Anseong City's Budget for Next Year 1.1738 Trillion Won... 1.27% Increase Compared to This Year

Council Approves 8.56 Billion KRW Cut Compared to City Proposal
Full Cuts to Single-Person Household Support and Child-Friendly Projects

The budget for Anseong City in Gyeonggi Province for next year has been finalized at 1.1738 trillion won, an increase of 1.27% compared to this year.

Anseong City announced on the 17th that the general and special account budgets for next year were confirmed at the city council plenary session held on the 15th.

The budget size by account confirmed that day is 996.5 billion won for the general account, 167.6 billion won for the public enterprise special account, and 9.7 billion won for other special accounts. This reflects cuts of 8.5 billion won in the general account and 60 million won in the parking lot special account from the budget proposal submitted by the city.

Specifically, the budget for the "World Language Center Operation" project, which operated 21 programs this year to provide cultural experiences for citizens and help multicultural students adapt to Korean culture, was cut entirely by 1.08 billion won.

The "Village Making Project" aimed at revitalizing village communities and promoting resident jobs and income projects also saw 680 million won, or 99.7% of the proposed 682 million won budget, not reflected in the final budget.

Additionally, budgets totaling 120 million won for three projects ? ▲Career Discontinuity Women's Employment Support (14 million won) ▲Comprehensive Support Measures for Single-Person Households (39 million won) ▲Child-Friendly City Construction (66 million won) ? were completely cut.

The budget related to the "Youth Team," which the city plans to newly establish through an organizational restructuring in January next year, was also reduced. The city council approved cuts from 230 million won to 164 million won for the "Youth Culture Space Operation" budget and from 29 million won to 5 million won for the "Youth Policy Promotion" budget.

The city council also significantly cut budgets related to library projects, including ▲Central Library Regional Materials Archive (down 28 million won) ▲Gongdo Library Humanities Specialization (down 21 million won) ▲Ayang Library English Specialization (down 16 million won) ▲Bogae Library Book Culture Center (down 27 million won).

Furthermore, budgets for cultural and artistic event support projects such as creative music concerts, youth theater festivals, and the Hyesan Park Doo-jin Literary Festival were reduced, and the budget for the pet theme park construction project was completely cut.

The city council's large-scale budget cuts for next year are interpreted as a fiscal tightening policy due to economic slowdown and tax revenue decline in Gyeonggi Province. However, the city opposed this, stating, "It is a unilateral budget cut without policy alternatives," and expressed concerns that reductions in budgets closely related to local development and residents' lives ? including welfare, education, culture by generation, and citizen participation, which is the foundation of grassroots democracy ? could lead to urban decline and harm to citizens.

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