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The mayor of San Javier, Visitation Martinez, and the Councillor for Finance, José Fernández Andreo, have released the results of the Economic and Financial Assessment of the City, which confirms a debt of nearly 40 million and rising spending more than four million in the last year
Diagnosis Financial Officer of the municipality of San Javier, prepared by an auditing firm, confirms that the debt of the session is close to 40 million euros and reveals that during 2010 it increased spending and staff in 4 , 1 million initially budgeted for.
The mayor of San Javier, Visitation Martinez has now broken down the data in this report includes a "detailed picture" of the economic situation of the City Council and management lines shows that the local government must adopt in the coming years to address it.
As the City's indebtedness, the Mayor explained that this report corroborates data that the Consistory had already advanced, that the debt to suppliers amounted to 31.5 million euros, and notes that 51 percent (more than 15 million) of it is owed to 10 creditors, businesses and public entities.
Given this high concentration of debt the City has managed and measures such as delaying payments Iberdrola, the Autonomous Community and Social Security, participation in State taxes, and compensating balances.
As for small and medium debt to suppliers, the City has paid off debts to August 2008 by entering into a loan Official Credit Institute worth over 800,000 euros.
BUDGET DEFICIT OVER 3 MILLION EUROS
The starting point of this report is the liquidation of the 2010 budget, which reflects a negative budgetary result of more than 3.1 million euros, and that the rights (income), were 29.1 million euros, while recognized obligations (expenses) amounted to 32.3 million euros.
The mayor explained that the previous government team decided to extend the 2008 budget, regardless of the consequences of the economic crisis already passed through the town, and also increased current expenditure items and personnel in more than 4 million euros .
"This improvised and irresponsible management" resulted in a personnel expense in 2010 of 11.3 million euros, which puts San Javier as one of the municipalities in the region to levels of higher personnel expense, stated the Mayor.
Martinez explained that the average expenditure in the chapter of personnel is 473 euros per capita in San Javier, compared to 383 euros on average in the municipalities in the region of similar size.
In addition, during the past two years has increased by 58 euros per capita such spending, while in most localities the trend has been downward.
In terms of spending and service, amounted to 12.2 million euros, of which 2.5 million budget had not initially.
On the revenue side, it is noteworthy that the main contribution to the municipality's tax revenues, fees and charges in 2010 reached 14.9 million.
ACTION AND PROPOSALS
The mayor has said that these data corroborate the previous disastrous economic management of local government, despite the critical situation of the City Council in 2010, decided to extend budgets approved two years ago and continued to increase the expense item as debt became unsustainable .
So, has indicated that the government team headed bet to establish a responsible economic policy, based on planning and budget austerity mark and the daily operation of City Hall.
In this regard, Martinez explained that to address the unsustainable debt, the Local Finance will consider measures such as debt refinancing, negotiating agreements with creditors, the forgiveness of the debt and fractionation.
In the area of ​​fiscal policy, the mayor has said that the government team does not currently pose a tax increase for the coming years but the improvement in collection management and review of certain fees and taxes.
Thus, the report aims to review and update of the municipal cadastre to improve the collection of property tax and the adoption of new fees, as approved by the full City, as the rates for the provision of health services, civil marriage and special use ground, underground or street flight.
Regarding the personnel policy gives rise to different actions with the aim of achieving a reduction of 17 percent of spending, such as limiting the maximum overtime limit the recruitment of temporary staff funded and not renew the contracts to be conquering outsource certain time periods or bid service contracts where the company assumes the hiring of municipal employees.
After breaking down the contents of the financial and economic diagnosis of the council, the mayor has said that at this difficult environment, headed clear is "the previous socialist government," the current local government "will require the responsibilities arising from the actions carried out" and work to San Javier back to being a "prosperous people."
Thus, it has pledged to work to contain current expenditure drastically reduce the staff to negotiate the rescheduling and debt division with key suppliers and seek financial resources to pay for small and medium enterprises.
She concluded that, over the next four years, the City will strengthen the work of management "to grow in effectiveness and rigor so that citizens do not bear a responsibility not theirs."
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Pedro del Pinatar
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