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The Governing Board of the City of Murcia has this morning approved a plan to adjust the municipal budget estimates of the economic crisis and national accounting standards.
The financial year is being affected by the actual development of the economy relative to existing forecasts at the time of drafting the document, which has risen from 3.3% to stand at 2.3%, according to government data Central.
This alteration, coupled with the anticipation that the economic situation continues to worsen in the coming months, is necessary to take a series of measures to ensure balance between spending and revenues, ie stability between established in terms of budget accounts accordance with national accounting standards, as required by the Law on Budgetary Stability.
Local corporations.
This situation of crisis even more urgent need to change the current system of financing local government, in order to ensure the principle of sufficiency, so that they can provide quality services demanded by citizens in the legal framework .
The reform process is now open between the Central Government and the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces, and as they are committed, should come to fruition, taking effect from January 1, 2009.
From The Plan addresses the need to strengthen policies that permit, the necessary cooperation of the private sector to minimize the impact of the crisis and contribute to economic recovery, which is indispensable for the effectiveness of the new system of local funding next year.
Those set out in the Plan are:
Control of the operating costs of Government itself. This section covers all measures that contribute to improving the efficiency of public administration, reducing operating costs.
Thus, we will act on the spending items that have real significance, always seeking balance between the savings can be achieved and the management difficulties that could arise from the introduction of additional control mechanisms to exist.
Correction of the budget estimates.
We introduce the corresponding adjustments to the initial budget in order to ensure balance between revenue and expenditure, both in terms of budget accounts and national accounts.
Redefinition of the budgetary targets.
It carried out an analysis of the actions that remain to be implemented over the year, priorities must be set the same and indicate what might fail to address or partially implemented.
In addition, prior, will develop a catalog of actions that in no case be subject to restrictions on spending, we are talking about the home help service, Telecare, Managing the Day Care Centers and public schools, etc. .
Moreover, l as low award to be generated in the various tenders will be centralized in a single game, the management shall be the area of Finance and Public Administration, who will also be entrusted with monitoring the implementation of this plan and the adoption of actions necessary to ensure proper matching of revenues and expenses during budget execution.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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