Members of the Municipal Finance and Heritage Commission of the Tijuana Cabildo decided not to approve the loan of 380 million pesos requested by the government of Jaime Bonilla Valdez, by completely eliminating the discussion of that issue, reported José Refugio Cañada.
The mayor indicated that, by not knowing the type of responsibility or even crime that they could incur if they decided to release the amount demanded by the state government from the Tijuana treasury, they better chose to exclude the discussion of that issue in the session than the Commission. carried out this Thursday.
“We no longer have the time and we needed more information, so it was decided to leave the Commission and, obviously, it will no longer go to the Cabildo, Tijuana will not give that loan,” said Cañada at the end of the meeting.
He noted that the technical opinion of the Legal Counsel of the Tijuana City Council would be requested, but given the lack of time and the fact that two members of the Municipal Finance and Heritage Commission were against granting the loan, they voted to eliminate on the agenda that topic.
Not only that, he stated that since the Bonilla administration requires the resources to be able to cover short-term payments, there would be no point in discussing this issue in the future, so analyzing the release of the loan was discarded from the Commission and, therefore, in the plenary session of the Cabildo.
During the first half of July, Jaime Bonilla requested loans from five municipalities in Baja California, to cover his lack of flow “to pay the essentials”, among which he listed the payment to providers and the settlement to teachers.
So far Playas de Rosarito and Mexicali have been the two municipalities that have approved the request for a loan from the state government, the first turned over to the plenary session of the Cabildo for approval, the second released it without consulting the highest municipal government body.
In Tijuana, Mayor Karla Ruiz Macfarland warned that her government would not release the 380 million pesos requested by Bonilla if the Cabildo did not approve it first, which would happen as long as the legal issue was resolved.
In exchange for the loan, the state government promised to pay in kind, with public works that in the case of Tijuana had already been selected by the municipal administration, selecting five of the six works pending execution in the current fiscal year.
As the loan is not approved, the works will be executed by the municipality itself, as it had been programmed, these projects consisting of three bridges for a combined amount of 322 million 818 thousand 766 pesos, which will be located on the Orient Rapid Highway, another in the Alfonso Reyes and Manuel Márquez de León section, and one more at the Otay checkpoint.
Two pluvial works in which 62 million 181 thousand 233 pesos would be invested, which consist of the reconstruction of the Pato Canyon and the desander tank number 3, complement this package of actions.
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