The Huelva City Council will have a budget of 169 million in 2021, the highest in the last 13 years | Radio Huelva

The Huelva City Council will count in 2021 with a consolidated budget of 169 million euros. They are 27 million more than 2020, almost 20 percent more than in the current year and the largest item in the last 13 years. The investment chapter amounts to 22.5 million and contemplates, among other actions, the remodeling of the Plaza de La Merced and the Paseo del Conquero.

On direct aid for families, SMEs and the self-employed affected by the crisis, 5 million euros will be mobilized. The FOE and the Chamber of Commerce They will participate in the employment plan foreseen in this chapter, with 2.5 million destined to the creation of employment through temporary contracts – minimum of one year -, permanent or training.

The Government team will maintain in 2021 the freeze of municipal taxes. This year, in addition, The suspension of night watchmen rates for commerce and hospitality will be extended.

According to the mayor, Gabriel Cruz, they are budgets “social, responsible, investors and sensitive to the reality that we are living“, which will serve as an economic and social shield in the face of the crisis that the health pandemic has generated.

In investments, will be allocated three million for the remodeling and pedestrianization of La Merced. The performance collected in the EDUSI for the Conquero, will take 2.7. And the San Sebastián market, another 2.2 million.

The city’s cleaning contract experiences an improvement of 10 percent and rises to 6.9 million euros. EMTUSA will have a consignment of 8.4 million, which will translate into an increase of 147 percent compared to the money that was consigned in 2015.

The accounts include an item of 3.5 million destined to the salvation of Recreativo de Huelva as an Asset of Cultural Interest.

2.5 million euros will be allocated to the tourism plan for large cities.

Municipal accounts will be increased this year by almost 20 percent. It is something that has been possible, according to Gabriel Cruz, improving municipal collectional and taking advantage of the support policies for the Town Halls initiated by the Government a year ago to face the pandemic, such as suspension of fiscal rules or the possibility of using positive cash surpluses.

Cruz has assured that The Government Team has managed to reduce the municipal debt by 102.7 million euros since it started working in 2015. Today, he defended, the city council is “solvent and pays suppliers on time.”

The municipal accounts will be approved in an extraordinary plenary session scheduled for next Monday, May 10.

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