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With the aim of giving continuity to the provincial work, the government of Santa Fe settled important debts with companies, municipalities and communes in these two months of management. “It is an administrative effort of the new management in the Ministry of Public Works, where many companies were able to receive the collection of certificates owed by the previous management. Today they were practically up to date,” they highlighted.
A portion of these funds delivered during the first months of the Pullaro era was also allocated to communes and municipalities, which last year were in charge of supporting maintenance tasks on secondary routes and weeding work, but the last administration had not complied with their payments. The majority of local governments have not received these funds since the beginning of 2023, the current administration assures.
The Minister of Public Works, Lisandro Enrico, reported on these coordinated efforts with the Ministry of Economy, which allowed the Province to reactivate provincial (non-national) works that were at risk of being neutralized due to the payment arrears that existed until last December. : “At Public Works we have the mission of making its operation transparent, and in this sense, we are transmitting payment compliance during the first two months of management. In total, the economic efforts that we have made from the Ministry exceed 28 billion pesos and are funds that were transferred to contractors (construction companies), municipalities and communes that were dissatisfied when we took office, because they had not received payments since the first months. of 2023, in an irresponsible and unsupportive political determination that had defined Omar Perottis management in his last year," the minister said.
“With these November certification payments, we can say that we are practically up to date, which makes it possible to generate trust with companies and local governments so that they do not stop their commitments and public works can continue in this very complex inflationary scenario. ”added Enrico.
In addition to improving the infrastructure, the continuity of the works allows “sustaining thousands of jobs in the province through contracting companies. In this regard, we are permanently working with the representatives of the Chamber of Construction, which makes it possible to reach an agreement and unite criteria so that the pace of works can be revived in a very critical context,” Enrico assessed.
Part of the funds delivered from December 10 to February 9 to communes and municipalities are reimbursements made by the Provincial Directorate of Roads and by the Provincial Directorate of Housing and Urban Planning (dependent on Public Works), because they are often the communal presidents and mayors themselves with their teams who respond to grass cutting on shoulders, the reconditioning of roads, or advance housing construction; Although these tasks, in order to be repeated over time, must be supported by the Province due to the costs they entail.
New key decrees
Although the payment of debts to contractors was key so that the provincial public works did not stop, in this challenge that the Ministry is carrying out during its first months, the fact that the new provincial government has two decrees to reach the to an agreement regarding the claims expressed by the Construction Chamber. In this way, it was possible to provide continuity to public works in a very complex economic context like the one we are currently experiencing.
In reference to these regulatory adjustments made by the Pullaro government, we can point out the ICC decree (this provincial administration reissued No. 2225), through which the certificates are provisionally updated by the construction cost index at the time. in which companies issue it.
The other relevant change was the adaptation of the regulatory decree of the “price redetermination law.” Starting in January, the certificates are updated according to the price variation index of the same month in which the work was carried out, and the index of the previous month is no longer used as was the case.
From the Technical Coordination Secretariat of the Ministry it was reported that the $28,295,893,457 ($11,243,058,177 from 10/12 to 9/1 and 17,052,835,280 from 10/1 to 9/2) were settled as follows:
Central Administration: $10,798,117,966 (contractors $10,028,146,221 and Municipalities/Communes $769,971,745)
Provincial Highway Directorate: $ 16,888,200,101 (contractors $ 15,831,713,068 and Municipalities/Communes $ 1,056,487,033).
Provincial Directorate of Housing and Urban Planning: $609,575,390 (contractors $475,111,010 and Municipalities/Communes $134,464,380). |
