How to spend billions

The Moscow City Duma redistributed budget funds in favor of developers, the capital’s authorities will allocate about 5 billion rubles from the city budget for anti -crisis measures before the end of the year. Amendments to the city budget for this year were adopted yesterday by the Moscow City Duma. According to the head of the Moscow Finance Department Yuri Korostelev, assistance will be provided to industrial enterprises, as well as enterprises of construction and food complexes. What exactly measures will be taken, Korostelev could not explain: he said that the corresponding decree of the Moscow government would soon appear.

The main parameters of the budget remained unchanged, but there was a redistribution of expenses for 73 billion rubles. In particular, allocations were reduced by 2.5 billion rubles under the article “City of the city of Moscow to the authorized capital”. The construction of education facilities will be allocated 9 billion rubles less - including due to the lag in the pace of construction. The program for the construction of healthcare facilities (more than 7 billion rubles) has also been reduced: bureaucratic wires do not allow these objects in 2008.

But the costs of building objects of the Moscow Metro (6.7 billion rubles) and for road-brain construction (5.3 billion rubles) were increased.

The largest disputes in the Moscow City Duma caused the redistribution of expenses for “construction” items in the address investment program of Moscow for this year. For example, budget allocations for the implementation of the city construction order are reduced by 7 billion rubles. As the head of the Department of Economic Policy and Development of the capital, Marina Ogloblin, explained, the reason is that some of the construction sites intended for the construction of houses by the city order turned out to be encumbrances. The source for the implementation of plans for housing commissioning in the City Hall found: capital investments on housing services will be increased by almost 38 billion rubles, as stated in the document, for calculations on the shared participation of the Moscow government in financing housing facilities. Apparently, we are talking about money allocated by the city to buy apartments from developers at a market price. As the newspaper wrote yesterday, the other day, the head of the capital's construction complex Vladimir Resin announced the purchase of 500 thousand square meters. m of economy class housing among developers and developers. According to the source of the "newspaper" in the Moscow government, most of the apartments - with a total area of more than 300 thousand square meters. m - was bought from a group of companies peak, about 100 thousand square meters. m - at Glavstroy. The redemption value is about 80 thousand rubles per square meter. Thus, the metropolitan authorities provided promised assistance to construction companies, and closed the hole in their own plans to enter housing this year.

However, the deputy of the Moscow City Duma, the head of the Yabloko - United Democrats faction, Sergei Mitrokhin saw in this amendment the efforts of lobbyists from construction companies. “At the expense of the budget, the city authorities represented by the government and the Moscow City Duma helps construction companies to preserve the huge superpowers that they receive for the sale of apartments at the highest prices in the world,” he was indignant. - I believe that money should be spent on the construction of apartments at the expense of the city budget. It is more profitable to build a city three to four times at its own expense than to buy from commercial companies. ”

11/05/2008 / Matvey Masaltsev, the material was published in the "newspaper" No. 211 dated 06.11.2008.