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On Monday afternoon, March 30, the local Government Board approved the draft Budget for 2020 and the spending rule, as well as the 2020 Budget Plan.

The session was held electronically and was chaired by the mayor, Ana Belén Castejón.

"Today was the first Government Meeting in history to be held in this way, but we must adapt to the new reality that this health crisis is imposing on us and we believe that we must be so strict that citizens comply with the rules such as with ourselves".

It has also noticed the liquidation of the 2019 Budget and the application of the surplus of that same year, which will be voted on in the next municipal plenary session on Wednesday, April 8.

Before the session, the mayor of the Treasury, Esperanza Nieto, has contacted the spokesmen of the opposition groups to explain that “we are clear that we can improve the final document including some of the proposals that the groups have sent us from the opposition and tomorrow we will begin to analyze with them which items must be reduced in order to incorporate these proposals. "

The intention of the government team is to reach the Finance Commission next Thursday with all these measures incorporated into the document.

With the approval of the 2020 budget and the application of the 2019 surplus, Cartagena will have the largest social budget in its history with more than 17 million euros in Social Policies and 16 investment, if we take into account the works that will be carried held out of surplus.

The bulk of the measures that emerge from the Budget are aimed at protecting the most vulnerable and most affected people in this health crisis, such as working families, the self-employed and groups at risk of social exclusion and, on the other hand, includes very important investment items so that, as soon as the Alarm State is lifted, the City Council becomes one of the main economic engines in Cartagena to help small businesses, SMEs and the self-employed to generate employment.

The Budget also includes important items for the recovery of the Mar Menor and the most degraded part of the Historic District, as well as for continuing to reinforce investment in neighborhoods and county councils.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena