Council Budgets for 2012

Torrijos Mayor Presents City Budget For 2012

Toledo, Spain (prHWY.com) January 5, 2013 - Both the mayor of the municipality, D. Juan José Gómez-Hidalgo, and the area councilor delegated Treasury, Cayetana Gonzalez, presented the budget that will be taken to the full City Council Torrijos, amounting to 8,455,700 euros the amount of which is has been reduced by 12.86% compared to 2011. It is a tight budget to reality with incomes well below the usual or previous years, which has led to municipalize services such as cleaning buildings, privatize service recycling center, work on a Savings Plan and Energy Efficiency important and have been taken into account that the agreements with the Regional Government of Castilla-La Mancha are not similar to those of other years and must accommodate the real income of the regional administration.

Despite budget cuts, the City of Torrijos received central government approval to perform the Adjustment Plan worth € 792,000, so you have to be more frugal in spending due to new borrowings to which has failed to pay the outstanding invoices dated December 31, 2011, and the mayor said "the council is up to date in payments to providers."

According to the mayor, the budget is the result of much work that has been done due to the inability of municipalities to run deficits. The recent budgetary stability law requires municipal managers not to run deficits thus can not spend more than what is entered.

The budget is larger staff where you will spend a large percentage, € 4,255,090. As a sign of budget adjustments in Leisure and Recreation items are reduced by € 76,000 less than last year, € 314,000 invested in celebrations in 2011 will move to 238,000 this year and Cultural Promotion from 52,000 to 30,000. Other important facts to consider are that the city this year paid € 48,000 for the construction of the 240,000 budgeted last year, representing a decrease of 80%.

Torrijos mayor define the budget for the year 2012 as "a budget attached to reality, to responsible and adapted to current regulations." Gómez-Hidalgo took the opportunity to charge the Torrijos PSOE opposition criticized remembering that at the time the increase in the provision for staff from 42% to nearly 50% today, something that the mayor is of joy.

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