The Jaén City Council approves an extraordinary credit of 2.19 million

The Jaén City Council has initially approved an extraordinary credit of 2,194,914.47 euros charged to the 2026 Municipal Budget, fully financed through credit reductions. The agreement was adopted by the corporation’s Plenary session on September 15, 2026, and is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Jaén number 187, dated September 25, 2026, within the Local Administration section (announcement 2026/4463). The file will be open to the public for fifteen business days so that interested parties may examine it and file claims.

The operation is processed as credit modification file number 26/2026 of the 2026 Municipal Budget, under the modality of extraordinary credit. The edict expressly invokes Article 177 of Royal Legislative Decree 2/2004, of March 5, which approves the Revised Text of the Law Regulating Local Treasuries, the regulation that governs the processing of this type of budgetary modifications in local entities. The document was signed in Jaén on September 17, 2026, by the Deputy Mayor Delegated to the Area of Economy and Finance, Francisco Lechuga Arias.

The budgetary operation

The plenary agreement gives initial green light to a credit modification structured with the following elements:

• Modality: extraordinary credit.
• File: number 26/2026.
• Affected budget: 2026 Municipal Budget of the Jaén City Council.
• Total amount: 2,194,914.47 euros.
• Financing: credit reduction, without recourse to additional income.
• Approving body: the Plenary, in the session of September 15, 2026.

This is an initial approval, not a final one, therefore the file must still undergo the public information process before becoming final.

Fifteen business days of public exhibition

In accordance with Article 177 of the Revised Text of the Law Regulating Local Treasuries, the file will remain open to the public for a period of fifteen business days. During this period, interested parties may examine the documentation and present any claims they deem appropriate before the corporation’s Plenary. The announcement does not detail the breakdown by budgetary applications of the credit reductions financing the operation.

Background of other 2026 modifications

The publication of this edict adds to other budgetary modifications processed by the Jaén City Council throughout 2026. The most recent one concluded its processing in August:

• File 20/2026, in the form of a credit supplement.
• Amount: 111,643.92 euros, with equivalent increases and decreases in Chapter 6, Real Investments.
• Initial approval by plenary agreement on June 29, 2026.
• Final approval as no claims were filed, published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Jaén number 167, dated August 28, 2026 (announcement 2026/3930).

The comparison between both figures places the new extraordinary credit well above the preceding operation, which indicates the volume of resources that the council is reorganizing on this occasion.

Impact for citizens

The extraordinary credit of 2,194,914.47 euros represents a significant reallocation of funds within the 2026 Municipal Budget, as it does not incorporate new income but is instead funded by decreases in other items. The fifteen-business-day public exhibition period allows any interested party to question the destination of those resources before the modification is definitively approved. Once the process is completed without claims, file 26/2026 will become final and will enable the execution of the planned expenditure.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Jaén, number 187, dated September 25, 2026, Local Administration, page 14207 (official reference: 2026/4463).