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With an average of close to 188 million euros and total amount, the council of Greater Interior and the mayor of Finance have revealed the outlines of a budget that moves in a similar amount to the previous year

The governing board, which met Thursday at the Palace Hall, gave the green light to the draft municipal budget for 2016, totaling 188 474 400 euros, similar to last year's figure, an increase about 88,494 euros with respect to 2015.

Councillor of Finance, Isabel García, accompanied by the Councillor of Greater Interior, Francisco Aznar, has been commissioned to publicize broadly these budgets has described as realistic, adapted to the circumstances that we have found a council intervened as in our case, in which revenues were distributed according to the needs of all the departments, ensuring effective management of resources without reducing social benefits and ensuring the maintenance of services.

As regards the investment chapter, the figure is 7.5 million, about 4 percent of the budget to be used to purchase the Company Casco Antiguo using council property, the acquisition of new vehicles to the local police and the fire-fighting service material, improvement of infrastructure, with 1.7 million euros, improving social care properties and improving infrastructure in districts and councils, where the 518,000 euros will be allocated which, 42 percent, 218,000 euros, they will be managed by the Neighborhood Councils.

Current expenditure, which accounts for 41.28 percent of the total budget, down by the downward revision of the CPI in contracts concluded so that expenditure on postal communication, vehicle leasing, holding events, reduced maintenance of sports and traffic surveillance systems, he emphasized Garcia.

While both staff costs (33.43 percent of the total) and social spending are maintained.

Councillor of Finance has also alluded to the municipal debt, which at the end of 2015 amounted to 167 million euros and, with the data we have, in 2016 we will be 148 million, which will deduct the debt in 19 million.

Francisco Aznar, the assessment can be done in this budget the great effort we are making to maintain social services and personnel costs, but we hope to have a budget much better next year, adding that we can not perform miracles, there will to prioritize investments in infrastructure and neighborhoods, but residents should know that gradually we try to meet their needs.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena