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According to the Ministry of Transport and Communications, which presented the proposal, such a decision aims to maintain parity between municipalities and not distinguish a particular municipality or group of municipalities from others, to provide more equitable financing opportunities for other regions.
The municipalities of the Kaunas district, Klaipėda district, Panevėžys district, Šiauliai district and Alytus district will remain among the ring municipalities.
The ring roads are the municipalities that surround the main cities, which are not part of those cities, that is, the city that surrounds them has a separate municipality.
At the government meeting, the Minister of Transport and Communications, Marius Skuodis, explained in detail why he proposed to remove the districts of Vilnius and Trakai from the ring list.
Photo by Sigismund Gedvila / 15min / Marius Skuodis
According to the minister, the Road Maintenance and Development Program will reach around 500 million euros this year. About 145 million of this amount is already earmarked for specific projects.
The rest are divided into three groups: 65 percent. the remaining funds are received by state highways, 30 percent. – local roads, with the remaining 5% allocated to the program reserve.
The adoption of the aforementioned Government Resolution refers to said 30%. part for roads of local importance and, therefore, for municipalities. For this amount, certain criteria have been established with additional financing for some groups of municipalities.
Of this amount, 4%. travels for the needs of state institutions, 2 percent. tourist municipalities, another 2 percent. municipalities of the capital region, another 2 percent. circular municipalities and the remaining 90%. divided into all municipalities according to street length and population.
Looking at all the municipalities, we believe that this is not entirely true.
It follows that the municipalities of the Vilnius and Trakai districts received funding three times: from the common boiler for all regions, from the part allocated to the municipalities of the capital region and from the part allocated to the ring municipalities.
“The vast majority of municipalities receive money only on the basis of 90 percent in total. According to the ring lines and the municipalities of the capital region, Trakai and the Vilnius district are double in terms of priorities,” explained M Skkuis.
“Looking at all the municipalities, we do not believe that it is entirely correct,” he added.
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