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"It is only fair that municipalities are not vulnerable to the crisis"

The Mayor, Miguel Angel House has convened an extraordinary plenary meeting to be held next Friday at 11 am, to request an urgent start of the negotiation of new local funding, so that it enters into force on January 1, 2010 .

House, also president of the Federation of Municipalities of the Region of Murcia, will introduce the motion referred to the local investment plan for next year and the reform of the financing of municipalities.

The Mayor's proposal is structured in three steps:

Request the National Government that at least 3,000 million euros of Local Investment Plan 2010, are intended to cover public services that municipalities provide without having the skills or funding for it.

Order, effective immediately, the beginning of the negotiation of new local funding, over 30 years expected to ensure stable and adequate funding for local government, in accordance with the provisions of the Spanish Constitution, Article by Law State participation in state revenues (PIE) and the autonomous communities (clubs), so that it enters into force on 1 January.

According to divulge the National Government, the parliamentary groups of the Congress of Deputies, and FMRM FEMP.

Municipalities experiencing a serious situation in many cases dying, because of the economic crisis that has led to a significant decline in tax revenues of municipalities and state transfers.

In this sense, it is likely that Spanish councils receive for the latter about 3,000 million euros less than in the previous financial year.

Furthermore, it has breached the commitment to address jointly and simultaneously reforming the regional and local funding.

While the first is closed, the second has no start date.

According to House, "is right that local authorities are not taken down and checked out" before the crisis, why "just and necessary it is to be given to municipalities than their fair share."

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia