The Council heard about this draft ordinance in the first debate.
On the morning of this Tuesday, November 23, 2021, the Quito Metropolitan Council session was held in which He was introduced to the draft Ordinance for the budget of the Municipality in 2022 in the first debate.
This ordinance must be approved in two debates, the Council’s deadline is December 10. The planned budget for the following year is $ 734’684,028.28. In relation to the previous year, it will have a decrease of 6%.
The concilor Eduardo del Pozo, Chairman of the Budget Committee, stated that Although that will be the value that they will handle, the allocation could change for different entities or companies.
The draft ordinance presented It does not contain the values that the projects that will not be executed will leave in this year and that could be included in next year.
In addition, he assured that there will be an increase for the carry-over of receivables that the Municipality of Quito will have, “This has been a atypical year that has not allowed to execute the budgets assigned to the different companies ”, emphasized Del Pozo.
He also reported that the budget report delivered by the previous administration was not modified, to make changes based on the observations issued by the councilors. Some values will undergo changes according to the increases requested by new agencies and companies that initiated reports on the state of these.
This budget will be divided into $ 122′726,427.67 for the Quito Metro; $ 317’060,000 for investment (works and projects to be executed) and about $ 294’900,000 for current expenses (payment of payroll to municipal officials and administrative expenses).
It is current expenditure is equivalent to the payment of salaries of the nearly 22,000 workers that are part of the different municipal agencies and institutions, is equivalent to the 40% of the entire annual budget.
Mayor Santiago Guarderas explained that this project was delivered on September 10, before assuming the Mayor’s Office and handing over the new dependencies, so “purging” had to be carried out to comply with his government plan.
For example, this earlier plan, in the Security and Governance, which corresponds to the Body of Control Agents and the Security Secretariat, proposed 1% decrease in the new budget. In 2021 it was $ 28,950,337.23. For 2022 it was requested that it be $ 28′755.907.37.
In another sector such as the District Trade Coordination Agency, this budget had a 57% increase, going from $ 4’148,580.89 to $ 7’483,788.82.
Guarderas also pointed out that the purchase of resignations for the officials who have requested will be carried out this year and next.
The concilor Fernando Morales placeholder image asked that this budget take into account the values that would go to rural parishes. “Not in a populist way, but in executable works. I do not know in what state these values are or how they are being implemented, but if the Council has the will to allocate resources to the parishes, this is the moment ”, he asserted.
The mayor also mentioned that currently the Municipality has 42.67% of the 2021 budget execution, “The officials can recover that execution that the new mayor inherited, they are on time if they work without sleep, without rest, with all the respect they deserve,” he added.
Deputy Mayor Brith Vaca arranged an orange rose in each of the council positions, in commemoration of the Day of Non-Violence against Women. (I)
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