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The Executive Councillor of Finance, Contracting and Heritage, Isabel Garcia, took stock of what has been his first year at the helm of the council, which has emerged as the best news the recovery of the financial autonomy of City Hall.
The budgets for 2016 have been the first to have been designed from the municipal government, with the main axes ensure social care, keeping also all benefits and services to citizens ygarantizando more efficient management, with participatory budgets and transparent based on solidarity between councils and in a cross-project resource optimization.
Beyond this achievement, as indicated by the Councillor, one of the priorities has been promoting a policy of transparency and business participation in government procurement processes, thus promoting a new way to understand municipal management.
Isabel Garcia added that competition among companies whose main benefited the City Council and therefore to Cartagena, as it allows to offer more services for the same money, something that proves the contract maintenance of public roads in the are you can undertake almost twice as performances with the same budget.
SOCIAL CLAUSE AND PAYMENT PLAN CUSTOM
In the area of ​​procurement, it has been promoted in this first year the introduction of social clauses in municipal contracts, thus facilitating the employment of persons with disabilities, at risk of exclusion and long-term unemployed.
As one of the most significant developments of the tax ordinance 2016 is the Custom Payment Plan, in order to facilitate payment of various taxes and help reduce the tax burden on residents.
Thus, the taxpayer has been split jointly payment of Property Tax (IBI), Tax on motor vehicles, and Fee for Fords or driveways across sidewalks (stepping stone), adding the amount of three.
In line facilitate payment of taxes by citizens, it has conducted a review of the ordinance collection, offering the postponement and fractionation of lower tax debts 18,000 euros without providing collateral or guarantees.
VEHICLE TAX REDUCTION
In addition, we applied a 10 percent tax Mecánica.Igualmente Vehicle Traction, has established a bonus of 50% for vehicles more than 30 years and over 100% for more than 40 years and historical.
With regard to public prices and taxes they have been reduced overall, by 0.4%.
Garcia has indicated that the Municipal Government has been unable to carry out an overall reduction in IBI due to the economic situation inherited from the previous government management.
It has lowered the tax rate to offset the increase in assessed values ​​of housing, but citizens have not noticed a reduction in the fee paid.
The councilor also noted the reduction of revenue by the withdrawal of chambers called parking tickets, to which must be added 1,275,910 euros that the council has failed to collect the tax reduction in Motor Vehicle.
However, in view of the imminent removal of Adjustment Plan which was under the City and the significant reduction in municipal debt, have already started working to introduce a property tax reduction for next year.
Furthermore, also worth noting that the remaining cash in 2015, ie, the difference resulting from outstanding receivables, the outstanding obligations and liquid funds at 31 December amounted to 12,182,195 euros.
Of that amount, in the absence of approval in the next municipal plenary it is planned to allocate 2,137,799.46 euros to repay other debts.
He also welcomed the significant decrease in the average supplier payment period, standing at 28.56 days in March.
CONTROL OF APPROPRIATIONS TO LOCAL GROUPS
Finally, Isabel García wanted to point out that, recently, became a reality the initiative to the plenary control, and monitor the allocations made to municipal Groups both during the current legislature as in the previous, something that will bring transparency the use given by the various municipal groups of public funds and will be complemented by the Strategic Plan Grant that we are finalizing, he concluded.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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