Mayor Kulenski: We will repeatedly lower the price of a child’s daily meal : Vestnik Zname

25/04/2024 17:04

We want to bring down the price of a child’s daily meal several times over. This was stated by the mayor Petar Kulenski during the debate of today’s session on the adoption of an Ordinance on the granting of financial assistance for the promotion of birth and child rearing in the territory of the Pazardzhik Municipality, introduced by Georgi Koprishtenov from “Novoto Vreme”. As we already wrote HERE earlier today, it was not accepted.

Kulenski stated that he has started work on drafting an ordinance to supplement the food for each child in the Children’s Milk Kitchen. In this way, the Municipality of Pazardzhik will strive to provide social support for all parents and their children in the Municipality, which will reduce the cost of daily meals for children by two to three times. Many parents in the city have voiced their concerns in meetings with the administration. The management has looked at good practices from nearby municipalities, where final prices for parents reach BGN 2-3 per daily meal, while in Pazardzhik they are many times higher – nearly BGN 6.

As we wrote, Mayor Kulenski objected to the alternative and hotly contested proposal for one-time financial support for parents, submitted by the municipal councilors from “New Time”. All the other municipal councilors opposed the proposal, defining it as highly discriminatory – a financial incentive to be received by parents with a higher education only or only with two parents with at least a secondary education, and not all such parents living and raising their children in Pazardzhik.

The councilor from PP-DB Dr. Elisaveta Gencheva stated that the proposal is insufficiently substantiated, there are gross errors in the figures and there are discriminatory texts. “You associate birth with additional material stimulation, and I thought that children are born not with money, but with love. And can you formulate a definition of responsible and irresponsible parenting – there is no way for us to judge and define this. We need to start with improving living conditions,” said Dr. Gencheva. According to the councilor from “BSP for Bulgaria” Liliana Murhova-Prisadnikova, the draft regulation will deprive single parents of funds at all, because the point formation is formulated in such a way that single parents cannot qualify, when it is obvious that in such cases they would be in particularly great need .