VALENCIA. The Town hall of Valencia continues to modify its budget at the flick of a resolution to refocus the spending on the occasion, in good part, of the pandemic of coronavirus. This Friday, passed by the Board of Local Government, some changes are symbolic, such as the ones that will suffer the lines provided for this by the year 2020 in the plaza of Bruges or the other as the economic improvement for the cleaning service.
One of the amendments approved, the twelfth so far this year, whose aim is “to undertake with immediacy necessary measures to address the different fronts that presents the health crisis caused by the Covid”, amounts to 4.2 million euros and it will be financed by subtracting credit for the above-mentioned items, among others.
Works to tablets for families without resources
The Service Works the city Council had been informed that “there has been a readjustment of annuities for the procurement” of the draft urbanization of the Plaza of Bruges and the environment of the Market, so you could subtract up to 1 million euros of this task. On this occasion, the consistory has decided to to redirect a total of € 860,000 of the total. In this way, the greater part of this investment will be delayed and reoriganizará in the budgets of 2021 and 2022.
It is thus an amount which will be directly aimed at another type of investment motivated by the crisis resulting from the pandemic. For example, according to collected records city, to the purchase of 970 tablet so that they can be spread in the educational centres, public and concluded the Cap i Casal among the families who do not have resources.
Clean-up grants and health
Another of the sections affected by the reconfiguration is the maintenance of gardens. The Lawn service Sustainable it gives evidence of that is in the process of documentation to make the contest public service management, cleaning and maintenance of landscaped areas and trees. A tender which involved an increase in the budget with regard to the current contracts, and that definitely will not be this year. It will extend the current budget, and will be released other 670.000 euros.
For its part, the Licensing service town Planning has gone into these changes as well. The department of Urban planning will reduce other 150.000 euros in the execution of works safety. News these two -in gardens and urban planning – that will be used to fund part of other current expenditure by the pandemic.
It is the case of the reinforcement of the aid for trade, smes and self-employed persons and to the Municipal Sports Foundationto facilitate its adaptation to health for its reopening. In addition, the city expects to dedicate these items to health care, to work of disinfection in municipal buildings and to strengthen the telephones of attention to the citizenship.
Depleting the contingency fund
To finance the new expenditure, also will be used the funds budgeted in the consistories to unforeseen. The town Hall of Valencia will be used in this modification of credit the past 1.4 million that were in this drawer, which earlier this year had 11 million. So, come to the equator of the exercise, the city Council has already emptied the contingency fund and must face the rest of the year, having spent in this game.
In addition, the city government has been able to have a money ‘extra’ to the settled interests of debt for the first semester, and the summer of 2020. An operation that has allowed to lay hand on more than 950,000 euros.
All the budgetary changes outlined are framed in a modification that exceeds 36 billion in loans this month, of which almost 11 will be destined to expenses arising from the crisis, as already mentioned. So far from that exploited by the pandemic coronavirus, the city Council has allocated nearly 30 million euros, a third of which 10 million – has been dedicated to social services, about 6.8 million to support the productive fabric and to the trade, and highlights include 2.7 million euros in subsidies to the faults and 2 million invested in applying the telework in the consistory.
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