Vejer sets mayor's salary at 48,000 euros and reorganizes dedications

The Plenary of the City Council of Vejer de la Frontera has approved the new regime of exclusive and partial dedication for the members of the Corporation, with gross remunerations of 48,000 euros per year for the mayor and 35,000 euros for the remaining councilors with exclusive dedication. The agreement was adopted in an ordinary session on September 14, 2026, and is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Cádiz, number 215, dated November 9, 2026, under announcement number 377,959 and signed by the mayor, Antonio González Mellado.

The change originates from the document submitted on July 3, 2026, under registration R.M.E. 2026007903E, by María Dolores de Melo Rodríguez, a councilor of the Corporation, in which she communicated her resignation from the delegations entrusted to her, her departure from the government team, and her voluntary abandonment of the Socialist Municipal Group to become a non-affiliated councilor. The Plenary took note of this situation on July 13, 2026, and from that point, a series of Mayoral decrees—2026-1242, 2026-1243 (superseded by 2026-1277, dated July 22), 2026-1244, and 2026-1245, all from July 2026—reorganized the Local Government Board, the deputy mayoralties, and the general and special delegations, and nullified the councilor’s appointment to a position of exclusive dedication granted by decree VJSEC-00186-2024, dated June 27, 2024.

The agreement modifies the regime established by the Plenary in an extraordinary session on July 13, 2023, previously corrected in the sessions of January 15, 2024, and June 26, 2024, and has the favorable opinion of the Information Commission for Presidency and Administration dated September 7, 2026. The vote resulted in nine votes in favor—eight from the GMS and one from the non-affiliated councilor—and eight abstentions from the members of the GMP.

The new remuneration table

Gross remunerations are set at fourteen annual payments with the following distribution:

• Mayor: 48,000 euros per year.
• Remaining members with exclusive dedication: 35,000 euros per year.
• First deputy mayor and delegated councilor for the Area of Presidency and Administration, with partial dedication: 14,520 euros per year.
• Remaining members with partial dedication: 30,000 euros per year.

The file emphasizes that the modification does not alter the total amount of the remuneration regime in gross terms, but only the officials who hold the positions.

Three positions with exclusive dedication

The new regime reserves exclusive dedication for three positions:

• The mayor.
• The delegated councilor for the Area of Urban Planning and Strategic and Productive Development, an area that the document attributes to Dominika Paradiso Gorska.
• The third deputy mayor and delegated councilor for the Area of Rural Development, Culture and Local Heritage, Manuel Jesús Melero Callado.

The agreement recalls that exclusive dedication requires preferential dedication to the tasks of the office and that any remunerated private occupation will require a formal declaration of compatibility from the Plenary.

Five positions with partial dedication

Partial dedication applies to five positions: first deputy mayor and delegated councilor for Presidency and Administration; second deputy mayor and delegated councilor for Social Development, Inclusion and Equality; delegated councilor for Economy, Finance, Health and Consumption; delegated councilor for Public Safety, Traffic, Mobility, Human Resources, Public Lighting and assistant to Economy and Finance, Street Cleaning and Waste Collection; and delegated councilor for Childhood, Youth, Elderly Policies, Citizen Participation, Animal Protection, Festivals, Trade and assistant to Procurement.

The hourly calculation is specified in two brackets:

• The first deputy mayor and councilor for Presidency and Administration: 1 hour and 45 minutes daily, up to 8 hours and 45 minutes weekly.
• The remaining partial positions: 5 hours and 15 minutes daily, up to 26 hours and 15 minutes weekly.

The hours may be distributed during the morning and/or afternoon shift, or accumulated in fewer days, respecting the total count.

Processing, effects and publication

The modification takes effect from the moment of its adoption and requires the agreement to be forwarded to the Human Resources and Audit-Treasury departments to formalize the procedures. Publication is ordered in the Official Gazette of the Province of Cádiz, the municipal notice board and the City Council website, in accordance with article 75.5 of Law 7/1985, of April 2, regulating the Bases of the Local Regime, and article 18 of the Municipal Organic Regulation, published in the BOP of Cádiz number 115, of June 19, 2013.

The file incorporates the report from the Funds Audit of August 26, 2026, number 2026-0031, which requires guaranteeing in the file the existence of budgetary credit in the General Budget due to the lack of approval of the accounts for the fiscal year.

The agreement leaves eight of the seventeen members of the Corporation with an allocation for dedication and adjusts the distribution of areas following the departure of the councilwoman to the non-attached group, so that the government team maintains the overall cost of the remunerative regime but redistributes it among the positions that now assume exclusive or partial dedication.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Cádiz, no. 215, November 9, 2026, City Council of Vejer de la Frontera, pp. 18-20 (official reference: announcement no. 377.959).