Local de Totana Corporation held on August 6 extraordinary plenary session, a motion of Mayor, to ask the National Government that at least 3,000 million from the announced 2010 Local Investment Plan are intended to finance public services that municipalities provide without having the skills or funding for it.
In addition, the session will also be sought immediately, the beginning of the negotiation of new local funding, over 30 years expected to ensure stable and adequate funding for local government, in accordance with the provisions of Spanish Constitution, state law articulated by their participation in state revenues (PIE) and the autonomous communities (clubs), so that it enters into force on January 1, 2010.
As explained by the mayor of Totana, José Martínez Andreo, municipalities of the Region of Murcia, and in general all that make up the country, are suffering the consequences of the severe economic crisis.
In this regard, he stated that "the financial difficulties of the Spanish consistory, in general, and Murcia, in particular, go back thirty years ago.
From there, you have been talking about historical debt of the State with local governments, to refer to expenditure, since then, they have been doing for the provision of services that are not within its competence. "
Also, Martínez Andreo has indicated that although the Government had agreed that reform of local financing model and the regional financing was to be held simultaneously and linked, in the end it has.
Therefore, as the mayor points out, "we believe in justice that one of the important parts that make up the State, as are local authorities, can not be taken down and vulnerable to the economic crisis we are living.
The consequences of the crisis will assume that we enter the city councils of state transfers, some 3,000 million euros less than what was received in the last financial year. "
He has also suggested that functioning of the state must be based on principles of fairness, equity and solidarity among the various administrations that shape it, "today is just and necessary that it be given to local councils so that they correspond '
Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana. Foto: archivo Totana.com