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GOVT OFFICIAL TO MAYOR: ‘PRESERVE PARKS MANAGER’

 

Balázs Fürjes, the state secretary in charge of development projects in and around Budapest, has called on the city’s mayor not to shut down municipal parks manager Főkert. Gergely Karácsony last week announced that five city-owned companies would be merged to cut costs. The mayor said municipal parks manager Főkert, the Budapest Funeral Institute, metropolitan chimney sweeping company FŐKÉTÜSZ, Budapest’s public works company FKF, district heating company Főtáv and the Budapest City Administration Holding Company (BVH) will be merged into a single public works company. In a letter to Karácsony, Fürjes said the merger would shut down Hungary’s oldest public works company, whose function, he noted, was to increase green areas in the city.