The work team of the City of Campos del Rio meets with the Ministry of Finance and Public Administration to move forward in the face of the upcoming approval of the new municipal budget of 2018.
The mayor of Campos del Río, María José Pérez Cerón, accompanied by her work team has met with the team of the Ministry of Finance and Public Administration led by the adviser Andrés Carrillo, with the intention of advancing in the configuration of the accounts municipal public of this year, step previous to the approval of the budget of the City council of Fields of the Rio for 2018.
In the meeting held in the counseling, the first mayor moved the councilor Andrés Carrillo, the current financial state of the consistory and requested a series of financial aid to finance different projects to start up.
Aid such as the local cooperation of the local administration, which endow the municipality with 40,000 euros more than the previous budget, a figure that reaches 140,000 euros that will be used mainly to pay municipal debt with suppliers and allow lower average payment period to them, informed the mayor at the end of the meeting.
"The municipalities of smaller size as the Campos del Rio, specifically need the economic and financial support of the Autonomous Community to continue to maintain public services to the citizen" pointed out the mayor who announced that "soon we will approve the municipal budgets 2018 , social accounts, balanced, sustainable and realistic ".
On the other hand, he highlighted "the predisposition found in the counselor and his work team," but claimed, "we must take more steps so that the municipalities that have surpluses or those that are deficient, for different issues, or as in ours, that do not have specific business projects that generate wealth in Campos del Río and that allow the municipality sustainable development with which we can raise and become economically self-sustainable.
That is why we ask for more help from the regional administration to activate these types of projects and thus be solvent. "
Finally, the mayor said that "for 2 and a half years we have advanced a lot by working and adopting effective measures in different areas that directly benefit the municipal finances, reversing the situation that we find ourselves in 2015" and affirmed that "from the consistorio is still working to be able to start, with the obtaining of aid from the Ministry of Finance, the work of writing the general plan of urban planning of the municipality, necessary document to order our territory and that companies can be installed in Campos del River generating wealth and new opportunities for campers and campers ".
Source: Ayuntamiento de Campos del Río