Barcelona will celebrate next Friday the full of portfolio, in which relevant issues of operation are approved, something common when a mandate begins. In the plenary meeting, after everything has been negotiated these days, the names of the presidents and vice-presidents of the municipal commissions will be voted on.
Representatives will also be designated on the boards of administration of municipal companies. Representatives in the Free Zone Consortium are also elected. Those who will go to the Metropolitan Area have already been designated in an extraordinary plenary session.
Managers, 5% more
The portfolio agreement also includes salaries, which after three frozen terms will rise, or as representatives of all groups said this Tuesday in the consistory, will be updated, which sounds less like an increase. Salaries will rise by 4%, both in the case of councilors and the mayor. In the case of managers, the increase will be 5%.
Specifically, Jaume Collboni would be entitled, according to the rules of the previous mandate, a maximum salary of 100,000 euros. Now that salary will rise to 104,000 euros. It is understood that the socialist will receive it without further modifications, as mayors have done as a rule with the exception of the last one, Ada Colau, who in 2015 tried to reduce salaries in a general way without success, failing to obtain the support of the rest of the groups to do so.
A measured increase
So, he decided to collect part of his salary and dedicate the rest to a fund that Barcelona en Comú dedicates to various causes. From 2015 to 2019, Colau received 2,200 euros for 14 payments. The Comuns raised the amount, or reduced the restriction, in the following term: from 2019 to 2023, Colau received 3,100 euros for 14 payments. Sources from the consistory specify that if the mayor’s salary had been raised in recent terms to the extent permitted by law, it would now be at 116,000 euros, and that something similar would happen with the salaries of the mayors.
Once the increase is applied, this is how the salary table of the consistory remains, in which the salaries of the councilors are varied depending on different concepts, starting with the positions. The mayor will receive 104,000 euros per year; deputy mayors, 102,119 euros, the same amount that is expected for the councilor who acts as spokesperson.
The presidents of the municipal groups will receive 96,304 eurosand the councilors that are part of government, 87,913 euros, the same amount as the spokesperson for a municipal group. He deputy spokesperson from a group gets 79,714 euro. The councilor who presides over a municipal commission will charge 78,328 euros, the same as the one who presides over a district. An opposition councilor without any of the other responsibilities cited will receive 58,642 euros.
The amounts drop in proportion to the corresponding percentage if the dedication is reduced, which can be 85%, 50% and 25% of the total time. There are also councilors who are paid by other institutions, such as the Barcelona Provincial Council or institutions, such as the Parliament, if they are deputies. In that case, they can charge only diets.
municipal commissions
The plenary session will determine that in the next four years there will be four municipal commissions, through which all the initiatives pass before reaching the plenary session. The groups have shared their leadership in the negotiations these days.
The Ecology, Urban Planning, Mobility and Housing commission will be chaired by Barcelona en Comú, specifically by Janet Sanzand the first deputy mayor, the socialist Laia Bonet. The Social Rights, Culture and Sports commission will be chaired by ERC, a responsibility that will fall on the Republican Jordi Castellana, with the second deputy mayor, Maria Eugenia Gay, as vice president.
The Presidency, Security and Internal Regime commission will be directed by the PSC, with the Deputy Mayor for Security, albert batlle, as president and Gay as vice president. And the Economy and Finance commission corresponds to Junts, with ramon tremosa as president and the socialist Rachel Gil as vice president.
districts
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During these days, the presidency of the districts has also been negotiated, which is not executive, it is not the same as directing the territory. It is representative and usually corresponds to opposition groups. They are appointments that will not be voted on in plenary session on Friday, but will be made official when the district plenary sessions are constituted, in September.
As agreed by the groups, Together for Barcelona will preside over Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, Gràcia and the Eixample; Barcelona en Comú, Nou Barris, Sants-Montjuïc and Ciutat Vella; ERC, Sant Andreu and Horta-Guinardó, and the PP, Les Corts and Sant Martí.