Mykolaiv prepares to distribute ₴313 million in budget surplus

Mykolaiv City Council, archive: NikVesti

The Mykolaiv City Council's Budget Committee has approved the report on the implementation of the city budget for 2025. This decision is a necessary procedural step for the further distribution of 313 million hryvnias of free funds.

The relevant decision was made during a commission meeting on Tuesday, 24 February, according to NikVesti.

The director of the city council's finance department, Vira Sviatelyk, presented the main financial indicators. According to her, the city budget's revenues in 2025 amounted to 6 billion 867 million hryvnias, while expenditures amounted to 7 billion 313 million hryvnias.

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At the same time, at the end of the year, there was a surplus of 317 million hryvnias. In order to be able to distribute it in accordance with the budget procedure, it is necessary to approve the annual report.

The members of the budget committee supported the draft decision without further discussion and recommended that it be submitted for consideration at the next session of the city council.

After the report is approved, deputies will be able to proceed with the distribution of the free balance of the budget and the needs of the community.

It should be noted that more than 300 million hryvnias were not spent by the Capital Construction Department and the Department of Housing and Communal Services.

Mykolaiv Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych said that the Capital Construction Department and the Department of Housing and Communal Services were unable to spend the funds due to problems with contractors.

As is known, the Department of Housing and Communal Services (DHCS) and the Capital Construction Department (CCD) of Mykolaiv performed the worst in terms of the city's budget for 2025. In particular, the CCD spent only 142.7 million hryvnias out of the planned 235 million hryvnias, and the DHCS did not use 231.4 million hryvnias.

Thus, the share of the budget executed by the Capital Construction Department (CCD) amounted to 60.7%. At the same time, labour costs in the department were executed in full: of the planned 8.8 million hryvnias for salaries and accruals during the year, the entire amount was used down to the last penny.

Execution of the 2025 budget by departments of the Mykolaiv City Council

• Executive Committee: cash expenditures — 1.2 billion hryvnias, which is 87.9% of the plan for the year;
• Department of Education: cash expenditures — 2.3 billion hryvnias, which is 95.6% of the plan for the year;
• Health Department: cash expenditures — 253 million hryvnias, which is 98.8%;
• Department of Labour and Social Protection: cash expenditures — 350.5 million hryvnias, which is 98.8%;
• Department of Culture and Cultural Heritage Protection: cash expenditures — 221 million hryvnias, which is 98.6%;
• Department of Sports: cash expenditures of 195.8 million hryvnias, which is 99.4% of the annual plan;
• Department of Housing and Communal Services: spent 1.4 billion hryvnias, which is 86.1% of the annual plan;
• Department of Energy and Energy Conservation: spent 57.5 million hryvnias, which is 92.8% of the plan;
• Capital Construction Department: cash expenditures — 142.7 million hryvnias, which is 60.7% of the annual plan;
• State Architectural and Construction Control Department: spent 10.4 million hryvnias, which is 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 of Administrative Services: spent 40.8 million hryvnias, which is 99.8% of the department's budget;
• Finance Department: 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 is 88.8% of the annual plan;
• Zavodskyi District Administration: spent 87.8 million hryvnias, which is 99.7% of their annual budget;
• Administration of the Korabelnyi District: spent 88.3 million hryvnias, which is 99.7% of the annual budget;
• Administration of the Inhulskyi district: spent 94 million hryvnias, which amounted to 97.9% of the annual budget;
• 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 the Mykolaiv budget at the end of 2025 amounted to about 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 only enough to cover 82.5% of the actual needs, and the financial resource deficit exceeds 1 billion 140 million hryvnias.