Miranda questioned the position of several councilors.
Unanimously, the San José City Council voted a motion to urge Mayor Diego Miranda to suspend the salary increase agreed to last week which also houses the vice mayor Yariela Quirós.
The agreement states that Miranda You will have 5 business days to request a ruling from the Comptroller’s Office and the Attorney General’s Office on the viability of the increase.
The motion was promoted by the councilors of the Frente Amplio (FA) Brandon Guadamuz and David Contreras.
Also voting in favor were Juan Diego Gómez, from Más San José, Álvaro Salas, from the Christian Social Unity Party (PUSC), Yorleny Córdoba, from the Social Democratic Progress Party (PPSD), José Manuel Jiménez, from the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP), Mariana Zúñiga, Rafael González and Andrea Rudín, from the ruling party, Juntos San José.
Councilor Guadamuz explained that the motion seeks to have the Comptroller’s Office Clarify the maximum limit of remuneration that a mayor and vice mayor can obtain.
He pointed out that the salary increase is suspended until there is a response.
Furthermore, Miranda has a period of 8 days to present to the Council a detailed report with the justifications for the salary increase and those responsible for promoting it.
The session was marked by accusations from opposition councilors who questioned the mayor and considered that they felt deceived and mocked, when they were told that if the budget modification was not voted on, several municipal officials were going to be out of work.
Miranda took the floor to question the attitude of several of the councilors who, he said, are “Wishing the promise of change to the municipality to fail” that he offered to the Josephites.
“I have said with all humility that I am not interested in earning ¢200,000 more, nor did I come to the municipality to get rich as others did,” said the mayor.
Last week – when, in a statement, the Civil Service denied that the salary increase was supported by them, after a consultation from the municipality’s Human Talent Department – Miranda indicated that he was going to request that it be frozen.
The director of Human Talent, Allan Vásquez, also spoke in the session, explaining that the The issue of the increase had been discussed since Decemberwhen former mayor Johnny Araya was still in power.
“Wanna apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused in the image of the Municipality and the mayor, who was not the one who promoted any of this,” said the official.
With the adjustment, the mayor’s salary would go from ¢5,565,000 to ¢5,740,000.
