The budgets have been prepared with the utmost rigor, using a series of austerity measures and control of current expenditure driven by the session.
The municipal accounts are a strong commitment to social services in a particularly difficult time for families and citizens.
Most are aimed at managing public services and new infrastructure built in the town in recent years to improve the quality of life lumbrerenses.
Thursday August 4, 2011.
The full City Council has approved Puerto Lumbreras municipal budgets for 2011, providing over 30% of the total budget for the operation and management of municipal services and facilities that have been created over the past year rule, " to ensure and improve the quality of life lumbrereses. "
The Councillor for Finance, Genaro Pérez, along with Councillor Councillor for Economy and Employment, Juana Guirao, presented this morning at a press conference of 2011 municipal budgets.
"At a time of economic crisis, optimize and leverage resources effectively and efficiently the money of all lumbrerenses. It's about doing more with less through good management to Puerto Lumbreras not stand and be one of the first municipalities out of the crisis, "said the Councillor for Finance, Genaro Pérez during the presentation of the municipal budgets for 2011.
In this sense, the budgets for 2011 have 12,217,273.96 euros, which provide a higher percentage of items related to social assistance and services for people who need it most in the current economic crisis.
In addition, the budgets allocated mostly to the management and implementation of quality public services to ensure the quality of life lumbrerenses.
Thus, the session is to launch lumbrerense and improve public services and infrastructure "that have been created over the past 4 years through investments in public works in excess of 40 million euros."
In this regard, the city maintains a significant investment chapter, amounting to 1.8 million euros, representing 13.6% of the total budget and will continue to grow Puerto Lumbreras a year in services and infrastructure, to improve quality of life for our citizens.
In this sense, the Councillor for Finance, Genaro Pérez, explained that "new budgets have been prepared with the utmost rigor of the current spending austerity and applying a series of measures to improve economic management given the decrease in revenues from crisis facing the country. "
Also, the City launched a series of austerity measures and control of public spending, together with the recovery plan under the new budget and an Austerity Plan II will result in effective economic management, responsible and austere optimizing the most municipal resources and balancing the income and expenditure budgets.
Among these measures, highlights the utmost restraint in current expenditure, optimizing the resources available to the City Council.
In addition, the Councillor for Finance, Genaro Pérez, said that "it is about budgets which provide the greatest support to those who are suffering a difficult economic situation. The percentage of social spending is increased because we are aware the importance is to help those who especially need our support and social protection in these difficult times of particular difficulty. "
Finally, Perez concluded by explaining that "the budget reflects the continued growth of a municipality entrepreneur with great challenges of future development and progress, growth and thought by all lumbrerenses reflected through new services and infrastructure quality and economic development that puts Puerto Lumbreras 12 points below the national average of unemployment. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Puerto Lumbreras