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IU-Green considers it unacceptable that the City has not yet submitted municipal budgets (23/07/2012)

Jose Garcia Murcia, spokesman for the city council of IU-Green, has criticized that the municipality has not yet submitted Lorca municipal budgets despite over half a year.

The councilman, said that the budget is a guarantee of transparency and democratic control of the municipal government of existence and strict compliance required, which also must be approved and discussed by 31 December, so it has become clear that the mayor is committing a serious irregularity in this situation.

Garcia Murcia, who has said that the municipal budget is part of the budget debate, said that under current regulations, the mayor should have submitted the 2012 budget in full October 2011, with a deadline of December 31 for discussion and approval.

The delay in approval of it is, for IU-Green, a symptom of the lack of municipal management capacity of the government team with the mayor at the helm.

The council believes that being treated like a game a matter of great importance, indeed the city of Lorca being included in the plan of adjustment of payment to suppliers.

Similarly, Murcia Garcia stressed that municipal finances are a matter of extreme seriousness, as it tries to give public accounts of the economic management of citizens' money and, together with the budget, if filed, should advance current budget settlement, the annex of personnel, investment and the economic report and financial statement have been made estimates of revenue and expenditure, ensuring a balanced budget, with revenues sufficient to cover the costs that are to run .

Since the formation require the mayor to act with utmost urgency on this issue and not criticize the July plenary include this issue and argue that at the meeting held on Monday spokespersons July 23 IU-Green has managed to establish a calendar and to set August 10 as the filing date.

So, saying that the extreme delay in the presentation of these official documents are not guarantees of democratic quality and indicate that if a mayor begins to skip these mere formalities how many other rules will not be able to infringe?

Finally, Garcia Murcia has highlighted the need not to delay any longer the know and the municipal budget to track the entire budget process (especially in the special circumstances of the earthquakes are occurring when both income and extraordinary expenses) since the budget is the central tool to see which policies are made at a town hall, being a guarantee for citizens when done right, and claims that the exceptional situation of this year, due to the delay, hinder control by both of citizens and by opposition groups.

Source: IU-verdes Lorca

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