COUNCILS," QUO VADIS? - Part
E oday maintain continuous daily contact with the so-called Local Government (Municipalities, Provincial and other local bodies, Associations of Municipalities, Councils, Town Island ....), A member of Civil call with the State and the Autonomous shaped and defined by our Constitution of 1978, so I make this article knowingly and concluding, which in turn is the premise of it but implies a contradiction , that the English Local Government is in a situation economic and financial collapse "technical" deficit / fiscal imbalance permanent.
What were the circumstances that led to this situation in the municipalities?.
What consequences flow from this financial situation of the municipalities for the rest of the English economy, both public and private?.
What possible solutions may arise or arise out of this grave situation?. Let
therefore
in parts.
First .- What are the circumstances that led to the Local Authorities in general and local councils in particular, this situation of bankruptcy "art"?
As you said the FEM (English Federation of Municipalities), local councils have traditionally assumed the provision of a range of skills beyond those defined and attributed to them by the Consolidated Law System Rules Local, which correponden or State powers to regional governments or other local bodies, provincial councils in particular. One example is in the obligations arising from the implementation of the Law Unit, which are the responsibility of the CCAA, but in the end carried out, in practice the administration closer to the citizen, the neighbor- local councils, and is it to the end the neighbor mentioned responsibilities required of all kinds, especially political.
funding to carry out these responsibilities "inappropriate" from the State / CCAA or other local authorities, local councils will arrive late, wrong and, as you might imagine, not enough, so that the City must " pull for budgetary and own resources, affecting their balanced budget.
A real example of what I have been mentioned earlier Wednesday for a mayor of a municipality Castilian-La Mancha: "Patrick looks at City Hall to preside (over 5,000 inhabitants) Board owes us almost 1 million euros of things approved, justified and most who already have paid us, many of them for 10 and 12 months. Tan "vaunted" shock plan announced Barreda, today, we have 6 workers hired almost 4 months (paying their salaries and social security) and not the Board has paid nothing. We have another 20 people with credentials emergency plan waiting to be hired and do not dare, because we can not bear the expense for 6 months without knowing how much time will it take the Board to pay us that. Ie added to the problem of having to assume responsibilities without funding improper for them, now joins the long delay in payments Board is choking us. We will have to seriously reconsider having to stop providing some services that have commercial contracts (with the harm associated for contractors and their employees) to deal with payroll.
This situation will have to publicly denounce with other municipalities because the situation is going to be unsustainable, and Barreda has to bear the political responsibility for its disastrous management. We can not let out only on the TVs in the region making demagogic speeches daily and with great self-promotion ads, then go scot-free without disaster management the government has political cost to él.Te give other information, the Town Council requested that I chair 3 works for the plan and, one is up and the other two ended 4 months ago. Those that ended in June, is justified before the MAP immediately, and for that you know you have to be paid 100% to the contractor. They finished 4 months these 2 works are justified, the companies paid the full amount thereof, and today, yet the government has paid 30% of ZP for each of these 2 works (without But we sold that as justificásemos 100% of the works of the plan and, being paid once the final 30
%)..."
The equation It is therefore quite simple:
Lack of funding = default suppliers / creditors = closure of companies = higher unemployment = less consumption = further ad = more debt = economic crisis = technical bankruptcy
The main cause of this situation tb. is that the bulk of municipal revenues were and are tied to the housing boom, brick, ie, the IBI, the local Goodwill, zoning permits and ICIO were and are the backbone of the coffers of nearly all municipalities English. In response, the municipalities have taken the rest in the imagination "tax" creating new fees and taxes each more absurd (the examples are countless ).... or increasing the tax burden of existing paying the "duck" the suffering citizens Township residents turn. An example of this is the scandal that has occurred with the fee collection and processing of solid waste in the City of Madrid (Gallardón dixit-"Very bueeeno)
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Bill of General State budget: for 2010 as expected not provide a solution or medium solution to this situation so that the very black picture arises ..........