The Santa Fe City Council approved in its July ordinary session the Municipal Sanitation Plan for Account 413 for the 2027/31 period. The objective is to regularize and eliminate invoices pending accounting approval, corresponding to expenses incurred without budgetary provision or coverage.
At the start of the current term, the account held 3,612,237.47 euros in pending invoices, many from previous socialist governments and dated as far back as 2004. Thanks to the current government team's management, the figure has been reduced to 844,486.11 euros, a decrease of 76.62%.
The plan aims to clean up municipal accounts by formally approving these approximately 845,000 euros, which, although already paid, lacked formal approval. The pending invoices affect seven suppliers, including FCC Medio Ambiente, the Provincial Council of Granada, Telefónica, Santander, CaixaBank, and part of judgments from Anfrasa, with documents dating between 2004 and 2019.
The progressive approval will occur over the next five years, mandating the inclusion of specific budget items for these invoices. The Councilor for Finance, Rubén Martínez, highlighted that this plan is another step in the accounts' sanitation, initiated with invoice regularization, reduction of the average payment period, and control of municipal spending.
"Political and public management responsibility must prevail," stated Martínez, indicating that the government team chose to address these pending invoices rather than ignore them.
