Jacarilla reviews the waste tax and opens a 30-day period for objections

The Plenary of the Jacarilla City Council provisionally approved on November 12, 2026, the modification of the fiscal Ordinance regulating the fee for the collection, treatment, and disposal of urban solid waste. The agreement was adopted in an extraordinary and urgent session and is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Alicante (BOP) No. 217, dated November 13, 2026, with the official reference 8847/2026. The publication opens a thirty-day period for interested parties to examine the file and submit allegations.

The announcement is issued in compliance with Article 17.2 of the Recast Text of the Law Regulating Local Treasuries, approved by Royal Legislative Decree 2/2004, of March 5, which requires fiscal ordinance modifications to be submitted for public information before their final approval. The document is electronically signed by the mayor-president, Andrés Moñino Bascuñana, in Jacarilla, on November 12, 2026, and occupies page 1 of the provincial gazette.

Thirty days to examine the file

The public information period runs from the day following the insertion of the announcement in the BOP, that is, from November 14, 2026. During this period, the complete file may be consulted by any interested party at the municipal offices and also on the city council’s electronic office (http://jacarilla.es).

The planned procedures are:

• Examination of the file at the municipal offices of Jacarilla.
• Telematic consultation through the municipal electronic office.
• Submission of any allegations that interested parties deem appropriate.
• Resolution by silence: if no claims are submitted within the period, the agreement will be considered definitively approved.

The announcement does not detail the amounts

The text published in the BOP is a procedural announcement, not the articles of the ordinance: it does not include the wording of the modified articles nor the new amounts, coefficients, or rates that will be applied to the home bills. This data is only available to the public in the municipal file, both in paper and on the electronic office, and is what residents and companies with activity in the municipal district must review.

The corporation also does not accompany the announcement with an economic report or an impact report, so that the assessment of the effect on each bill requires direct consultation of the file documentation during the exhibition period.

A procedure repeated across the province

The review of urban solid waste rates has spread in recent weeks among the municipalities of the province of Alicante. In the same BOP, the Algorfa City Council published on November 5, 2026 (no. 211) the provisional approval of its waste collection, transfer, and treatment rate, agreed upon in an extraordinary session on November 3. Two days earlier, on November 3, the Algueña City Council had announced an identical procedure in no. 209, also by plenary agreement on November 2.

In all three cases, the same scheme is repeated: provisional approval by the Plenary, publication of the announcement, a thirty-day public information period, and automatic final approval if there are no claims.

The modification affects a local tax of periodic collection and general nature, therefore the result of the procedure will impact all residential and commercial bills in the municipality of Jacarilla. Residents who wish to influence the text have until the closing of the allegations period to appear; those who do not will see the new ordinance approved without changes.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Alicante, no. 217 of November 13, 2026, section III. Local Administration, page 1 (official reference: 8847/2026).