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Cartagena City Council today held an extraordinary plenary session which approved two issues of interest included in its agenda, the two cases have gone ahead with the vote in favor of the popular group and against the opposition, ie , Socialist groups, IU-Green and Citizens Movement.

The first, advocated by the Councillor of Finance, Suanzes Fatima, was the modification of the Ordinances of Taxes, Fees and Public Prices for the year 2014, which, according to the mayor responsible for the area will be a tax freeze, even a drop thereof, in real terms, with minimal impact update that just in household spending and make the finance services users thereof.

Suanzes recalled that, in the case of property tax, collected bonuses of up to 95 percent and also provides for the possibility of buffer higher the assessed value established by the state government said lowering the tax rate at the municipal level .

The reply to the explanations of the Councillor of Finance has come by Jose Lopez, spokesman for Citizens Movement; Cayetano Jaime Molto, spokesman for IU-Green, and Julio Nieto, Socialist Group councilor, who have shown against the proposal of the government team.

If for Lopez is a disguised tax increase, by Jaime Molto, is an unfair and unnecessary tax proposal, while Julio Nieto, emphasized how the rise especially burdensome waste rate, all agreeing on something, in that is the citizen, increasingly fewer economic opportunities, which has to cope with the increase in municipal spending.

The second item on the agenda, the dissolution of the Planning Department and the Municipal Institute of Social Services and the assumption of its powers by the City Council, has also generated a debate in which opposition groups have positioned themselves against .

The councilors who took part in the same, again Cayetano José López and Jaime Molto, to which has been added by the PSOE Charity Rives, have agreed on their arguments in showing disagreement with the dissolution of both local autonomous bodies : that means eliminating citizen participation and political control, and also the decision not supported by any objective economic report showing that any savings will.

In this case, was the spokesman of the government team and Councillor Administration Modernization, Jose Cabezas, who has responded to opposition councilors, bringing to the fore terms with restructuring, rationalization of human resources, savings, simplification , austerity, transparency and efficiency, to remember that times and situations change and that the dissolution of the Management and the IMSS is a political decision, not a whim, and not endanger any services to the citizens nor the status of employees municipal.

Following the approval today on the floor of the proposal, both agencies will stop working the next day January 1.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena