The plenary session approved a budget amendment worth 3.3 million to address outstanding obligations from the previous fiscal year
Benidorm unanimously approves the General Account for the 2024 financial year
Benidorm City Council plenary session unanimously approved the General Accounts for the 2024 financial year today in an extraordinary session after it received a favourable opinion from the special accounts committee and was published in the Official Gazette of the Province, following the submission of no complaints, objections, or observations.
The approval of the General Accounts, as explained by the Councillor for Finance, Aida García Mayor, is an administrative act of a purely accounting nature "limited to the numerical and accounting reflection of the transactions carried out during the year." The councillor also highlighted the fact that no complaints were submitted to the document.
On the other hand, the session also approved a budget amendment worth €3,340,673.66, with the votes of the governing team and the abstention of the Socialist group and Vox. García Mayor pointed out that once the budgetary needs for 2025 related to debt repayment were covered, the modification above was necessary to address "obligations pending application to the budget as of December 31, 2024, with a balance of €1,330,639.33 that could not be applied to the previous fiscal year's budget, other expenses arising from the overcharges for the municipal building cleaning service due to the increase in the minimum wage, amounting to €1,175,372.97, and, finally, services pending invoice for the 2024 fiscal year for the fixed voice, data, and mobile communications contract amounting to €804,701.36."
At this point, the existence of a legal report commissioned as a result of Serra Gelada ruling was reported, since it could affect the processing of the budget modification file. The report concludes that the City Council's failure to enforce the ruling—for which a suspension request has been made before the Constitutional Court and the Third Administrative Court of Alicante—"does not constitute a violation" of the Law on Administrative Litigation Jurisdiction until these courts issue a ruling on the matter.
