The 2027 budget prioritizes education, social services, security, and public space maintenance. The opposition justified their negative vote, arguing that the accounts do not address the municipality's main challenges and calling for greater specificity in investments and enhanced transformation capacity.
Councillor Javier Aguirre, from the governing PSC party, highlighted an 84% increase in self-funded investment capacity, reaching 1.7 million euros, and anticipates reducing municipal debt to 11% by the end of 2027. The budget consolidates the work of recent years, strengthening areas such as citizen care, the elderly, support for associations, public spaces, sustainability, housing, sports, culture, and security.
In social policies, services for home care, teleassistance, adapted transport, and housing are reinforced, along with aid for families and the elderly. Regarding mobility, support is planned for increased bus frequencies to Barcelona and a new interurban line.
Education will receive 4.7 million euros (11.1% of the budget), with plans to expand nursery school programs, improve educational centers, and consolidate scholarships and school support services. Resources for entities and associations will increase by 10%.
In security, the project for the new Local Police headquarters will commence, four officers and two corporals will be hired, and twenty video surveillance cameras will be installed with a budget of 70,000 euros. For the urban space, renovations of streets and squares, improvements in pedestrian mobility, and elimination of architectural barriers are planned, along with expanded intensive cleaning and machinery renewal.
In sustainability, improvements in waste management, green spaces, the coastline, and the water network are included, and a project to improve parking areas will be drafted. Free parking permits for residents and a 30% discount on waste collection fees for using the recycling center will be maintained.
The opposition, represented by ERC (with Mònica Palacín), Junts per Pineda (with Joan Mora), Partit Popular (with Gustavo Ollero), and Pineda en Comú (with Marcos Ortega), criticized the lack of execution of previous projects, the insufficiency in areas like housing and energy transition, and called for more measures for economic activity and employment.
The mayor of Pineda, Sílvia Biosca, defended the budget as "realistic, balanced, and designed to respond to residents' needs," highlighting the focus on citizen security with the new Local Police station, hiring of new officers, and camera installation. She also emphasized the two million euro investment in the asphalting plan and public space improvements, as well as the reinforcement of social policies and support for local entities.
