The new political board in Vetlanda already announced when it was clear that they would govern the municipality for the coming term that they wanted to reduce investments in Vetlanda municipality in the coming years.
At the last council meeting, the new budget was hammered out, which contained a lot of changes compared to the one decided by the council last summer.
No further borrowing
The operating budget in the revised and now adopted budget is significantly lower, an average of SEK 138 million over the next five years, which can be compared with an average of SEK 187 million per year in the previous proposal.
- The investments in the decided proposal must be able to be handled without additional borrowing.
In the counter-proposal, an increased borrowing of around SEK 250 million was needed for the next three years, says Andreas Eliasson, the municipality's financial manager, on the municipality's website.
Concretely, the savings mean that the municipality will no longer build a preschool in the southern central town.
The expansion of the high school is also postponed to the future and so are the large investments to renovate existing swimming facilities or build a new one.
More money for school
When it comes to the operating budget, priority is given to the Children and Education Board, which receives SEK 18 million more than according to the previous budget.
This also applies to the social welfare board, which receives a supplement of ten million kroner.
The Technical Committee does not receive compensation for the increased costs in the energy area that they have announced.
To compensate for this, some money is taken from the development reserve that existed under the municipal board.