The video surveillance fee will be applied starting this month. 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 mayor of the capital Ernesto Muyshondt signed a contract in the same month with the Mexican company Eye Tech Solutions (ETS) for the implementation of the video surveillance service in San Salvador and in the March 3 edition. it was warned that the costs of this contract will be transferred to the residents of the capital through municipal taxes that will be paid starting this month.
After 8 months from the request of 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 omitting the lawyer’s name. who made the said contract, who was cut with a marker.
Then, on October 20, 2020, the capital council authorized the reform of the municipal ordinance to make effective the collection of the new video surveillance tax.
The mayor said that there will be between 1,355 rooms and 1,600 rooms in about 100 points of the municipality and will operate through the new tax. Photo EDH / Archive
The Council approved a staggered payment method for individuals and legal entities, which 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 ETS, which is the company benefiting from the juicy contract, but rather the multi-year contract (for 15 years) provides that it will be the capital that will say the payment by taxes to capital .
Muyshondt said in October 2020 that for the contract to work, the city hall 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 mayor of San Salvador will finance the concession contract with the funds corresponding to an amendment to the “Ordinance regulating fees for municipal services in the city of San Salvador.” . whose purpose is to regulate the municipal taxes to be levied, which are generated due to 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 him in 184 installments, because the contract is for 15 years.
The rate that the mayor’s office will charge the citizens of the capital for video surveillance is 4% per month.
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“A very comprehensive cadastral study was conducted, in which five categories were defined, depending on the areas of San Salvador, both for companies and for homes,” the mayor explained in October.
Under the contract, the company must install 1,600 video surveillance cameras; the mayor said that there will be between 1,355 rooms and 1,600 rooms in about 100 points of the municipality and will operate through the new tax.
Category “A” will pay between 6 and 10 USD
In this segment are the properties in the commercial corridors of the city, such as Paseo Escalón,
Bulevar de los Héroes and Los Próceres, as well as houses with a higher urban and architectural value compared to other areas of the city, in residential areas such as Colonia Escalón, San Francisco, Altamira, San Benito and Portal del Casco.
Category “B” will pay between 2 and 6 USD
They are located on secondary commercial corridors, such as Calle Constitución, Bulevar Universitario, 10a. Avenida Norte, as well as in neighborhoods such as Satélite, Miralvalle, Centroamérica, San Mateo, Vista Hermosa and Bello San Juan, among others nearby. Payment varies depending on the size of the property, ranging from 0 to more than 1,000 square meters.
Category “C” will pay between $ 0.50 and $ 0.90
This group includes homes or businesses in the San Miguelito, San Jacinto, San José or Santa Anita neighborhoods, as well as most properties in the Historic Center, which have been placed in this category to motivate their reactivation and thus generate investment in this area. This category also includes the colonies Cima II, Atlacatl and Layco.
Category “D” will pay between $ 0.05 and $ 0.09
In this segment classified as the “Middle Zone”, the municipality of San Salvador has left properties located 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 in the urbanization of Santa Marta.
Category “E” will pay between $ 0.01 and $ 0.03
In this group, the town hall includes precarious settlements or “developing communities”, which are located on the banks of rivers or streams. There are also projects developed in buildings that belonged 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.
Property size range
The town hall set the following parameters to calculate the fee for each property:
RANGE 1: 0 – 70.00 square meters
CLASS 2: 70.01 to 200 square meters
CLASS 3: 200.01 to 500 square meters
RANK 4: 500.01 to 1,000 square meters
RANGE 5: Over 1,000 square meters.