The City Council has approved White held last night in full budgets of more than 17.5 million euros.
It is ten million euros earmarked for investment and reducing tax and rustic urban IBI
"The 2009 budget builds on the foundation of Solidarity White City because the best social policy is that employment is on track, putting the service quality and welfare of citizens," said Esther Horton, Councilman Hall Finance Blanca.
The full City Council has approved a municipal budget for 2009 of EUR 17,506,121.91.
At the meeting, of ordinary character, the council of finance, Esther Horton, explained that "in the context of economic crisis, we have presented a balanced budget, realistic, rigorous, without debt, with greater control of spending."
One year, they have lowered taxes for Urban and Rural IBI, in addition to "freeze the extra taxes to encourage household savings" claimed Horton during the plenary.
In the chapter highlights the personal social aspect of the budget with the implementation of the project White City Outreach, through its various programs such as the University Descbrete, Mother and Employment, Employment Workshop, Close your retirement Social improvement, among others, employs over 130 workers.
Reduced costs
In the chapter on running costs expenditure is a decrease of 10% over the previous year, in line with the criteria of austerity and rigor that makes the current situation.
In this chapter highlights the heading of Social Services, with a budget of 450 thousand euros, for social sector programs, subsidies to large families and pensioners to various taxes, transportation subsidy, aid books, charity projects in Upper Bolivia with the priest Pepe Fuentes and management of centers for the elderly.
For its part, the budgetary allocation to the area of culture more than 261,000 euros, which includes the Victoria Theatre program, cultural projects such as the Black 1315 - White 2008, International Workshop Landscape, University courses Sea, the cultural program "White Art Every Day", which also includes prizes for competitions held by the City of White for 2009, etc.
As for the line to youth festivals and has remained the same amount budgeted in the previous year, with 300,000 euros and 60,000 euros for celebrations for youth.
Moreover, the budget and trade craft activities amounted to 22,000 euros.
As subsidies to the various associations (sporting, cultural, youth, educational and fraternities) have a budget of 121,000 euros.
On the question of investment, "although not the priority, in difficult times, the City of White has been in the investment chapter in a volume of more than ten million euros" said the mayor of finance, who went on to explain that "this is because there is a commitment to comply with the political program of the government team, which considers these facilities necessary for the development of the municipality."
This amount of 10,072,292.99 euros, representing a 57% of the budgeted expenditure in the state, including those listed furniture technology (electronic ID and implementation of DTT), facilities in various theaters, libraries, archives, workshop of the artisan and the new gym under construction, forestry activities, mobility, involvement of public spaces, sports car, extension of municipal cemetery, burial container, employment center for the disabled; shop houses, refurbishment of the promenade of San Roque MUCAB completion and new police stations among others.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Blanca