Why stealing from a thief?
The deputy mayor can distribute public funds to Torah learners. And if the public doesn’t want that, he’ll be replaced at the ballot box.

Thank you for the answer.
If I tell a kollel student to buy for me as well, is that also forbidden in principle? This is a general notice, and from the checking I did, they don’t ask the kollel student what the purchase is for.

And one more note, not sure whether it matters. This is a municipality that in any case already gives every kollel student a monthly supplement beyond the stipend provided by the Ministry of Religious Affairs, and municipal property tax has gone up here in recent years (I don’t know whether that’s connected to the growth of the Haredi population in the area).

First of all, I wrote that ironically. But he absolutely cannot hand out money to whoever he feels like. Think of a municipality that decides to distribute money to cobblers, or to Ashkenazim who are 1.78 meters tall, or to secular people who work in plumbing.
For some reason, transfers to Haredi kollel students are accepted here with indifference.

If that kollel student wants to give you gifts, that’s his right. They don’t restrict what the thieves do with the stolen money.

On the substance of the matter: is there also fine print? Even though they advertise in big letters that it’s for kollel students, it’s possible that in the official definitions (which are meant to satisfy the legal adviser and company) it’s expanded to anyone who wants, or to something else.