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- The orange training requested for the first time the creation of this Commission and the Technical Office since 2017, "has cost, but with the Commission we have taken the first step to adapt to the new ordinance and declare war on the architectural barriers in Cartagena ", said the spokesman for Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín
Cartagena, Wednesday November 14-.
Ciudadanos reports that the PSOE government has responded to their continuous complaints and today has informed that it will set up the Municipal Accessibility Commission on November 21 at the Town Hall, whose agenda will include an explanatory introduction on the functionality and legislative framework that endorses the constitution of the Commission and a proposal on the methodology of its operation.
This municipal space is created by virtue of the entry into force on June 26 of the regulatory Ordinance for Universal Accessibility in the Municipality of Cartagena.
Orange training has required the creation of this Commission and the Technical Office since June 2017, "at which point we saw the draft of the ordinance, and in which we presented an amendment to the budgets of that year demanding the updating of the plan Accessibility, something that has not happened yet, and from that date we have presented a multitude of motions, requests and questions requesting the implementation of these bodies, "said the spokesman for Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín.
Therefore, Citizens will demand in the constitutive session to work already to start up the Technical Office "we have to buy time and obviously, to perform this strategy of actions the first thing that is necessary is for that office to implement our amendment: the updating of the Accessibility Plan to the needs of the Cartagena of 2018 ", explained Manuel Padín who says that" we said at the time that it is necessary to have a current study of the accessibility status in the municipality, the plan that exists now is a decade ago, because only then, we can really undertake, in a viable, planned and priority, the relevant actions in accordance with the ordinance in the most unfavorable spaces, and not patching the city, or leaving the work half done how it is doing now. "
"Without this update of the Accessibility Plan, nothing is going to be done to really reduce the main restrictions and obstacles that many members of our citizens face every day", concluded Manuel Padín who clarifies that "we are not saying that the entire municipality adapts in a few months to the new ordinance, there is not enough liquidity for that, we are saying that we want an updated plan of priorities, and a roadmap with investment deadlines to act as soon as possible in the least friendly spaces with reduced mobility. "
In addition, Cs will ask the Commission what reserves exist in this year's budget to undertake the first works and thus adapt to the requirements of ordinance.
Long journey
"The 2016-2019 Municipal Disability Plan was announced in July 2016, the main consequence of which was the final approval in March 2018 of the Universal Accessibility Regulatory Ordinance that entered into force last June, this ordinance required the updating of the plan. accessibility that has a decade and is useless, and the creation of the Commission and the Technical Office of Accessibility (OTA), which is the one that must draw up a concrete investment plan in the municipality to ensure that all society Cartagena has access without barriers to all services, "says Manuel Padín.
According to the data collected during the preparation of the Municipal Plan on Disability, in Cartagena 63% of the disabled have accessibility problems, "so the creation of this office that aims to ensure compliance with the ordinance, promote plans of Adaptation, propose initiatives and follow up on their actions, is essential ", explains the orange spokesman.
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena
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