THE NEW CITY HALL FINANCING IN ROGATEC

Lokalna skupnost je organizirana skupina ljudi, ki sama odloča o svojih lokalnih zadevah. Temeljne samoupravne lokalne skupnosti so občine (ali mestne občine), te pa se samostojno odločajo o povezovanju v širše skupnosti, tudi v pokrajine. Današnje občine so osredotočene predvsem na opravljanje lokalnih zadev javnega pomena, ki se določajo s splošnim aktom občine ali so določene z zakonom. Viri financiranja občine se po zakonu delijo na lastne, davčne in druge vire, občinske takse in vire, ki jih občina pridobi z zadolževanjem. Najbolj izpostavljeni davčni viri v Republiki Sloveniji so: davek na dohodnino, davek na premoženje, domači davki na blago in storitve, davek na nepremičnine in tudi turistična taksa. Ena izmed lokalnih samouprav pri nas je tudi moja domača občina Rogatec, ki je z nekaj več kot tri tisoč prebivalci ena izmed manjših občin v Sloveniji. Kljub svoji majhnosti pa je zaradi svoje specifične geografske lege dokaj znana in turistično zelo pretočna občina, saj leži ob slovensko hrvaški meji in ima tudi mednarodni mejni prehod, skozi katerega se letno pripelje veliko število tujih turistov. K prepoznavnosti pomaga tudi neposredna bližina turistično spet vedno bolj znane Rogaške Slatine. V seminarju bomo prvo predstavili lokalno samoupravo, delovanje in financiranje občin v Sloveniji, ter financiranje projekta obnove nove občinske stavbe v Rogatcu. V Rogatcu so nedavno namreč obnovili staro stavbo imenovano Pristava in jo namenili uporabi občinske uprave. Predvsem je zanimivo financiranje tega projekta, saj so uspeli na razpisu dobiti sredstva Evropske Unije, ki so pokrila skoraj 85% celotne investicije. Takšnih projektov je pri nas odkar smo vstopili v EU kar nekaj in upam, da še bo prišlo do kakšnega.The local community is an organized group of people who themselves decide their own local affairs. One of the most important local community is municipality. Basic municipalities, can independently decide to join in the wider community, as well as regions. Today\u27s communities are primarily focusing on local affairs of public importance, which are determined by the county or general act determined by law. Sources of financing municipalities are divided by law to own, tax and other sources, municipal taxes and resources that the municipality acquired by debt. Most exposed tax sources in Slovenia are: income tax, property tax, taxes on domestic goods and services, property tax and tourist tax. One of the local self-government in our country is my home municipality Rogatec. With a little more than three thousand inhabitants is one of the smallest municipalities in Slovenia. Despite its small size it\u27s fairly well known and very tourist flow municipality because of its specific geographical location. It lies at the Slovenian-Croatian border and also has international border crossing through which annually brings a lot of foreign tourists. It is also important that the neighbour town is Rogaška Slatina, which is very famous of its water called Donat. The seminar will present the start of local government, operation and financing of municipalities in Slovenia, and funding project of new city Hall in Rogatec. In Rogatec was recently renovated old building called Pristava and was given use of the municipal administration. It was particularly interesting proces to fund this project, because they have managed to get funding from the European Union, which covered almost 85% of the total investment. Since we have joined EU we had a few projects that were similar financed and I hope for more