Do not do business with Portimão council, unless you are prepared to an average of 1,975 days to get paid.
Five years and four months is the current settlement period for suppliers’ invoices should they have the misfortune to have supplied the local council with goods and services.
The General Directorate of Local Authorities produces a list of councils in the country that are 90 days or more behind with their payments.
The Algarve does not do well, led by Portimão, Vila Real de Santo António takes 1,366 days to settle its accounts.
The list of bad payers includes four other Algarve councils: Vila do Bispo (27th) with 294 days, Olhão (42nd) with 179 days, Albufeira (51st) with 144 days and Faro which borrows its way out of trouble has managed a low place on the list at 88th place with 94 days delay.
Portimão remains the worst performer in the entire country and has even managed to increase its lead by adding 920 days since the last survey three months before.
There has been no comment yet from Mayor Isilda Gomes who in her first year of office seems to stare failure in the face in terms of realigning the council’s finances or getting to grip with the realities of the legacy left by the fiscally deranged former mayor Manuel da Luz.
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Come off it, Ed !
Who, in public office - or working in public administration has any interest in 'putting things right' ?
Any genetic mutant who is 'incorruptible' and wants to get public life straight needs, at the very least,to set a start date. Anything before this date gets ignored as being 'too messy' ....
But this 'incorruptible' will soon run into the loose ends. Say building developments today that depend on dodgy paperwork from earlier times.
Or trying to come down hard on a dodgy who got their 'dodgy money' from relatives who did the dodgy deeds in earlier times.
Or the endless pantomime in tribunals - with dodgy lawyers endlessly questioning how genuine the papers or signatures are. Witnesses that, over the years, can be induced to lose their certainty of their memory of events.
Its a horrendous mess ... and as often said; it has been the EU's problem for the last 30 years.
Have a look at
http://www.algarvedailynews.com/news/1152-full-government-enquiry-into-portimao-corruption
Hopefully Manuel da Luz and the others will be jailed for corruption, abuse of his position and stealing public money.
Ed
This was confusing to me also, but the Portuguese laws covering how the stats are derived are even more so!
Prazo Médio de Pagamentos registado por município, final 2.º trimestre 2014
Lista dos municípios com PMP superior a 90 dias no final de 2.º trimestre de 2014
Nos termos da alínea b) do n.º 20 da Resolução do Conselho de Ministros n.º 34/2008, de 22 de Fevereiro, compete à Direção-Geral das Autarquias Locais publicar na sua página eletrónica na Internet, até ao final do mês de setembro, a lista dos municípios que tenham registado um prazo médio de pagamentos superior a 90 dias no final do 2.º trimestre do ano.
A fórmula de cálculo do PMP consubstanciou-se no indicador definido nos termos do n.º 4 do Despacho n.º 9870/2009 do Gabinete do Ministro das Finanças e da Administração Pública, publicado a 13 de Abril, no DR n.º 71, 2ª série Parte C.
Os dados utilizados foram retirados da aplicação informática SIIAL em 29 de setembro de 2014, de acordo com a informação reportada pelos municípios.
Goodness only knows what he has "stashed away" in bank accounts, etc. during his term of pillaging.
What a rotten lot