The budget of the La Orotava City Council for 2024 amounts to 50 million euroswith an increase of 7.03% (3,286,000 euros more), as announced by the mayor, Francisco Linares, and the Councilor for the Treasury, Felipe Benítez. The document will be approved by the ordinary session of the plenary session. It is “the largest budget in history” that “increases aid”, exceeds seven million euros in social welfare, includes numerous discounts on municipal taxes, eliminates the need for restaurants and bars to occupy public roads. The councilor defines them as “prudent, responsible budgets that guarantee essential services.”
In addition to not contemplating the request for loans, it increases own resources and freezes taxes and a progressive decrease in tax pressure produces savings of one million euros. Benítez pointed out that the City Council has sufficient ordinary financial resources that prevents it from resorting to extraordinary financing.
Social Welfare exceeds 7 million euros for social actions and care for people and groups (elderly, dependents, children and family, women and equality policies, day services for minors…), health plans employment and training, among other things. One of the innovative actions will be the launch of a Pre-Work School. For culture, education, youth, sports and festivals will have more than 8 millionto spend on aid to groups, plans for extracurricular activities and scholarships, municipal schools… In commerce, agriculture and tourism La Orotava invests more than one million euros to continue supporting local commerce, increase aid to entrepreneurs, support to the primary sector, the implementation of the shared taxi and the strategic tourism plan.
The investment plan allocates more than 5 million euros (10% of the budget) to be used in the reform, improvement and new infrastructure (3 million), a plan to cover municipal sports centers, the cultural space for the heights of La Orotava , the launch of a new study room, the renovation of the Teobaldo Power auditorium, improvement of sports facilities, playgrounds, public lighting and water network, heritage conservation and energy use works. Another two million are to rehabilitate public roads, squares and green areas; installation of charging points for electric vehicles, public bathrooms, plan of the El Rincón Consortium and the adaptation of the TF-21 access to the neighborhoods of the medians and the National Park of Teideamong other projects.
Cleaning and maintenance services will have 18 million, while security will have four million, including new local police officers and the purchase of a fire extinguishing vehicle. fires for Civil Protection. Additionally, the three million for 50 neighborhood proposals collected during the consultation process stand out for being participatory budgets.
