Tharaka Nithi County Assembly on Monday, February 20, 2023 approved the County Executive and County Assembly Supplementary Budget (1) for the financial year 2022/2023.
According to Standing Order 253 of the Tharaka Nithi County Assembly Standing Orders, The County Assembly shall submit to Assembly for approval, a supplementary budget in support of money spent under section 135 of the Public Finance Management Act of 2012.
Section 135 of the he Public Finance Management Act, 2012 provides that a County Government may spend money that has not been appropriated if the amount appropriated for any purpose under the County Appropriation act is insufficient or a need has arisen for expenditure for a purpose which no amount has been appropriated by the Act, or money has been withdrawn from the government Emergency Fund.
In the report by the five-member Select Committee on Finance, Budget and Appropriations led by the Chairperson Hon. Muchiri Godfrey Gaturo in the Assembly on Monday, the county is projecting to receive KShs 4,551,334,282 as an Equitable Share of revenue raised nationally, where KShs 4,214,198,393 is Equitable Share for FY 2022/23 while KShs 337,135,889 being non-disbursed Equitable Share brought forward for FY 2021/22.
According to the committee, the County Treasury has raised its Own Source Revenue projects from KShs 350 million to KShs 380 million, and is projecting to receive KShs 566,047,430 as grants.
Allocation to the Office of the Governor & Deputy Governor, and Public Administration & Devolution Affairs have been revised upward by 18.81% and 1.59% respectively, with the Office of the Governor and Deputy Governor now set to receive KShs 169,037,631.
The County Assembly budget has been revised upwards to KShs 576,893,655 from KShs 515,000,000 with the recurrent expenditure raised from KShs 485,000,000 to KShs 546,893,655 and the development budget maintained at KShs 30,000,000.
KShs 466,017,655 from the County Assembly will go to wages, salaries and operations and maintenance expenditure, KShs 30,000,000 being transfer to mortgages and car loan fund. KShs 50,876,000 is set to finance car reimbursement benefits.
In the County Assembly Recurrent Expenditure, KShs 1,000,000 has been relocated for the purchase of office furniture for additional three wards, KShs 1,000,000 relocated to acquisition of heavy-duty office printers and accessories while KShs 5,323,346 will go towards medical insurance cover.
Departmental Winners and Losers
Departments set to receive upward revisions include;
1. County Public Service Board from KShs 25,333,400 to KShs 25,347,150
2. Education, Gender, Culture & Social Services from KShs 248,257,400 to KShs 275,825,288
3. Lands & Physical Planning from KShs 104,676,300 to KShs 131,323,793
4. Public Health & Sanitation from KShs 459,708,272 to KShs 477,378,448
5. Roads, Infrastructure & Public Works from KShs 586,147,810 to 783,821,924
6. Trade and Industry from KShs 107,611,500 to KShs 109,311,500
7. Agriculture & Crop Production from KShs 595,821,600 to 601,404,151
8. Water Services and Irrigation from KShs 151,199,750 to KShs 157,717,400
Departments set to receive downward revisions include;
1. Youth, Sports, Culture & Tourism from KShs 71,757,600 to KShs 65,857,600
2. Finance & Economic Planning from KShs 555,789,440 to KShs 316,102,505
3. Energy, Housing & ICT from KShs 119,759,380 to KShs 57,549,565
General provisions in the Recurrent Expenditure estimates include;
1. KShs 218 M to salaries for FY 2022/23
2. KShs 30 M for contracted guards and cleaning services
3. KShs 30 M to purchase six motor vehicles for the revenue department
4. KShs 39 M for fuel and maintenance of motor vehicles, plant and machinery
5. KShs 40 M for staff gratuity
6. KShs 50 M for contribution towards County Executive Mortgage and Car Loan
7. KShs 20 M for payment of electricity costs from the street lighting program.
Key changes in the Development Expenditure vote include;
1. KShs 30 M for renovation/construction of offices to create more office space for County Executive Committee Members and Chief Officers
2. KShs 39 M towards ward access roads
3. KShs 10 M for water projects
4. KShs 75 M to purchase certified seeds
5. KShs 5 M for road tarmacking
6. KShs 28 M for installation of generators in Chuka Referral and Marimanti Level 4 hospitals
7. 15 M was allocated for construction of ECDE classes
The County Assembly approved the Supplementary Budget without amendments.
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