Budget and Settlement Committee Cuts Suwon City Budget by 3.13 Billion Won

The Suwon City Council's Budget and Settlement Special Committee (Chair Park Jang-won, hereinafter referred to as the Budget Committee) cut a total of 45 items totaling 3.134 billion won from next year's budget proposal and revised budget proposal (including national treasury).

The Budget Committee held a meeting on the morning of the 16th and made final decisions on the preliminary review results from each standing committee and the results reviewed by the committee's four subcommittees regarding next year's budget proposal, the second supplementary budget proposal for this year, and the fund management plan.

Looking at the review results, Subcommittee 1 (General Affairs and Development Committee's jurisdiction) cut a total of 1.313 billion won across 13 items.

Among the key items, the 30 million won budget related to Suwon Light Rail Transit third-party announcement was entirely cut, and the metropolitan railway (Bundang Line, Ori-Suwon) contribution was adjusted from 9.128 billion won to 8.234 billion won, a reduction of 894 million won.

Subcommittee 2 (Economic and Environment Committee's jurisdiction) cut 345.04 million won across 7 items. Key items included a 5 million won reduction from the 30 million won food culture village festival budget, and complete cuts to the waste dumping surveillance camera operation budget of 5.04 million won and the worker comprehensive welfare center operation budget of 12 million won.

In particular, 20 million won was cut from the 400 million won auxiliary budget for the Suwon Yangnyeom Galbi Festival.

Subcommittee 3 (Culture and Welfare Committee's jurisdiction) cut 139.13 million won across 9 items. Among the adjustments, 70 million won was cut from the 620 million won contribution to the Suwon Hwaseong Management Foundation, and the 10 million won maintenance budget for the Suwon Hwaseong model was entirely cut.

Subcommittee 4 (Urban Construction Committee's jurisdiction) cut 1.338 billion won across 13 items. This included a reduction of 640 million won from the 1.6 billion won budget for illegal parking enforcement camera installation.

Additionally, the 156 million won design service budget for constructing a tap water promotion center was entirely cut. However, the 110 million won budget for vehicle-mounted parking enforcement equipment, which was entirely cut in the preliminary review, was fully restored in the Budget Committee's review.

The budget review results decided by the Budget Committee are scheduled to be presented at the fourth plenary session of the 268th second regular session on the 21st.