The mayor of Yaiza, Óscar Noda, announced this Thursday at a press conference the main axes of the City Council's budget for this year, a few hours before its approval in Plenary. As he has detailed, the accounts amount to 21.9 million euros and “the City Council will have 17.5 million euros for public investment, despite dragging a year of pandemic that has been very hard for citizens and for all public administrations." Noda appeared before the media together with his colleagues from the government group, made up of Unidos por Yaiza (UPY) and Coalición Canaria (CC).
"For almost three years now, we have been financing investments with treasury surpluses thanks to the fact that since mid-2018 we have fully amortized the financial debt, which is why the figure zero appears in the investment chapter of the 2021 Budget,” explained the mayor, who was Councilor for Economy and Finance since 2011.
As Noda has detailed, the City Council now incorporates 8.5 million euros more into its treasury balance, which added to the 9 million from last year, totals 17.5 million euros “with which we will help satisfy citizen needs that also boost the economy by generating employment.”
Among the investment objectives for this 2021, Yaiza highlights the last annuity of the Playa Blanca Sports Hall, a work of 7 million euros of one hundred percent municipal financing; the conditioning works of the 2.4-kilometer-long road that runs between the IES Yaiza roundabout and the roundabout at the entrance to the town of Puerto Calero, which require 950,000 euros; the continuity of the Paving and Road Improvement Plan for the towns that foresees the arrangement of the Papagayo Avenue of Playa Blanca to the Las Coloradas urbanization, among other actions; the continuity of the rehabilitation of parks in the municipality, in addition to "maintaining the paving and sidewalk improvement works that are underway in the urban area of Costa Papagayo".
“We know that beautiful words and declarations of intent are not enough, but that political will must be injected with money to carry out infrastructures, and that is what we are doing in Yaiza, with projects that we finance entirely with our own funds and others that we co-finance with supra-municipal administrations, which in total amount to more than 50 million euros of investment. We are able to sign agreements with other institutions because we are a healthy City Council that complies with all our obligations, without exception,” Noda defended.
From the City Council they point out in a statement that "the mayor's words are ratified by the technical report of the Intervention," which says that "the Corporation has, as in previous years, sufficient treasury to have room when proceeding to pay current payments" and that "the level of indebtedness at the close of the year is zero.”
"We will continue to act responsibly and without going crazy, it is the path we have traveled in recent years and the one that has led us to a situation of budgetary stability, which is even improvable if the pandemic allows it. Citizens have made enormous sacrifices to survive covid-19, and the least we can do is respond to them from our competences, attending, of course, to the needs in social services, increasing items in them and in employment plans, sports, culture or tourism promotion, among other areas, and investing in public works that translates into common welfare,” concluded the mayor.
