However, in the meantime, the Municipality of Budva settled the salaries of the employees.
“Based on information from the media and informal conversations with employees in the Municipality of Budva, we are aware of the current situation and financial difficulties, especially with regard to the payment of wages and the settlement of other obligations to employees. The fact that the Municipality of Budva, after ten years of liquid business and publicly known information that there are 20 million euros of transferred funds in the Municipality’s account, with a record budget and record collection of income, has fallen into liquidity problems is worrying,” said Mikijeljelj in a letter to the President of the Municipality of Budva. Jovanović.
He also said that “proceeding from concern for the citizens of Budva and the necessity of regular settlement of obligations towards them, especially socially vulnerable categories of the population, he expresses his readiness to help overcome existing problems”.
“We are ready to offer financial assistance in order to overcome the problems that you and the institution you manage have found themselves in. JP Morsko dobro, thanks to good business results, is able to allocate part of the funds through a loan and thus help the Municipality of Budva to overcome the liquidity crisis in which it found itself. As a state-owned company headquartered in Budva, JP Morsko dobro feels the obligation to help the citizens of the Municipality of Budva and its employees to overcome the crisis. Cooperation with the Municipality of Budva has always been a priority”. he stated.
Jovanovic answered that.
“I thank the representatives of Morski Dobr for their “concern” and willingness to help the Municipality of Budva based on media articles and “informal conversations”. Unfortunately, the only problem with that speed of response is that reality was faster. The municipality’s account had already been unblocked, the obligations settled, and the “crisis” over before his offer arrived,” he added.
It turned out, points out Jovanović, “that help was offered for a problem that existed only in other people’s interpretations”.
“Especially interesting is the confidence with which they talk about a “liquidity crisis” that never existed, but was clearly needed as a basis for a political narrative. Such precision in a miss is rarely seen. I have to admit that the dubbing was impressive. While some spread panic, others readily offered “solutions”, announced Jovanović.
As he added, “unfortunately for the authors, the whole situation seemed more like a pre-prepared scenario than a spontaneous concern”.
“The citizens of Budva have seen the end of that story: The municipality solved the problem on its own, quickly and efficiently, without anyone’s help. Therefore, I can only state that if this was a rescue mission, it arrived just in time to show how unnecessary it was,” he concluded.
