- The Government of Cartagena has undertaken, following a question by the Council of Citizens, Ana Rama, to convene the Tourism Advisory Council next June 7 after 31 years of inactivity.
This advisory body was proposed by the Orange training at the plenary session in March
- The Government of Cartagena has not been able to specify a date, after two years of legislature, to cede a plot to the Ministry to begin the construction of the City of Justice
The Plenum of the City of Cartagena has approved today, at the proposal of Citizens, to implement a package of measures aimed at encouraging the use of electric vehicles through the installation of charging points and modifications in municipal ordinances.
Citizen spokesman in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, was satisfied with this decision, "we are pleased that the City Council has agreed to encourage a progressive transition from combustion vehicles to other less polluting, promote the use of electric vehicles will reduce in a way The harmful effects of air pollution on the health of neighbors. "
The motion presented by Citizens includes the creation of specific parking lots for electric cars equipped with recharge posts, the study of the modification of ordinances so that each building of new construction is obliged to have the necessary infrastructure to enable the recharge and That free parking of the regulated parking areas is allowed to all vehicles with zero emission card, issued by the General Traffic Office.
The initiative also includes the planning of a progressive replacement of the fleet of vehicles with combustion engines for municipal use by electric vehicles and the tax rebate, in the tax on buildings, installations and works, for the establishment of the recharging system of this type Of transport.
The Plenum of the City Council has also unanimously approved the Citizens' motion in which it calls for the inclusion of Cartagena in the World Network of Cities and Communities Friendly with the Elderly, a project promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO) with the objective To design and create services and spaces that facilitate active and healthy aging.
Since 2012, the Imserso is the body that coordinates in Spain the promotion of this project.
Manuel Padín explained that "Cartagena has remained outside most of the national networks of collaboration and has missed the opportunity to take advantage of the exchange of knowledge with other cities, since Citizens want to reverse this situation."
Manuel Padín has assured that today "we have taken a very important step to increase the services and the well-being of our elders, the adhesion of our municipality in this network will allow us to receive information and technical advice, participate in training spaces throughout the organization Of days that facilitate the exchange between the municipalities that participate in the network, and more importantly, will oblige the City to design a diagnosis, make a long-term work plan to promote active and healthy aging in which they must detail The phases of its implementation, monitoring and evaluation of results.
After 31 years, the Tourism Advisory Council
The Government of Cartagena has undertaken, following a question from the Council of Citizens, Ana Rama, to convene the Tourism Advisory Council next June 7.
This consultative body was proposed by the orange formation in the plenary session of March.
The mayor of Ciudadanos, Ana Rama, recalled that this council "has been dormant since its creation 31 years ago, and that this space is the most conducive place for political groups, social agents and entrepreneurs to analyze and coordinate policies that Are being carried out and propose initiatives in tourism. "
No date to cede the plot of the City of Justice
The Citizens' Group has asked why the City Council, after two years of the legislature, has not yet offered a plot to the Ministry of Justice to begin the process of the construction of the City of Justice in Cartagena.
Transparencia councilor María José Soler has responded that everything depends, after two years of delay, on a public tender to choose the developer and undertake the reparcelling, "this year, unless it is not advisable."
Cs Cartagena has strongly criticized the excuses that have been given since the beginning of the legislature, to justify the unjustifiable delay of this official assignment of land, "almost two years ago, the mayor said that he had made available to the Ministry the plot Which is not true, in September 2015 it was justified by saying that "there are things beyond their competence, and that the linking of the judicial campus project to the arrival of the AVE was blocking the transfer of land" when space was sufficient Both projects, and now, after the decoupling of the arrival of the AVE to the zone of Mandarache in December of 2016, the grounds continue without being ceded because the City council will make a new reparcelling without foreseen date "everybody has fulfilled its part, Less the mayor of Cartagena, since it is his area of ​​responsibility that has to take the first step: to give way already to the location, "said Manuel Padín.
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena