Mayor G.Munkhbayar told a recent
meeting of the Ulaanbaatar Citizens’ Representative Assembly that last year’s
budget surplus of MNT7.6 billion will be used in a few selected programs this
year. MNT2 billion will be spent on temporary relocation of 300 households
necessitated by a project to extend infrastructure in ger districts, MNT2.5
billion on building a complex for the Bayanzurkh district administration, MNT
400 million on revising the general land management plan, MNT831 million on
extending and renovating heating and water facilities and sewerage in
residential districts, MNT900 million on repairing the bronze statues of
D.Sukhbaatar and Kh.Choibalsan, MNT350 million on landscaping at Independence
Square, and MNT100 million on purchasing an excavator for the city’s water
facility.

Another MNT50 million is planned to
be spent on providing street lights and domestic electricity to the new ger
district in Baga-Khangai.

The meeting also discussed the budget for 2010. This allocates MNT112 million
to providing a healthy and safe environment, and MNT1 billion on preparing an
economic and technical study of utilization of groundwater.