The tools to escape the control of spending that have been made in the south of Gran Canaria using management assignments in the private and public environment of the Commonwealth of Medianías have forced the Municipal Intervention to take extreme precautions when executing spending in 2024 in San Bartolomé de Tirajana. The financial oversight bodies of San Bartolomé de Tirajana have reinforced their plan to verify the correct application of the criteria of the European System of Accounts in the calculation of the financing capacity or need for each year derived from the important impact of the liquidation of 2020 and compensation by the State.
It is not known how, but in the official budget approval note there was a verb used that has not been liked by officials since last December 2023: rush. And it was said that "to speed up the administrative procedures" due to the spending ceiling, the plenary session decided to transfer money from social projects to the Commonwealth of Municipalities of the Medianías of Gran Canaria. The officials do not want to be called to order by Madrid. In fact, hardly anything has moved on this matter at this point in the year and progress is expected on March 18, 2024. These are technical processes that have a rhythm that requires caution when executing.
And after four years in which the fiscal rules have been suspended at the European and national level, the deactivation of the escape clause in 2024 under a context of institutional uncertainty caused by the confluence of several factors such as the elections last month of June 2023. The south of Gran Canaria has drawn on entities such as the Mancomunidad de Medianías de Gran Canaria seeking greater elasticity.
For San Bartolomé de Tirajana, the AIReF forecasts would be compatible with compliance with the spending growth limit of 2,6% as long as the temporary income and expense measures adopted to alleviate the effects of the price crisis are withdrawn ( although there the margin is practically zero). However, for the process of preparing the local budgets for 2025, the only existing reference is the forecast included in the Update of the Stability Program at the balance level by subsectors, which, in the case of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, corresponds to a budget balance situation by 2024.
In any case, it should be noted that, according to current legislation, the reference rate of the national spending rule would be around 3%. This situation of institutional uncertainty also affects the municipalities of the south of Gran Canaria. In any case, it should be noted that, according to current legislation, the reference rate of the national spending rule would be around 3%.
