Pilar scores points for transparency
PILAR town hall is more transparent than ever, having achieved a rating of 82% on the Portal de Transparencia website, announced councillor for modernisation Mari Carmen Gracia.
This gauges local authorities’ compliance with the national and regional laws on transparency, access to public information and good government.
The website shows all of the council’s departments’ agreements, subsidies, job offers, bylaws, regulations, decrees and final judicial rulings.
Any member of the public can access the mayor’s diary, declarations of assets, the municipal inventory, salaries, expenses, criteria for selecting personnel, public job offers, public contracts and
other documents.
Numerous financial reports are available, such as
audits, the budget, compliance with budget stability objectives, debt, investment in infrastructure per inhabitant, etc. There are also details of public works projects, town plans and environmental impact studies.
The Partido Popular (PP) local government has answered a total of 773 questions from the opposition, an average of 45 per council meeting.
The mayor and councillors meet with or respond to questions from residents an average of five times per day, although currently this is only by appointment due to the pandemic.
Furthermore, every week mayor José María Pérez Sánchez visits Pinar de Campoverde on Thursdays and Torre de la Horadada on Wednesdays to receive residents by appointment.