Municipal Council votes taxes and budget amendments, passes social homes

13/08/2015 00:00

The Municipal Council has passed the list of persons who benefit the 242
social homes in Shkoze. The list received the votes of the right wing
councillors too. It has 205 from the administration of Lulzim Basha, and
the new administration added 40 new ones. However, the new
administration rejected eight persons who appeared to own other
properties.

“One of the reasons we removed them is because poor people cannot own apartments they lease. If we could process 40 families in one week, imagine the pace of the former administration. I want to remind anyone that in 2013 there were applications for soft loans – which are tasked to the poor citizens – people like Spiro Ksera, Eno Bozdo, Gjergji Papa, all deputy Ministers of this government”, declared Erion Veliaj, the new Mayor of Tirana.

In this first meeting, the Municipal Council passed an additional budget of 13 million USD, which means that the budgets of communes are concentrated at the Municipality of Tirana with the amends of the territorial reform. However, the opposition’s councillors have opposed the budget of the Basha administration.

Mayor Veliaj appealed the opposition’s councillors to unblock the budget for the citizens, while they said that the current fees and taxes in communes are imposed by the new municipality.

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