1. GENERAL INFORMATION

The modern settlement of Uzgen was established in 1927 and received city status in 1990. Today, Uzgen is a rayon subordinated city and is the administrative center of Uzgen Rayon of Osh Oblast.

GEOGRAPHY. The city is located between the Yassu and Kara-Darya rivers, 56 kilometers northeast of the City of Osh which is the oblast center. Uzgen is 1,025 meters above sea level and the total city area is 920 hectares. The city territory is divided into 2 sectors: Upper Uzgen and Lower Uzgen, distinguished by their elevation. The main business/commercial area is in Upper Uzgen. The residential area is split into 2 terraces: Upper Uzgen and the riverside of the Kara-Darya river (Lower Uzgen). From the north, the city is bordered by the ?Bash-Dobo? Village; from the east by the lands of the cooperative ?Tameki?; and from the south by a fish farm and lands of the State Land Pool.

The winter is not long and is rather warm. During the last decade, it has rained a lot during spring and autumn, whereas summer has been hot and dry.

POPULATION is 44.9 thousand people; 22.1 thousand men and 22.8 thousand women. There are 24 ethnic groups living in the city with the following composition (in thousand people): Uzbeks ? 40.8; Kyrgyz ? 2.7; Russians ? 0.4; Tadjiks ? 0.21; Tatars ? 0.19; Turks ? 0.06; and others ? 0.55.

Population of Uzgen City by Age

Population of Uzgen City by Employment Group

* These people reside in Uzgen City but are employed in agriculture in the surrounding villages, not within the city boundary.

2. ECONOMY

Uzgen is primarily a living area for people employed in agriculture in neighboring areas as well as a center providing markets, services and agro-processing industries to the agriculatural hinterland.

Total Output for 1999-2002 in millions soms 1

2.1. MAIN ENTERPRISES IN UZGEN CITY

2.2 BANKS AND OTHER FINANCIAL ORGANISATIONS:

- Uzgen branch of JSB ?Kyrgyzstan?

- Uzgen branch of PSB ?Kyrgyzstan?

- 2 Credit Unions

- Branches: FINKA, Kyrgyz Agri-Financial Corporation, Ak-Maral-South, Mercy Corps

2.3 ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTIONS:

- Uzgen City Economic Developemnt Board

- City branch of Employment Center

2.4 STRUCTURE OF HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURES in %

2.5 EMPLOYMENT

The number of able-bodied working age population in the city is 20,698 persons. At this date, there are 970 unemployed people officialy registered at the City Employment Center yeilding an official level of unemployment of 4,7 % .

Number of unemployed in 1996-2003

Microcredits are provided by the city administration with the purpose of supporting unemployed people. In 2003, 11 unemployed people received small credits for a total amount of 342,000 soms. One of the main directions for realisation of the city?s active policy at the labor makert is the creation of new jobs. Despite limited financial opportunities, the city mayor?s office takes measures to provide assistance to enterprises and organisations in creating new jobs to assist unemployed persons having difficulties in finding jobs. For 10 month of 2003, 639 long-term jobs were created in Uzgen city, including:

- By enterprises and organisations 73 jobs

- Small and medium business development 356 jobs

- Investments 8 jobs

- Employment support fund 194 jobs

- Local budget 8 jobs

Forecast for creation of new long-term jobs in Uzgen City

3. LOCAL GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE

The City Kenesh consists of 21 deputies. 20 deputies comprise the following standing commissions:

1. Budget, Economy and Financial Issues Commision ? 7 deputies. Chairman: A. Nosirov

2. Health, Education, Ecology, Law and Deputies? Ethics, NGO Commission ? 7 deputies. Chairman: U. Negmatov

3. Industry, Construction, Transport, Communications and Agriculture Commission ? 6 deputies. Chairman: M. Makaev.

ORGANISATIONS PROVIDING PUBLIC SERVICES IN THE CITY

UTILITY ENTERPRISES AND ORGANISATIONS

MAIN CHALLENGES:

1. Development and creation of condominiums in the city

2. Creation of the City Tax Inspection Unit

3. Creation of City Treasury Unit

4. Liquidate existing KZKS-founded Gorovodakanal and create new Gorovodokanal founded by the city

5. Annex two neighboring Ayl Okmotu where city residents work and which receive most of their services from the city.

4. NGO AND COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS

Uzgen is divided into 16 block committees : Kalma-Kyia, Tashlak, Guzar, Mazhnuntal, Shark, 60 years of Kyrgyzia, Uch-Tepa, Kayragach, Ulukbek, Tort-Kocha, Yangy Turmush, Kumlyk, Payzabad, Cheremushka, Bornor and Jany Ozgon. The city has 5 registered NGO: in the area of consumers protection ? 1, education and scienec ? 2, charitable activity ? 1, informational creative center ? 1.

The city has 28 functioning mosques that are registered. In three mosques they read Friday prayer: ?Topansa Otumbu? with 1700 seats was built in 1914, ?Raimby? with 300 seats was built in 1895, ?Al-Sarasy? with 500 seats was built in 1992.

In the city there is a Council for War and Labor Veterans and the Union of Afhgan Veternas that provide assistance to veternas and participate in decisions taken by local communities. The city has a Women?s Council consisting of 17 members. Each of 16 block committees has a Women council uniting 92 women.

5. ASSETS IN COMMUNAL PROPERTY

On the city balance sheet there are 39 municipal objects registered (buildings, constructions, communications) with the residual value of 32,717,300 soms.

Main Communal Property Objects

6. PUBLIC SERVICES

6.1. SOCIAL PROTECTION

Ugzen City Department for Social Protection is in charge of the execution of the republican, oblast and city programs designed to ensure the social protection of people. The rayon executes its own programs. City-executed programs include programs for support of low-income persons, such as compensations for communal services, electricity payment, as well as medical care programs. During 2003, assistance was provided in the total amount of 250,000 soms, of which about 18% was financed from the city budget and 82 % - from the National budget (including coal and sanatorium treatment for those who need).

MAIN CHALLENGES:

1. Not possible to ensure full employment
2. Rehabilitation center for disabled children is necessary
3. Boarding house for aged people is necessary
4. Free canteen, hairdresser and shoe repairshop have to be opened for lonely, aged and invalid people of the 1st group.
5. Organization of a Labour Exchange

6.2 HEALTH

Outpatient medical care for residents of Uzgen city and residents of neighboring Bash-Dubinski and Dumbulakski Villages is provided by the Rayon Center of Family Medecine ?Ozgon?. This Center is designed for 1,554 visits a day with 7 groups of family doctors working. There are 175 medical staff working in the Center of Family Medecine, of which 42 are doctors and 101 are medical assistants. They provide various medical services to city residents including cardiological, neurological, oculist, gynaecological, pediatrician and rheumautological departments. Also, there are 2 points of medical assistance set up by NPS Cooperative ?Tameki? and in a new block ?Rabochiy gorodok?. There is a dental clinic with 61 staff, of which 36 are dentists and 21 are dental assistants providing services for city residents, as well as special categories of city residents.

There is a Rayon Territorial Hospital with 350 Beds and 580 employees located in Uzgen City providing in-patient care for all Rayon residents, including those of Uzgen City.

There are 2.8 doctors for each 1000 people, whereas the average republican level is 3 and the oblast level is 1.6. The number of beds per 1000 people is 14.5 (compared to the the republican level of 7.04). The rate of infant death is 10.9 (the republican rate is 21.7, the oblast rate is 25.6). The rate of mother mortality is 1.124 per 100,000 infants born alive). The immunization rate for for children up to 1 year is 100% fulfilled, and for children from 1 to 7 years is also 100%.

MAIN CHALLENGES:

1. Construction of a new point of medical assistance for the block committee ?60 years of Kirgizia?
2. There is lack of medical equipment for complete diagnosis of patients:
3. Lack of X-ray, microscope bi-monocular, etc.
4. Need to purchase special equipment for life support during reanimation
5. Need equipment for blood components preservation
6. Lack of laboratory analysators

6.3 EDUCATION

The Uzgen City Education Department together with the Municipal Property Department at the mayor?s office manage secondary schools and kindergartens located in the city.

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND NUMBER OF STUDENTS

Extra-curricular activities:

- Children sports club: 8 groups / 160 students

- Meerim Center: 7 groups / 170 students

- Children musical school

MAIN CHALLENGES:

1. 40% of school buildings require repairs
2. insufficient school furniture, books and teaching aids, computer classrooms, etc.
3. lack of laboratory equipment and chemicals
4. lack of qualified staff
5. lack of material and technical base
6. lack of premises in medical training center
7. lack of fire extinguishers for fire prevention
8. lack of training materials on traffic regulation
9. lack of finance for school terrotory accomplishment
   
   6.4 CULTURE AND SPORTS

Kara-Shoro stadium, located in the center of the city, belongs to and is operated by the city administration. This stadium is used for various sports activities but is in need of capital repairs. There is a sports complex in block committee ?Kalma-Kia? which is owned and operted by the cooperative Tamiki with facilities for playing volleyball and basketball. In the center of the city, the children?s recreational park ?Mir? belongs to the city administration and is operated by the City Department of Communal Property Management. There is cinema ?Aichurek? with 450 seats in Uzgen City built in 1974 which is owned and operated by the Osh Oblast Fund for Cinema. Currently, it is used for cultural actions. The Rayon House of Culture with 400 seats, built in 1984, serves for various sports and entertainment events: kick-boxing contests, local shows and concert performances of actors from Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.

There is a city musical school built in 1947. It includes 8 groups in piano class with 28 students and 34 groups in komuz, kyiak, bayan and accordion classes with 123 students.

SPORTS FACILITIES IN THE CITY:

- City stadium -2 (2,500 seats)

- Football grounds -3

- Sports complex -1

- Basketball grounds -9

- Volleyball grounds -9

- Gyms -10

MAIN CHALLENGES:

1. Marketing study has to be done with the purpose of attracting tourists to visit historical sightseeing
2. Capital repair of stadium is required, as well as a surronding fence
3. It is necessary to repair the Sports complex belonging to the block committee ?Kalma-kia?; football grounds to be completed
4. The cultural and recreational park is self-financed. In order to improve the level of recreational activities provided for people, several new units of entertainment are necessary.
5. An athletics gym is to be constructed in the center of the city.

9.5 HOUSING SECTOR

JSC ?Uzgen Kommunalshik? is owned by the city and was created using a portion of the assets of the Rayon-owned Uzgen Kombinat of Communal Enterprises. Uzgen Kommunalshik provides services to housing in the City while the Kombinat provides services in housing and communal sphere to the rest of the rayon.

JSC ?Uzgen Kommunalshik? provides repairs and solid waste management services to 29 multi-storied buildings in Uzgen with a total of 898 apartments, with total area of 44,882 m2 and residential area 26,940 m2, of which 0.1% are privatized auxiliary premises under the communal ownership of Uzgen City Administration. In addition, JSC Uzgen Kommunalshik provides services to the 16 makhalla/block committees, each comprising around 700 individual houses.

The financial condition of JSC ?Uzgen Kommunalshik? in 2002: Actual revenues were 674,000 soms, actual expensees of 676,600 soms. Accounts receivable from clients were 465,000 and accounts payable were 186,000 soms.

MAIN CHALLENGES:

1. Old vehicles for removal of solid and liquid wastes
2. Due to a lack of special vehicles for sanitary cleaning of city, the streets are not regularly cleaned up, wastes are not removed from residential areas
3. High level of debts by residents in the multi-storied buildings for services provided
4. Local budget does not have adequate resources for city improvement and sanitary works
5. Because of absence of a central sewage system, there is an accumulation of liquid wastes

6.6 WATER SUPPLY

Gorvodokanal, an enterprise founded by Kyrgyz Zyl Kommun Sayuz, provides drinking water for residents, enterprises and organisations. Of 44,900 residents, 30,229 persons [or 67%]are served by the enterprise. Of this 18,487 persons are served by connections and 11,742 by public standpipes. The remaining 14,700 unserved persons collect their own water from surface sources.

The first 43-kilometer water supply line was built in 1959. Its condition today is 80-90 % depreciated. Despite the extensive deteroriation of assets, the quality of drinking water supplied by Gorvodokanal corresponds to the state standards CN and B 214-553-96.

The daily water consumption is 5,160 cm3, which is consumed by:

- Residents 4,316 m3/day

- Industry 195 m3/day

- Budget organisations 73 m3/day

- Communal enterprises 59 m3/day and

- Leakage 517 m3/day

The city is provided water from 3 sources:

1. Pump station (treatment with chlorum) . Water from spring is collected and stored in 100 cu meter reservoir and then pumped.

2. Wells # 2930 and # 2931

3. Well in the recreation area

Financial status of Gorvodokanal as of 2002 in thousand soms:

1. Accounts receivable 3, 833, 830 soms due from:

• Residents 3, 080,450 soms
• Industry 348,380 soms
• Budget organisations 405,000 soms

2. Financial status on July 1, 2003

• Total revenues 274,600 soms
• Costs ? 620,700 soms,
• First half 2003 Losses 346,100 soms

3. The original book value of fixed assets is 2,262,000 soms.

The average cost of 1 m3 of water is 2.48 soms. Because of low tariffs fixed for water and low level of payment collection, the enterprise suffers losses.

MAIN CHALLENGES:

1. Revise tariffs to allow for full cost recovery

2. Find a solution for poor payment collection

3. The available water reservoir is no longer good for exploitation.

4. 2 water wells have to be drilled for installation of deep water pumps.

5. Transmission pipe system 7 kms long needs to be repaired.

6. To improve the technical base, the following equipment is necessary: excavator UM3, emergency car, 2 transmission pumps ECV-12-160-100, 2 transmission pumps ECV-10-63-100, water pumping out cars.

7. There is a need to biuld 2 water rserviours with capacity of 3000 m³ each.

6.7. SEWAGE TREATMENT

There is no sewage system in the city. In multi-storied buildings of different blocks, cesspools are installed for liquid waste collection: 4 cesspools of 90 ?³ each in block committee Borbor, 2 in Cheremuchki, and 2 in Kalmy-Kia.. Each month about 720 ?³ of liquid waste is collected and removed by a cesspool collector truck operated by the City Department of Communal Property Management. The waste is dumped at the solid waste dump in Don-Bulak Ayl Okmotu which is operated by the city.

MAIN CHALLENGES:

1. Construction of a sewage system in the city

2. Cesspool collectors replacement

3. Major repair of cesspools

4. Air pipe installation in cesspools.

6.8 HEATING AND HOT WATER SUPPLY

Uzgen section of the state owned Osh MPO ?Teplosnabjenie? has 2 boilers:

- Central boiler located in the Borbor block commitee

- Boiler in the block committee ?Cheremushka?.

The Central boiler in Borbor block committee was put into operation in 1974 with the following characteristics:

Types of boilers: U6 ? 3 units, Energia 3 ? 3 units

Capacity: 2.4 Gcal/hr

Type of fuel: coal with the annual consumption ? 1,200 tons per year

Length of pipe system: 1.7 km

The boiler can supply heat to 9 apartment buildings and the Lenin Secondary School. Currently, it supplies heat only to a Lenin school as heat for 9 apartment buildings was disconnected due to non-payment.

The boiler in Cheremushka has the following specifications:

Put into operation: 1967

Types of boilers: steel ? 1 unit, U6 ? 3 units

Capacity: 1.2 Gcal/hr, Type of fuel: coal

Annual consumption ? 900 tons of coal per year

Length of pipe system: 1.5 km

Supplies heat for 13 living buildings.

MAIN CHALLENGES:

1. Accounts receivable at 1.07.2003 were 626,000 soms owed by residents and 39,600 soms owed by budget organisations.

2. Because of hardness of water, the pipes inside buildings have accumulated a lot of scale and need to be completely replaced.

3. For boilers to work normally the following improvements are required:

- 100kVt transformer for non-stop energy supply

- replace 4 units for steel ones

- install 2 pumps 3K-9

- replace 1.2 km of 76 mm and 100 mm pipes

- replace 16 bolts of 76 mm and 100 mm

- replace 55-70 m of supplying pipe

- install accumulator with a capacity of 25 cub. m

- major repairs of the 74 block boiler roof

6.9 ENERGY SUPPLY

Electric energy is supplied by state owned Uzgen RES , a branch of state-owned AOOT Osh-Electro. The length of city 10 kV air lines is 201.6 km. There is a substation for 35 kwt. There are 125 transformer substations in the city. 63 units are owned by the Uzgen RES and 62 units are owned by other organisations, enterprises and firms. These have a total capacity of 51,282 kVA and cover and area of 3,810 sq.meteres.

Costs for maintenance of RES transformer substations and transmission lines is 675,000 soms per year.

MAIN CHALLENGES:

1. 60% of facilities have to be rehabilitated

2. Capacity increase of transformers is necessary at 35/10 kV S/S Zapadnaia and Novaia.

3. Additional 10/04 kV Transformer Stations are necessary to install: Manas street ? 4 pieces, Uch-Tiube makhalla ? 3 pieces, Tashlak ? 2 pieces, Guzar ? 2 pieces, Yangi-Haet ? 2 pieces, Paizabad ? 2 pieces.

4. Cables have to be replaced at 10 kV HVL (A70 for AC-90)

5. Collection of accounts receivable, which as of 01.05.2003 were 312,834 soms

6.10 ROADS

The length of the national Osh-Jalalabad road is 6 km. There is a reconstruction of the automobile road ?Bishkek ? Osh? that passes through the city. The republican route Osh-Myrza-Aki-Kara-Kulja passes through the city.

The total length of city owned and maintained roads is 83 kilometers; of which with asphalt cover - 32.7 km, gravel ? 30 km, earth ? 20.3 km. The length of city owned and maintained sidewalks is 16 km. The City Department of Communal Property managment executes the maintainence works on city roads paid for by the city budget.

MAIN CHALLENGES:

1. 90% of roads with asphalt cover need capital repairs

2. 50% of gravel roads have to be covered with asphalt

3. 100% of earth roads have to be gravelled or asphalted

4. for street lighting (17.3 km), 155 lights have to be sourced and installed additionally.

5. for city streets and parks, resources have to be provided for planting trees, as well as for irrigation of greenery alonside roads, sidewalks, etc.

6. To avoid road accidents, pothole repairs have to be made in addition to fixing 4 traffic lights and 50 road signs.

6.11 TRANSPORT

The nearest railway station is located 44 km from the city in Kara-Suu.

The city is connected with 36 inter-city routes and will have access to the new Bishkek-Osh route when completed. In 2003, a new schema of city bus and route taxi operations has to be developed by the city administration and the routes will be distributed through a tender to transport enterprises providing bus services to passengers. The fare is to be approved by the City Administration. Transport and economic connections with other rayons and cities are carried out by route carriers.

JSC Tulpar, involved in passenger and cargo delivery, which operates 2 inter-city routes and 23 routes inside and around the city. Vehicles available: buses ? 75, cargo carriers ? 43, cars ? 3, total ? 121 vehicles. Number of employees ? 263 persons. For 2002 payed taxes: 1,051,200 Soms, and to social fund: 590,200 soms.

MAIN CHALLENGES:

1. No resources for purchase of new vehicles, the average life of cars is 15-20 years.

2. Unfair competition at the transport market. At the beginning of 2002, along with JSC Tulpar, the same routes were serviced by 312 private drivers. Today, the number of cars has more than doubled, off which more than 170 function within the city. The majority of them evade paying taxes and social fund contributions.

6.12 COMMUNICATIONS

Telephone communications services are provided by Uzgen branch of state owned OOF AO Kyrgyztelecom covering 4,151 numbers; of which 3,799 are analogue and 352 digital numbers. There is a central phone station based on 100/2000 ATSK with the capacity of 3,000 numbers and a digital NEAX61E station providing internet connection. There is a mobile connection ?Bitel?. Internet service is available.

MAIN CHALLENGES:

1. low paying capacity of population and accumulated accounts receivable in the amount of 3,588,500 soms.

2. Non-stable communications because of electricity interruptions

3. Low quality telephone communications serviced by Uzgen branch due to depreciation of ATS equipment and cable lines.

4. Low level of computerisation, outdated equipment and, as a result, no possibility for broad based internet connection.

6.13 MARKETS AND DISTRIBUTION

The City Administration issues permits for opening and operation markets. Retail services are provided at the central market and 11 small markets in private ownership, as well as 262 outlets. More than 952 people are engaged in these activities. The retail turnover for 2002 was 42.6 million soms, or a 17% increase over 2001.

6.14. LAND USE AND REGISTRATION OF PROPERTY RIGHTS

The Uzgen Division for Land and Property Rights Registration (a Rayon division of GOSREGISTER) registers all the rights for property. It consists of 2 departments: land use department and property rights registration department with staff of 11 persons.

6.15 LAND TENURE PLANNING (PERMITS)

Land use permits for design, construction and changing profile in the city are issued by the Uzgen City Architecture and Construction Department. The General Plan for perspective city development was prepared in 1987 by the Design Institute Kyrgyzgyprostroy. In 2002 , based on the order of the Gosstroy, a correction was made to the General Plan of Uzgen City by CNIIP of City Construction in Bishkek. The time necessary for getting permits for construction are as directed in Government Resolution # 57 of 03.02.00 as follows:

- capital construction - 53 days

- individual private residence construction ? 29 days

- change of a profile ? 27 days

- for capital construction under investment projects ? 63 days.

MAIN CHALLENGES:

1. No resources available for development of a new general plan for perspective city development.

2. No resources available for a detailed city planning according to a general plan.

3. No executive survey of subsoil and surface engineering communiction (water supply network. Communication line, sewage system , heating).

4. Resolution of issues on alienation of land plots out of redistribution fund to resolve problems of allocation of land plots to individual holders.

6.16 SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT

Solid waste is removed from residential areas and enterprises by Uzgen Kommunalchik as per agreements with residents and enterprises. Of 44,900 people living in the city, only 15,000 ( or 33%) are provided with services. The tariff for removal of waste from individual houses is 1.54 soms a month per person at a filling norm of 0.2 m3 per year, whereas for multi-storied buildings the rate is 4 soms per person at a filling norme of 0.5 m3 per year. Solid waste collected in public waste containers is removed by employees of JSC Uzgen Kommunalshik to outside the city. Waste from dump sites is removed manually and with an excavator. Annually 3,000 m3 of solid waste is removed from the city territory.

The city solid and liquid waste is dumped 6 kilometers from the city at a dump on the territory of Don-Bulak Village Administration which covers an area of 3 hectares. The dump is operated by the City Department of Communal Property Management and paid for by the city budget.

MAIN CHALLENGES:

In order to ensure normal sanitary conditions in the city, the following are needed:

1. special machinery and equipment: 1 excavator, 1 bulldozer, 1 grader, 1 snow-remover, 1 water carrier.

2. Resources for purchase of spare parts for this equipment and for fuel.

3. Collect significant accounts receivable from residents.

6.17 ENVIRONMENT AND GREENING

The issues of environmental protection and ecology in the city territory are tackled by the Rayon Department of Environment Protection, which includes 5 staff. In order to improve the ecological situation in the city, a complex program for city environment protection was designed, directed for implementation of targets for improvement of conditions of air, soil, surface and underground waters, as well as assignment of waste lands for planting trees. In general, the ecological situation in the city is in accordance with the norms. An important place is given to city decoration, poster and placard manufacturing and monument and obelisk maintenance. However, due to lack of resources of the department , a lot of works are carried out by the City Department for Improvements. There are 99,820 trees planted along city roads, as well as, lawns with the area of 2,120 sq. meters.

MAIN CHALLENGES:

1. lack of money to ensure sanitary works, tree planting, gabage removal.

2. No irrigation water for trees on the city territory in summer

3. No resources for fight with rats, etc. (poisons and chemicals for rats, mice threatening the ecosystem of the city)

4. No special machinery and equipemnt for sanitary works

5. No nursery for rearing plants

6. Lack of irrigation water.

6.18 CIVIL DEFENSE

There are 2 staff working in Rayon defense department with responsibility for communications/coordination of 11 services including the following: medical, engineering, energy, animal and plant protection, material and technical supply, fire fighting, civil order maintenance services, as well as observation network and that of laboratory control.

Natural and technical disasters and incidents: there are regular floods seriously threatening the city. There are land-slide risk zones requiring people?relocation.

MAIN CHALLENGES

1. There is an urgent need to build a protective dam on the Kara-Darya river to protect 18,000 residents from flooding

2. 150 households should be relocated as they are currently in a zone of high land-slide risk

6.19 OTHER

Every 10 days, the Uzgen rayon publishes the rayon newspaper ?Ozgen nuru?. Its circulation is 5,000 copies. There are 2 apartments used as hotels.

7. CITY BUDGET MAIN PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

The actual budget expenditures in 2001 were 15,534,100 soms including 1,256,500 soms for communal services.

For 2002, the initially approved plan for revenues was 12,863,200 soms with the approved expenses assigned for communal services in the amount of 908,500 soms. The actual expenses in 2002 were 16,746 700 soms with 82% allocated for education and the remaining 18% for execution of other functions of the city. The actual revenues in 2002, including grants and transfers, was 17,303,600 soms. Thus, there was a surplus of 556,900. In 2002, the expenses in the city budget for one resident was about 385 soms.

For 2003, the approved plan is 14,078 000 soms including 746,500 soms for communal services. 81.5% of this approved plan will be directed to education.

Budget Revenues for 2001- 2002 and Plan for 2003 ( in thousand soms)

Budget Expenses in 2001- 2002 and Plan for 2003 (in thousand soms)