He Torrelavega Government team (PRC-PSOE) has passed alone in this Tuesday’s plenary session the 4.8% increase in the Real Estate Tax (IBI), after which the citizens They will pay on average one euro more per month – “at most four euros more” –and the 5% increase in other municipal rates, except for water supply and sewage.
He municipal transport or the terraces are among the rates that experience these increases, although They are amounts that are “really unsymbolic and “will not put any domestic economy at risk,” said the Councilor for the Treasury, the regionalist Pedro Pérez Noriega.. Other taxes, such as that on vehicles, capital gains or that on Construction, Installations and Works (ICIO), are maintained because they are already “at the maximum.” On the other hand, The garbage receipt will increase by around “one euro per month” since, by European directive, it must be updated to cover the cost of treating the collection and transportation of waste.in search of more responsible consumption. According to the opposition, this increase represents 10%, which they have called a “sablazo”, but the Government team has responded that “we cannot not comply with the law.”
TAX ORDINANCES
The modification of the tax ordinances have been carried out only with the votes of the PRC-PSOEyes ok The update of the ordinance regulating garbage and solid waste collection has also received the support of Torrelavega Yeswhich agrees that citizens should pay for the real cost of services. However, like the rest of the opposition, they do not agree that taxes be raised to have more income and be able to meet the expenses that the City Council has, but rather they choose to look for other sources.
And it is that With the approved increase, some 632,000 more euros will be entered into the municipal coffers. In the case of IBI, there is an increase in the tax rate from 0.64% to 0.671%. “If it were a collection effort, we would be talking about much higher percentages”said the Treasury councilor, but The groups have agreed that the Government team continues to generate “superfluous spending” and increases the tax pressure on citizens while the public services provided to them “get worse.”.
THE OPPOSITION ACCUSES THEM OF WASTING
“They are raising absolutely everything”has denounced the ‘popular’ spokesperson, Miguel Ángel Vargas, who has questioned how projects such as the reforms of the Livestock Market or the Municipal Palace are going to be paid for if taxes are already at the maximum. Roberto García Corona, from Vox, has been the most critical, ensuring that the tax increase “will not have an end” and that The Government team “needs our money because they are wasting it”. “We don’t have better municipal services, but they cost residents more every day.” “The City Council has a financial dynamic of bankruptcy,” he lamented. For his part, the IU- Podemos councilor, Borja Peláez, has criticized thate “the working class is going to have to pay more while watching public services be handed over to private companies”. He has also asked for fiscal progressivity, since “a retiree or a worker pays the same as a large company.”
However, it has also been approved update of the bonuses for water and waste collection services, which were previously linked to the IPREM and are now associated with the Interprofessional Minimum Wage (SMI), which will allow more families to benefit from them. On the other hand, in this session it was planned to approve the changes that have occurred in the agreement for the city’s railway underground – which affect the costs and deadlines of the project – but it has been left on the table until the next plenary session since As reported by the mayor, Javier López Estrada, a new proposal has arrived from Adif that modifies the document and that will be studied.
LA LECHERA, BACK TO TENDER
Another of the agreements has been the unanimous approval of the file to remove thetendering the second phase of rehabilitation of La Lechera for its conversion into an art and culture center, after the first contest was deserted. For this reason, the Joint Commission formed by the Government of Cantabria and the Torrelavega City Council has reviewed the project and updated the prices, increasing them by 10%, with which the budget for this work grows from 10 to 11 million euros. “The rest of the project remains exactly the same,” explained the PSOE spokesperson and Councilor for Works, José Luis Urraca.
MODIFIED BUDGET
In another order, PRC-PSOE has given the green light to a mmodified budget that amounts to 3.95 million euros, and? The opposition has not supported it because it does not see it possible to carry it out “at this time of the year” and because of the “uncertainty” surrounding some items.such as the 700,000 euros for the acquisition of land for the construction of public housing. The Government team has defended that “every year” there is a budget modification “in the final stretch of the year” to make “readjustments” in the items, while the opposition has criticized that “instead they should be approving the 2025 budget”.
Regarding the content of the modification, the 300,000 euros for the construction of new skate parks in Nueva Ciudadgiven the need to increase the initial investment planned; 260,000 euros for subsidies; as aid aimed at moving economic activities from mezzanines to commercial premises (160,000 euros) and to facade repair (100,000 euros); or 233,000 euros for works contracts that have suffered variations due to the increase in prices of certain materials.
In the motions section, Vox has presented one to request that the City Council request a moratorium for the entry into force of the Low Emissions Zone until the judicial appeal presented by the Platform Save Torrelavega from a Ruinous ZBE is resolved, but it has not moved forward since it has only garnered the support of the PP. The Councilor for Mobility, Jezabel Tazón (PRC), has said that “when the ruling comes out we will have to see the actions”, but “we can move forward in parallel” towards the implementation of the ZBE.
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