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Now Murcia denounces "alarmed" the absence of a cultural policy in the municipality (13/03/2016)

MURCIA NOW denounces the lack of a cultural project for the municipality, and the lack of transparency and participatory processes in subsidies and grants for cultural activities and celebrations by the council.

For these reasons, the municipal formation presented at the next plenary a motion and a question, as it understands that "we are losing the opportunity to make our municipality, the seventh of Spain, a cultural reference."

Councillor and spokesman Now Murcia, Alicia Morales, regrets that "this is a councilman of Culture, Jesus Pacheco, without a cultural strategy, which does not meet with the groups in the sector, nor with the opposition, although well He promised in plenary, plus it has no clear criteria, or at least known, why grants and subsidies to some and not to others "are awarded.

On the motion of transparency in subsidies for cultural activities and celebrations by the council, the mayor says "that the different parties Murcia are one of the pillars of tourism in our town, but the aid granted by the City Council to organized entities that are not the result of a public and open, and citizens know what the criteria for granting ".

Thus, these aids are being processed through direct subsidies, which the council rises to the Governing Board, despite high economic value they represent, in addition to the media, staff, and infrastructure that the City mobilizes in these celebrations.

Morales explains "that the same applies to the cultural events of the municipality and festivals. The City Council promotes or participates in cultural programs and festivals criterion Pacheco, but does not have a public call for grants for proposed activities from associations, groups or groups Murcia maintaining a varied cultural offer throughout the year. "

The mayor also recalled the recent annual barometer of the Observatory of Culture, which has placed Murcia between the regions with the worst cultural study, while not highlight any event in 2015, "and despite the fact that we are the seventh municipality of Spain, so we should have a much greater cultural power ".

For all this, now Murcia urged, at the next plenary Pacheco to inform local groups on the amounts, criteria and procedure of decision-making for granting subsidies and other aid activities of festivities and cultural, both those already granted as those are being processed.

the councilman of Culture also convene groups to pending meetings to establish the criteria concerning the artistic direction of the theater of Murcia will be asked, as well as those related to the cultural program for the commemorations of the events in Murcia 750 years ago, "because in the last plenary the PP said that soon convene these meetings and you have not done," said the councilor.

The question we take the House, meanwhile, refers to the use that will give the City Council Artillery Barracks.

"There is confusion and alarm among neighbors and groups about the uses it has and will have the space," Morales said.

"All they know is the result of rumors or what appears in the press: a municipal file, a railroad museum, the headquarters of the Choir Fernández Caballero ... Our group has requested through internal communications information on the restoration project, but we have not received answer".

In this sense, the mayor said that "the neighbors and the city council asking that a participatory and detection of the needs of the neighborhood process is performed. In addition, cultural groups have been calling meetings and explanations to the Department, but do not get any response ".

Source: Ahora Murcia

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