OPEN GOVERNMENT
AND RESULTS
Municipal structure
The municipal dependency, in accordance with articles 115 of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States and 35 of the Political Constitution of the State of Querétaro, has its own legal personality and the power to independently manage its assets.
In order to provide a quality service to citizens, the Municipality of Querétaro meticulously selects, hires, and trains public officials and newly hired personnel.
The municipal structure is made up of 9 levels:
- 1. Presidency
- 2. Ministries
- 3. Regencies
- 4. Directorates
- 5. Coordination Offices
- 6. Department Headquarters
- 7. Administrative personnel
- 8. Operational Personnel
- 9. Police
On the other hand, the city council comprises 25 agencies:
- • 1 Municipal Council
- • 1 President’s Office
- • 1 Counseling
- • 4 Coordination Offices
- • 1 General Directorate
- • 1 Trust
- • 1 Institute
- • 1 Internal Control Body/li>
- • 13 Ministries /li>
- • 1 Municipal DIF System. /li>
HUMAN RESOURCES
The workforce in 2021 increased to
67 public officials with different abilities work in the 12 municipal offices. The following table shows the details of the information:
PERSONNEL WITH DISABILITIES BY AGENCY, 2021.
Source: Municipality of Querétaro. Directorate of Human Resources, 2022.
HUMAN RESOURCES BY EDUCATIONAL LEVEL, 2021.
Source: Municipality of Querétaro. Directorate of Human Resources, 2022.
HUMAN RESOURCES BY SENIORITY, 2021.
Source: Municipality of Querétaro. Directorate of Human Resources, 2022.
New public management
The municipal government maintains an open dialogue with citizens, demonstrating trust, social participation and public value. The consistent execution and monitoring of programs, strategies, projects, works and actions, ensures maximum effectiveness in the performance of its functions.
2018-2021 MUNICIPAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN (PMD for its Spanish abbreviation)
In accordance with the Planning Law of the State of Querétaro and the management results model, citizen proposals from different sectors and specialists were combined, in addition to those derived from the diagnosis made by the government team itself, resulting in the origin, implementation and monitoring of the PMD.
The Transversal Axis of Perspective of Family with Social Equity maintains an environment of opportunities, equity and respect, so that everyone's rights can be exercised, strengthening the social fabric, generating a culture of community, solidarity and reciprocal support. The 5 axes and the programs that each one develops are the following:
GUIDING AXES, 2018-2021.
Internal Control Body (OIC) of the Municipality of Querétaro
It is the administrative unit designated by the Law of Administrative Responsibilities of the State of Querétaro that is responsible for the promotion, evaluation, strengthening and proper functioning of internal control in public entities and other instances of autonomous constitutional bodies that, in accordance with their respective laws, are competent to apply the laws on the Responsibilities of Public Officials.
In the Municipality of Querétaro, the OIC is constituted as a decentralized public body of the City Council with technical autonomy and that is in charge of the application of the Municipal System of Prevention, Surveillance, Control, Inspection and Evaluation, with the objective that the human, material and financial resources are administered and exercised in accordance with the approved plans, programs and budget, taking into account their area of competence.
Its main attributions are:
- 1. To issue the Code of Ethics of the Municipality of Querétaro in accordance with the guidelines issued for this purpose by the National Anticorruption System and give it maximum circulation, so that it is known by public officials, suppliers, concessionaires, builders and citizens in general.
- 2. To issue the Code of Conduct of the Municipality of Querétaro in accordance with the guidelines issued for this purpose by the National Anticorruption System.
- 3. To implement, within the scope of its competence, the necessary mechanisms to prevent acts and omissions that could constitute administrative responsibilities, in the terms established by the National and State Anticorruption Systems.
- 4. To carry out the functions established by the Public Works Law of the State of Querétaro, regarding the Committee for the Selection of Contractors for Public Works. And monitor that the public works executed with municipal public resources, directly or with the participation of third parties, comply with the projects, technical specifications and applicable regulations.
- 5. To investigate and qualify administrative offenses committed by public officials of the Municipality of Querétaro and individuals, in the terms ordered by the provisions of the National and State Anticorruption Systems.
- 6. To order the practice of verification visits within the procedures of investigation and qualification of administrative faults, in accordance with the applicable regulations.
- 7. To participate in the Committees of Acquisitions, Disposals, Leases and Contracting of Services, in accordance with the provisions of the law and regulations in the matter, as well as manage the register of contractors and laboratories of the Municipality in accordance with the legal orders.
- 8. To validate and resolve procedures within the scope of its competence, determine the existence or lack of responsibility and, when appropriate, apply the corresponding sanctions in accordance with the General Law and the Law of Responsibilities.
- 9. To monitor, evaluate, verify the exercise of expenditure, verify its correct application and comply with the obligations arising from the provisions on planning, budget, income, financing, investment, debt, equity, securities and financial discipline, as well as issue an opinion on projects of accounting and control systems in terms of programming, budget, administration of human, material and financial resources, contracting of debt and management of funds and securities formulated by the different dependencies, entities and agencies that make up the Municipal Public Administration.
- 10. To monitor, advise and instruct on the application of the manuals of procedures and controls related to the purpose of the audit, following up on the observations that are in accordance with the applicable legal systems.
In 2021, the OIC issued 34.5% more agreements than in 2020, as shown in the following table:
In the same year, what was then known as the Legal and Research Department received 130 Administrative Procedures of Responsibility against a public official, an amount 94.0% higher than the previous year. The detail of the information in the following table:
ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITY PROCEDURES INITIATED, 2017-2021.
Source: Municipality of Querétaro. Internal Control Body, 2022.
Fends officials can incur in 2 types of responsibility, disciplinary or patrimonial. The cases registered during 2021 are shown below:
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES BY TYPE OF RESPONSIBILITY, 2021.
Source: Municipality of Querétaro. Internal Control Body, 2022.
Transparency and access to public information unit
This agency is in charge of receiving and processing requests for access to information, managing requirements made to the agencies and the necessary notifications to citizens. It handles appeals for review filed with the State Commission for Transparency and Access to Public Information of the State of Querétaro, and trains municipal public officials on the subject.
In 2021, information requests increased by almost 30% over the previous year. These are entered through the National Platform for Government Information (INFOMEX), which issues a unique folio for follow-up and promises a response within 20 business days. The complete information is shown in the following table:
The agency with the highest number of requests was the Ministry of Sustainable Development with 549 of the total. The following table provides detailed information:
AGENCIES WITH THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS, 2021.
City Council
It is the administrative body of the municipal government that bases its guidelines on the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States and is represented by a mayor who personifies the highest institutional command on a municipal level.
The state of Querétaro is directed by a governor and 18 mayors. Each municipality establishes its number of legal representatives in accordance with Article 115 of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States: "The states will adopt for their internal regime the republican, representative, democratic, secular and popular form of government, based on their territorial division and their political and administrative organization, in the free municipality."
The municipality of Querétaro, on the other hand, has 13 council members and 2 trustees who legally represent it, completing a staff of 16 officials involved in its management. The councilors have the obligation to participate, represent and preside over 2 (and up to a maximum of 6) Permanent and Temporary Opinion Commissions, as dictated by the Municipal Organic Law of the State of Querétaro.
The City Council of Querétaro conducts different meetings, mostly public, of the Municipal Council. Regular meetings are carried out periodically 2 times per month, and special meetings are carried out as many times as necessary. Solemn sessions are held when the members of the new City Council take an oath; government reporting; and visits by the President of the Republic, Governor, representatives of the Executive, Legislative or Judicial Branch and, in general, distinguished personalities.
In 2021, 4 new municipal regulations were implemented, and 8 existing ones were reformed. The following tables provide detailed information:
Public resources
The Municipal Public Administration is committed to maintaining healthy public finances and preserving an economic balanced budget and stability through an open transparent government and strict accountability.
With these actions, the Municipality of Querétaro complies with article 60 of the General Law of Government Accounting publishing on the website www.municipiodequeretaro.gob.mx the documents provided in the legal ordinances in the initiative of the Revenue Law, the Expenditure Budget Project and other applicable regulations.
The total income of the Municipality amounted to 6,563,728,244.05 pesos at the end of fiscal year 2021, from which 58.9% were own income, 22.1% from federal participations, 11.3% from federal contributions and 7.7% obtained from agreements.
Making a comparison between the capture of own income, participations and contributions in 2021 with respect to 2020, a growth of 11.2% is observed. The detailed information is shown in the following table:
Expenses, meanwhile, reached 6,147,645,496.27 pesos. The classification according to the type of expense and its percentage distribution is shown in the following comparative table between 2020 and 2021:
Source: Municipality of Querétaro, Ministry of Finance, 2021.
