The plenary of the Consell Insular de Ibiza has finally approved the budget for 2025. Finally, none of the allegations that had been presented during December were estimated and the insular institution will have a budget of 144,612,970.89 euros, which with 23.5 million euros of extraordinary contributions will reach 168,188,540.6 euros. The budget, which will come into force immediately after its publication in the BOIB, represents an increase of 8.5% in relation to the 2024 budget, which reached 133,278,902.11 euros. The extraordinary contributions will come from the insularity factor fund for investments in Road Network that will be subscribed with the CAIB for an amount of 6 million euros, and from two ITS calls: the extraordinary call of 2023 that reaches 4.8 million euros and, on the other hand, the 12.7 million euros corresponding to the ordinary call 2024-2025.
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The Conseller of Finance and Economic Management of the Consell, Salvador Losa, explained that, after analyzing the allegations presented by the socialist group, these have been dismissed in a report drafted by three national technical skills of the institution, as they referred to technical issues already amended. Losa has highlighted that the Consell will have 168,188,540.89 euros destined “to policies
to meet the most immediate needs and challenges faced by the Ibizan society such as the problem of access to housing, the fight against intrusion, or saturation”. The conseller has highlighted the following contributions of the budget:
- 4.2 million euros earmarked for a shock plan to fight intrusiveness.
- 3 million euros to activate housing policies in all the municipalities of the island.
- The increase in the Basic Benefits Plan, which amounted to 3.2 million euros.
- The item to start developing the new public transportation contract.
- The start of “important projects to improve the safety of the island’s road network, such as the Cazadores crossroads, the traffic circle at the entrance to San José or the improvement of Can Guillamó”.
- Projects in waste management (“an item of 15 million euros has been foreseen to be financed by the CAIB and remainders to execute the works planned to minimize bad odors in the Environmental Area of Ca na Putxa”).
- The construction of the Sa Blanca Dona multidisciplinary pavilion and the Sa Coma Motor Park.
- In the cultural field, the beginning of the works of Ses Nou Rodades and the opening of the Museum of the Sea.
“And all this is, in short, a draft budget aimed at, with work and firmness, to combat the main problems affecting the citizens of the island, to be a useful and active administration,” concluded Losa.
