The Plenary Session of the City Council of Rafal approved last night, with seven votes from the government team socialist and abstention of the popular, the Municipal Budget for this 2018 presented by the government team led by Manuel Pineda. The budget of expenses and income amounts to 2,728,666.75 euros, which represents an increase of 7.3% (186,000 euros) with respect to the
previous exercise. Of the total expenditure budget, 56% goes to the provision and improvement of the public services that the City Council provides to its neighbors, “where the expenses of leases, repairs, maintenance and conservation of infrastructures, provision of facilities as well as external contracts such as garbage collection or help at home, “explained the mayor, which highlights from this chapter the 102,534 euros that will be invested in the activities of cultural associations (52%) and sports (41%) of Rafal as well as through collaborations with the social groups of the region (5%).
The Personnel chapter, for its part, takes 35.3% of the budget since the expected increase in the General State Budget of 1.75% in the salaries of the municipal employees.
As regards investments, the amounts of the Works and Services Plan of the Diputación that are pending to execute in this 2018. Rafal plans to adapt the facilities of the previous medical office to turn it into a Youth Training Center “in which contemplates the possibility of carrying out training courses that promote youth employment, something basic in our town and for what we want to reach agreements with the Consortium for the Economic Development of the Vega Baja (Convega) “, said Pineda, a point that was approved by unanimity of the Corporation. The councilor explained that it is also expected to be able to remodel this year the fountain of the Plaza de España, damaged by the passage of time. “You have to have in account that Rafal is nourished, for the investment chapter, the aid that comes from other administrations, so as before, we will work to find financing with the than to develop the projects that we still have pending “.
As regards investments, the amounts of the Works and Services Plan of the Diputación that are pending to execute in this 2018. Rafal plans to adapt the facilities of the previous medical office to turn it into a Youth Training Center “in which contemplates the possibility of carrying out training courses that promote youth employment, something basic in our town and for what we want to reach agreements with the Consortium for the Economic Development of the Vega Baja (Convega) “, said Pineda, a point that was approved by unanimity of the Corporation. The councilor explained that it is also expected to be able to remodel this year the fountain of the Plaza de España, damaged by the passage of time. “You have to have in account that Rafal is nourished, for the investment chapter, the aid that comes from other administrations, so as before, we will work to find financing with the than to develop the projects that we still have pending “.
The increase of 186,000 euros in the budget is applied counting the expected income of 70,000 euros from the Municipal Cooperation Fund of the Generalitat “which is very important for
small municipalities like ours, “Pineda recalled, as well as the improvement of the ability of the administration to collect fees and taxes “besides that we must have account that we have increased the population in recent years, which allows us to receive also more aid from other administrations, all factors that have collaborated in the forecast of the increase of the income “.
The outstanding debt of the Municipality of Rafal on December 31, 2017 amounted to 180,135.30 euros, amount that is pending of the Adjustment Plan of 2012 that will expire in 2021. In this
punto Pineda has highlighted the reduction that has been made in these years, since when the adjustment plan the City Council owed 1 million euros. The mayor has indicated that it is a
budget “that meets the objective of budgetary stability, is balanced in income and expenses and can be considered a social budget as it supports the associations of our municipality, and therefore, our neighbors. ” So, he has highlighted that “It is a budget that seeks to improve the quality of life of citizens.”
Following the economic chapter, the first mayor of Raphael has explained that the average period of payment to suppliers closed in 2017 in 19.02 days, “and currently remains in that same
number “, and added that the 2017 budget has been executed by 85% in the chapter on income and 90% in investments, “something we are also satisfied with, because it is a degree of execution quite high “, said Pineda.
Edificant Plan
For urgency, the request for delegation of powers to the Generalitat was included in the Plenary Session. Valenciana in the second phase of the Plan Edificant as well as the approval of the memory of works of adaptation and reform that you want to make in the School of Infant and Primary Education (CEIP) Trinitario Seva de Rafal within this autonomic plan and amounting to about two million
euros On the other hand, the Corporation unanimously approved the motion of the Platform of Irrigators, Citizens and Citizens Safe Transparent and the manifesto that arrived to the City Hall with a series of demands to improve the river.
