Video surveillance charges will be applied from this month. The outgoing mayor signed a contract with the Mexican company MTS in February 2020.
As reported by El Diario de Avui in February 2020, the mayor of the capital Ernesto Muyshondt signed a contract in the same month with the Mexican company Eye Tech Solutions (ETS) to implement the video surveillance service in San Salvador and in the edition of March 3, 2020 it was warned that the costs of this contract would be transferred to those of the capital through municipal fees to be paid from this month.
After 8 months of asking the mayor for the details of the signed contract and after more than 4 months that the Institute for Access to Public Information (IAIP) ordered the delivery of the documentation, El Diari d’Avui he received a copy of the contract omitting the name of the lawyer who made the contract, which was labeled with pen.
Then on October 20, 2020, the council of the capital authorized the reform of the municipal ordinance to make effective the collection of the new fee for video surveillance.
The mayor has said there will be between 1,355 cameras and 1,600 cameras in about 100 points in the municipality and will operate through the new collection. Photo EDH / Archive
The council approved a staggered collection modality for natural and legal persons that is based on the size of the property and the area of residence.
But unlike a concession, the collection is not a direct payment to MTS, which is the company benefiting from the juicy contract, but the multi-year contract (for 15 years) stipulates that it will be the mayor of the capital who will make the payment for average rates to those in the capital.
Muyshondt stated in October 2020 that for the contract to work the mayor will make an investment of $ 450,000 a month.
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According to the fourth clause of the contract signed by Muyshondt, “the municipal mayor of San Salvador will finance the concession contract with the funds corresponding to a reform of the” Ordinance Regulating Fees for municipal services of the city of San Salvador Salvador “… the object is to regulate the municipal taxes to be collected, which are generated due to the public services of an administrative or legal nature provided by the municipality”.
The alleged concession contract stipulates that the mayor must pay him the $ 84.8 million that the video surveillance service will cost in 184 installments, as the hiring is for 15 years.
The rate that the mayor’s office will charge to those in the capital for video surveillance is 4% per month.
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“A very comprehensive cadastral study has been done, where five categories were defined, depending on the areas of San Salvador, both for companies and for housing,” the mayor explained in October.
According to the contract, the company must install 1,600 video surveillance cameras; the mayor has said there will be between 1,355 cameras and 1,600 cameras in about 100 points in the municipality and will operate through the new collection.
Category “A” will pay between $ 6 and $ 10
In this segment there are the properties in commercial corridors of the city, like Passeig Graó,
Bulevard dels Herois and Els Próceres, as well as homes with more urban and architectural value than other areas of the city, in residential areas such as Colònia Graó, Sant Francesc, Altamira, Sant Benet and Portal de l’Casc.
Category “B” will pay between $ 2 and $ 6
They are located in secondary commercial corridors such as Carrer Constitució, Bulevard Universitari, 10a. North Avenue, as well as in colonies like Satellite, Miralvalle, Central America, San Mateo, Beautiful Vista and Beautiful San Juan, among others bordering. Payment varies depending on the size of the property, ranging from 0 to over 1,000 square meters.
Category “C” will pay between $ 0.50 and $ 0.90
This group includes houses or businesses in the neighborhoods of San Miguelito, San Jacinto, San Jose and Santa Anita, as well as most buildings in the historic center, which were placed in this category to motivate their reactivation and so on. generate investment in this perimeter. The Cim II, Atlacatl and Layco colonies also fall into this category.
Category “D” will pay between $ 0.05 and $ 0.09
In this segment classified as “Zona media” the municipality of San Salvador has left the properties located in populated areas and urban centers, such as: condominiums IVU, La Málaga, Lourdes, colony Guatemala; as well as subdivisions in Brisas de Candelaria and Lomas de Candelaria, or the urbanization Santa Marta.
Category “I” will pay between $ 0.01 and $ 0.03
In this group the mayor’s office includes precarious settlements or “developing communities,” which are on the banks of rivers or broken. Also included are projects developed in buildings that belonged to the municipality as communities Les Iberias, El Cor, Sant Lluís Portals, Monsignor Romero, Alts de Jardins, Vista Bella and Sant Lluïsos.
Ranges by property size
The mayor has established the following parameters to calculate the collection for each property:
RANGE 1: 0 to 70.00 square meters
RANGE 2: 70.01 to 200 square meters
RANGE 3: 200.01 to 500 square meters
RANGE 4: 500.01 to 1,000 square meters
RANGE 5: Above 1,000 square meters.