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The city council of San Javier last night approved the municipal budget for fiscal year 2013, amounting to 24.74 million euros
The municipal budget for 2013 amounted to 24.74 million euros, representing a reduction of 20.8% in revenue, and a decrease of 17.67% on the expenditure side.
The Councillor for Finance, José Fernández Andreo, explained that this decrease in revenues was due primarily to the fact that this exercise is drastically reduced as the sale of equity financing measure.
As for the decline in spending, the mayor said the City Council may make more spending cash in 2012, as in previous budget is assumed that up to 9 million relating to outstanding debt and obligations from previous years.
For chapters, personnel costs stood at similar levels to the previous year, 9.8 million euros, which ensures the full maintenance of the municipal staff.
More spending on social services and education
With regard to current expenditure, is set at 8.9 million euros.
In this chapter, the council said the increase in items such as Social Services, endowed with 135,500 euros, 66.2% more than in 2012, Education, 428,700 euros, 31% more than the previous year, or Commerce, that this years with a budget of 41,400 euros, which will go mainly to promotion of small businesses.
It also incorporates a provision for employment promotion endowed with 30,000 euros.
Among the items highlighted are reduced protocol, which is set at 26,000 euros, 35.3% less than in 2012, although the council said that the main cut was made at the beginning of the legislature when this concept amounted to 244,000 euros .
A similar line was followed in Celebration, which this year has been reduced by € 20,000, from 290,590 to 270,000, representing a cumulative reduction of over 60% since 2010, when it had 690,242 euros.
Meanwhile, the mayor of the municipality, Visitation Martinez, highlighted the efforts made by the government team to maintain and improve the scholarships and grants in education, public transport subsidies cultural associations, sports, and social, as well as expanding tax bonificiaciones entrepreneurs, pensioners, and people at risk of social exclusion in various municipal taxes.
The mayor also noted that 73.07% of the total budget, more than 18 million euros, is for the maintenance of basic services, social protection and promotion, as well as measures aimed at promoting employment and economic recovery.
INVESTMENT AND DEBT RELIEF
He also highlighted that effective management and rigor of this budget will finance the current spending current income, amortization of financial operations (1.19 million) and investments by an amount in excess of 700,000 euros, that will be aimed primarily at reforming infrastructure and roads, and the purchase of an ambulance for emergency services.
As for the debt of the City, the mayor recalled that at the beginning of this legislature exceeded 39 million euros and that "we have managed to reduce it by more than 4.5 million in the first year and a half run."
The mayor concluded that this is a balanced budget, rigorous and realistic, truly focused on priority actions for pinatarenses and deepens the commitment to transparency and efficient management assumed at the beginning of the legislature.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Pedro del Pinatar
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