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The Department of Finance has ended the first phase of the Plan for Regularization and Reduction of the average payment period that began last May, with the arrival of the new Municipal Auditor, Fernando Urruticoechea, during which they have been carried out the approval of four extrajudicial credit assessments for a total amount of € 2,036,933.82 in an Extraordinary Plenary last July, the normalization of payments, and the return of more than € 328,000 that lasbed the municipal accounting for years .
Regarding the extrajudicial recognitions of last July, they correspond to expenses incurred during previous years that had not reflected in the municipal accounting.
Among them, we find expenses of celebrations and events for more than 250,000 euros, corresponding to the years 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015, of the previous executive, bills of the road cleaning service and collection of waste for more than 350,000 euros, and expenses of emergency caused as a result of the floods that devastated the municipality in December of 2016, by amount of 342,000 euros.
The delay in the payment of invoices is due to several factors, the most important of them, the lack of diligence in the contracting procedures or their non-existence, which has caused a great number of repairs by the municipal intervention of funds that took possession after the departure of the previous owner who, together with the Mayor and two councilors, were specifically disqualified by irregularities in the field of public procurement.
In the same way, more than 328,000 euros and 87 invoices have been returned, of which 45,000 euros correspond to invoices from the municipal parking concessionaire, whose contract was terminated in February of this year 2017, which now manages directly the consistory, 95,000 euros of the service of crane of the year 2015 and 40,000 euros of the company concessionaire of the garbage service, that have not obtained the approval of the municipal technicians, 30,000 euros of invoices in parties that have been declared, since they correspond to events in 2011 and were recorded in 2015 and 100,000 euros in the liquidation of the work of the CEMIDI building, built in 2014 by the previous government team, in this case by pre-judicial agreement with the company to avoid payment of interest delay.
They have also returned more than 600 euros of bills in meals in restaurants undertaken by the previous corporation, since despite having required the Mayor to the former councilors who accredit the purpose and people who participated in such meals, Popular have not been able to determine who commissioned or who participated in the agapes.
The return file is the first of a massive nature that begins in the history of the City Council, and is currently being processed.
According to Councilor for Finance, Carlos López, the municipal public accounting was burdened by poor economic management and in the matter of hiring the former managers of the PP, which led the City Council has incurred a financial debt of more than 34 million euros, caused mainly by the subscription by the City Council of an Adjustment Plan that turned the commercial debt of the consistory into financial in 2012 and 2013.
The mayor of Finance also stressed that the third quarter of 2017 has closed with a historic record of payments in the City Hall, with a total of 6,035,572 €, 140% higher than the average payments of the last 6 quarters which amounted to € 2,512,197 - while the amount of unpaid bills was reduced by 87% in a single quarter, compared to € 4,777,565.51 in the previous quarter, decreasing to € 552,380.00.
This regularization will affect the figure of the Medium Payment Period, which will rise slightly and transitorily at the end of this quarter, due to the fact that payments have been faced that have accumulated many days in record of invoices, especially those of previous years, and will suffer a drastic down in the last quarter of the year, by eliminating from the calculation of the PMP the burden of more than 2,000,000 euros of invoices in the drawers.
López has justified that this adjustment is going to return to the Town Hall to the normality accounting, initiating a new era of ordered management of payments and transparency in the management of the expense, and near the consistory to fulfill all the objectives imposed by the adjustment plans of the Ministry after having reduced the debt in two years by 14.5 million euros, from 32 in November 2015 to the current 17.5.
The Treasury Department also prepares a further advance reduction of debt of more than 4 million euros before the end of the year.
Both this early repayment and payments to suppliers from previous years have been made to account for the budget surplus of 2016, which amounted to more than 6 million euros, thanks to the savings generated by new government team and the increase in revenue as as a result of measures taken to improve the management of taxes.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Torre Pacheco
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