The plenary session of Valencia Town Hall provisionally approved the council’s budget focused on DANA and the consequences that this caused thanks to the votes of the government team formed by the PP and Vox.
This is a budget of save for the Town Hall of Valencia, since it will experience growth in 8.4 percent compared to 2024 also considering items needed to serve the districts of La Torre, El Forn d’Alcedo and Castellar-l’Olvieralhit by DANA on October 29.
The Town Hall budget amounts to 1,210 million euros and the general budget consolidated with autonomous bodies and municipal companies to 1.338 million.
Compared to the previous year, the budget increases by 93 millionwhile the consolidated general budget does so in 96 million.
These accounts will also have extraordinary funds of 10 million euroswith the name of Dana Fundfor spending on actions and initiatives to deal with the effects of this storm.
As explained by advisor to the Treasury, Mr. José Ferrer San SegundoIace the accounts “from the beginning aim to help those affected” and for this ten million euros were included in the contingency fund.
However, this amount, as the Compromís spokesperson warned, will only correspond to what Devesa technicians calculate. It will cost to clean the lake of waste and replace the waste in the ditches, tancats and piers.
However, regarding the viability of budgets, the Finance Advisor assured that it was a “living” budget it “has to go” adapt” to “needs” which arise from DANA.
The municipal government emphasized that for next year “the a bigger tax cut“, approved in 2024, “reduce debt, respect the spending rule” and “stability” and recalled that new policies are included for families such as “300 aids at birth, adoption or placement family”.
The 2025 accounts provide tax measures for people affected by DANA as a 95% bonus in the ICIO for reconstruction work on damaged properties, to which is added the procedure for suspending the garbage rate in the districts concerned, added the executive.
María José Catalá during the plenary session. EE
Upon its provisional approval, the 2025 budget will be submitted to the public exhibitionperiod during which it can be consulted and allegations received before returning to plenary for final approval.
Criticism of the opposition
However, the approval of these budgets was rejected by the two opposition groups, Commitments And PSPV-PSOEconsidering that “stillborn» and which “turns its back” on the victims of the devastating floods. In this sense, the opposition announced that it would present allegations to redirect these accounts to the stage. postDANA.
The spokesperson for the PSPV, Borja Sanjuánestimated that a “bad” budget that it cannot be sustained and that “it could have been different” given the consequences caused by DANA.
“It is practically the same one that was presented without DANA existing,” he said, as did his spokesperson Compromís, Papi Roblesand the advisor of this group, Eva Coscolla.
The two groups declared that the 10 million euros currently provided for in the 2025 accounts to deal with the consequences of DANA “were already in the contingency fund”, which is why they stressed that no extra money is provided and that “this only represents the 0.8% of the total budget“.
“Help those affected”
Faced with criticism from opposition groups, San Segundo defended that the 2025 “This is not a pre-DANA budget“. In addition, he assured that it will be executed “transversally” and that “from the first minute aims to help those affected“because of the floods.
The councilor added that she does not approve of these accounts.this would mean losing 231 million eurosnot counting the 10 million from the Dana Fund” and clarified that “a responsible government cannot allow this”.
For his part, the second deputy mayor and spokesperson for Vox, Juanma Badenasassured that they are “proud budgets for 2025″ prepared by the Valencia City Hall.
Furthermore, he stated that “They are the most talented in historyserve to improve services to citizens and constitute an important investment element for neighborhoods and an important investment in housing.
