Lamlas chairs a meeting to estimate investment program budget for 2023 to complete and implement service and development projects

SMA NEWS – ADEN THE CAPITAL
The Minister of State, Governor of the capital, Aden, Mr. Ahmed Hamid Lamlas, on Sunday, chaired a meeting to discuss and approve the budget for the investment program for local authority projects in the capital, Aden, for the year 2023.
The meeting estimated the total allocations for the investment program at 18 billion 443 million 800 thousand riyals, with increase of 11% over the estimated actual resources for the year 2022, which amounted to 16 billion 580 million 678 thousand riyals.
Lamlas appreciated the efforts made to prepare the investment program for local authority projects for the year 2023 by the Budget Committee represented by the Planning and International Cooperation and Finance offices in the capital, Aden, indicating that the program memorandum needs a lot of continuous effort, including the final distribution of local and joint financial resources and checking project allocations at the level each disttrict according to the contracts concluded, so that a fair and consistent distribution is achieved with the need and development.
The meeting, which was attended by the Secretary-General of the Local Council, Mr. Badr Ma’awen, and the First Undersecretary of Aden, Mr. Mohammed Nasr Al-Shazly, reviewed the indicators and details of the investment program for the local authority projects for the year 2023, as the number of projects for investment expenditures reached about (502) projects, of which (312) are ongoing projects towards completion of its implementation, which constitutes 62% of the total projects.
The number of new projects with exceptional service priority, including the rehabilitation of infrastructure, the sewage network, education, environmental health, and the improvement of the electricity network, reached about 191 projects, which constitutes 38% of the total. For the year 2023 AD, according to priorities.
The meeting discussed the foundations and rules that have been adopted, represented in developing and diversifying the local resource base, enhancing the efficiency of its collection, and continuing to implement the remaining ongoing projects to ensure their implementation and completion, in addition to developing non-tax local resources from fee revenues, goods and government services, and setting priorities and harmonizing available financial resources and the necessary needs, stressing the need not to exceed them in any way, as well as not to enter into any new projects, or activities that entail financial obligations.
During the meeting, the importance of reducing and rationalizing unnecessary operating expenses was also emphasized, and restructuring their uses in favor of necessary operational and developmental expenses in order to ensure improving the level of performance of government facilities, achieving development goals and priorities, and enhancing women’s contribution to development. Not including projects that violate the executive regulations of an operational nature that do not serve the goals investment development.