The Ondara City Council will hold its ordinary plenary session tomorrow, Thursday, December 21, in which, among other points of the day, an attempt will be made to approve the municipal budget for the 2024 year. As the local executive has advanced, after studying it and working on The document predicts that Ondara's budget for next year will amount to 8.500.000 euros, 675.000 euros, 8,63%, more than that of 2023.
Comparatively with the final budget of the 2023 annuity once the treasury remnants have been incorporated, that of 2024 is 85.000 euros less. This means that "the government team seeks to maintain budget containment, but without having treasury remnants that directly affect the entity's liquidity, within economic circumstances external to public accounts, such as inflation and price increases." both supplies and services and works," as justified by the mayor of Ondara, José Ramiro.
In the General Budget of the City Council, according to Ramiro, the philosophy of the government team in budget containment is maintained. Furthermore, taking into account the budgetary evolution and the need to guarantee the economic-financial stability of the City Council in the medium-long term, considering the continuous inflation in prices that affects all budget items, the possible inability to use the remainder of treasury, and the restoration of fiscal rules, "already in the September and October plenary sessions, modifications were made to different fiscal ordinances to ensure the necessary income comparable to the budget of the current budget, that of 2023, without taking into account treasury remainders," remembers the mayor.
Regarding the budget of the municipal company WHITHOUT MOTHER, is 2.223.000 euros for 2024, which represents an increase of 153.000 euros compared to 2023, which was 2.070.000 euros. In the path of strengthening the municipal company, the contribution of this exercise by the City Council towards the municipal company increases by 100.000 euros, leaving an amount of 1.850.000 euros.
In the section ingresos, the increase in the 2024 municipal budget is concentrated in different items. Regarding Chapter I (Direct Taxes), the Urban Real Estate Tax item has been increased by 411.000 euros, close to 60% of the increase in income (4,8% of the total budget). This increase is due in 50.000 euros to the forecast of greater collection from the tax on increases in land values (capital gains) and the rest affected by the modification made to the IBI tax ordinance regarding the urban tax rate, going from 0,64 .0,74 to XNUMX, and to the IVTM ordinance.
Regarding business activities, they wanted to be cautious due to the stagnation of activity registrations in the last year, reducing the item by 25.000 euros. Regarding Chapter III (Fees and other taxes), the increase in income is approximately 40% (3,2% of the total budget), 269.000 euros. The most significant items that have been modified are garbage collection, by 100.000 euros more; an increase of 28.000 euros in revenue from educational activities of summer schools; 23.000 euros and 20.000 euros more for the fee for issuing documents and taking advantage of the flight, cables and poles, respectively. Furthermore, the delegation of the management of sanctioning files to SUMA foresees two increases in the files and surcharges quantified at an additional 79.000 euros. And finally, the update of the sports school tax foresees a collection of 72.500 euros more than in 2023.
Brianda investmentIn 2024 the amount is 360.000 euros. In this chapter, the municipal contribution of the Planifica 2024-2028 investment projects of the Provincial Council of Alicante, to meet the municipal contributions that correspond to the investment plan of the Provincial Council of Alicante for the coming years, 237.500 euros have been allocated , increasing this chapter by 95.000 euros compared to the previous year.
The distribution of the investments is as follows: the most notable for 2024 is the 119.000 euros that will be allocated to improving streets in the Tossals area; 56.000 euros for enabling spaces in Tossals Park, and 62.500 euros for improving urban mobility. Outside of the Planifica Plans, 39.500 euros are planned for a stormwater plan and 40.000 euros for investments in municipal buildings, among others. The rest of the items in the chapter will correspond to different investments that will be coordinated with the rest of the subsidies from the different supra-municipal administrations, not determining them nominatively in the budget.
As for the section on spending, in the adjustment of current and council expenditure, the increase in the entire chapter is 183.000 euros (4,5%). It is important to highlight that in the SUMA collection service, the provisions are increased by 60.000 euros; The sports schools item is unified in all its expenses, reaching an amount of 270.000 euros, separating it from the current expenses of the sports department, which remains with 35.000 euros. In addition, summer school expenses increase by 23.000 euros.
Continuing with the expenses, within the City Council's human resources planning, in 2024 they continue with what was agreed at the General Negotiation Table when it comes to transforming jobs to make a more robust and structured team of workers. In addition to the increase that the PGE will mark for the entire civil service, foreseeably 2,5% of the salary mass and the adaptation due to the SMI increase of the occupation workshop schools that must be contemplated, different technical figures have been reinforced, in addition to the transformation of others, such as the extension of the architect's day and the creation of the industrial engineer job on staff, as well as an administrative assistant for support tasks in different areas. These transformations represent an increase in the Personnel Chapter, quantified at 233.000 euros more, 8,2% above 2023.
As to support to social and regional entities in the healthcare field, despite the lack of economic resources, the contribution of subsidies has been preserved, reaching an economic amount of 183.900 euros, approximately 9.000 euros more than in 2023. Within these items, the contributions have been redistributed, adjusting them to each one of their needs, in addition to providing a sum of 30.000 euros of social aid for those families with low economic resources that cannot cope with the increase in taxes and fees carried out in the current year, thus fulfilling the commitment of the government team to help to those who need it most. This item will be expanded if necessary during the year 2024.
