Las Palmas de Gran Canaria City Council approved eight credit modifications totalling 19.3 million euros this Friday. The funds will be allocated to general expenses, commissions to Gesplan and Geursa, and to promote the bid for European Capital of Culture 2031.
The City Council of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria gave the green light this Friday to a package of eight credit modifications amounting to €19,322,603.79. The files, approved in the ordinary session of July, aim to cover financing needs for municipal services, commissions to public companies, and support for strategic projects such as the city's bid for European Capital of Culture 2031.
The councillor for Presidency, Finance, Modernisation, Human Resources and Water, Francisco Hernández Spínola, explained that these allocations allow for budgetary coverage of priority actions for the functioning of municipal services, guarantee unavoidable obligations, and continue to promote key projects for the city.
First files: general expenses and city promotion support
The file P2026/10, with €348,234.18, is allocated to general expenses of the City Council, specifically for the payment of late interest arising from the return of a state grant for the intermodal parking project at the Centre. Hernández Spínola recalled that the execution could not be completed due to difficulties in expropriating a house and subsequent registration problems, and that the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility did not grant the requested extension.
The file P2026/11, for €1,790,391.66, includes a monetary contribution to the City Promotion Society of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, S.A. to compensate for losses in the 2025 fiscal year, as established by the statutes. The councillor noted that this injection will improve the average payment period of the society and strengthen its capacity to attend to suppliers, recalling that the company closed 2024 with a surplus of over one million euros.
Commissions to Gesplan for animals and infrastructure maintenance
The file P2026/12, endowed with €484,029, will finance the commission to Gesplan for the service of collecting lost or abandoned domestic animals and managing feline colonies and community cats. Hernández Spínola indicated that this responds to the new municipal competencies following the Animal Rights and Welfare Protection Law, and defended the formula of commissioning a public company as the "most agile, quick, efficient, and least costly".
Meanwhile, the file P2026/13, with €402,813.59, will cover the expenses of the commission to Gesplan for supporting the maintenance of municipal infrastructures. The councillor explained that this measure will strengthen the City Council's capacity to undertake small repairs in buildings and public spaces.
Investment in the integral water cycle
Regarding hydraulic infrastructures, the Plenary approved two credit modifications: P2026/14, for €880,000, and P2026/15, with €10,497,000, to cover commissions to Geursa for the execution of works. Hernández Spínola highlighted that both files are part of the strategic plan for the integral water cycle, which foresees an investment of €857 million over ten years. This first phase will mobilise €35 million, of which €11.3 million will begin to be executed this year.
The development of the actions will be structured through the contract-programme with Emalsa, approved this Thursday in the Governing Board, for the tendering and awarding of the works, which will allow for the adaptation of the investment programme until 2029.
Boost to the cultural bid and final contribution
The file P2026/16, for €800,000, will finance the second phase of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria's bid for European Capital of Culture 2031. The councillor stressed the strategic nature of the initiative and the need to provide resources to face this new stage of the process.
Finally, the file P2026/17, for €4,120,135.36, includes a contribution to the City Promotion Society of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, S.A., thus completing the package of credit modifications approved in the session.
With these approvals, the City Council of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria strengthens its financial capacity to address essential services and future projects, at a time when the city faces challenges such as improving the water cycle or preparing its cultural bid.
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