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Martínez-Oliva warns that according to the ruling, the City meets more than the expense allocated to the districts and recalls that the budgets of 2018 allocated to them more than 22% for investment and maintenance
The decision of the Supreme Court that dismisses the City Council's appeal referred to the 2014 Budget bases this decision on the fact that, according to the judges, the percentage allocated to direct management by the municipal boards was not properly accredited.
Despite this, the ruling clarifies in its explanatory part that in the calculation of 8% should be included both the expenses directly managed by the municipal boards and the improper expenses, those managed by other municipal services that directly affect them.
The City Council included this criterion in the budget execution bases from 2016, which is why from that moment it is known in detail what items are destined for the districts.
In this case there are expenses such as street cleaning, maintenance of parks and gardens, schools, sports or lighting facilities, security, activities in cultural centers and auditoriums and cleaning of buildings.
"All these are funds that are consumed in the districts and must, therefore, be included in the global calculation of decentralized spending, warns the Councilor for Citizen Security and Economic Management, Eduardo Martínez-Oliva, who emphasizes that 'as established by the sentence of the Supreme Court, the City Council is more than fulfilling the expense allocated to the districts.
Thus, in 2018 last approved Budget, the City Council invested in districts 55.1 M €, which represents 22.40% of the total, when 8% would have been 19.6 M €.
Of the 55.1 M €, about 17.5 M € were managed directly or indirectly;
13.4 M € was the amount of maintenance expenses (not including clinics, cultural centers, senior centers, schools, supply centers, etc.);
22.2 M € invested by the different councils;
and € 1.8 million financed by the works and services plan of the Autonomous Community.
A further € 14 million of the extraordinary investment plan was added to these items, which increased the total amount of expenditure in neighborhoods and districts to € 69.1 million.
The ruling given on the reservation of budgetary funds 'does not disagree with the consideration for the calculation of 8% of the budgetary resources to be managed by the districts or neighborhoods of which the City Council calls direct or indirect costs'.
Based on their existence, the magistrates conclude that at that time it was not established that said percentage was reached.
Source: PP Murcia
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