In March the second austerity plan

Sanlucar La Mayor, Irene Garcia, has announced this morning the launch of the second municipal austerity plan, "with the aim to cover all the quality and efficiency of municipal services provided to the citizen" and ignore the important difficulties being experienced by many municipalities in Spain.

In addition to the work being done to obtain financing from banks, the City will launch an internal restructuring with two main objectives: improve management and increase savings. "We are in a war economy and we will look for every penny," said the councilor, who brought forward the abolition of the Municipal Foundation of Culture and the Municipal Tourism, the dissolution of the Municipal Housing and restructuring ( that it would be the second) of the Municipal Urban Management (GMU).

"We will not stop providing any of these services, but we'll do through the municipal delegations of Culture, Tourism and Housing. Just when we are adapting to the reality, and the current economic situation, "said the councilor. "According to a recent report there are now 200 municipalities FEMP in Spain who do not pay their payrolls, resulting in displays of gravity of the situation. The City of San Lucar, to make it clear, has no trouble paying their workers, but we must take the measures we are announcing today to continue, with sufficient quality, services such as cleaning, security, etc., in addition to paying suppliers and dealers. "

"These measures will be taken immediately," he continued, "are just a preview of other initiatives that will be reflected in the next municipal budgets, which are optimized to maximize the resources of Chapters I and II ( Personnel and general expenses). " About the GMU, Irene Garcia said that the municipal officers are working "to see how we can carry out, in the most efficient way possible, this restructuring." "Once we have these reports, see what changes in the roles of each employee are proposed and if there are layoffs," continued the lord, it emphasized "responsible attitude" of the unions, "they know where they are from other municipalities , a situation which we must avoid reaching Sanlucar. "

The mayor reminded the starting point, when there was a change of government in 2007, and the work carried out since then has been steadily improving local economic conditions, based on the chaos. "All these measures and decisions that were taken over the years have allowed us to get here, so far, in a better position than many of the municipalities that surround us. And I say this is a reality, although he who gets upset because we can not ignore that in this obstacle course in the last place we left with a debt of more than 100 million euros, not counting bills, and a situation of total chaos. " For its part, the delegate of the Treasury, Inmaculada Muñoz, advanced some aspects of the upcoming municipal ordinances, which reflect, as a more innovative, higher bonuses for the most disadvantaged groups such as pensioners or families.

"In the IBI, for example," the delegate said, "we will increase the bonuses of the receipts of large families from 35% to 50%. The rate of litter, maintain reduced rates of up to 50% for pensioners and for those families who prove to have been unemployed for at least 6 months. " The measure also presented the Councilor, applies in the tax fairer for all, because it is gradual, by paying each citizen according to the properties it has. Most taxes and fees will not increase, even in the CPI in 2012. As for the IBI, there will be a small increase for most taxpayers, an increase that will be of 0.40 cents per month for 20,000 citizens, while another 15,000 will pay a dollar more per month. "This," continued Munoz, "is to be able to maintain existing services will be provided to citizens. Rather than having to cut services such as security, cleaning, or education, we prefer to help you stay between them, hence these small increases are implemented. "