Sarreaus approves a budget of 825,000 euros with 403,911 for personnel

The Sarreaus City Council has definitively approved the municipal budget for the 2026 financial year, which amounts to 825,000.00 euros in both expenditures and income. The agreement was adopted in the plenary session of August 28, 2026, and is now published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Ourense on November 12, 2026, in section IV. Local Entities, under official reference R. 2.713 and signed by the mayor in Sarreaus on October 23, 2026. Along with the accounts, the execution bases, the investment annex, the personnel annex, the personnel framework, and the list of the corporation’s job positions were approved.

A balanced budget with two-thirds of current expenditure

The publication is made in compliance with article 112 of Law 7/1985, of April 2, regulating the bases of the local regime, and article 169.3 of Legislative Royal Decree 2/2004, of March 5, which approves the consolidated text of the Law regulating local finances. The expenditure status is detailed as follows:

• Chapter 1, personnel expenses: 403,911.00 euros.
• Chapter 2, expenses for current goods and services: 270,500.00 euros.
• Chapter 3, financial expenses: 7,000.00 euros.
• Chapter 4, current transfers: 82,251.71 euros.
• Chapter 6, real investments: 61,337.29 euros.

On the income side, the bulk comes from current transfers, with 424,000.00 euros, followed by direct taxes (191,000.00) and fees and other income (149,400.00). This is completed with 37,600.00 euros from capital transfers, 15,000.00 from indirect taxes, and 8,000.00 from patrimonial income, reaching the total of 825,000.00 euros.

Five home help assistant positions

The personnel framework, approved in the same session under article 127 of Legislative Royal Decree 781/1986, of April 18, maintains five civil servant positions and a block of permanent contractual staff:

• National qualification: one position of secretary-auditor, group A1, level 26, permanent.
• Special administration: one position of social worker (A2, level 22) and one of technician in economic promotion and administrative management (C1, level 22).
• General administration: one position of administrative officer (C1, level 18) and one of administrative assistant (C2, level 18).
• Permanent contractual staff: one general services operator (vacant), one cleaning supervisor, five home help assistants, two brush cutter driver positions, and one part-time ICT agent.

The list is completed by the contractual staff that may be hired using the subsidies received during 2026 and vacation substitutions in cases essential for the maintenance of services.

Corporation remuneration and allowances

The execution bases collect a monthly supplement of 350 euros in twelve annual payments for the treasurer official for additional functions, as well as an annual gratification of 1,800 euros for the secretary of the Justice of the Peace Court. Regarding elected officials, the mayor will receive a gross monthly remuneration of 1,850 euros in fourteen annual payments and the councilwoman, 1,100 euros under the same conditions. For their part, attendances to municipal bodies are set at 100 euros per plenary session, per local government board, and per other collegiate bodies with municipal representation, and 200 euros for presiding over commissions. The use of a private vehicle on official duty will be indemnified at 0.26 euros per kilometer, in accordance with Order HFP/792/2023, of July 12, while attendances to selection tribunals are paid according to Royal Decree 462/2002, of May 24.

Two months to appeal

The definitive approval exhausts the administrative route. A contentious-administrative appeal may be filed against it before the corresponding chamber of the High Court of Justice of Galicia, based in A Coruña, within a period of two months from the day following its publication, according to article 46.1 of Law 29/1998, of July 13. Optionally, a request for reversal may also be filed within one month before the same body that adopted the agreement, without its filing suspending the application of the budget on its own.

The publication closes the municipal budget cycle for 2026 and fixes the economic conditions of the municipal staff, accounts in which personnel expenditure concentrates almost half of the total and in which the home help service appears as one of the main blocks of local public employment.

Source: BOP of Ourense, November 12, 2026, section IV. Local Entities (official reference: R. 2.713).