They are writing lease annexes to everyone: Budva Municipality can no longer wait to resolve the problem of temporary facilities

The Budva Parliament will still meet tomorrow, as the President of the Municipal Assembly has scheduled an emergency session. Petar Odžić, whose agenda will include the Decision on granting consent to extend the lease of locations for the installation of temporary facilities for 2024 and 2025.

Odžić then justified the sudden cancellation of the session the day before June 25, when it was also supposed to be held under urgent procedure, with an identical decision on the annexation of existing contracts on the agenda, by saying that they had not yet received approval for the draft of the Program of Temporary Facilities for the Territory of the Municipality of Budva for the period 2024-2028 from the Ministry of Spatial Planning, Urbanism and State Property.

The agenda of that emergency session, which was supposed to be held on June 25, did not even include a proposal for that program, but only a decision on extending the lease agreement for commercial facilities for last year and this year.

"Vijesti" was officially informed a few days ago by the government department headed by the Minister Slaven Radunović The answer was that they received a proposal for a temporary location program from the Municipality, but that the Spatial Planning Directorate of that ministry is currently in the process of assessing whether the conditions for granting approval in accordance with the law have been met.

As Radunović's office previously responded to "Vijesti", temporary facilities are now regulated by the Law on Construction of Facilities, which entered into force on March 5, 2025. Temporary facilities are erected, or built, in accordance with the Temporary Facilities Program, adopted by the assembly of the local self-government unit, upon previously obtained consent from the Ministry, as well as from the competent state and local authorities.

It was expected that the new city government, gathered around "Budva our city - Nikola Jovanović", the European Union and the Civic Movement URA with the support of the Democratic Party of Socialists, would adopt a new Program of Temporary Facilities by the start of the season and clean Budva of inappropriate content in the contact zone of the Old Town and along the Budva and Petrovac promenades.

Administration of the Mayor Nikola Jovanović is trying to resolve the problem of unpaid fees for last summer, estimated at more than 2024 thousand euros, by adopting a Decision on granting consent for the extension of the lease of locations for the installation of temporary facilities for 2025 and 600, and to enable the collection of the same amount for this year.

"The lease of locations is approved to persons who, in accordance with the Public Invitation, were selected as the most favorable bidders and concluded appropriate Contracts with the Municipality of Budva in accordance with the Program of Temporary Facilities for the Territory of the Municipality of Budva (2019-2023). The consent applies to tenants who have duly settled their contractual obligations so far, and who are in continuous possession of the leased locations even after the expiration of the contracted period," the decision states.

With this decision, Jovanović apparently intends to collect rent for last year. It was prepared by the Secretariat for Property Protection, which found its legal basis in the Law on State Property.

“Vijesti” previously reported that the draft of the new Temporary Facilities Program for the period until 2028 allegedly followed the recommendation of the Administration for the Protection of Cultural Heritage to remove the metal awnings above the restaurant terraces along the Old Town walls and replace them with beige parasols. Restaurant terraces will have to be “distanced” five meters from the walls, but also have a maximum of 30 tables. The terraces will be marked with markers, so that the Municipal Police will be able to determine on the spot whether a restaurant has expanded its terrace.

Bearing in mind the preservation of the cultural-historical, urban, architectural and ambient values ​​of the locations, which partly represent an integral part of the protected urban entity of the Old Town of Budva, the Administration stated in its guidelines that concreting, or "the installation of immovable temporary catering facilities, is not permitted within the boundaries of the cultural property and its protected environment."

"Within the boundaries of cultural properties and their protected environment, especially in the immediate vicinity, around and within the walls of the Old Town, it is necessary to define the appearance of catering terrace furniture (umbrellas, accompanying furniture), in a way that it does not compete with or diminish the value of the cultural property, and with the aim of standardizing temporary facilities and furniture within the boundaries of cultural properties and their surroundings," the guidelines state.

As emphasized, "exclude the possibility of planning free-standing awnings that would be placed on a metal structure, anchored to the base".

"We emphasize that in the immediate vicinity, around and within the walls of the Old Town of Budva, it is not possible to install enclosed gardens, or to glaze terraces with anodized/al/pvc hardware and glass," the guidelines conclude.