The government will bring the budget to committee on Monday after including all the amendments of Cs and CBM

If the opinion is favorable, the document will be discussed and voted in plennary session on Friday, March 17

The local government has included in the agenda of the informative commission of Finance next Monday the draft of the municipal budget of 2017, after assuming and include in the document all the economic amendments transferred in recent days by the groups Ciudadanos (Cs ) and Ciudadanos por Benidorm (CBM).

Thus, once the documentation on proposed and admitted modifications was finalized, together with the favorable reports of the experts, and as the Mayor Toni Pérez had advanced to all the groups of the corporation in the course of a Board of Spokesmen, if the committee's opinion is favorable, the budget will be discussed and voted on in plenary session on Friday, 17 March.

The draft budget amounts to 93,638,954.72 euros. A 12% of the expenses section -11,245,000 euros- is intended to pay public debt, while the section on real investments in works and projects stands at 4,634,849.18 euros. To this amount must be added the investments included in the current expenditure chapter and also referred to works.

Among the most outstanding investments, included in the initial document, are the construction of the roundabout and access road to the industrial estate and the remodeling of the Mediterranean Avenue, both multi-year projects. There is also a consignment for the Parc de la Séquia Mare, the pedestrianization of Gerona Street between Orts Llorca and Esperanto, accessibility, asphalting, the demolition of a block of teachers' homes in Leonor Canalejas school, improvements in the Rincón de Loix health center, as well as investment in Historical Heritage and to continue advancing in the objective of Intelligent Tourist Destination.

In addition, the document includes 235,000 euros for Participatory Budgets.