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The mayor advocates "moderation and loyal dialogue" in the Debate on the state of the municipality and states that "you have to replace insults and disqualifications by pacts and arguments."
José Ballesta confirms that next Wednesday, day 15, Adif will start the burial works and that same week the Social Commission for Follow-up of the Railway Works will be convened.
"In 2016 we developed the City Strategy and this year has been the definition, drafting and tender of the main projects," said the mayor, who added that "2018 will be the exercise of the tangible."
Over the course of almost three hours the Debate on the state of the Municipality has been prolonged, a session in which the Mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, has defended the "effort of political exercise and dialogue" against "the politics of the posverdad, the toxic sentimentality and the easy solutions to complex problems ", in an intervention in which, on the one hand, it has made a political analysis of the social reality and, on the other, it has rendered accounts on the management of Government carried out in the last year and detailed the actions and objectives achieved in the territorial, productive, social and cultural models of the City Project.
"Politics is an apprenticeship of disappointment, because it is incapacitated for her who has not learned to accept what does not fully satisfy her," the councilor argued, to continue pointing out that "I believe in moderation, in not interpreting the politics as a combat, in not reducing it to a friend-enemy dialectic ".
"It will be necessary to replace insults and disqualifications by pacts and arguments.
The attacks, by debates.
It is not correct a dialectic of seduction of ones own and of confrontation and revenge with respect to others, "he underlined.
The mayor has made a plea for "moderation and loyal dialogue for the pursuit of the general interest" against "absolute categories, fanaticism, sectarianism and confidence in the possession of the only truth" and has stressed that "we must Endeavor to remove the temptation to adjust reality to what is best for us ".
Commitment to burying
The councilor has reiterated his commitment to the burying of roads and has indicated that of the total global investment of the project, 600 million euros, only 15% correspond to the arrival of high speed.
"85% of this investment, the largest in the history of the municipality and the Region of Murcia, is for the burying of the roads."
"We want the burial, we have been working to get it from the first day," said José Ballesta, who said that "in communication this morning with the president of Adif, he has confirmed that, indeed, next Wednesday, day 15, the works of the burial and that same week the Social Commission of Follow-up of the Works of the Railroad will be summoned of which all the political groups of this Corporation are part, to give account of each and every one of the details of the project, and in which also, as requested at the last Social Council yesterday, will be present unions with greater representation in the city of Murcia.
Consensus and plenary debate
Throughout this term 607 Motions have been presented, of which 493 have been approved. Of these, 311 (63%) have been unanimously approved.
Of the total number of motions approved (493), 236 (47.87%) were complied with, 167 (33.87%) and 90 (18.26%) were in execution.
Fulfilled projects
During his speech, José Ballesta explained the strategic lines of the City Project of the municipality, "based on the social agreement with multiple actors of daily life in Murcia" and "with more than 200 facts and realities: projects executed, in execution, tendered and in the process of tendering. "
Regarding the municipal management of 2017, the mayor said that "if throughout the past year the main work was the development of the City Strategy and the definition of the four models of development -territorial, productive, social and cultural- , the year 2017 has been the definition, drafting and tender of the main projects.
The year 2018 will be that of the tangible, the real, the culmination of many of these projects ".
La Huerta and Murcia River
In this section highlights the Plan of Action of the Huerta de Murcia, by which this year have developed multiple actions of awareness and environmental awareness, as well as measures to ensure the maintenance of agricultural activity.
As for the recuperation of the heritage, the following has been achieved: the award of the rehabilitation works of the Molino del Amor and the surroundings of the Molino de Batán;
the emergency work for the consolidation of Casa Torre Falcón, the final draft being in draft;
or the drafting of the rehabilitation project for the Molino de la Pólvora.
Within the Plan of Action of the Huerta, the mayor highlighted "a project that is going to have a very important importance for the districts of Southeast of Murcia, as it is the greenway that joins Los Dolores and Torreagüera and that is going to suppose the elimination of a historic barrier in the districts through which it passes, especially in Beniaján. "
After concluding the cession of use of the old road terraces, the City Council is concluding the green trail project after having carried out a citizen participation process.
The Plenary of the month of October approved the financing amounting to 1.2 M €.
In addition, a possible ERDF financing is being negotiated through the Vías Verdes Consortium.
On the other hand, within the territorial model highlights Murcia River, "the structuring project of the most important municipality for the coming years, which affects the 27 km of the river Segura and an area of ​​250,000 m2."
The City Council has drafted the Contraparada Interpretation Center project, for an amount of more than € 500,000, where users will be informed about the natural, landscape, cultural, historical and ethnographic values ​​of the Huerta de Murcia.
The deadline for submission of tenders, after its tender, ends today, November 10.
With respect to the action of landscape and natural recovery of the course and recovery of meanders, the City Council has created a working group with the participation of the Universities of Murcia and Cartagena, Confederación Hidrográfica del Segura and the ANSE naturalist association, with the participation of the representatives of the districts affected, to set the criteria for natural recovery of the channel and the integration of the old meanders.
The garden of the Four Stones is currently under construction, with an expected period of 4 months and a budget of € 120,000 and the Governing Board has approved the garden project of La Alameda, which will have a budget of one million euros.
This year, the bike lane that runs along the lower part of the riverbed, in a length of 1.8 km, was also executed.
that allows to cross the city pedestrianly and in bicycle, between the Bridge of Manterola and the Auditorium, connecting the two routes on the motes on both sides of the city.
At the end of the year the lighting of the channel will be carried out with 155 low consumption LED projectors.
Recovery of public spaces: Old Prison, San Esteban and Alfonso X
The opening of the Old Prison will mean a new impulse for the recovery of spaces in the city.
The contest of preliminary projects for the rehabilitation and putting into use of this emblematic space of the city, with the winning project, 'Muros etéreos', has just been failed.
Another fundamental initiative is the recovery of San Esteban.
For months the master plan has been awarded -in June its progress was presented-, which includes the archaeological zone, the Palace and the Jesuit Church of the sixteenth century.
It will have a multidisciplinary content, will prioritize the musealization of the site and will address actions of social and neighborhood integration.
Also worth mentioning is the pedestrianization of Alfonso X el Sabio Street, which will extend the pedestrian center of Murcia, linking the river with the Plaza Circular.
The works, which affect an area of ​​7,600 m2 in its first phase, will start on Monday with the renovation of infrastructures of the service providers.
Impulse to the districts
This year, the Municipal Boards have experienced one of the largest budget increases in their history, going from managing 9,800,000 euros in 2015 to managing more than 13 million euros in 2017.
The creation of the Pediatric Care Office will be taken to the Governing Board next week and a special investment plan in districts worth 14 million euros has been launched.
Parks, cleaning and sports facilities
The municipality of Murcia has more than 3,000 green areas and this year they have installed or completely renovated more than 100 playgrounds and have installed a hundred sports spaces in parks and gardens.
With regard to street cleaning, new routes for the collection of solid urban waste have been implemented, as well as clean and detailed cleaning, both in the center and in districts.
Cleaning has also been reinforced on Sundays and holidays with operators and new vehicles.
The municipality of Murcia has more than 400 sports facilities, this year new facilities will be incorporated in Cobatillas, Corvera and Barrio Infante Juan Manuel, the pavement of Palacio de los Deportes has also been replaced.
On the other hand, the leisure noise map of Murcia has been drawn up.
Inspections have been carried out at numerous music licensing venues, and as a result of these, a total of 74 venues have been installed, verified and processed through the internet by the limiters, recorders, sound drivers, as a guarantee of compliance. of the required noise levels.
Less taxes than in 2013
The mayor said that "by next year 2018 we will freeze all taxes, fees and public prices, which together with the policy of reduction of taxes and rates that we have followed we can say that in 2018 Murcia will pay less taxes than in the year 2013 ".
It has also approved a modification of the Ordinance of Vados that reduces the price in a large majority of the fords in districts.
More social measures and suppression of co-payments
In 2017, the copayment for home help services has been eliminated, 4,427 social emergency financial assistance has been granted, with an increase of 1,453 over the previous year, 3,218 flat-rate water contracts of the social fund have been formalized. 11,470 families have benefited, and Basic Income of insertion has been processed to 1,317 families, and 1,869 families have already benefited from this benefit, 265 more than the previous year, among other measures.
In addition, on September 1 came into force the Home Help Service for dependents, arranged with the IMAS, which would mean an increase of more than 280 people.
Exponential increase in tourism
The tourists registered in 2016 were 426,184 with 686,976 overnight stays.
The tourists counted this year until the month of June reached 226,222 (+ 6.15% compared to 2016).
Electronic administration
Any procedure can be done electronically through the general body, and more than 70 specific procedures (one third of the existing ones) can also be done in this way, a commitment to streamline procedures, eliminate bureaucracy and facilitate the creation of companies.
Citizens can monitor the status of their file without having to go to the City Council, avoid queues and ensure an agile and real response to companies.
Pilot tests are currently being carried out for the implementation of the CLARA tool, working with 10 municipal meetings in the testing phase to achieve greater transparency, agility, cost reduction and optimization of resources in the municipal boards of neighborhoods and districts.
More Murcia go to the theater
The municipality of Murcia annually hosts 5,000 cultural events.
There is a bet for the own creation and the local authors.
The numbers of attendance have increased of remarkable way: more than 170,000 people who have happened through the murcianos theaters with an occupation close to 70% in both spaces.
On the other hand, the total number of spectators in the five municipal auditoriums was 66,022, exceeding attendance by 5% with respect to the previous year.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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