The settlement of the budget of the City of San Javier in 2016 yields a surplus of 4,483,000 euros as reported yesterday by Councilor for Finance Carlos Albaladejo in the municipal plenary.
Albaladejo added that of the total surplus achieved at the end of the year, a total of 875,000 euros could be invested in new investments, "which would allow to continue increasing the investment in paving and replacement of urban services, as long as the Ministry of Finance authorizes it, and The Law of Budget of the State is approved ".
The mayor of the Treasury highlighted other economic variables "that underpin the good economic situation of the City of San Javier" as the decrease in the payment period to suppliers that at the end of 2016 was 15.6 days, three less than in the previous year And very far from the maximum of 30 days that marks the Law. Commercial debt has been reduced by 400,000 euros compared to 2015 and stands at 2.3 million euros.
Long-term debt increased by 5 points, totaling € 15,186,606, due to a loan of € 5 million requested through Jessica-Fidae funds for the renewal of municipal lighting and improved energy efficiency, At 33.2 percent, "well below 75 percent of the maximum set by the Law, which guarantees compliance with the principle of financial sustainability."
In relation to 2016, the plenary included the mandatory report of the Municipal Auditor, whose approval was approved in favor of the Popular groups, Citizens-C's, and the non-attached councilman, Santos Amor, and the abstention of the PSOE and Win San Javier, on the expenses of 2016 approved with repairs of the Auditor.
The mayor of Recruitment Teresa Foncubuerta explained that the referred expenses, which total a total of 1.2 million euros, correspond, in their great majority, to the payment of basic services, which the City can not stop providing, to companies that having Concluded the contract with the City Council, have continued to render their services to the City Council in a situation of forced extension, while the adjudication of the new procurement procedure is over. "
Motion Electric Car Impulse Plan
The Plenum unanimously approved by all groups a motion presented by the Citizens-C's Group in which it is agreed to study the possibility of creating and implementing a plan to boost the electric car in the municipality.
The agreement includes the study of increasing the percentage of electric vehicles in the mobile park of the City of San Javier and include in the environmental clauses of the contract specifications of the City Council a premium for the percentage of electric vehicles offered by companies In those contracts in which their use is required.
Motion on compatibility of tourist, agricultural and fishing uses with the preservation of the Mar Menor
The Plenary approved a motion presented by the Popular Group, with the favorable votes of the Popular Group and the non-attached councilman, Santos Amor, and the abstention of the Socialist groups, Citizens-C's and Ganar San Javier, in defense of the compatibility of uses Agricultural and tourism with the preservation of the Mar Menor.
The motion stressing the economic importance of agriculture in the region, agrees to urge the Government of the Region to authorize the "Point of discharge to the Mediterranean Sea", urgently and immediately.
Among the nine points included in the motion is that of urging the CHS to make an extraordinary and urgent way to authorize the start-up of the de-aerators and the opening of salton-ducts.
The regional government is also requested to expedite the construction of denitrification plants that will prevent the supply of nitrates and phosphates to the Mar Menor and the Mediterranean Sea or to allow the construction of plants by the farmers themselves.
The motion urges the CHS to carry out the appropriate studies, following the recommendations of the scientific committee, to carry out the pumping that prevents the entry of nitrates into the sea underground or that according to such recommendations, legal wells and start-up are authorized Of the desalination plants.
The agreement is also directed to the regional and national governments to prioritize the drafting of plans and projects related to the recovery and regeneration of the Mar Menor with citizen participation and the tourism, agriculture and fishing sectors.
Lastly, it includes a petition to the Government of Spain and all political parties in Congress to reach a consensus solution to supply the Segura Hydrographic Basin and thus ensure the necessary volume of water for both human consumption As for agricultural use.
The motion was approved after rejecting the Plenary an amendment to the whole of it with a motion presented by the Socialist group that requested, together with Ganar San Javier, the motion of the Popular Group be on the table.
The Popular Group rejected the amendment as "almost the same" as the original, according to Agriculture Minister Antonio Luengo.
Carlos Jiménez Muñoz councilman dismissed, after leaving Citizens-C's
In the Plenary held last night, the Councilor of the Citizens-C's Group, Carlos Jiménez Muñoz, presented his resignation to the act of non-attached councilman as it appeared in the Municipal Corporation after having dropped out of the Citizens-C's party on April 7 .
Change in the time of the plenary session
Among other matters, the Plenary approved to modify the time of the ordinary sessions of the Plenary that will continue to be held on the second Thursday of each month, but at 11:30 instead of 20:00 as happened since the beginning of this legislature.
The hourly change was approved with the favorable votes of the Popular group, abstention of non-attached councilman Santos Amor, and votes against Socialist groups, Citizens-C's and Ganar San Javier, considering that the new schedule could make it difficult to attend Of public.
The Popular group justified its proposal by the lack of public in the plenary sessions during the term of the legislature and the fact that in many cases it will surpass the 00:00 thus finished the following day, against which it establishes the normative in the respect.
Other matters unanimously approved
The Plenum unanimously approved all other matters, such as the rectification of the Inventory of Goods and Rights of the City of San Javier, corresponding to the year 2015, with a total amount of 421,271,022,19euros, once counted the registrations during that year , Amounting to 4,043,620.11 euros, and deducting the losses, which amounted to 23,743 euros.
All the groups agreed to approve a one-year extension of the concession contract for the management and operation of the cafeteria of the Parque Almansa Civic Center, San Javier, awarded to the commercial Pedro Juan Vera García, SL, as well as in the Ratification of the appointment of lawyers before the contentious administrative action number 72/2017 filed against the City in the matter work by the union SIME.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier