​Nearly 190 city halls in the country pay their elected officials much more than they manage to collect through taxes, data collected by the MDLPA shows. There are cases when the amounts paid to local elected officials are three to two times higher than the amounts that the mayors manage to collect from the local budget.

In the case of Vaslui-Vojneštų City Hall, last year’s own revenues amounted to 1.3 million lei, and personnel expenses – 3.1 million. Not to mention that the total expenses of UAT last year were almost 30 million lei.

Where does the rest of the money come from? From subsidies, amounts broken down by VAT to finance decentralized costs at the county level, amounts broken down by VAT to finance decentralized costs at the level of communes, cities, municipalities, sectors and the Municipality of Bucharest, amounts broken down by VAT on roads, Amounts with a breakdown of VAT to balance local budgets. There is a fish pond…..

About 3,200 residents live in the city (according to the 2021 census).

The mayor is a member of the PSD, the party that controls 8 of the 13 seats in the local council. PNL has 4 other mandates and Pto Romania one mandate.

The City Hall’s website is semi-functional, the last time property declarations were submitted for 2014-2015.

In Vado Motilor (Alba), the mayor is liberal, and the PNL also dominates the local council. A little more than 1,000 people live in the city.

Own income from 2022 is slightly more than 1.3 million lei. Salary expenses, almost 3 million. The total costs are about 6 million lei.

See here Mayor Vadu Motilor’s report for 2022 and here the municipality’s strategy for the following years.

Settlements where the costs of social assistance exceed 20% of the total costs of the municipality

In more than 10 settlements, the costs of social assistance exceed a fifth of the total costs of municipalities. But the largest expenditure on social assistance is in Germany, where the top looks like the graph below.:.

See here the detailed situation for each settlement