- The second point of the agreement reached by the orange formation with the Government to give its support to the budgets clearly states that the Finance Committee must submit all the requested reports in a favorable sense, especially that of the Plenary Secretariat
- The orange training has conditioned its support to budgets to a millionaire surplus investment for neighborhoods and councils, to the implementation of measures framed in the Fénix manifesto, to the improvement and expansion of the Greenway of Barrio Peral, to the execution of the remodeling of Beatas Street and Plaza de la Merced, the improvement of pedestrian access and the construction of a free parking lot in the Santa Lucía Hospital, and the reinforcement with new programs of the ADLE
On the occasion of the Finance and Interior Commission meeting today in an extraordinary way to address the proposals of the councilor of the Area of ​​Economic Strategy and Finance, Carmen Martín del Amor, on the General Budget of this City Council for the year 2018 and the Budgetary Plan for In the period 2018-2020, the spokesperson for Citizens, Manuel Padín, has reported that "the second point of our agreement with the Government of Cartagena clearly states that we will only give our support to the budget if the local government presents in the previous Finance Commission" all the reports requested in a favorable sense, especially that of the Secretariat of the Plenary Session ", as this fact has not occurred today, we have joined the request that the extraordinary plenary session of the next day 3 be suspended, and the session be postponed. debate and approve budgets until all the reports are complete. "
Manuel Padín explains that "what perplexes us, is that if some of these reports were made as announced, even if they were not mandatory, why have not they contributed together to the file of the Finance and Interior Commission of today? ? We hope that this is resolved soon, because this can not be understood, especially when in the previous Finance Committee, part of the officials ratified verbally that there was no objection. "
"We regret this new delay to be able to approve the 2018 accounts, but we hope that it will only be a few days, and that next week all the municipal groups may have at our disposal the reports that support the budget project, especially the one from the Secretary of the Plenary, who is the one who must endorse that they can take the accounts of the autonomous agencies to the general project, "said Manuel Padin who says that" Government and Opposition have to work to move forward, and start to meet the Cartagena "
Cs Agreement with the Government:
Manuel Padín has detailed that the agreement of budgets of his Group with the Government details that 1.250.000 euros of financially sustainable investments will be destined to give fulfillment to the program of Participative Budgets 2018 of detailed way and to undertake the pending works to execute by the Neighborhood Boards of 2017;
another 1,250,000 euros of financially sustainable investments will go to neighborhoods and councils without including the investment for the Plan of Districts and Provincialities contributed by the Autonomous Community and inexcusably including part of the measures already agreed in the Table of the Fenix ​​Manifesto for the integral recovery of the the neighborhood of Los Mateos, Santa Lucía and its surroundings, the improvement and expansion of the Greenway of Barrio Peral, and the improvement and refurbishment works on Calle Beatas and Plaza de la Merced, an amendment that was not executed in 2017.
Regarding the amendments accepted by the local government, Manuel Padín has referred to the works to improve pedestrian access and build a free parking in front of the Santa Lucía Hospital (300,000 euros), and the amendments made by Citizens Group to the budgets of the Agency for Local Development and Employment of 2018, with special emphasis on those measures that encourage the increase of aid for the long-term unemployed;
that is, two new employment programs, one of them being multi-year for the long-term unemployed and the reinforcement of the Employment Observatory, which represents a total of 120,000 euros.
The agreement imposed by Citizens is subject to several conditions:
1) Promote within a period not exceeding two months, and scrupulously following the regulations in force, the necessary remuneration guarantees so that the calls to the City Council posts of officials with national authorization will not be deserted again, making the corresponding call to as soon as possible, safeguarding in all cases the maximum transparency and impartiality in all phases of the procedure and in all its extremes.
2) All reports requested in a favorable sense that endorse the accounts, especially that of the Secretariat of the Plenary, must be submitted to the Finance and Interior Commission.
3) In the event that the budget projects of ADLE and the Casco Antiguo society are finally included in the draft General Budget that is submitted to the Plenary for approval, the Government must guarantee respect for the powers of the Governing Board. the ADLE and the Board of Directors of Casco Antiguo, taking into account especially the favorable report of the Secretary of the Plenary.
4) The local Executive is committed to diligently manage the actions in relation to the Casco Antiguo Municipal Society, ensuring the execution and completion of its projects.
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena