Shumkov's Kurgan account Growth and further debt aid

Oct 5

Shumkov reports a 2.5-fold expansion of Kurgan's budget despite lacking major resource taxpayers, net debt below seven percent of own revenues excluding infrastructure loans, and gains from its tailored development programme. He describes municipal reform and more than twenty-percent staff-position reductions, reallocating funds toward salaries and the real economy. He asks to write off the remaining third of budget debt for early participants, later infrastructure-loan write-offs and relief for intragroup debts of nationalized utilities to facilitate transfers. He urges directing savings and profits toward production and housing support. Reported gains remain his account; extra write-offs are not granted.

Regional participants seek predictable and larger aid, inflation-adjusted grants, broader treasury loans, easier deficit/debt rules and further write-offs. Matviyenko urges debt monitoring and fair funding of regional responsibilities; Teksler, Martynov, Shumkov, Korolyov, Chibis, Khotsenko and Abramov provide regional experience and proposals. Siluanov describes existing transfers, debt relief and loans, cautions against commercial debt and insists on balanced budgets and recovery programmes, offering specified compromises and resource-dependent support. This connected hearing debate does not adopt the requested blanket relaxation or debt cancellation.