2024-06-21 04:25:12
“24 Chasa” condemned the town administration and acquired the report – for the primary 3 months of the mandate, some took over BGN 2,000 plus wage
What sums do municipal councilors in Plovdiv obtain for conferences with voters or consultants?
It seems that studying how a lot their leisure prices usually are not solely extremely delicate data, but in addition prime secret. “24 Chasa” managed to get the quantity after submitting a lawsuit and received. In accordance with the paperwork supplied, councilors managed to “take in” over BGN 2,000 for the primary 3 months of the present time period, and so they additionally acquired remuneration for committees and conferences, which at the moment was BGN 1,800 per 30 days. These are quantities which are paid out of the native price range and are public. For the interval from the oath on November 8, 2023 to February 14 of this yr. BGN 53,671.96 consultant bills had been paid from the town treasury.
On February 1, “24 Chasa” made an official request beneath the Entry to Public Info Act to seek out out what sums every councilor acquired and what precisely they had been paid for. Within the authorized time period, the secretary of the municipality Angelina Topchieva
supplied data on a complete quantity, however not personally the way it was distributed
amongst 51 councilors within the Plovdiv parliament.
We contested this silent refusal earlier than the Plovdiv Administrative Court docket. With a call dated Might 13, the magistrates dominated in favor of “24 Chasa” and ordered the municipality of Plovdiv to supply data to the media. In accordance with choose Mariana Shoteva, the refusal was not motivated, due to this fact it needs to be canceled.
Though the choice was closing, the municipality requested for a postponement of 10 days. We acquired the coveted reference on June 14th. In accordance with the information
file holders for disbursed funds
are the advisers from GERB Yordan Iliev, Slavi Georgiev, Dimitar Kolev – 2144 BGN every.
With BGN 4 much less, Kalin Milchev from the BSP took BGN 1,466. The long-time former deputy mayor Georgi Tityukov, now a councilor from United for Plovdiv, was paid BGN 1,466. they didn’t want.
The reference refers solely to the primary months of the time period, after which it isn’t clear who was paid what.
It needs to be famous that in February the native parliament
diminished the consultant ceiling from BGN 1,100 to BGN 500, however raised the month-to-month remuneration to BGN 3,000
of advisers. Normally they meet twice, and the session lasts not more than 2-3 hours.
“Let there be representatives, we’ll do the work”, believes Georgi Tityukov.
Slavi Georgiev, fifth time period within the municipal council, admits that by these bills a councilor can money in on private bills, for instance for gasoline, and due to this fact “the one management mechanism is conscience”. He clarified that he paid from these representatives for authorized and accounting consultations.
“One can’t know every little thing, we have now to make use of consultants and we have now to pay,” defined Kalin Milchev from BSP. Yordan Iliev additionally claims the identical. And former mayor and present councilor Slavcho Atanasov provides that when he met for espresso with voters, he couldn’t permit them to pay – that is why he used consultant cash.
Natasha Dimitrova: In 1991-1995, we sat with out cash
These are price range funds from the pockets of Plovdiv residents, says the previous councillor
“We labored at no cost within the first democratically elected municipal council of Plovdiv. And I discover it an actual outrage that councilors in the present day take BGN 3,000 for 2 conferences a month. How many individuals in Plovdiv obtain such cash?” This was requested by an indignant Natasha Dimitrova, municipal councilor from the SDS within the 1991-1995 mandate.
“The one additional again then was that we may very well be absent from work with the employer’s permission when there have been classes with out taking unpaid depart,” she recollects. He calls it an abuse of energy to withhold details about the representatives of in the present day’s councillors. In accordance with Natasha Dimitrova, they really feel uncomfortable and due to this fact don’t permit their consultant bills to be disclosed.
“However they overlook that these are price range funds that come out of the pockets of Plovdiv residents and every little thing should be on show. Being a counselor isn’t a occupation, they need to obtain an quantity for his or her work, however not BGN 3,000 plus consultant bills”, Dimitrova is categorical.