El Rosario’s budget for next year increases to 22.2 million

It is “an ambitious urban project, which due to its extraordinary technical complexity has become a pending issue for this municipality for several decades and which in 2024, finally, after innumerable technical, legal and financial obstacles, we intend to undertake in its entirety.” first and, without a doubt, most essential phase,” explains the mayor of El Rosario, Escolásico Gil. The good financial health of the Consistory, together with the increase in income forecasts, allows it to face with guarantees the aforementioned credit operation that entails this significant growth of the budget, which will benefit citizens.

Escolásico Gil points out that “the year 2024 will be the time for Tabaiba Media and Alta, areas where there are streets in urgent need of reform.” Gil remembers that “it always seemed like an injustice to us that the money obtained in the land auction that was held at the time was not allocated to the Tabaiba urbanization itself, but the courts said that the reparcelling had to continue, and “Now we have the urbanization projects to execute the municipal part of necessary works, highly demanded and that do justice to neighbors who never saw their streets developed.”

The City Council will undertake the total renovation of the drinking water supply network, sanitation, telecommunications, lighting, paving and paving of Guaydil, Cardón, Sábila, Palmera, Brezo streets, part of Drago, Laurel, Aceviño streets and improvements on Verode Street. Along with the increase in the Investment Chapter, the increase in the planned allocation for municipal subsidies included in the Strategic Subsidies Plan also stands out. Particularly noteworthy is the increase in sports subsidies and social emergency subsidies for small investment expenses (acquisition of household goods or small appliances). Both headings increase by 50% compared to 2023, going, in the first case, from 62,700 to 93,400 euros (30,700 euros more) and from 20,000 to 30,000 euros, in the second (10,000 euros more).

“People first”

Gil details that “we have increased the amount of public subsidies granted by this City Council because we put people first, both from a social point of view and through a firm positioning to invest in sports, health and promotion.” of essential values ​​for the development of our youth and our entire society. In this sense, the first deputy mayor and councilor of the Treasury, Fátima Gutiérrez, points out the significant increase in the amounts allocated to Social Services, which is 9.75% higher than in 2023; Culture, 12.13% more, and Sports, with an increase of 14.46%. Thus, he explains that “it is an expansive budget, which gives great importance to social spending and the promotion of sports and health and sustainability, the improvement of the water cycle and the reform of public roads in a state of deterioration such as important pillars for its execution.

Returning to the investment projects contained in the economic document of the Consistory for the year 2024, and beyond the two million planned for the renovation of the streets of Tabaiba, in this chapter the 235,000 euros reserved for the 2024 annuity of the editorial office stand out. of the new General Planning Plan (PGO), a process that began two years ago and whose drafting is being carried out by Cotesa-TYC-PGOU Rosario for a total amount of 673,000 euros.

Multitude of performances

In addition, it includes 150,000 euros for the rehabilitation of the Radazul Alto water tank and the improvement of the hydraulic network in this area. This is the municipal contribution to a project of just over one million euros that benefits from a subsidy from the Ministry of Ecological Transition, Fight against Climate Change and Territorial Planning of the Government of the Canary Islands, financed 60% with Funds from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, Next Generation EU Funds. Likewise, it reserves 80,000 euros for the conditioning of Las Rosas Street and the improvement of access to Bocacangrejo and another item of the same amount for the comprehensive rehabilitation of the Llano Blanco Mayor’s Office.

Throughout next year 2024, the La Esperanza medical center, the sewerage and the Lomo Pelado EBAR, the reform of El Sol street (TF-226), the adaptation of the La Campana industrial estate, the modernization and beautification will continue in execution. of Calvario Street, the renovation of the Tabaiba coastline or the renovation of the La Esperanza sports pavilion. These projects alone, the result of management with other administrations, total 26 million euros to improve the quality of life of the residents of El Rosario.

In another order of things, in the draft budget, which will be debated in the next ordinary plenary session scheduled for December 5, it once again stands out for the freezing of all rates, taxes and public prices for the year 2024. It also increases current spending on goods and services, 6.79%, reaching 9.7 million euros. It does so with the objective of improving public services that are transferred to citizens and also, in a forward-looking manner, to be able to face, without any difficulty, the increase in the price of energy, particularly electric energy, which has increased worrying way for years and, especially, after the beginning of the war in Ukraine and its serious connotations worldwide.

In income, the increase of 11.51% in transfers from the State and participation in the Fiscal Economic Regime of Canary Islands and in the Canary Islands Municipal Financing Fund. This chapter represents 40.59% of the total budget, being therefore the first source of municipal financing.