As expected, in the second and last debate, the Council of Medellín approved the project of Agreement 44 with which the Mayor’s Office of Medellín will have the endorsement to allocate $ 610,000 million of future validity, according to the administration of Federico Gutiérrez, to prioritize strategic projects in the district that will have to be executed in the current validity.
The Secretary of the Treasury of the District, Orlando Uribe, said that the resources will be destined “to rebuild the finance of the district, to financially strengthen the district, but especially in giving tools and instruments so that the different secretariats and the different entities They can count on the time line with the necessary resources to deliver the works and the strategic projects of the year 2027, ”said the official.
Thus, the millionaire approved figure must be used for key projects in the Secretariats of Health, Security, Management and Territorial Control, INDER, Good Start and Operating Expenses. For example, $ 170,000 million pesos will go to the construction of the C5, which is a security complex in which the current mayor intends to gather the entire component of 123, The security cameras, the Ministry of Security, the Police and all in the same space, according to Alejandro de Bedout, speaker of the project.
The Mayor’s Office of Medellín maintains that of $ 778,000 million of future validity approved in 2024 for the current validity, $ 372,000 million have been executed.
It should be noted that in October 2024, with 20 votes in favor and only one against, by councilor José Luis Marín, of the Historical Pact, the Medellín Council approved Gutiérrez a total of a total of $ 1.49 billion pesos of future validity so that, according to the mayor, his development plan can be fulfilled more effectively.
This year, as agreed in the Council, $ 180,445 million must be executed for the Ministry of Infrastructure and $ 13,085 million for the Pascual Bravo University Institution. On the other hand, of the exceptional future validity there will also be $ 23,1 billion in 2025 for infrastructure and $ 81.6 billion for the Ministry of Territorial Management and Control. However, most resources. $ 1.2 billion have to be invested between 2025 and 2027 for education projects.
However, voices such as councilor José Luis Marín point out that there are currently no full guarantees to control these resources and their correct execution.
