The City Council raises the budget for conservation and maintenance of the city to 35 million euros

The municipal accounts for 2026 allocate 26.25% of the expenditure item to the maintenance, cleaning and upkeep of infrastructures, parks, gardens, beaches and public buildings.

The Estepona City Council will intensify next year the attention to the conservation of neighborhoods, and this has been reflected in the 2026 Municipal Budget that has just been approved. The economic resources earmarked for maintenance and care services grow to 34.8 million euros, representing 26.25% of the expenditure budget. The maintenance and upkeep of the city is mainly carried out through the External Control area, whose current expenditure for these actions includes parks, gardens, beaches, infrastructure and municipal buildings, as well as waste collection and cleaning, among others.

Among the most outstanding items included in next year’s municipal accounts are the works in parks, gardens and beaches, with 9.7 million Euros; waste collection, with 9.1 million; infrastructure conservation, 7.4 million; waste treatment, 3.7 million; or cleaning of municipal buildings, with 4.7 million Euros.

The 2026 budget is the first budget of the Estepona City Council in which the municipal accounts will not have to face the payment of the inherited debt, which opens a new economic era for the management of public resources. The important economic efforts of tens of millions of euros that annually were directed to amortize debt will now be used, as announced by Mayor José María García Urbano, in lowering taxes (the budget contains an item of 6.6 million for lowering the IBI) and in improving the city, with more investments and better services.

Next year’s accounts also include a boost to the Neighborhood Plan, which was born with the aim of undertaking a complete renovation, improvement and strengthening of the maintenance of residential areas of Estepona. These are comprehensive actions that include masonry, painting, road signs, electricity, plumbing, gardening, removal of architectural barriers, paving and sidewalks.

The Neighborhood Plan has a specific ‘Neighborhood Brigade’ of workers, permanently composed of a minimum team of 10 people. However, personnel from other municipal services are added according to the specific needs of each of the intervention areas. This brigade, which is rotated, remains in each of the neighborhoods where the work is being carried out until the work is completed. All the neighborhoods will benefit from its work.

All these actions are complemented with the Asphalting Plan that every year the City Council executes, and that already has economic item for its new edition.

The 2026 Budget also returns to make a major effort in the items for works in schools and nursery schools, as well as for refurbishment and maintenance of sports facilities and equipment.