#National •
CDMX, November 9, 2023.- The
Mexican Business Council proposes the creation and application of the Plan for the Sustainable and Humanist Development
of Acapulco 2024-2030 to avoid the risk of deepening the degradation of the area and even new
social conflicts.
The plan sees a medium-term horizon that allows for
a modern Acapulco, internationally competitive, self-sufficient in its
economy and with lasting social support mechanisms.
The neuralgic points of this Plan
are:
1.- Place Acapulco
as an Exception District with powers and federal delegates under a
model directed by two institutions, the first of Order and Legality, which addresses the
emergency stages and restructuring of the affected services, through a federal delegation. special
that coordinates government, private and social efforts to serve the
population, protect their guarantees and assets, maintain legal order
and reestablish public services in the locality and affected areas.
The second institution already
exists, explains the CEM, and is the Trust for the
Economic and Social Development of Acapulco, which must have
expanded powers to promote the stages of the plan, associated with urban and environmental development
, the restoration of demand and the promotion of
tourist activity and economic activity, concentrating the
budgetary resources of the three levels of government for this purpose and including the
regulatory schemes for its exercise.
With this basis, the business organization recommends that the Plan be registered
as a multi-year plan, in accordance with the regulations of the Federal Law on Budget
and Fiscal Responsibility and that it contain four stages designed for its
execution according to two aspects, that of Order and Legality and that of
Promotion and Sustainable and Humanist Development. These stages are:
1.- Emergency: With monetary transfers and
temporary employment, that is, the granting of monetary transfers per
family for one year: 6 months at 100% and another 6 months at 50%. They replace
food pantries that become infinite in their supply and allow the
creation of natural demand that can be exchanged for pantries or other
items according to the needs of each family.
2.- Restructuring: For reconstruction,
urban order, public services, housing and environmental sanitation,
through a temporary employment program for 50,000 people of 6,000 pesos per month
for the reconstruction work of public infrastructure, which is
adds to the temporary employment programs proposed by the
private initiative for the restoration of their service or residence properties.
This program can be executed and supervised by
the government agencies that the trust recommends based on
established priorities.
3.- Promotion of tourism: For international competitiveness
and new tourism products to promote demand and
investment in the sector, that is, the promotion under a single vision for the
exploitation of tourist services for the national and international markets,
which strengthens the creation and entrepreneurship of new tourism products.
4.- Agricultural and industrial development in the area:
for the self-sufficiency and sustainability of the area and the tourism sector, so
that the financing policy for SMEs promotes the creation of
a local economy that supplies the region and mainly the tourism industry
, also promote the agricultural sector, agroindustry, the
local industry of inputs to hotels and restaurants and tourism services.
The CEM explains that the Multiannual Plan for the
Economic and Social Development of Acapulco 2023-2030 requires multiple resources from the
public and private sector estimated by:
1.-The amount necessary to cover
monetary transfers of 6,000 pesos per month for 250,000 families for six
months at 100% and six months at 50%, amounts to 13,500 million
pesos.
2.-The amount
necessary to cover the temporary programs contracted by the
public sector would amount to 4,200 million pesos.
3.- The tax exemption for six months in the
total payment of taxes, including local services, which considering the
contributory capacity expressed at 87% in the budget allocation for the state
of Guerrero for 2023 and estimating 50% for the area affected for six months,
it is estimated at 16,668 million pesos (six months) when taking as a reference the
participations and contributions to municipalities, subsidies,
public investment and the concept of materials and supplies.
4.- Securitization of income from
public services. Program to provide technical autonomy to municipal public services
through 20-year soft financing to reestablish
their efficiency and user registers.
5.- The financing offered by Nafin and the GTA 6 Highly compressed
development banks must be channeled as soft financing, risk capital and
entrepreneurship in the tourist, industrial and agricultural sectors of the
area. This financing would be recoverable independently of the amount
required for economic development. Considering a universe of 5,000 SME businesses at an average of 300,000 pesos, a financing boost of 1,500 million recoverable pesos
will be required over time .
6.- Budget resources to strengthen
infrastructure and services must be considered in multi-year budgets
, including funds and risk coverage for natural disasters
with minimum investments of 5,000 million pesos annually.
7.- The budgets of
participating federal agencies and entities in the area that are justified must be increased
by 2024 by an additional third of the 2023 budget.
In sum, in addition to the
federal resources provided by law, the Federal Government requires an investment for the next
14 months of 39,388 million pesos, plus an additional 5,000 million pesos
annually for investment from 2025 to 2030 and recoverable financing
promoted through development banks that would total 1,500 million
pesos.
