None of the allegations presented have been upheld. During this year, the Consell Insular will manage 168,188,540.89 euros.
The plenary session of the Consell Insular de Eivissa has today definitively approved the budget for 2025, which will come into force immediately after its publication in the BOIB (Official Gazette of the Balearic Islands).
The Councillor for Finance and Economic Management of the Consell Insular de Eivissa, Salvador Losa, explained that, after analysing the allegations presented by the Socialist group, these have been dismissed in a report drafted by three national technical experts of the institution, as they referred to technical issues already amended.
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The Consell de Eivissa definitively approves the budget for 2025
Thus, this year the island institution will have a budget of 144,612,970.89 euros, a figure that represents an increase of 8.5% concerning the 2024 budget, which reached 133,278,902.11 euros. This budget will increase by 23.5 million euros with extraordinary contributions to reach 168,188,540.6 euros. This extraordinary contribution comes from the insularity factor fund for road network investments to be subscribed with the CAIB for an amount of 6 million euros, and from two ITS calls: the extraordinary call for 2023, which amounts to 4.8 million euros, and the 12.7 million euros corresponding to the ordinary call for 2024-2025.
Losa stressed that the Consell will have 168,188. 540.89 euros earmarked ‘for policies to meet the most immediate needs and challenges faced by Ibizan society, such as the problem of access to housing, the fight against illegal entry, or overcrowding’, with 4.2 million euros earmarked for a shock plan to fight against illegal entry, 3 million euros to activate housing policies in all municipalities on the island, the increase in the Basic Benefits Plan, which reaches 3.2 million euros, the allocation to start developing the new public transport contract and the start of important projects to improve the safety of the island’s road network, 3.2 million euros, the allocation to start developing the new public transport contract and the start of important projects to improve the safety of the island’s road network, such as the Cazadores crossroads, the roundabout at the entrance to San José and the improvement of Can Guillamó, in addition to projects in waste management (an allocation of 15 million euros (to be financed by the CAIB and residual funds) has been planned to carry out the works planned to minimise bad smells in the Ca na Putxa Environmental Area); In sports (with the construction of the Sa Blanca Dona multidisciplinary pavilion and the Sa Coma Motor Park); in the cultural sphere, the start of work on Ses Nou Rodades and the opening of the Museum of the Sea stand out.
‘And all this is, in short, a draft budget aimed at, with hard work and firmness, combating the main problems affecting the island’s citizens, by being a useful and active administration’, concluded Losa.