Pinos Puente pays court ruling and labor penalty with contingency fund

The Pinos Puente City Council has finalized credit modification number 47, a supplement of 22,000 euros charged to the contingency fund to execute a court ruling and pay a fine from the Labor Inspectorate. The plenary agreement for initial approval was adopted on September 30, 2026, received no objections, and is now published as final in the Official Gazette of the Province of Granada number 219, dated November 12, 2026, with reference BOP-GRA-2026-219031 (page 166).

The announcement is signed by the mayor-president, Mr. Ángel Iván Fernández Rey, dated November 4, 2026, and is processed in accordance with articles 169.1 and 179.4 of the Recast Text of the Law Regulating Local Treasuries, approved by Royal Legislative Decree 2/2004, of March 5. The administrative file is 2026/4836, and the modification was initially approved in an ordinary session of the Municipal Plenary.

From the September plenary to the November Gazette

The process began with the initial approval of the file, published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Granada number 196, dated October 9, 2026 (reference BOP-GRA-2026-196027). The agreement was subject to public consultation for fifteen business days starting from the day following its insertion.

After this period elapsed without any claims being filed, the agreement was automatically elevated to final status, without the need for a new plenary pronouncement, as provided by the local treasury regulations. The edict published now fulfills the final publicity phase of the file and details the affected items.

The distribution of the 22,000 euros

The increases in expenditure applications are distributed across two items of program 920:

• Application 920 22604, “Legal, Contentious”: 15,000.00 euros.
• Application 920 22605, “Third-party damage compensation and sanctions”: 7,000.00 euros.
• Total credit supplement: 22,000.00 euros.

The file identifies the destination of the expenditure in two specific proceedings: the execution of the court ruling processed as file 4812/2026 and the Labor Inspectorate sanction corresponding to file 535/2025.

Financing charged to the contingency fund

The operation does not incorporate new income or treasury remnants: it is financed entirely by a decrease in another expenditure application.

• Application 929 50000, “Contingency Fund”: decrease of 22,000.00 euros.
• Total financing: 22,000.00 euros.

With this movement, the city council deducts the full amount of the ruling and the sanction from the contingency fund, so that the expenditure does not increase the total volume of the municipal budget, but rather redistributes it among applications.

Contentious-administrative appeal

Against the final agreement, interested parties may directly file a contentious-administrative appeal before the competent Contentious-Administrative Court, within the time limits set forth in articles 25 to 42 of Law 29/1998, of July 13, regulating that jurisdiction. The edict itself warns, pursuant to article 171.3 of the local treasury law, that the filing of the appeal shall not, by itself, suspend the effectiveness of the challenged agreement.

The publication of this modification coincides in the same issue of the bulletin with two other operations of the Pinos Puente City Council: credit modification number 48/2026, an extraordinary credit of 65,525.13 euros charged to the treasury surplus for LED lighting in Briones, Real, and Plaza Iglesia streets (reference BOP-GRA-2026-219032), and number 51, endowed with 868,000 euros for investments (reference BOP-GRA-2026-219033).

The impact for the residents and for the municipal accounts is twofold: the council closes a judicial conflict and a labor sanctioning proceeding by charging the contingency fund, and provides public record of the actual cost of both. The contingency fund, conceived as a reserve for unforeseen needs, thus covers a mandatory expense derived from a final judicial resolution and an administrative sanction, which reduces the available margin for future contingencies of the fiscal year.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Granada, No. 219, of November 12, 2026, Local Administration, page 166 (official reference: BOP-GRA-2026-219031).