Every month in the Municipality of Cerro Largo 190 million pesos in zero item
After some measures that had to be adopted in the second half of the year, the Departmental Executive closes 2024 with balanced numbers.
The Director General of the Treasury revealed during the live interview of THE DIARY PROFESSIONAL That each month, around $190,000,000 is needed to cover item 0.
“The Municipality does not manage 10,000, 20,000 or 100,000 pesos, but rather manages millions and millions of pesos. To have initial coverage of item 0, which is what means the payment of the salaries of Municipal officials, officials of the Municipality, the Municipalities, the Municipality of Río Branco, fulfilling contracts with NGOs, making transfers to the Board Departmental for salaries, round, only that, plus the withholdings that are withholdings in salaries that have to do with credits, National Fund, social benefits such as BPS, DGI for personal income tax, we are speaking that they are around almost 190 Million Pesos per month” confirmed the Dr. Rafael Rodríguez.
“Every month you have to have approximately that amount available” he added. “Of which we need yes or yes in the order of 80 Million Pesos to be able to function between the 1st and the 7th of each month. Added to that is that you also have to pay for the Sanatorium because the Municipal Intendencies are not included in FONASA. “We achieved a historic agreement with the Mutualist CAMCEL” stood out. “That was the product and work of a management that after a very large debt that the Municipality had for a long time, it was possible to have a new agreement to regularize the payment with CAMCEL. Almost $50,000,000 was disbursed exactly one year ago. “It was possible to unify a quota and we could work in that direction” said.
The Director of Finance of the Yurramendi Administration also referred to some agreements that were signed with ANCAP for both fuels and bitumen. “Many times we hear some actors who demand bituminization, in some senses they are right, but without knowing the costs and the movements that must be made to have a cubic meter of bitumen placed in Cerro Largo” he pointed out.
“Sometimes it is not just about saying, asking and complaining but also about knowing how the system works, that it is not so easy to go and spread the bitumen in a locality” said Dr. Rodríguez.
“It is an issue that generates a very stressful situation for the financial situation of the Municipality and we have a duty to ensure that these objectives are met” held.
“Sooner or later everything is fulfilled, sooner or later people in general have the security that we have achieved, from my point of view, the security that both officials, suppliers and other interested parties who contract with the Municipality, have always had the security of the payment, which is no small thing” he assured.
CALMER END OF THE YEAR
“The year is closing more peacefully, meeting the objectives” said the Director General of the Treasury.
“The sources of resources of the Municipality are: taxes, national contributions that come from the Central Government by constitutional mandate and then the bulk of what has to do with municipal functioning itself, lies in what has to do with “work certifications” reported. “It is where the Municipality receives the bulk of its resources. It is what allows it to act in matters of works, in social management, in matters of management at different levels.” broad. “Many times that is compromised by other factors. If the work is stalled or slowed down for different reasons, due to management or weather issues, it cannot be certified in a timely manner.” accurate. “Every work that is certified by the Municipality and the OPP Technicians, the payment for that certification is made only 60 days after the certification is made.” explained Dr. Rafael Rodríguez.
