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The City Council tightens its belt, freezing the salary of mayor, aldermen, and staffing, and cut the allocation to political groups for council 25% (27/01/2009)

Is expected to save more than 1 million euros to the first of 4 batteries of measures, this section concerning personal |

Economics Councilman City of Lorca, Antonio Ibarra, presented a first set of measures to reduce expenditures by the municipal councils.

Ibarra has indicated that this package of proposals aims primarily to dispense with certain costs and adapt to reality is strictly necessary.

Economy Councilman stated that "with these measures, the City Council further tightened the belt.

We believe that in times of crisis like we are the first that we lead by example.

In this regard I wish to emphasize that all actions are completed by the City going to double the value of austerity as a common denominator. "

This first package of measures, to be followed by several others, will be released over the coming weeks, is expected to save more than a million euros.

The battery includes the following actions:

Freezing the salaries of the members of the Municipal Corporation: Mayor and Council.

Freezing staff salaries confidence.

25% reduction in the allocation to political groups municipal councilor.

Freezing the growth of the template, except for positions are strictly necessary.

Reduction and / or deletion of diets, as well as assistance to corporate bodies.

Elimination or reduction of overtime by more than 60%.

Enhancing internal training courses.

Return on the resources available to the full City Council, using City Hall staff and equipment to carry out maintenance work, projects and other services.

Reduction of temporary contracts, keeping strictly necessary.

Objective: To ensure that social policies

Ibarra said that since the city council is going to continue this type of expense reduction measures, "as we are aware of the difficult situation we have today and the need to eliminate unnecessary spending so much damage has been done our city.

Another purpose pursued by this first series of measures, to be followed by several others, is to ensure the maintenance and development of social policies.

Ibarra stated in relation to the latter, that "the strengthening of social policies is a priority for the council as our Mayor has ordered, mainly to deal with the situation upon us.

In fact we believe it is our main tool to help people to weather this storm. "

The mayor of Economics has called, again, that the authorities take note of the services that the City is providing to citizens while not within its competence and collaborate economically with the Consistory. "

Ibarra recalled that "we are taking an economic cost that does not correspond to the Consistory, as is the case of public safety, where we are building a network of local police barracks at a comprehensive security center and have increased the number of agents in a 50%.

We played our part now is, in this case the Central Government, which has to take responsibility, and the economic cost that this entails. "

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca

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