From this month, the fee for video surveillance will be charged. The outgoing mayor signed a contract with the Mexican company ETS in February 2020.
As reported by El Diario de Hoy in February 2020, the capital mayor Ernesto Muyshondt signed a contract that same month with the Mexican company Eye Tech Solutions (ETS) to implement the video surveillance service in San Salvador and in its March 3, 2020 edition. was warned that the cost of this contract would be passed to the main residents through municipal taxes to be paid from this month.
After 8 months asking the mayor’s office for the details of the signed contract and more than 4 months after the Institute for Access to Public Information (IAIP) ordered the delivery of the documentation, El Diario de Hoy received a copy of the contract in where the name of the lawyer who concluded the contract has been omitted, which is crossed out with a marker.
Then, on October 20, 2020, the capital city council approved the reform of the municipal ordinance to make the collection of the new video surveillance fee effective.
The mayor has said there will be between 1,355 cameras and 1,600 cameras at about 100 points of the municipality and will operate through the new charge. Photo EDH / Archives
The municipality approved a staggered payment method for natural and legal persons based on the size of the property and the living space.
But unlike a concession, the collection is not a direct payment to ETS, the company benefiting from the juicy contract, but rather the multi-year contract (for 15 years) stipulates that it will be the capital that will make payment through fees to the capital city.
Muyshondt stated in October 2020 that the mayor’s office will make an investment of $ 450,000 per month to make the contract work.
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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 means corresponding to an amendment to the” Regulation regulating the fees for municipal services of the city of San Salvador “. aim to regulate the municipal fees to be charged which are generated by the public services of an administrative or legal nature provided by the municipality ”.
The alleged concession contract stipulates that the mayor’s office will have to pay him the $ 84.8 million that the video surveillance service will cost in 184 installments, as the contract runs for 15 years.
The rate that the mayor’s office charges residents of the capital for video surveillance is 4% per month.
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“A very broad cadastral study has been carried out, defining five categories, depending on the areas of San Salvador, for both businesses and housing,” the mayor explained in October.
The contract requires the company to install 1,600 video surveillance cameras; The mayor has said there will be between 1,355 cameras and 1,600 cameras at about 100 points of the municipality and will operate through the new charge.
Category “A” pays between $ 6 and $ 10
In this segment, the properties are located in commercial corridors of the city, such as Paseo Escalón,
Bulevar de los Héroes and Los Próceres, as well as properties of greater urban and architectural value compared to other parts of the city, in residential areas such as Colonia Escalón, San Francisco, Altamira, San Benito and Portal del Casco.
Category “B” pays between $ 2 and $ 6
They are located in secondary commercial corridors such as Calle Constitución, Bulevar Universitario, 10a. Avenida Norte, but also in neighborhoods such as Satélite, Miralvalle, Centroamérica, San Mateo, Vista Hermosa and Bello San Juan, among others nearby. Payment depends on the size of the property, ranging from 0 to over 1,000 square feet.
Category “C” pays between $ 0.50 and $ 0.90
This group includes the houses or businesses in the San Miguelito, San Jacinto, San José or Santa Anita neighborhoods, as well as most of the properties in the historic center, which were placed in this category to motivate their reactivation and thus generate investment in them. circumference. The colonies of Cima II, Atlacatl and Layco also fall into this category.
Category “D” pays between $ 0.05 and $ 0.09
In this segment, cataloged as “Middle Zone”, the Municipality of San Salvador has abandoned properties in populated areas and urban centers, such as: IVU Condominiums, La Málaga, Lourdes, Colonia Guatemala; as well as subdivisions in Brisas de Candelaria and Lomas de Candelaria, or the Santa Marta Urbanization.
Category “E” pays between $ 0.01 and $ 0.03
In this group, the mayor’s office includes precarious settlements or “development communities”, which lie on the banks of rivers or streams. Projects have also been developed in buildings belonging to the municipality, such as the communities of Las Iberias, El Coro, San Luis Portales, Monseñor Romero, Altos de Jardines, Vista Bella and San Luises.
Varies by property size
The mayor’s office has established the following parameters to calculate the fee for each property:
RANGE 1: 0 to 70.00 square feet
GRADE 2: 70.01 to 200 square feet
GRADE 3: 200.01 to 500 square feet
GRADE 4: 500.01 to 1,000 square feet
GRADE 5: more than 1,000 square meters.