As Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 23rd of December, 2018, upon presenting the most important plan for the Slavonian town of Valpovo, Mayor Matko Šutalo emphasised the fact that the record increase was the result of the joint work of the employees of Valpovo’s new administration.
With just one single vote against it, the Slavonian town’s council adopted the budget proposal for 2019 on Thursday, without any major objections. The amount is a welcome 124 million kuna, which is otherwise the largest amount proposed for Valpovo so far.
As previously stated, during the presentation of the most important draft plan for this continental Croatian town to date, Mayor Matko Šutalo emphasized that the record increase was the result of the joint work of the employees of the town of Valpovo’s new administration, the Valpovo entrepreneurial centre and local development agencies, which, over the last year and half, had projects worth a massive 64.787.451,64 kuna.
The stated value doesn’t include the value of the projects that are still waiting for the results of tenders, which amount to a further 23,401,919.59 kuna. In addition, projects in their preparation phase worth 113.7 million kuna are yet to come, and in the very creation of Valpovo’s generous 2019 budget, local citizens took part in putting forward their proposals.
In accordance with the proposals put forward by the Council of HDZ, HSU and NL, two new amendments were adopted in the town’s budget concerning the decrease of the price of kindergartens by 200 kuna and an increase in the amount given to parents for newborn children.
Namely, as of next year, 3000 kuna will be paid to the parents for their first born child, the birth of their second child will see a payment of 5000 kuna, and for the third, and every next child, they’ll receive 7000 kuna for each. The measure intends to work as an incentive, and will be used as Valpovo’s contribution to mitigate Croatia’s extremely negative demographic trends, which in Valpovo and Slavonia as a whole, continue to be the most bleak.
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