- "We could have done as the Popular Party and CTSSP-We can, and say we do not like the budget and stay in a sterile refusal that little, to say nothing, does to improve them, but we have preferred to work for months and until Last minute to amend it through our investment proposals and push for the Cartagena Government to fulfill its commitments, "said the spokesman for Citizens, Manuel Padín.
The Municipal Plenary has approved today definitively the General Budget of the City of Cartagena for the year 2017, after the rejection of an allegation.
Citizen amendments to budgets
Start of integral plan of adaptation of the Towers Park with a game of 180,000 euros.
Works of improvement and conditioning of the Plaza de la Merced and Beatas street, with a starting of 350,000 euros.
Works to condition the pedestrian access to Santa Lucía Hospital, worth 300,000 euros.
Interventions in the Amphitheater for the recovery project, worth 200,000 euros.
Conditioning of the cheniles and the front esplanade of CATAD, for 50,000 euros.
Construction of public urinals, for 120,000 euros.
Network of young non-resident Cartagena and incentives to entrepreneurial talent, worth 30,000 euros.
Comprehensive Accessibility Plan Update 2010, with a value of 20,000 euros.
Study on competence and project for the realization of works of conditioning of the accesses to Hospital Santa Lucía and creation of cycle lane.
(To be determined in the inclusion of an already determined item).
Citizens has therefore influenced a total of 1,250,000 euros of the items in the accounts.
"It is not a blank check as the Popular Party wants to disinforce the Popular Party, but it has probably been the most expensive and demanding battery of conditions that an opposition group has ever put on the table of a municipal government to approve budgets" , Said Padín.
"We could have done as the Popular Party and CTSSP-We can, and say we do not like the budget and stay in a sterile refusal that little, to say nothing, does to improve them, but we have preferred to work for months and until the last Minute to amend it through our investment proposals and press for the Cartagena Government to fulfill its commitments, such as the promised lowering of water prices.We preferred to work and be useful.This is the way we have chosen to meet the thousands of Voters who placed their trust in citizens and respect those who did not, who are as Cartagena as the others, "said the spokesman of Citizens in Cartagena.
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena