The Special Accounts Commission that has been held this morning in the administrative building has approved the general accounts of 2018, both the City of Cartagena and its autonomous agencies, with votes in favor of the municipal groups of PSOE, MC Cartagena and Citizens , the votes against the PP and the abstention of Cartagena Sí Se Puede.
The acting councilor of Finance, Manuel Mora, explained that the financial debt amounted to 53,745,979 euros at the beginning of this year, which represents a reduction of 13.5 million euros, only in 2018. This means that the Consistory Cartagena "is increasingly removed from the situation of intervention by the Ministry of Finance in which it was in 2015, since the financial debt is only 27% of the total income budget.
In conclusion we can say that the City has a healthy accounts ".
The surplus at December 31 was 8,887,370.51 euros, strictly complying with the spending rule.
"In addition, the average payment period to suppliers has been reduced to 18 days, which means that the City Council has had economic solvency, and 3.3 of the 5 million euros have been paid in invoices pending application with respect to what was at the beginning of the year. "
In this sense, Mora has stated that the municipal government "has managed to reduce the debt, while it has increased the investment in more than 2 million euros and the billing of the City in 10. Getting therefore, that is translated in wealth for the Cartagena companies ".
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena