O Irixo definitively approves a budget of 1.7 million for 2026

The Plenary of the Irixo City Council has definitively approved the General Budget for the 2026 financial year, which amounts to 1,716,488.40 euros in both expenditures and revenues. The agreement was adopted in the extraordinary plenary session of September 15, 2026, and is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Ourense on September 29, 2026, with the reference R. 2.213. Along with the accounts, the plenary approved the execution bases and the council’s personnel framework.

The process began with the initial approval of the budget in the extraordinary plenary session of August 6, 2026. The file was subject to public consultation for 15 business days through an announcement published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Ourense no. 159, on August 21, 2026. Once the claims submitted during that period were reviewed, the plenary definitively approved the accounts on September 15.

The publication is made in accordance with article 169.3 of Royal Legislative Decree 2/2004, of March 5, which approves the revised text of the Law regulating local finances. The budget is balanced: the sum of expenditures and revenues coincide in the same amount.

Expenditures: personnel, services, and investments

The economic classification of expenditures distributes the total between current and capital operations:

• Chapter 1, personnel expenses: 495,157.96 euros.
• Chapter 2, expenses for current goods and services: 445,161.13 euros.
• Chapter 3, financial expenses: 1,000.00 euros.
• Chapter 4, current transfers: 255,063.19 euros.
• Chapter 5, contingency fund: 500.00 euros.
• Chapter 6, real investments: 519,606.12 euros.
• Chapters 7, 8, and 9 (capital transfers, financial assets and liabilities): 0.00 euros.

Real investments are the second largest block of expenditure, with more than half a million euros, while current expenditure on personnel and goods and services concentrates the majority of the budget.

Revenues: strong dependence on transfers

Regarding revenues, the economic classification is as follows:

• Chapter 1, direct taxes: 296,142.33 euros.
• Chapter 2, indirect taxes: 3,100.00 euros.
• Chapter 3, fees and other revenues: 39,993.94 euros.
• Chapter 4, current transfers: 870,072.91 euros.
• Chapter 7, capital transfers: 507,179.22 euros.
• Chapters 5, 6, 8, and 9: 0.00 euros.

Transfers, both current and capital, total 1,377,252.13 euros, approximately 80% of the projected revenues, while own taxes (direct and indirect taxes and fees) contribute 339,236.27 euros.

Personnel framework: thirteen positions

The personnel framework is structured according to article 126.1 of Royal Legislative Decree 781/86, of April 18, and comprises:

• Governing bodies: 1 part-time position for councilwoman.
• Civil servant personnel: 5 positions.
• Permanent contractual personnel: 7 positions.

The civil service staff includes a national qualified secretary-treasurer (group A1, level 26), two administrative assistants (C1, level 22), an employment and local development agent (A2, level 21), and an urban management architect (A1, level 26). The permanent contractual staff includes three general service laborers, one driver-laborer, one forestry laborer, one position for sports facilities management, and one for a municipal building cleaning operator.

The announcement is signed by the mayor, Rosa María Dalama Lousado, in O Irixo on September 15, 2026.

The final approval closes the 2026 budgetary cycle of O Irixo and sets the accounts and positions of the council for the next financial year, with a budget that depends mostly on external funds and allocates more than 519,000 euros to real investments.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Ourense, September 29, 2026, section IV. Local Entities (official reference: R. 2.213).