Osan City Draws Up 888.4 Billion Won Budget for Next Year

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Park Chan-hyuk] Osan City announced on the 26th that it has drawn up a budget of 888.48 billion won for next year and submitted it to the Osan City Council.

This represents an increase of 162 million won (0.02%) compared to this year (883.2 billion won), comprising 743.005 billion won in the general account and 145.477 billion won in the special account.

Mayor Lee Gwon-jae explained at the budget address during the first plenary session of the second regular session of the 298th Osan City Council, "This is an austerity-oriented budget in which actual available resources have decreased after excluding essential expenses such as wage increases and increased welfare budgets, as well as designated-use expenses."

In particular, the city emphasized that regarding next year's budget, it placed focus on △proactive foundation-building for a self-sufficient Connect City of 500,000 residents △improvement of transportation infrastructure and guarantee of citizens' mobility rights △enhancement of administrative convenience and citizen safety and welfare △creation of citizens' cultural and healing spaces.

To secure citizen safety, the city strengthened advance inspection and repair budgets for multi-use facilities. It established a living-area safety management system by reflecting safety inspection budgets for public institutions and multi-use facilities such as playgrounds (approximately 650 million won) and safety inspections, repairs, and maintenance for bridges and tunnels (2.84 billion won).

Additionally, the city compiled a budget to expand urban infrastructure. Included are fund appropriations for the Gyeongbu Railway Cross Road opening project (11 billion won), land acquisition for Segyo Terminal (26.6 billion won), and construction of Sinjang 2-dong Administrative Welfare Center (5.8 billion won), with plans to accelerate urban infrastructure improvement and enhanced residential environments.

Furthermore, for the first time since the city's establishment, Osan has confirmed hosting the Gyeonggi Provincial Sports Festival for 2027 and 2028, with budget allocations including sports facility renovations (4 billion won) and construction of Sema Baseball Stadium (450 million won).

In the land and regional development sector, the budget includes subsidies for apartment complex night landscape lighting to enhance urban scenery (400 million won), subsidy support for maintenance of aging apartment complexes (350 million won), and creation of citizen cultural spaces including Serang Reservoir citizen healing space development (4.4 billion won) and Unam 2nd Children's Park remodeling project (300 million won).

In the transportation sector, the budget includes K-Pass public transportation fare refund support (4.18 billion won), Segyo 2 District wide-area transportation improvement measures (1.05 billion won), Osan City wide-area transportation improvement basic planning service (400 million won), and child protection zone improvement projects (1.68 billion won).

In the education sector, the budget includes native English conversation education support (180 million won), student career and academic guidance support (260 million won), overnight experiential learning expenses for middle school students (370 million won), school environment improvement cooperation projects (720 million won), elementary school admission celebration gifts (200 million won), and AI coding school education (270 million won).

In the welfare sector, items include childbirth incentives (305 million won), women and youth hygiene product support (approximately 950 million won), honorable service allowances (310 million won), cremation incentives (210 million won), and child allowance support (19.15 billion won).