Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said that expenses of rural and town budgets in 2010 would stand at UAH 11.2 billion, according to a draft bill on the national budget for 2010.
She gave the information at a constituent congress of the All-Ukraine association of village and town councils held in Kyiv on Saturday.
"The next budget of 2010 would account for 12,032 [local] budgets and they all would be planned under requirements... expenses of rural and town budgets would grow by 68.5%, to UAH 11.2 billion," she said.