Jovanović signed a decision on temporary financing: Four million euros for salaries and businesses in Budva

The functioning of the city administration, services, cultural institutions, sports teams, and local media will cost the citizens of Budva 12,3 million euros for the first three months of this year, of which at least four million euros will be spent on salaries.

This is stated in the decision on temporary financing, signed by the Vice President of the Municipality of Budva. Nikola Jovanovic.

"Consumer units financed from the municipal budget are granted monthly funds up to one twelfth of the actual expenditures in the previous fiscal year, for the period from January 1 to March 31, 2025," states the decision initialed by Jovanović.

The Budva parliament was not constituted after last year's November elections, and therefore a decision on the budget could not be adopted by December 31st of last year, even though the draft had passed a public debate and was ready to be presented to the councilors.

The city's budget for this year is projected at 64,1 million euros. The municipality received approval from the Ministry of Finance for the draft budget, because the planned current revenues, which amount to 38 million euros, are higher than the current expenditures, which are estimated at 32 million euros.

The decision on temporary financing for gross salaries of administrative employees in the first three months will allocate just over two million euros, while another 213 thousand euros will be allocated for other personal income. When it comes to transfers to institutions, another two million euros are planned, most of which will be spent on salaries.

From the city account, by March 31, 324 thousand euros will be transferred to the Public Institution Museums and Galleries of Budva, 245 thousand euros to Radio Television Budva, 300.000 euros to the Public Institution City Theatre, 151 thousand to the Sports and Recreation Center Budva, 175 thousand to the Mediterranean Sports Center, 175 thousand to the National Library Budva, while 410 thousand euros have been allocated to sports institutions. 78 thousand euros will be allocated from the city treasury for events and projects next year, 58 thousand for education, and 37.500 euros for healthcare.

Under the item "other transfers", a million euros are planned to be spent, of which 311 thousand euros will be paid to the Municipal Company, 400 thousand to the Wastewater Company, and an additional 161 thousand euros will be paid to the Municipal Company for the collection of special waste. 96 thousand will be allocated to the Day Center for Children and Youth with Developmental Disabilities, 47.500 to Funeral Services, and 23.750 to the Academy of Knowledge.

That Budva is the infamous champion in Montenegro when it comes to the number of employees who are in the city's manger, or at the expense of citizens, was confirmed by data from the Ministry of Finance, previously published by "Vijesti", according to which there are as many as 1.771 employees working in the Municipality and public companies, cultural institutions and local media, and it is estimated that there are another 500.

According to this data, there are as many as 519 workers working in local government bodies, of which 394 are permanent, 95 have temporary and occasional contracts, while 30 workers are engaged through service contracts. A total of 217 workers work in public institutions, of which 192 are permanent, 17 are temporary, five are temporary and occasional contracts, and three are employed through service contracts.

The largest number of them, when it comes to public institutions, is employed in the Museums and Galleries of Budva. In this institution, 75 workers are employed for an indefinite period, five are on temporary and occasional contracts, and three are on a temporary contract, which means that there are 83 of them in total.

The National Library currently has 21 employees, 20 of whom work for an indefinite period of time, and one for a fixed period of time. 17 workers are employed in the Day Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities and Difficulties in Development "Biseri", 11 of whom work for an indefinite period of time, and six for a certain period of time. 31 employees work for an indefinite period in JU Grad Teatar, while 65 employees are employed in RT Budva, 55 of which are permanent and 10 are for a fixed period.

A total of 165 workers are employed in TO Budva, of which 53 are employed for an indefinite period, 70 for a fixed period, 40 are engaged under a contract for temporary and occasional jobs, and two workers have part-time contracts.

Certainly, the largest number of workers are employed in companies founded by the Municipality of Budva, as many as 870 of them.

According to data from the Ministry of Finance, the largest number of workers is in the Public Utilities Company, 290 of them. The Water Supply and Sewerage Company also has a large number of workers, a total of 245.

Workers go on strike, more than a hundred tons of garbage fills the city

More than 100 tons of garbage have buried Budva, the container stations are overflowing, and waste is everywhere on the streets, spreading an unbearable stench. Workers of the “Čistoća” work unit of the Municipal Company are on strike, and the garbage trucks have parked in the company's car base in the Bečići settlement of Vještica.

They are unanimous in saying that they will not remove waste from the city until they are paid their back wages for December and January.

The strike was supported by the new management, led by the acting (acting) director of Komunalno, Ilija Gigović, and the Board of Directors of the company, who refuse to sign any order from the former management until an audit of the company's operations is conducted and the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) and the police enter the company, and they say that the former director and his deputy, Predrag Drago Ivanović and Milan Perović, are to blame for the robbery of the company.

On the other hand, Perović, who supports the workers, has repeatedly invited Gigović to come to the Public Utilities Company and pay salaries.

Gigović and the Board of Directors were prevented from entering the company for two and a half months, their seal and records were confiscated. The Municipality of Budva did not respond to Vijesti whether they would get involved in resolving the problem.