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The document, the first to present the new government team, had the support of groups that support the municipal, Independent Socialist government, abstaining from Citizens and Win Torre-Pacheco - United Left Greens, and vote against the Popular group.
Processing budgets, conducted through a participatory process for the first time in the history of the City, has also received submissions as amendments of opposition groups, for close to 500 thousand euros.
The Councillor for Finance, Carlos Lopez budgets defined as "austere", by the reduction in the "superfluous" expenses, such as spending on salaries of political and technical work and studies which now will be made with propios- media, elimination of staff confidence and reducing items that acted as an "anything goes" like miscellaneous expenses.
In total, it has managed to save more than 350,000 euros.
On the contrary, social policies, designed to meet the needs of the most vulnerable groups, such as youth, seniors, people in exclusion and agreements with NGOs increased by 20%.
Carlos Lopez stressed "increased by 40% of social benefits, which will expand coverage to those who suffer more intensely the consequences of the economic crisis."
Culture and sport also take a new momentum.
They rearranged services, allowing an overall increase of 42%, through the introduction of subsidies for transport and maintenance of sports clubs in competitive basis, compared to the previous model gambled by covering them directly by the City , so as Lopez "clarification and adjustment to the budget law and economic management is also part of the DNA of this budget."
new projects, such as the Art-tied, the first Urban Culture Festival, or plan to value the Cabezo Gordo tourist attraction as well as the remains of the Sima de las Palomas also enter the budget.
Municipal Services will also increased its endowment, with the establishment of the First Phase of the Rehabilitation Plan Parks, Gardens and Access to Pueblo, and increased allocations for the improvement of public roads, allowing according to Lopez work more pace to solve the problems that have been caused in recent years.
Other outstanding projects, and included in budgets, are the implementation of the Neighborhood Councils and omit in the districts, to bring the Administration to neighbors, actions for energy efficiency, undertake works of outstanding urbanization in La Torre, the adaptation of a new sports recreational space RADAR, or the creation of a dog park in Torre-Pacheco.
As for debt, Lopez said that "the reduction of interest allows lower the budgetary burden of long-term debt with banks that, according to our data, will increase from 30 million in November 2015 to 24,800,000 euros when finished by 2016. the goal of the government team is to reach the target set by the Ministry of Finance, 75%, so they will also undertake actions such as the sale of plots of polygons to industriales- depreciate at a faster pace this year and exceed our initial forecasts. "
The budget also includes an amendment to study, within the framework of the Special Committee on the redistricting Water Service, the possibility that the budget reflects the payment of the fee for the provision of potable water and sewerage.
"They budgets transition," said Lopez, "since we are making the necessary adjustments, such as addressing the issue of recruitment for all services out to public tender in order to continue saving even more, and improve and expand public services without raising taxes on the neighbors, who already bear a high tax burden. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Torre Pacheco
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