The Municipal Council of the Canary Islands, which met this week and was chaired by the Minister of Public Administrations, Justice and Security, Julio Pérez, has been informed of the distribution of the 291,899,473 euros corresponding to the Canary Islands Municipal Financing Fund (FCFM) for 2022, approved by the Government Council of the Canary Islands on April 28. Lanzarote will receive 21.8 million to be distributed among the seven town councils.
Of the total amount, 288,980,478.27 euros have been distributed among the 88 Canary Island municipalities and the remaining 1%, 2,918,994.73, has been allocated to the Canary Islands Federation of Municipalities (Fecam), as established by Law 3/1999, of February 4, of the FCFM.
The regulations governing the Fund establish that a part of the amount will be advanced to the municipalities once the Canary Islands Government approves the distribution, and the rest, through a final payment that is made once they have taken into consideration the audits carried out on the previous year and that the Administration has definitively approved them.
The amount allocated to the different municipalities is distributed according to population criteria (68%), solidarity (16%), territorial dispersion (5%), school units (4%), territorial extension (2%), protected natural areas (2%), tourist accommodation places (2%) and peripheral insularity (1%).
By islands, of the 288.9 million to be distributed among the municipalities, a total of 113.1 million will go to the 31 municipalities of Tenerife, 102 million to the 21 municipalities of Gran Canaria, 21.8 to the seven of Lanzarote, 21.2 to the six town councils of La Palma, 17.8 to the six of Fuerteventura and 8.6 to the six municipalities of La Gomera. The remaining 4.1 million will be distributed among the three municipalities of El Hierro.
The purpose of the FCFM is to provide municipalities with resources for economic and financial recovery and, if the indicators provided for in the law are met, for investment or social emergency aid - in certain cases - as well as for expenditure of free disposal.
The Municipal Council of the Canary Islands, composed of an equal number of representatives of the Public Administration of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands and of the municipal administrations, has among its competences the issuance of proposals, reports, opinions and opinions on the criteria foreseen for the effectiveness of coordination, cooperation and collaboration between the Public Administration of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands and that of the Canary Islands municipalities.
In particular, proposals or initiatives in matters affecting the municipal administration, the regulation of the Canary Islands Municipal Financing Fund and the resources derived from the Economic and Fiscal Regime of the Canary Islands, the general planning of investments and subsidies with municipal impact, as well as any other functions legally or regulatory attributed to it.
In addition to the distribution of the FCFM, the meeting approved the internal operating rules of the Municipal Council of the Canary Islands and the working groups and the report on the Preliminary Draft Law on Biodiversity and Natural Resources of the Canary Islands was analyzed. This last issue was also discussed at the meeting of the Island Collaboration Council, held previously under the presidency of Julio Pérez.
The Island Collaboration Council is responsible for exercising all the powers attributed to it by the legal system as a body for permanent collaboration and cooperation between the Public Administration of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands and the island councils, which are exercised through the adoption of agreements, issuance of reports and proposals, and without prejudice to the powers attributed to other collaboration and cooperation bodies.
