Mykolaiv is preparing to allocate ₴313 million from the budget surplus

Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych announced that this week a list of projects to be funded from the 2025 budget surplus – 313 million hryvnias – will be submitted to the budget committee for consideration. He did not specify the exact list, but assured that there are «a great many» projects and that they are all ready for consideration.

He spoke about this in a comment to NikVesti.

As is known, the city authorities are currently preparing to reallocate 313 million hryvnias of the 2025 budget surplus.

«Just this week (NikVesti took the comment on 12 March, — note) we received the final requests from the chief administrators. They submitted them for a total of over 1.3 billion hryvnias. Together with the deputy mayors, who had previously reviewed them, these requests were prioritised. We reviewed them and identified the projects that need to be implemented this year,» said Oleksandr Sienkevych.

Mayor of Mykolaiv Oleksandr Sienkevych. Archive photo: NikVesti

In response to a follow-up question from a NikVesti journalist about specific projects, the mayor said he could not provide an exact list, but that there were «a great many» of them and they were all ready for consideration by the committee.

«In the near future, hopefully early next week, we will submit them to the councillors for consideration by the committee. As I have already said, we will adopt the budget in such a way that councillors understand every item and every project. We have already identified a list of projects worth 300 million hryvnias and will submit it for consideration. I hope that next week the councillors will work through it so that we can bring these issues to the session on 26 March,» said Oleksandr Sienkevych.

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Mykolaiv City Council has appealed to the government and parliament to provide an additional grant from the state budget. According to the city’s calculations, its own budget revenue for 2026 covers only 82.5% of actual needs, and the financial shortfall exceeds 1.14 billion hryvnias.

In total, budget revenue for 2026 amounts to 5 billion 546 million hryvnias, whilst total budget expenditure stands at 5 billion 275 million 353 thousand 815 hryvnias.

Mykolaiv Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych emphasised that the 2026 budget is effectively a survival budget and does not cover all the community’s needs. In particular, the Mykolaiv budget lacks funds for the pay rise for teachers initiated by the state.

Councillors also appealed to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and the Cabinet of Ministers, demanding a pay rise for cultural workers. The document highlights the critically low level of pay in the cultural sector.

Instead, the government has raised the basic salary for cultural workers to 3,470 hryvnias. The Mykolaiv authorities have said they will look for funds in the budget to pay the supplements.

Apart from paying salaries, the city budget also lacks funds for routine and major road repairs, as stated by Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych. For example, the municipal enterprise ELU Avtodor has received around 80 million hryvnias less than allocated in the budget.

Meanwhile, during a staff meeting on 2 March, Oleksii Savchuk, Director of the City Council’s Capital Construction Department, reported that there is currently no funding for repairs to the admissions ward of City Hospital №3.

«At present, no funding has been allocated for the admissions department of Hospital №3,» he noted.

Meanwhile, during the staff meeting on 2 March, Hennadii Iziumov, director of the municipal enterprise Mykolaivvodokanal, reported that the enterprise requires additional funds for road resurfacing work following the repair of potholes.

«We have over 560 orders for asphalting that have been pending since 2023. I wanted to discuss with you separately the possibility of additional funding to resolve these outstanding issues,» said Hennadii Iziumov.

Subsequently, Mykolaiv Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych stated that the Ministry of Finance would spend up to four months reviewing the state of the city budget to justify the need for additional funding from the state budget. The mayor noted that the city authorities had submitted updated revenue and expenditure estimates to the Ministry of Finance. According to him, budget revenues have increased slightly, in particular thanks to tax payments by residents and the mobilisation of extra-budgetary funds. However, this is insufficient to cover rising expenditure.

The city authorities are currently preparing to reallocate 313 million hryvnias of the budget surplus.

Budget implementation for 2025 by departments of the Mykolaiv City Council

• Executive Committee: cash expenditure — 1.2 billion hryvnias, which is 87.9% of the annual plan;
• Department of Education: cash expenditure — 2.3 billion hryvnias, which is 95.6% of the annual plan;
• Health Department: cash expenditure — 253 million hryvnias, representing 98.8%;
• Department of Labour and Social Protection: cash expenditure — 350.5 million hryvnias, representing 98.8%;
• Department of Culture and Cultural Heritage: cash expenditure — 221 million hryvnias, representing 98.6%;
• Sports Department: cash expenditure of 195.8 million hryvnias, representing 99.4% of the annual plan;
• Department of Housing and Communal Services: spent 1.4 billion hryvnias, which amounts to 86.1% of the annual plan;
• Department of Energy and Energy Saving: spent 57.5 million hryvnias, which amounted to 92.8% of the plan;
• Capital Construction Department: cash expenditure — 142.7 million hryvnias, which amounted to 60.7% of the annual budget;
• State Architectural and Construction Control Office: spent 10.4 million hryvnias, which amounted to 96% of the annual plan;
• Department of Emergency Situations and Civil Protection: spent 96.4 million hryvnias, which amounted to 88% of the annual plan;
• Department of Municipal Property: spent 9.2 million hryvnias, which is 99.6% of the department’s total budget;
• Department for the Provision of Administrative Services: spent 40.8 million hryvnias, accounting for 99.8% of the department’s budget;
• Department of Finance: spent 22.6 million hryvnias, which is 56.6% of the annual plan;
• Department of Internal Financial Control, Supervision and Anti-Corruption: spent 12 million hryvnias, which amounted to 88.8% of the annual plan;
• Zavodskyi District Administration: spent 87.8 million hryvnias, which accounted for 99.7% of their annual budget;
• Korabelnyi District Administration: spent 88.3 million hryvnias, which amounted to 99.7% of the annual budget;
• Inhulskyi District Administration: spent 94 million hryvnias, which amounted to 97.9% of the annual budget;
• The Central District Administration: spent 93.4 million hryvnias, which amounted to 99.6% of the annual budget.

Earlier, Mykolaiv Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych stated that the remaining funds in Mykolaiv’s budget at the end of 2025 amounted to around 300 million hryvnias, which is «the lowest figure in recent years.

As is known, the Mykolaiv City Council plans to appeal to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine with a request to provide an additional subsidy from the state budget. According to the city’s calculations, its own budget revenues for 2026 are sufficient to cover only 82.5% of actual needs, and the financial shortfall exceeds 1.14 billion hryvnias.