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How Mayor Differs from Ex-Mayor?
10:34 28/12/2012
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/country/view/28539
The newly-elected mayor of Gyumri Samvel Balasanyan and the Council
have decided to keep up with their counterparts in Yerevan who spend
hundreds of millions on meaningless decorations when the city is
facing a problem of infrastructures.
The budget of Gyumri is about 20 times less than the budget of Yerevan
but the problems are as many as in Yerevan despite the difference in
area and population. So, it is necessary to be 20 times more careful
and sparing with the budget of Gyumri, especially that Balasanyan has
announced that the ex-mayor Ghukasyan has emptied the treasury of the
city and incurred debts.
Nevertheless, the mayor and Council of Gyumri have decided to build an
arch at the gate of the city which will cost 50 million drams. Only
one of the members of the Council Levon Barseghyan, head of Asparez
Club of Journalists, was against this project, pointing to urgent
issues on which 50 million could be spent.
However, the Council and Balasanyan insisted on the project. The
funniest thing is the justification of the arch. The ex-mayor
Ghukasyan had ordered sculptures of 12 Armenian kings paying 13
million drams for them in advance. The total cost was 30 million
drams. The mayor of Gyumri states that there is no place to put those
sculptures and in order not to discard them they decided to build an
arch costing 50 million drams where the sculptures will be put.
So, more money will be spent on the place of the sculptures than on
the sculptures. In any other city of the world except for Yerevan the
city authorities would have to resign under the pressure of the
society if they made such a decision. Meanwhile, such a decision is
made in a city which owes debts and has to borrow money to pay the
salaries of the city hall staff.
They say Samvel Balasanyan has erected his own sculpture in his
brewery. It is worthwhile to find out whether there is some more room
in the premises of his brewery for the sculptures of the Armenian
kings. It would be not only a saving for the city but also a mutual
honor for the kings and Balasanyan until Gyumri pays its debts, has no
more homeless people, social problems and affords to relocate the
sculptures and build an arch which will cost 500 million instead of 50
million and will be decorated with diamonds.
Or it is possible to ask Gagik Tsarukyan, the leader of Samvel
Balasanyan's party, to give an arch to Gyumri kings instead of
tractors, especially that the leader of the PAP is known for his
respect for kingdom.
10:34 28/12/2012
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/country/view/28539
The newly-elected mayor of Gyumri Samvel Balasanyan and the Council
have decided to keep up with their counterparts in Yerevan who spend
hundreds of millions on meaningless decorations when the city is
facing a problem of infrastructures.
The budget of Gyumri is about 20 times less than the budget of Yerevan
but the problems are as many as in Yerevan despite the difference in
area and population. So, it is necessary to be 20 times more careful
and sparing with the budget of Gyumri, especially that Balasanyan has
announced that the ex-mayor Ghukasyan has emptied the treasury of the
city and incurred debts.
Nevertheless, the mayor and Council of Gyumri have decided to build an
arch at the gate of the city which will cost 50 million drams. Only
one of the members of the Council Levon Barseghyan, head of Asparez
Club of Journalists, was against this project, pointing to urgent
issues on which 50 million could be spent.
However, the Council and Balasanyan insisted on the project. The
funniest thing is the justification of the arch. The ex-mayor
Ghukasyan had ordered sculptures of 12 Armenian kings paying 13
million drams for them in advance. The total cost was 30 million
drams. The mayor of Gyumri states that there is no place to put those
sculptures and in order not to discard them they decided to build an
arch costing 50 million drams where the sculptures will be put.
So, more money will be spent on the place of the sculptures than on
the sculptures. In any other city of the world except for Yerevan the
city authorities would have to resign under the pressure of the
society if they made such a decision. Meanwhile, such a decision is
made in a city which owes debts and has to borrow money to pay the
salaries of the city hall staff.
They say Samvel Balasanyan has erected his own sculpture in his
brewery. It is worthwhile to find out whether there is some more room
in the premises of his brewery for the sculptures of the Armenian
kings. It would be not only a saving for the city but also a mutual
honor for the kings and Balasanyan until Gyumri pays its debts, has no
more homeless people, social problems and affords to relocate the
sculptures and build an arch which will cost 500 million instead of 50
million and will be decorated with diamonds.
Or it is possible to ask Gagik Tsarukyan, the leader of Samvel
Balasanyan's party, to give an arch to Gyumri kings instead of
tractors, especially that the leader of the PAP is known for his
respect for kingdom.