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La austeridad marcará los próximos ejercicios de El ConsorciThe austerity will mark the next exercises of The Consorci
4 September 2012
The council plenario of the Consorci of the Frank Zone of Barcelona, under the presidency of the mayor of the city Xavier Trias, approved the closing of accounts of the entity of the exercise 2011, that registered some losses of 1,9 million euros and knew the review of the budget of the entity for 2012, where foresees adjust 15% the cost concerning the figures of 2011.
The austerity in the cost will be the paramount guideline of the Consorci for the years 2012 and 2013 for reequilibrar the accounts and reduce the losses of the public entity, according to explicitó in his report of gestión in front of the plenario the delegate of the State in the Consorci, Jordi Cornet, that is the executive president of the entity from January of 2012. Cornet Considers that, to go back to generate wealth, “is of the all indispensable do this effort of rationalisation in the cost and increase the income, thing that will make possible that the Consorci can go on doing projects that contribute to the economic and business development of Barcelona, Catalonia and Spain”.
It informed to the plenario of the decision, by criteria of saving, of not covering the charges of general director and general secretary of the Consorci, as well as of the decision to sack by objective causes to 10 managerial charges. The adjust corporate to organise eficientemente the sobredimensionada structure of the entity has involved to reduce the committee of steering of the Consorci in practically the half of his members. The adjust of the organisation chart comports an annual saving of 1,7 milions of euros, that, when complementing with a discount salarial pactada of all the managerial team, will elevate the saving to a total of 2 million euros.
Jordi Cornet proposed that the planned costs in the budget of 2012 —approved the past December—, review to the drop regarding the costs of structure, so that these recess more than 15%, when happening of 20,9 millions in 2011 to 17,7 millions in the revised budget for 2012. The advance of budgets for the first semester of 2012 keeps the results to the drop of the previous exercise.
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