The City of Molina de Segura has a budget for 2012 amounting to 53,235,000 euros (15'08% decrease from the year 2011).
The draft municipal budget, which will be discussed at a Special Municipal Council on Wednesday 21 December, has been presented at a press conference on Friday December 16th by the Mayor of Molina de Segura, Eduardo Contreras Linares, and the Councillor for Economy and Finance, Victoria Gómez Alcázar.
As explained by the Mayor, "Budget 2012 continues to be deeply marked by the global economic crisis that we live in today, which continues to have a significant effect on the public sector at all levels, especially at the local, affecting significantly to revenues, since 2008, which has led to the need for major adjustments in recent financial years. As a result, it is clear that austerity is the most effective way of adapting the policy priorities of the volume of spending resources, especially when those resources from other senior managers is that, in the same way that municipalities are obliged to carry out work to contain very significant deficit. In this context, the government team of the City of Molina de Segura been done in recent years an exercise of responsibility, budgeting, consistent with economic reality, making an effort to contain current spending, but increasing the resources directed to social policies that support the most disadvantaged. "
The municipal budget is unique and is composed of the City budget, and the reports and statements of expenditure and income of the Municipal interim Community Services, SA (SERCOM) and the Tax de Molina (ATM).
According to the mayor, "is a balanced budget, which includes a reduction from the previous 15.08%, a reduction that affects Chapters VI (3 million) and ninth (2.5 million), and 1 million euros in each of the chapters I, II and IV, assuming a total decrease of EUR 9.5 million, approximately. Which line is that this government has responsibility to the citizens in times when municipal government revenues continue to decline as a result of declining economic activity and the commitments that derive from our membership in the European Union legislation in this area are increasingly restrictive. "
"The fall in investment seems logical because the decrease in revenue is added the impossibility of financing investments and loans by the repeated change of the Councils financial framework that derives from the obligation to decrease the public deficit. Whose investments will be undertaken funding is secured permanently, and making budget changes needed to do this, "said Eduardo Contreras.
Budget ensures compliance with financial obligations of the Corporation for personnel, debt service, contracts and commitments multiannual.
In relation to Chapter I of personnel costs, the mayor explained that "no provision of social improvement known to the workers and the elimination of transfers to political groups and trade unions should be understood as temporary measures. It has frozen the staffing levels and squares are amortized for staff pensions. "
The picture of revenue for the year 2012 continues the trend of previous years shows a decrease in both current operations as income from capital transactions, "given the sharp slowdown in the revenue that our council has experienced mainly by decreasing Administrations contributions supra. It is a conservative budget, no deficit not covered by income adjusted for reality. "
In the area of ​​employment, previous levels are maintained with the local public employment programs, school workshop, and the implementation of the activities of the Strategic Plan for Investment in Human Capital, and developed, and which provides a municipal funding, regardless of which can be derived from other governments.
Collaboration is also maintained with the Molina de Segura entities engaged in the provision of care for people with disabilities and at risk of exclusion.
In the areas of Education, Culture and Health will continue the activities carried out in collaboration with different associations and have won several awards at national level.
The Mayor has stated that "the budget has been presented to the neighbors through a call of the Federation of Neighborhood Associations Interbarrios, as has become tradition. It fulfills our goal of providing them with greater transparency and understanding by citizens, a process which should lead to build participatory budgets in which citizens can decide on the use of public money in a project of a plural city has certainly come a long way, but now faces the challenge of address the changes needed to solve the most pressing problems of a society more concerned with progress in economic values ​​on moral values. What makes me think that if we get different results, we should devise different strategies. "
The distribution of spending programs is as follows:
DISTRIBUTION OF EXPENDITURE 2012 PROGRAMME
Spending Program
Amount in Euros
PERCENTAGE
Basic Utilities
23,603,161
44.34%
SOCIAL POLICY
5,241,544
9.85%
EMPLOYMENT DEVELOPMENT
SOCIAL SERVICES
OTHER BENEFITS
1,663,982
3,464,362
113,200
3.13%
6.51%
0.21%
HEALTH, EDUCATION, CULTURE AND SPORTS
7,332,773
13.77%
TOURISM, TRANSPORT AND INFRASTRUCTURE
1,746,936
3.28%
Overhead and other
15,310,586
28.76%
TOTAL
53,235,000
100%
Then, chapter by chapter, collect the revenue budget and expenses:
INCOME
AMOUNT (EUROS)
CHAPTER I: DIRECT TAXES
22,601,500
CHAPTER II: INDIRECT TAXES
500,000
CHAPTER III: Fees and other income
13,704,275
CHAPTER IV: CURRENT TRANSFERS
14,799,238
CHAPTER V: EQUITY INCOME
1,614,987
CHAPTER VI: SALE REAL INVESTMENT
Chapter VII: Capital transfers
CHAPTER VIII: FINANCIAL ASSETS CHANGE
15,000
Chapter IX: Variation LIABILITIES
TOTAL
53,235,000
EXPENSES
AMOUNT (EUROS)
CHAPTER I: STAFF COSTS
20,902,052
CHAPTER II: ASSETS CURRENT EXPENDITURES
26,385,021
CHAPTER III: INTERESTS
1,395,500
CHAPTER IV: CURRENT TRANSFERS
1,595,000
CHAPTER VI: INVESTMENT REAL
308,427
CHAPTER VII: CAPITAL TRANSFERS
CHAPTER VIII: FINANCIAL ASSETS CHANGE
15,000
Chapter IX: Variation LIABILITIES
2,634,000
TOTAL
53,235,000
Source: Ayuntamiento de Molina de Segura