One of the problems, decreasing the effectiveness of the budgetary process in Moscow city, is an imperfection of the existing scheme of the territorial governance. Given the strict centralisation of the governance system, the staffing and resources potential of the local government’s authorities is not fully utilized. In the present article we consider a comparison analysis of the powers of the local governments and the inter-city municipal establishments of Moscow city, their budgetary and resources adequacy. We also suggested proposals on the modernization of the governance system at the level of the districts of Moscow city as a factor of the increase of budgetary process effectiveness.