Pernambuco will cut another R$ 600 million by the end of the year.
The Pernambuco State Government announced that it will expand cuts in the State budget until the end of the year. The decision was made this Monday (24), after a meeting between Governor Paulo Câmara (PSB) and the entire cabinet that lasted more than four hours; the goal is that the cuts, which must be defined by the heads of the departments, reach R$ 600 million; At the beginning of this year, the governor had already announced that the cuts would reach R$ 320 million; according to the Secretary of Finance, Márcio Stefanni, outsourced service providers should be the most affected in this first moment.
Pernambuco 247 - The Pernambuco government announced that it will expand cuts in the state budget until the end of the year. The decision was made this Monday (24), after a meeting between Governor Paulo Câmara (PSB) and the entire cabinet that lasted more than four hours. The goal is that the cuts, which must be defined by those responsible for the departments, reach R$ 600 million.
Earlier this year, the governor had already announced that the budget cuts would reach R$ 320 million. However, the savings obtained since the Contingency Plan was implemented in February reached R$ 210 million. Now, with the budget cuts, the adjustment of the state's public administration is expected to suffer a total reduction of close to R$ 1 billion. The secretaries will have two weeks to decide which cuts will be made in the coming months.
"This means aligning expenses with revenues; the State can only spend what it collects," said the Secretary of Finance, Márcio Stefanni. According to him, a new meeting of this kind should be held at the end of the year to evaluate the results obtained and the projection for the following fiscal year.
"The discussion about the size of the State is indeed happening, but let's wait until the end of the year, because we currently have programs underway, and these programs are managed by their respective departments. However, there is a possibility of readjusting the services provided to the population, always maintaining the most essential services that are currently possible," Stefanni added.
According to him, outsourced companies that provide services to the State should be the most affected in this first phase. "When the number of services is reduced, there is indeed an impact on outsourced companies. There is an impact because it is a reduction in services. We have been making adjustments, and this is in the initial decree from the beginning of the year, and there will probably be further adjustments for outsourced companies," he noted.