the coming period will be based on the principles of transparency, professionalization and rationalization of public administration, democracy, full respect for the public interest, dialogue and overcoming artificial divisions imposed on us by bad policies in society.
In all previous decades, during the rule of the DPS and up until the last administration headed by Milo Božović, Budva was recognized precisely for the fact that certain investors had "passage" in the local administration, and that individuals outside the system close to the parties that were running the tourism metropolis at that time were key in enabling investors to "complete their documentation", providing an easier way to obtain a million-dollar job in the tenders that the Municipality announced.
The overworked municipal administration, which employs almost 500 people, is not efficient, and its work is under daily criticism, both from citizens and from those who intend to implement projects in the city.
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