The Adeje Plenary will approve tomorrow the City Council budget for 2023, which amounts to 106.7 million euros, 12.8% more than in the previous year. The objective is to maintain the highest level of investment that is remembered in the municipality and that is applied during this year. Something that the mayor, José Miguel Rodríguez Fraga, values as “fundamental” to continue “the transformation process started before the pandemic” and that in this 2022 “we have managed to promote significantly.” He refers to the 16 million euros executed in investments this year in the improvement of infrastructures, mobility, works or environmental and tourism plans, a figure that will reach 20 million when projects about to start are executed.
The 2023 municipal budget aims to consolidate elements that have made Adeje a tourism leader “so that this leadership helps us maintain first-rate care for residents, state-of-the-art infrastructure and commit to a meaningful digital and ecological transition.” Rodríguez Fraga assures that improving competitiveness is essential to generate opportunities and jobbetting on environmental sustainability as a transversal element.
Most of the investments made this year correspond to 16 million of the remainder in executed projects and four more in awarded projects. It is the same line that Adeje contemplates for 2023, to continue defining plans that serve to develop the new theater municipal, improve squares, streets, green areas, public roads, new roundabouts or the remodeling of fundamental streets for the municipality, improving mobility or adapting obsolete spaces. It also contemplates starting the expropriation file for Casa Fuerte or the purchase of spaces and buildings to continue developing infrastructure plans such as the remodeling of the cultural center, the completion of the Spain Square or the expansion of the infant school, among others.
106.7
millions
Adeje’s municipal accounts for next year will amount to 106.7 million euros, which represents an increase of 12.8% compared to the current year.
twenty
local police positions
Among the budget forecasts in terms of personnel, the provision of 20 new places in the Local Police stands out, as well as 15 million for community welfare and security.
more than essential
The budget for 2023 will affect “the pillars” of the municipality’s progress in recent years: maintenance and improvement of public services, help to reactivate employment and the productive sector after the pandemic and the crisis, care for social services and of people at risk of exclusion (elderly and young) and the projects known as Adeje verde, linked to sustainability and the environment.
To this is added culture, education and sport, “policies to which in recent years we have added the conservation and dissemination of heritage and traditions, which are priorities and transversal to the entire City Council.”
In this sense, items for community welfare and security are around 15 million euros, five for employment and support for companies and employability and green and healthy Adeje around seven million euros. In the personnel chapter, it stands out that 20 police positions will be called and it will be spent on maintaining job stability and betting on specific care for dependent people or with special needs.
The Good Governance area prepared the Budget. Councilor Epifanio Díaz values the document as a “positive and ambitious exercise that should help maintain municipal stability and the high level of public services to which the citizens of Adeje are accustomed.” In this sense, he points out that one of the most important parts of the budget is destined, precisely, for the maintenance of essential services such as water supply, sanitation, garbage collection or electricity. «This last section is very important for Adeje because electricity consumption is not limited to lighting or energy consumption of buildings or public infrastructures, but, above all, to the important municipal water supply and treatment system, which works with energy from this type, “says the mayor. In that sense, only the bill of the light of Adeje has tripled in the last year “and the goal has been set that these increases have as little impact as possible on citizens,” explains the councilor.
Another important aspect of the Adeje budget highlighted by Díaz Hernández is the fact that the accounts are drawn up under the security and guarantee provided by a healthy City Council, which complies with all the economic parameters and that the payment of the debt or the payment to suppliers is on an average well below the national average.
