He Report of the Social Council on the 2025 accounts passed almost clandestinely yesterday during the debate on the budget of the City Hall of Cordoba, since it arrived at the Municipal Council last Thursday 21 when it had already been initially approved and with delays in terms of the deadlines set for this consultative body analyzes the complete text of the expenditure and revenue of the Municipal Council.
The document of this body chaired by the former rector of Loyola University, Gabriel Pérez Alcaláand to which ABC had access, makes a significant recommendation at the end of its in-depth analysis, and it is none other than a flood contingency fund in the city. What the Council calls “the unfortunate evidence that exists of the impact of climate change on a higher and more frequent flood risk” leads to the identification of the areas most at risk in Córdoba, which are none other than Alcolea and its surroundings. the airport, two of the main sources of river flooding in 2010, for example.
What this organization expresses is that the Town Hall is putting money aside to deal with floods, events further aggravated by the painful events that occurred during the DANA in Valencia. Added to this is the need for both Guadalquivir Hydrographic Confederation, while the Junta de Andalucía and the City Council itself are confronted with the ongoing actions on the river canals.
As ABC has already published, an example is the work underway since 2013 on the streams of the Sierra which should be channeled to the natural outlet of the river through the Pedroche stream to avoid the flooding of up to eight neighborhoods in the event of torrential rains and due to saturation of the collector network. A work which has never been carried out due to lack of European funds and which has passed from hydrological plan to plan without, for the moment, having crystallized in an agreement with Emacsa. This work represents an investment of 8.2 million. There are other interventions, including in the Guadalquivir Canal itself and pending.
In this sense, the Social Council also reminds the Town Hall but also the rest of the administrations that “the urban planning regulations for risk areas» in a clear message to the phenomenon of lands which, in these areas, also do not have options to regularize or benefit from the plans to provide themselves with the services that the Andalusian law (Lista) allows in other points.
Increase in waste
But the advisory body’s recommendations don’t stop there. To the mayor, Jose Maria Bellido, They criticize him for directly mentioning in his report the “sixth consecutive tax reduction applied in the city” but not “citizens are also informed of the increases” in the garbage collection rate of 35% in 2024 and 20% in the other services plus the 10% planned throughout 2025 for the so-called fifth container.
Likewise, the Council addresses the issue of subsidies, which has already resolved the confrontation between the government and the opposition in plenary, and insists on the need to set a Strategic Grants Plan follow the EU’s “principles of good management” as well as three-year planning, as also requested by the Economic and Budgetary Planning Body. The Deputy Mayor of the Treasury, Blanca Torrent, announced yesterday the development of the strategic plan as well as the update of the ordinance in force since 2005.
More information on average delivery time payment to suppliers In addition to the implementation of measures aimed at improving budgetary management, there are some of the guidelines traced in the analysis of the body headed by Pérez Alcalá and which highlights the importance of the entry into force of the accounts on 1 January.
