The Mijas Town Hall has reduced the average payment period to suppliers to 58 days, one of the lowest figures in the last six years, since January 2020, thereby reinforcing, it notes, "its return to the path of budgetary stability reached in November 2025. This milestone also allows for the removal of the municipal warning required by law whenever payment delays exceed 60 days".
The mayoress of Mijas, Ana Mata (PP), has stressed that this "notable improvement in the economic management of the government team" will continue in the coming months, when, she announces, the average payment period can be lowered to under 30 days, "something that has never been achieved in the last ten years in Mijas". The launch of the Budget Management Body last October, led by Cristina Martínez, "has proved key to this municipal achievement", according to the Executive.
- La alcaldesa Ana Mata y la responsable del Órgano de Gestión Presupuestaria.
- PRENSA AYTO.
"This body should have been operational since 2013, as required by the Basic Law of Local Government for large municipalities, but no previous government team created it", recalled the mayoress, accompanied by the councillor for Economy and Finance, Mario Bravo (PP). The implementation of digital administration, they assert, has also been key in reducing the average payment period to 58 days.
To put the figure into context, Mata explained that since January 2020, six years ago, the Mijas Town Hall has only been below the 60-day average payment period on nine occasions, "that is, 9 months out of 72, which means that the Comptroller’s Office has been forced to issue a non-compliance alert 63 times".
- Los concejales del Ayuntamiento de Mijas Juan José Torres Trella y Mari Francis Alarcón junto a la fotógrafa.
- NURIA LUQUE
Further measures
According to Mata and Bravo, this situation has been brought under control through various executive decisions such as those mentioned, plus the approval of the Municipal Organic Regulations and the Anti-Fraud Plan, "also required by law but not promoted by previous government teams". Likewise, the Mijas Town Hall has approved budgets for 2024, 2025 and 2026, "something that did not happen every year prior to the current administration", the Executive recalls.
"I have always maintained that the best employment policy a local authority can pursue is to pay suppliers in due time and form, because it is private initiative that creates jobs, and it cannot be dependent on delays by the public administration", said the mayoress, adding that "this has changed, and I anticipate it will improve significantly".
- Fachada del Ayuntamiento de Mijas.
- I. PÉREZ.
Objective
For his part, Bravo emphasised that the average payment period to suppliers is a key indicator for assessing the performance of economic management in local councils, and he thanked the companies that invoice Mijas for their commitment to the municipality: "The objective is not only to reach the legal 30-day payment period but to fall below it, because since June 2015, the Mijas Town Hall has systematically failed to comply, and that is going to end".
Finally, Bravo added that the Mijas Town Hall will shortly fill the vacant positions for the heads of IT, Tax Management and Festivities, and will strengthen the Procurement Department, "which will contribute to further reducing the average payment period to municipal suppliers".
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