Tarragona City Council is improving the display of subsidies to municipal groups on its transparency portal
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Since last April 8, the transparency portals have two new modules which make it easier for citizens to improvela visualization of the political organization of the Consistory I la interpretation of economic management indicators of the town councils.
Focusing on the module “Political organization of the City Council”, if in the previous entries we have detailed the results for the different items subject to improvement, in this third we will explain the specific experience of Tarragona City Council in improving the visibility of the subsidies to municipal groups, as well as the public agenda and the declaration of activities and assets of elected officials.
Since the launch of the new module "Political organization of the City Council" Tarragona City Council has worked to improve the visibility and quality of the public information it presents, so that the new module is already another asset on the main page of its transparency portal.
the annual amount of the subsidies, breaking down the amount of the fixed amount per group and the amount for each member that applies, with an indication of the agreement of the Plenary that sets them and the elements that allow to know the decision-making process. 'this decision.
the beneficiary political groups, indicating the annual amount they receive.
the object of the grant (the operating expenses of the group) and the legal prohibitions on the allocation of these funds provided for in Article 73.3 LBRL.
information regarding your financial control.
the justification or accountability by the beneficiaries of the grant, which must at least consist of a detailed list of annual expenses grouped by concept, which must be sufficiently specific and clear: rent, office supplies, printing , postal items, entertainment expenses, travel, fees for external advice, etc.
THECity of Tarragona has worked to show in the item “Municipal groups” of the new module all the information related to the active advertising of the subsidies to municipal political groups in a very visible and agile way.
To do so, they have taken advantage of the descriptive field provided by the item to incorporate the latest publication. Certificate of grants awarded signed by the General Comptroller of the City Council. It should be noted that this certificate is available for the item for the totality of the municipal Political Groups.
To incorporate this document for each Municipal Group they have published all the documents in a new folder in the section "Documents and multimedia files" (access only for publishers), creating a specific folder of "grants to political groups" where they have incorporated the different Certificates.
And for each published document, from the Transparency portal solution, it is possible to obtain a specific URL:
From the descriptive field “More information” of the item “Municipal groups”, from Tarragona a specific text has been indicated for each group (Grants awarded 2019) to which the Certificate of General Intervention in question has been linked. :
And the result is as follows:
In an easy, agile and integrated way with the portal, Tarragona City Council has resolved all the information related to Subsidies to Political Groups in accordance with the “Criterion 1/2018” of the GAIP in the municipal groups' own item.
2. Tarragona and the improvement of the information of the elected positions
Another good practice is the ease and clarity with which Tarragona City Council has resolved the information linked to both the public agenda of elected officials, such as their information linked to the declaration of activities and assets.
Therefore, and for all 27 councilors, from the descriptive file of each one of the elect that provides the new module, finds linked so much his public agenda, very detailed, or his declaration of activities and goods, and all of a way of agile, and updated:
With these two experiences of the Tarragona transparency portal we end this series of three entries on the modulePolitical organization.
From the AOC we encourage you to make progress both in the parameterization of the module, and in the improvement of the contents of the same as is doing the Tarragona City Council, and remember that you have the advanced configuration manual of political organization items which, by following it step by step, facilitates it.
