The municipal government held the May plenary session on Wednesday 29th. Out of the 15 points on the agenda, the most important one was the initial approval of a budget amendment of 4 million euros from the general funds remaining, explained the councillor for Economy and Finance, Mario Bravo (PP), pointing out that “the local government will continue to use this surplus to carry out investments and expenses that were not included or planned in the ordinary budget for 2024”. 

Two of the four million euros will be allocated to the maintenance of the gardens and green areas in the public domain, a service currently outsourced which will soon be put out to tender again, said the councillor. Another million euros will be used to pay interest on court judgements of the Mijas Town Hall, “there will also be 327,000 euros to increase the amount that this Town Hall dedicates to subsidies of social interest and the rest are small items for Civil Protection expenses, for example. With this we will use the 86 percent of the surplus, leaving 14 percent for issues that may arise during the year”, Bravo explained. In his intervention, the spokesman for the socialist municipal group, Roy Pérez, recalled that this makes three budget modifications presented so far this year, “and the small budget that you bring to the plenary are simply rectifications, reversals and reminders about what you did not include in the initial budget, which, as we have already said and reiterated, was a botched job”. 

In this regard, Bravo clarified that “they are neither rectifications or reversals. They are responsible commitments of expenditure and specific investments that we make when we are confident that we will be able to execute them”. 

In this respect, the spokesman for the Ciudadanos municipal group, José Carlos Martín, mentioned the percentage of budget execution during the first quarter of 2024, “and so far, of the 129 million euros that had been planned, only 9.6 percent of investments and 9.2 percent of services have been executed. What are we going to do now with the 92 million euros that have been presented in the different modifications? When are they going to be executed?”, he asked, to which the councillor for the economy responded that “there was a year in which you, when you were in government, only executed 7 percent of the investment during the twelve months, and now you criticise the fact that, in the first quarter, we are at 9 percent. The numbers don’t add up”. The item had the favourable vote of all the groups, except for the PSOE from Mijas, which abstained.

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