The municipal budget for 2024, which rises to 11,705,000 euros, has received the support of the government team and the rejection of Junts
The plenary session of the Sant Joan de Vilatorrada City Council gave the green light this Thursday to the municipal budget for 2024, which is the first since 2020, as the last three financial years had been extended. The 2024 budget, which amounts to 11,705,000 euros, has had ten votes in favor of the government team formed by Alternativa per Sant Joan and Compromís amb Sant Joan, five abstentions from the PSC and ERC, and two votes against of Together
The mayor, Jordi Solernou, has highlighted that the City Council has recovered a new budget that will allow them to “continue working to promote projects and services to improve our town”. He pointed out that after the increase in basic supplies in recent years “it was more and more complicated to make the town and the City Hall work without accounts adapted to reality. Without new budgets we would not be able to work on new projects for everyone the neighbors”. Solernou, has given as an example of the need to have new accounts the fact that the gas expenditure of the municipal equipment has doubled, reaching more than 150,000 euros.
Priority to attention and services to people and to environmental and territorial policies
For her part, the Councilor for Finance, Núria Valencia, also referred to the fact of having new budgets: “We set ourselves the goal of having new accounts to be able to improve management and promote new projects, and today we comply with new budgets adjusted to reality, which also allow us to lay the foundations for new projects and new investments in the medium term.”
During his speech, Valencia reviewed the main novelties of the 2024 budget. Thus, he indicated that “the agreement of the two groups that form the government marks attention and services to people as a priority, and building a a more ecological and well-kept town. Thanks to the new accounts, we are starting to work there, incorporating new projects or services that take us in this direction.”
Increase in spending on care for people
Thus, in the field of care for people, there is a general increase in the expenditure included in these councils. Highlights include, among others, the 157% increase in individualized aid, the incorporation of teleassistance aid, new education and childhood projects such as the Bus a Peu, the expansion of cultural programming or the ‘increase of 46% of the budget dedicated to actions for feminism and LGBTI equality.
Improvement of maintenance and new environmental and territory projects
The second of the priorities on which the government emphasizes that the accounts focus is on environmental and territorial policies. They point out that the new accounts will be able to improve maintenance, incorporating a new brigade worker or increasing the road cleaning budget by 30%. The environmental policies experience an expansion of the items of 32% that will make it possible to have new projects in renewable energies, energy transition, or promotion of sustainable mobility. Also, as a novelty, the resources are being incorporated to start deploying the recently approved Local Housing Plan.
Investments to improve everyday life and for future projects
With reference to the investment chapter, the items are included to carry out the first phase of rehabilitation of Mas Llobet, the expansion of the network of climate shelters with new awnings and an increase in urban greenery, and a new area of recreation for dogs, long claimed by the residents. Councilor Valencia has pointed out that “the budget focuses on investments to improve everyday life, but we also lay the foundations to be able to incorporate important investments that will be incorporated throughout the year or in the coming years”.
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