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The government team Jumilla City Council has confirmed that it will present the budgets for 2010, although it has announced the adoption of a series of measures to reduce expenses by more than 6 million euros, up 28% this year.

This reduction affects multiple items, primarily those in Chapter 2, which corresponds to current expenditure and Chapter 4 of grants to groups that are reduced by at least 25%, unless the collective benefits and welfare assistance.

Other items will be affected including those relating to overtime for productivity, night, etc, and others such as machinery, equipment, investments in overpasses, repair and maintenance of public spaces, buildings and other structures, leasing, hospitality, ceremonial , voluntary service group, studies and technical work, promotion and dissemination of municipal, corporate information, consulting contracts, projects and environmental advice, among many others.

Thus, of the 27 million euros in 2008 and 2009 budget aims to reduce to 20,904,000 euros for this year.

To discuss the budget this year, Mayor Francisco Abellán and Finance Councillor Joan Guardiola have appeared this morning at a press conference.

Both have confirmed that "it is impossible to develop a budget for 2010, but that does not mean that companies with which the City has made a cash expenditure will not, in fact, all expenses will be controlled by the technical administration to ensure that spending can be done. "

In this regard, Francisco Abellán has indicated that "we are aware that a municipal budget is always the best tool to work, but this needs to be a realistic budget and to ensure that everything you do can be done, which everything that is done you can afford and that everything is done and can afford, to have control and supervision of those responsible for the City Council.

The mayor added that "from 2008 to 2010 has been an evolution in revenue has been declining as a result of the economic crisis and lower economic activity that occurs there is less income, so that we have less choice to spend less or find revenue from other governments in order to maintain the level of investment we had. "

"After many laps and try to make a new budget for the year 2010, we realized that was impossible, because what we thought today could be the income the next month we have fallen short, ie even the projections are met, so that in those circumstances we prefer to extend the 2009 budget for 2010, "adds the highest local authority.

Abellán recalled that in the past full, "the PP and IU-LV wanted at all costs we presented a new budget, we propose an amendment to all groups, by agreement, if you really want to do a realistic budget, we to work together and we put the budget out of consensus, because that would be the only way to guarantee and make a budget that we believe the three and that could be developed, not supported. "

The mayor says that "if the team has a budget government alone, as they want, that takes full and PP and IU-LV put and remove, alter that budget, with no other purpose than to let the government team without the resources or ability to manage, which would be much more negative for the economy of Jumilla, so the solution we have adopted is to extend the budget, greatly reducing the expenditure amounts to only be available before the expenditure is authorized in advance by the technical team of government. "

The highest authority has clarified that "it does not mean they will not be able to charge the costs incurred against the City because there are always budget, and assurances that they will charge companies are total, since if there is an authorization of that spending, they will charge. "

"Whoever has the budget or not, has nothing to do with liquidity, you can make a multimillion dollar budget and find that there is money in boxes, because the liquid is money used to pay," he says, adding that " We currently have approximately 1,200,000 revenue every month and with that pay payroll and expenses as they occur.

That is so severe and austere control that we will take in order not to go into debt and end the year in good conditions. "

Finally, the mayor has advanced to the end of March will present the 2009 settlement "with what we know if the surplus in 2009 was also achieved, which means that incomes have gone over expenses that year. "

"Keep in mind that we had no deficit in the last eight years and we had a significant surplus in the Treasury, which allowed us to operate without these cuts last year."

Abellán has indicated that "in comparison with the data of the State, which are 11% deficit, you're spending on all public authorities over what is being entered, but unlike it, our town has a surplus, which is helpful. "

For his part, Councillor for Finance reported that "the measures taken by the government team are intended to reduce the gap between revenues and expenditures."

Juana Guardiola said that "a budget that initially had an income and expenditure of 27 million euros, at this very extraordinary general level, these provisions have been altered to decline, as incomes have been reduced in 2009 compared to 2008, 26%, which results in expenditures that we make. "

In terms of reducing impacts different items in all chapters with an amount of 6,300,000 euros, there are embedded items are low, being extended budget, and others who are reducing spending drastically on the four million euros, especially Chapter 2 (current expenditure, expenditure for activities, electricity, etc) and 4 which are the grants awarded by the City Council.

Responsible for Finance "the latter is important because there are lots of groups and associations that perform various activities and for the support from the municipality, in all cases, is indispensable."

For groups has established a minimum cut of 25%, in others it is higher, with the exception of charitable associations and charitable, "since its activities are very necessary and that need our help."

Moreover, according to Guardiola, "all councilmen are instructed to ensure all spending areas and Councilwoman Staff has met with all departments to try to reduce spending and also ask for understanding the associations to understand the situation, it is nothing whimsical and that we must all pitch in ".

The Councillor of Finance reminded the reference in full by the PP on the Autonomous Communities has submitted budget, "but the government has a parliamentary majority allows to have, is an unrealistic budget that requires many changes in the budget what is not have a budget, but to manage what you have, another thing is that technically or politically, the ruling party is able to present it or not, and currently neither technically nor politically can be done " .

"Politically it was found when the political opposition groups rejected an amendment to elaborate together and refused to consider that there was no possibility of amendment and it is not logical that something I made myself go to amend it would not make sense."

Juana Guardiola concludes that "the numerical situation in which we find, together with the economic times we live, makes it impossible to present a budget that does not mean there is lack of management and concern this government team."

Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla