Irkutsk Duma approved budget revisions for 2013. Revenues and expenses increased due to targeted financial aid, remaining funds, and redistribution of savings from auctions. Additional money will go to housing for orphans, road and social facility repairs, completion of the maternity hospital and children's hospital, and city improvement and safety. The 2013 budget will total 12.281 billion rubles in revenues and 13.083 billion rubles in expenses, with a deficit of 802 million rubles.

The revenue side of the 2013 budget includes an increase in the amount of targeted financial assistance by 66 million rubles.
Of this amount, 42 million rubles are for the execution of court rulings to provide housing for orphaned children and children left without parental care.
About 12 million rubles are allocated for the implementation of the regional program to improve the efficiency of budget expenditures.
The city will receive 1.5 million rubles for co-financing the capital repair of a hydraulic structure in the area of the Iskrinsky Pond, for which about 9 million rubles are provided from the city budget’s own funds.
In addition, in 2013-2015, an annual increase of 10 million rubles is provided in the amount of the subvention for providing students with free meals and 166 thousand rubles in the amount of the subsidy for implementing the regional program for resettling citizens from dilapidated housing.
In addition, the revenue side of the 2013 budget takes into account the return of unused balances of interbudgetary transfers formed at the beginning of the year and subject to mandatory return to the regional budget, in the amount of 3 million rubles.
Taking into account the above changes, the revenue side of the budget has been increased:
in 2013 - by 63 million rubles, in the planned period of 2014-2015 - by 10 million rubles annually.
The expenditure side of the 2013 budget has been increased by 318.5 million rubles, and in 2014-2015 - by 10 million rubles in each year.
The amount of expenditures made from targeted receipts has been increased by 188 million rubles, in directions corresponding to the purposes of the allocations. The adjustment was made taking into account the unused targeted funds remaining at the beginning of the year in the amount of 121 million rubles, including: funds received from higher-level budgets for providing housing for young families and citizens discharged from military service, for road repairs and resettlement of citizens from dilapidated housing, for implementing the regional program to improve the efficiency of budget expenditures and support small and medium-sized businesses;
as well as balances of funds received from Baikal Bank of Sberbank of Russia for the design and improvement of the Angara River embankment and from JSC Russian Railways for the repair of the residential building at 1 Ledovskogo St.
The balances of the city budget’s own funds, formed at the beginning of the year in the amount of 770 million rubles, are planned to be used for the following purposes:
639 million rubles will be allocated to finance the budget deficit instead of attracting commercial bank loans. As a result, the amount of expenditures on servicing municipal debt has been reduced by 17 million rubles in the current year and by 106 million rubles in the planned period of 2014-2015.
The remaining funds in the amount of 131 million rubles, as well as funds from the reduction of certain expenditure items, are planned to be directed to the following purposes.
79 million rubles are additionally allocated for ensuring the activities of municipal social sector institutions. The funds will be used for installing school fences, repairing institutions, purchasing educational and medical equipment, and for other purposes.
About 11 million rubles are additionally planned for subsidies to non-state preschool institutions, 8 million rubles for subsidies to organizations that provide training and participation of teams in the All-Russian Basketball Competitions. The amounts of these subsidies are also increased in the budgets of the next two years.
About 89 million rubles are allocated to complete construction of the maternity hospital on Surikova St. and the operating block of the Ivano-Matreninskaya Children's Clinical Hospital.
“Today the Duma approved clarifications to the city budget. In particular, they concern the possibility of reallocating savings based on the results of tenders, and the receipt of funds from the regional budget. At the end of last year, we and the deputies went to inspect the new extension of the Perinatal Center and saw the need to finance this facility in the amount of 80 million rubles. This is precisely what resulted in the adjustment of the city budget. In addition, almost 10 million will be allocated for the repair of the Ivano-Matreninskaya Children's Hospital,” noted Duma Speaker Andrey Labygin.
In the road sector, expenditures for road reconstruction and repair have been increased by 26 million rubles, and 32 million rubles are allocated for the purchase of road and utility equipment. In addition, 5 million rubles will be directed to the first stage of work on creating a road traffic light control system.
Within the framework of the long-term target program “Eco-Logical City,” 17 million rubles are allocated for payment under contracts not fulfilled in 2012 for the arrangement and repair of children's and sports grounds, and 2 million rubles for the installation of an additional ground in the Pravoberezhny District. Expenditures for repairing the staircase in the Zeleny microdistrict have also been increased by 4 million rubles, and expenditures for maintaining green areas in the Leninsky District by 3 million rubles.
An additional 14.5 million rubles are allocated for restoring the exterior wall panels of the residential building at 1 Ledovskogo St. and about 2 million rubles
- for repairing the burned passenger elevator in the residential building at 22 Ryabikova Boulevard.
To pay for municipal contracts concluded and not fulfilled in 2012, expenditures for implementing the long-term target programs “Life Support Systems of the City of Irkutsk” and “Development of the Individual Housing Construction Sector” have also been increased.
Within the framework of the “Safe City” program, about 2 million rubles are additionally planned for ensuring the activities of municipal volunteer people's patrols and 126 thousand rubles for installing and servicing a panic button in municipal dormitories. Corresponding changes are also provided for in the planned period of 2014-2015.
Taking into account the above changes, the city budget for 2013 will amount to:
revenues - 12 billion 281 million rubles, and expenditures - 13 billion 83 million rubles, with a deficit of 802 million rubles, or 8.7% of the volume of revenues excluding gratuitous receipts.
The parameters of the revised budget with the submitted changes for the planned period of 2014 and 2015 provide for maintaining the deficit at the previous level.
Based on materials from the Press Service of the Duma of the City of Irkutsk