Bolojan: Some city halls exist only for employees, not for citizens

Mediafax

„On the local public administration side, reform is absolutely necessary, both due to the fact that, in many places, city halls cannot support their personnel expenses from the revenues they collect. The largest part of these must be ensured from the state budget. Now, in situations where a city hall cannot cover even its personnel expenses, it means that city hall does not exist for the citizens of that locality, but exists for its employees. Either we reduce these expenses and we can function on the current administrative structure, but with a much smaller number of employees and with lower expenses, because this is possible and is proven in many places, or we will be forced, when a political agreement is reached, to make an administrative reorganization and dissolve administrative units that are no longer justified due to the ratio between the population they serve and the costs to sustain the administration there. The admini...