/ world today news/ The huge failure of the 2017 Budget of the Metropolitan Municipality is in the absorption of European funds – only 29%. Such a failure, I, as a municipal councilor, do not remember! This was stated by the deputy chairperson of the SOS from the BSP, Milka Hristova, in the program “Delnitsi” on Eurocom TV.
“Sofia repeats the model that is currently in the state, she explained. – The entire state in 2017 has a serious problem in terms of the absorption of European funds. This means that there is a huge lack of administrative capacity to absorb the funds. In addition , the tender documentation is not well done. There is a clear ranking of the not the best candidates, which leads to multiple court appeals and the impossibility of starting projects, as well as the impossibility of preparing technical documentation”.
Milka Hristova gave an example of the renovation of Graf Ignatiev Street in the capital, which has been planned for several years in a row. “For the third year it has been postponed, now it is planned in the 2018 budget, she said. – If someone bothers to look at the investment program and compare it with the name lists of objects, they will see that the same objects are repeated every subsequent year and are reported every subsequent year, but nothing is actually done”.
According to the deputy chairman of the SOS, the problem with the Investment Program is not only that it is half-fulfilled. “This, of course, means unrepaired streets, unbuilt kindergartens and sports facilities, she explained. – The problem is the poor quality of the work done. Unfortunately, Sofia is already an emblem of poorly done work. Several repairs of the capital’s streets and boulevards have become household names for poor quality – “Dondukov”, “Shipchenski Prohod”, “Vitosha”, NDK. And the poor performance of the repairs means only one thing – a waste of public resources”.
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