Castelldefels definitively approves the 112.9 million budget for 2027

The Castelldefels City Council has definitively approved the consolidated general budget for 2027, amounting to 112,913,530 euros, as well as the staff establishment for civil service, contractual, and temporary personnel and the execution bases. The validation is final because the public exhibition period opened with the initial publication on October 15, 2026 (CVE202610153761) closed without any claims. The edict appears in the Official Gazette of the Province of Barcelona on November 12, 2026, with the official reference CVE202610171179.

This procedure exhausts the administrative route and is based on Article 112 of Law 7/1985, of April 2, regulating the Bases of the Local Regime; Article 169 of Royal Decree 2/2004, of March 5, approving the Revised Text of the Law regulating Local Treasuries, and Article 20 of Royal Decree 500/1990, of April 20. The published summary breaks down the figures for the City Council and for the municipal companies Jarfels, SA and SAC, SA, with the corresponding consolidation adjustments.

A consolidated budget with three entities

The consolidated perimeter adds the three entities after eliminating internal operations:

• Castelldefels City Council: 112,568,932.00 euros.
• Jarfels, SA: 4,866,624.00 euros.
• SAC, SA: 15,158,857.00 euros.
• Consolidation: -19,680,883.00 euros.
• Total consolidated budget: 112,913,530.00 euros.

Regarding expenditure, the personnel chapter is the largest, with 56,798,438.00 consolidated euros, followed by goods and services (35,539,081.00) and current transfers (8,467,729.00). The financial chapter totals 1,449,634.00 euros and financial liabilities 5,144,219.00 euros.

Real investments and contingency funds

The document reserves 1,000,000.00 euros for the contingency fund and sets real investments at 2,768,001.00 euros, in addition to 1,746,427.00 euros in capital transfers. These items, together with the 5.1 million in financial liabilities, outline the investment margin for the next fiscal year.

As for income, the consolidated summary is supported by four main blocks:

• Direct taxes: 33,610,212.00 euros.
• Indirect taxes: 2,505,937.00 euros.
• Fees, public prices, and other income: 35,592,525.00 euros.
• Current transfers: 34,779,853.00 euros.
• Asset income: 1,900,000.00 euros.

The total consolidated income collected in the edict is 112,902,957.00 euros, 573 euros below the total expenditure.

A staff of 663 positions

The personnel annex sets the 2027 staff at 663 positions, seven more than the 656 from which it started in 2026. The evolution of the fiscal year shows a slight rebalancing between groups: civil servants go from 611 to 603 positions, while contractual staff grows from 38 to 53 and temporary or trust personnel remains at 7.

The main groups of the civil service staff are:

• Local police officers (C1): 101 positions, 10 vacancies.
• Intermediate-level technicians (A2): 130 positions, 30 vacancies.
• Administrative staff (C1): 120 positions, 5 vacancies.
• Auxiliary technicians (C1): 55 positions, 22 vacancies.
• Senior technicians (A1): 52 positions, 17 vacancies.
• Subalterns (C2): 34 positions, 8 vacancies.

Among the contractual staff, the 16 auxiliary technician positions (C1), all vacant, and the 12 second-class officer positions (C2-E), with 6 vacancies, stand out. The secretary and comptroller positions are listed as vacant, while the treasury is filled; the two management positions, the five director positions, and the deputy director position are linked to the mandate.

Two months to appeal

The final approval of the budget and the staffing table may be challenged through a contentious-administrative appeal before the Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the High Court of Justice of Catalonia within a period of two months. In the case of the budget, the count begins the day after the publication of the notice in the Official Gazette of the Province of Barcelona and on e-TAULER; for the staffing table, from the last of the publications in the gazette, on e-TAULER, and in the Official Gazette of the Generalitat de Catalunya.

With this notice, Castelldefels closes the 2027 budgetary calendar before the end of the year and leaves the council with a closed expenditure framework and personnel structure. For the residents, the figures set the ceiling for services, investments, and subsidies for the next fiscal year, while the 148 vacant positions among civil servants and contractual staff indicate the remaining hiring margin to be covered.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Barcelona, no. of November 12, 2026, Local Administration, pp. 1-4 (official reference: CVE202610171179).