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The Council for Modernization of Administration, Urban Quality and Participation, led by José Guillén, will manage in 2017 global budgets amounting to about 37 million euros to which must be added the management of more than 123,000,000 euros personal expenses.

The main keys of the accounts of the council for this year are:

- Special importance to citizen participation through smart city projects within Smart Murcia.

- The budgets of HR grow 1% that are destined to more than 200,000 more hours of attention to the citizen.

- The area that corresponds to the management of districts and municipal councils has a budget increase of about 18%, thus achieving a 50% increase in the budget of districts since 2015.

- More investments in the Parks and Gardens Service to continue with the Murcia River project and renovate and maintain the more than 3,000 green areas of the municipality.

Councilor José Guillén explained that "if last year we put the focus of government action on service to people, in this exercise, we continue with that guiding purpose, enhancing participation as a vehicle to achieve that goal."

"We want Murcia to be protagonists of government action and for this, the new channels of participation are fundamental. We want to put all the effort in which the Murcia want and can participate in the Murcia of the future, that together we build and live Murcia "Said Guillén.

According to the councilman, "our municipality has to be represented by those Murcia who grow and live with their families and who demand more and more public spaces where they interact, participate and decide the future of the city they want for their children."

Thus, a series of clear and necessary objectives are proposed:

- Provide more means and computer equipment to expand the citizen's attention and participation channels.

- Put the technology to the service of the neighbors, with the development of SmartMurcia

- Further modernizing public services

- Turn participation into a standard of action to make Murcia the city that Murcia want, knowing their opinion, reaching the solution to their demands and developing projects for the continuous improvement of life in the city and the districts.

- Transparency as the guiding principle, developing the tools to meet the transparency objectives set out in the new transparency transparency ordinance.

More HR and more hours of service to citizens

The staff budget increased by 1% mainly due to the historic agreement of the collective agreement sealed in 2016 and which will be reflected in an increase of more than 200,000 hours of effective service for the citizen, with a greater number of hours of presence The police, firefighters and the totality of services that render services of attention face to the citizen, mainly.

Thus, work groups will be created to improve the efficiency of the human resources of the different municipal services.

In addition, by providing this exercise, for the first time in history, of the List of Jobs, it will be possible to develop a more efficient human resources organization and to make a definitive progress in optimizing human resources and modernizing the city council .

Technological services, transparency and Citizen Assistance

The overall budget for this area amounts to more than 16%, which is intended to enhance the citizen service that is provided from more than 70 offices this year more hours, in more languages ​​and interrupted until 5.30 pm At its headquarters.

This is the first year of a City Council open 24 hours 365 days a year, which will conclude the first phase of implementation of electronic administration.

In addition, steps will be taken to modernize its care and services to Murcia to improve their quality of life, and work will continue on reducing bureaucracy, administrative simplification and new e-administration to simplify procedures And make their daily relationships easier with the city council.

Also, Murcia will open its Portal of Transparency after the approval, last June, in the municipal Plenary of the Ordinance on Transparency and Good Governance, which is currently in its period of public exposure.

A Murcia, a City Hall

In the same way, TuMurcia will become a tool of citizen participation fundamental for the development of surveys, opinions, suggestions and proposals of each one of the Murcia, implementing in a pioneering way the artificial intelligence in the attention to the public.

On the other hand, the IT area is growing significantly due to the preparation of the systems for the implementation of all the projects that are developed from Murcia Smart City, projects worth more than 8 million euros that will begin to tender to start up The funds allocated to the city by RED, is

All citizen participation will be articulated through means of networks, connections, open access classrooms, citizen service offices for maximum dissemination and possible neighborhood use.

Pedanías and participation

Citizen participation and the districts are the protagonists of the budgets of the council as they will have, in addition to the increase in current expenditure, another 1.9 million euros of extrabudgetary injection for investments.

The budget for participation and decentralization amounts to more than 16 million euros.

This year municipal councils and districts increase their budget by 18% assuming an increase of more than 50% since 2015.

In the area of ​​management it is important to note that each hamlet will become an independent management body, which means that its remaining assets will automatically be transferred to the next year.

Likewise, the capacity of direct expenditure of the presidents of the municipal boards of 3,000 to 5,000 euros increases with the amendment of article 44 of the execution base.

Also will be summoned days of pedanias and the council of mayors will be constituted.

Likewise, more than 14 million extraordinary euros will be distributed to develop investments in districts that add to the more than 25 million euros that the various councils have to carry out projects in districts and to more than 13 million euros of the global budget Destined to maintenance and conservation of municipal facilities and dependencies in these population centers

Parks and gardens

Murcia has more than 3.5 million square meters of green areas distributed in more than 3,000 parks and gardens.

For its maintenance has been assigned a budget line of 12,447,325 euros with an investment amounting to 3 million euros.

This will allow, along with other councils, to continue with the project Urban DNA, which will be extended to districts after having been implemented in the neighborhood of Santa Eulalia.

In total, more than 700,000 euros will be allocated to the remodeling and improvement of gardens and more than 125,000 euros to the drafting of new projects.

Thus, the garden and children's area of ​​the Sports Palace, Science Museum, Circular Square, Floridablanca Garden, Pintor Pedro Flores Street and José Antonio Camacho Street will be rehabilitated.

Also will be carried out different actions of renovation or construction of new green zones in districts and districts like Baños and Mendigo, Beniaján, Cabezo de Torres, Cañada Hermosa, Cobatillas, Corvera, El Puntal, El Esparragal, Era Alta, El Palmar, Espinardo , Guadalupe, Javalí Nuevo, Javalí Viejo, La Alberca, La Raya, Los Ramos, Monteagudo, Nonduermas, Puebla de Soto, Tocinos Bridge, San Ginés, Sangonera la Verde, Sangonera la Seca, Santo Ángel, Zarandona and Zeneta, among other.

An investment of 125,000 will allow the creation of 15 new pet spaces so that the ZECA Plan (canine recreational areas) reaches all the districts of the municipality.

Ten new zones of gerontogimnasia will also be placed.

For the installation of new children's games, 375,000 euros will be invested, 375,000 euros will be added to the installation of shade zones and 125,000 euros will be added to the smartizing of gardens, which will have to be added the item destined to the remodeling of the municipal nurseries.

It has also been established a plan of trees in Murcia and districts thanks to which 25,000 new trees will be planted throughout the municipality.

Likewise, multi-annual budget lines have been established to carry out the Murcia River project which in this year will exceed one million euros.

In this way, almost 800,000 euros will be allocated to the new access to the river bed and the river walk, while revegetation and matching margins will mean 225,000 euros and 150,000 euros will go to the botanist of the Malecón garden.

Also, and also within the project Murcia River, will proceed to the rehabilitation of the garden of the Four Stones and Alameda and the creation of an urban park at the height of the neighborhood of Carmen.

Urban Quality

This service will launch the technical regulation project for the installation of fairs and events on public roads.

In addition, 125,000 euros will be allocated to the fencing, beautification of facades and lots and 100,000 euros to the commercial, tourist and institutional signposts, elimination of illegal advertising and rearrangement of terraces in the main squares throughout the municipality.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia