Seongnam City, next year's main budget is 4.221 trillion won... 7.1% up from this year

(Seongnam = Yonhap News) Reporter Lee Woo-seong = Seongnam City, Gyeonggi Province, announced on the 13th that it had prepared a budget plan for next year worth 4.221 trillion won and submitted it to the city council.

This is an increase of 280.2 billion won (7.11%) from this year’s main budget of 3.9408 trillion won.

The general account is 3.5279 trillion won, and the special account is 693.1 billion won.

Looking at the main allocation, 1.5485 trillion won, or 43.9% of the general account, was allocated to the social welfare field.

It includes end-of-life care at home (KRW 3.6 billion), Child Allowance Plus (KRW 10.5 billion), Veterans' Honor Allowance (KRW 21.3 billion), and taxi vouchers for the disabled (KRW 1.4 billion).

In the transportation and logistics sector, KRW 375.5 billion was allocated, including support for bus fares for seniors aged 70 or older (KRW 10.5 billion), the complete reconstruction of Sunae Bridge (KRW 9.8 billion), and support for the operation of a semi-public bus system (KRW 15.9 billion).

In the environmental sector, KRW 254 billion was reflected in household waste collection and transportation costs (KRW 86.4 billion) and installation of sewage odor reduction facilities in the original downtown (KRW 1.2 billion).

In the field of culture and tourism, KRW 219.3 billion was invested in the construction of a complex cultural facility on public land in Yeosu-dong (KRW 6.2 billion) and the construction of an exhibition hall at the Seongnam Museum (KRW 5.9 billion), and in the field of health, KRW 148.9 billion was invested in the construction of a new Bundang-gu public health center (KRW 24.6 billion) and the cost of influenza and pertussis vaccination (KRW 7.2 billion).

Next year's main budget plan is scheduled to be finalized on the 18th of next month after deliberation at the second regular meeting of the city council, which opens on the 20th of this month.