The president of the Consell Insular de Ibiza, Vicent Marí, and the councilor of Finance and Economic Management, Salvador Losa, today presented the draft budget of the institution for the year 2025, which reaches 144,612,970.89 euros, a figure that represents an increase of 8.5% over the budget of 2024, which reached 133,278,902.11 euros. The president stressed that these accounts are intended to “address and meet the most immediate needs and challenges facing the Ibizan society”, such as the problem of access to housing, the fight against intrusion or saturation.
This will have an increase of 23.5 million euros of extraordinary budget, reaching a budget of 168,188,540.6 euros to be managed by the Consell in 2025.
This extraordinary contribution comes from the insularity factor fund for investments in Road Network that will be subscribed with the CAIB in the 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. Thus, in order to activate the policies aimed at combating “the problems that affect our island and threaten its social prosperity” the president explained that the budgets mark two axes that will define government action over the coming months (Axis I: People and Sustainability and Axis II: Infrastructure and Services), with the aim of achieving a balance between the two axes “because without balance there is no future”.
Destination of funds
In the first axis, aimed at policies aimed at people and sustainability, Social Welfare will continue to be the most important and highest item in this budget with a total of 40.8 million euros, 13% more than the previous year. In this department, it is worth mentioning the increase of 500,000 euros in the Basic Benefits Plan, which reaches 3.2 million euros, the provision of 12 housing units for social services and attention to Women, the implementation of the 24-hour Crisis Center, and the increase in the item destined to the attention of minors, which reaches 8.9 million euros, 9.93% more than in 2024.
The attention to people will also be developed through the Plan 5 of Municipal Cooperation that throughout 2025 will be refocused to allocate 3 million euros to activate housing policies in all municipalities of the island. Marí has advanced that, also related to this will to address the social problems arising from the lack of housing, for 2025 is planned to launch an ambitious plan of shock against intrusiveness, allocating 4 million euros of ITS to control and end these illegal practices. Within this axis, it is also contemplated the item to start developing the new public transport contract and, as Marí explained, “since the central government has already announced that it does not plan to allocate salaries to the free bus , by this Consell insular has provided an item to ensure free T-Daurada and T-Jove cards and reduced rates of the T-Plata and T-General“. In addition, a first item of 150,000 euros is contemplated for the constitution of the Mobility Consortium that must develop the law of control of vehicles on the island of Ibiza. In the second axis, aimed at improving public services and infrastructures, important projects have been planned to improve the safety of the island’s road network, such as the Es Caçadors crossroads, the traffic circle at the entrance to San José or the improvement of Can Guillemó. In waste management, an allocation of 15 million euros (to be financed by the CAIB and remainders) has been foreseen to execute the works planned to minimize bad odors in the Ca na Putxa Environmental Area; in sports, the construction of the multidisciplinary pavilion Sa Blanca Dona or the Motor Park of sa Coma stand out; in the cultural field, the beginning of the works of Ses Nou Rodades and the opening of the Museum of the Sea stand out. In tourism, the consolidation of the Tourism Intelligence System of Ibiza stands out . It has also been highlighted that the budget includes an item for the demolition of the structure of Cala d’en Serra to recover the environmental and landscape values of this environment.
Extraordinary income
The Councilor of Finance and Economic Management, Salvador Losa, explained that to meet all these challenges, the Consell de Eivissa will have in 2025 with a whole series of extraordinary income, the result of several political agreements reached between this institution and the Autonomous Community, “that will allow us to ensure that 2025 will be a historic year in terms of funding by the Government of the Balearic Islands, thus recovering the specific weight that deserves and corresponds to the island of Ibiza”. Thus, in application of the Consell Law, for the year 2025, in a forecast of income by the CAIB of 77,390,244.9 euros. To this figure, 2.5 million euros must be added as settlement of advances resulting from the historical debt agreement signed with the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Innovation of the Government of the Balearic Islands and also, as a result of this same agreement, 1,575,393.80 euros must be added, in compensation for the investments made in waste treatment in the Environmental Area of Can Pucha. The Government of the Balearic Islands will also compensate Ibiza with a contribution of 6 million euros for the insularity factor fund for investments in Road Network that will be signed in the coming months. Thus, in 2025, between these contributions and other ordinary agreements, the Consell Insular de Ibiza will receive from the Govern de las Illes Balears a minimum of 94,941,983.6 euros.
which is “the most other figure ever reflected in a budget by this administration,” they said. A figure that will be higher, considering that they do not contemplate the investments awarded in the Plenary of the Commission for the Promotion of Sustainable Tourism Tax, which for 2025 amount to 12.7 million euros. On the other hand, the increase in income from Fees, Public Prices and Other Income, which amounts to 10.46 million Euros, as a result of the implementation of the Shock Plan to Fight against Intrusiveness, as well as the increase in the tax rate of fines against pirate cabs, has also been highlighted. This draft budget will be submitted to the approval of the Plenary of the Consell Insular de Eivissa in an extraordinary session scheduled for this Thursday, December 5.
