The overly bulky and dysfunctional municipal administration will cost the citizens of Budva ten million euros next year, which is the amount projected in the budget for 2025 for the payment of the wages of employees in the local administration. This does not include employees in public institutions, sports institutions, municipal companies and local media, for whom another 15 million euros will be allocated from the budget, the bulk of which will go to salaries.
That the item for employees' salaries has exceeded the limit of endurance is also evidenced by the fact that the draft budget for the next year, which "Vijesti" had access to, is projected at 64,1 million euros, which means that at least a quarter will go to the salaries of employees as in The municipality, as well as services, institutions and companies, which are in the municipal manger.
It is a kind of record in the history of Budva, in which the part related to salaries only increases from year to year, while other items important for the development of the city stagnate or grow slightly. For example, the budget for 2023 for salaries in the municipal administration projected 7,2 million euros, and for this year the plan was nine million euros.
The fact that there will be 64 million euros in the municipal coffers next year contributed 17 million euros, which were not spent this year, mainly for investments, which is why they will be transferred to the next year. The key items that continue to fill the city's coffers in the coming years are taxes and utilities, precisely the money that is collected from citizens.
As it says, 8.814.373 euros will be allocated for gross earnings, while an additional 1.163.000 euros will be allocated for other personal incomes. Other personal income includes compensation for councilors in the amount of 170 euros, 50 for severance pay, jubilee awards of 20, while the item "other compensation" amounts to 923 euros, from which compensations for employees under part-time and temporary contracts are drawn. -occasional engagement.
When it comes to transfers to institutions, ten million euros will be spent next year. The most money goes to JU Museums and Galleries Budva (1,4 million euros), RTV Budva (1,1 million), City Theater 1,3 million euros, Sports and Recreational Center Budva 750 thousand, Mediterranean Sports Center 750 thousand, National Library Budva 750 thousand, while 1,7 million euros are allocated to sports institutions. For next year's events and projects, 500 euros will be allocated from the city treasury, 415 for education, and 200 for health care.
Under the item "other transfers" a consumption of 5,2 million euros is foreseen, of which 1,73 million euros is a transfer to the Municipal Company, 1,6 million to the Wastewater Company, an additional 1,2 million euros to the Municipal Company for Special Waste Removal, Daily 400 to the center for children and youth with developmental disabilities, 260 to Funeral services, 110 to the Knowledge Academy.
That Budva is the infamous champion when it comes to the number of employees in the city manger was confirmed by the data of the Ministry of Finance, according to which as many as 1.771 employees work in the Municipality and public enterprises, cultural institutions and local media, and it is estimated that there are 500 more.
This, as "Vijesti" announced before the November local elections, was disclosed by the Minister of Finance Novica Vuković at the parliamentary session, answering the question of the DPS deputy Nikola Milović.
According to these data, as many as 519 workers work in local self-government bodies, 394 of whom work for an indefinite period, 95 of them have contracts for temporary and casual jobs, while 30 workers are engaged through work contracts. A total of 217 workers work in public institutions, of which 192 work for an indefinite period, 17 for a fixed period, five under a contract for temporary and occasional jobs, and three through a work contract.
According to the data of the Ministry of Finance, most of them are employed, when it comes to public institutions, in the Museums and Galleries of Budva. In that institution, 75 workers are employed for an indefinite period of time, five are under temporary and casual work contracts, and three are under part-time contracts, 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 Care Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities and Developmental Difficulties "Biseri", 11 of whom work for an indefinite period of time, and six for a certain period of time. There are 31 permanent workers at the Grad Theater, while 65 workers are employed in the RT Budva, of which 55 are permanent and 10 are permanent.
A total of 165 workers are employed in TO Budva, of which 53 are on a permanent basis, 70 are on a fixed-term basis, 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.
The largest number of workers are in the utility company, 290 of them. Of that number, 153 are on a fixed-term basis, 43 on a fixed-term basis, while 94 workers work through an agency. A large number of workers also have Water and Sewerage, a total of 245, and all of them have contracts for an indefinite period.
The Parking Service employs 116 workers, of which 78 are on an indefinite contract, 17 are on a fixed-term contract, and 21 are hired through an agency. There are 28 employees in the municipal company Otpadne vode, of which 24 are on an indefinite, three on a fixed-term basis, and one worker has a work contract. 23 of them work in the company Pogrebne usluge, 22 of them on a part-time basis and one on a fixed-term basis. There are 61 workers in the Mediterranean Sports Center, 53 of whom work for an indefinite period, seven on the basis of contracts on temporary and occasional jobs, and one on the basis of a work contract.
Mediteran advertising employs 50 people, 45 for an indefinite period, one for a fixed period of time, and four through contracts for temporary and occasional jobs. There are a total of 39 workers in SRC Budva, 37 of them on an indefinite term and two under contract to the department, while 18 workers are employed on an indefinite term in the Academy of Knowledge.
Although there is a large number of employees, the Municipality and its companies have published a series of advertisements for the recruitment of workers for the past six months during the election campaigns, first for the May and then the November elections.
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