- Citizens have also been able to move forward with their motion so that the local government asks the Ministry of Environment, Coastal Demarcation and Hydrographic Confederation to identify where exactly the spills that end up in the mouth of Benipila come from and do the work necessary to eliminate This problem of public and environmental health.
-The orange formation has endorsed its commitment to the protection of Cabo de Palos Lighthouse by adhering to the two motions presented to prevent its privatization, to host a national interpretation center for marine reserves, and to promote the statement of BIC With category of monument.
The Municipal Citizens Group has presented fourteen initiatives in the ordinary plenary session of the City of Cartagena.
Protection of Officials Reporting Corruption Cases (Approved)
The Plenum of the City Council of Cartagena has today agreed, at the proposal of Citizens, to urge the Regional Assembly and the Council of Government to develop as soon as possible a legal regulation of autonomous scope that establishes a framework of legal protection for civil servants and public employees who To report episodes of corruption within the Public Administration.
At the municipal level, the orange formation motion forces the City of Cartagena to create a framework for protection for public sector employees who report on bad practices by public managers and possible criminal offenses.
The City Council will have to carry out from now on the appropriate actions to put into operation procedures, ways and forms of information treatment whereby the complainants of corruption do not feel intimidated by possible reprisals, such as the provision of an email That leaves no trace, among other measures.
"With this initiative," said the spokesperson for Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padin, "we have taken the first step to give our City Council a specific framework to protect the whistleblower from corruption."
Dumps in Benipila (approved)
Citizens have also been able to move forward with their motion so that the local government asks the Ministry of Environment, Coastal Demarcation and Hydrographic Confederation to identify where exactly the spills that end up at the mouth of Benipila come and carry out the work necessary to eliminate this Public health and environmental problem.
This training reported in early July that after the storm was discharged, the waters became dirty, with a quantity of debris from hygiene products, condoms, compresses and dead birds, which, according to Manuel Padín, "shows the serious health problem in area".
According to the Citizens' spokesman, "La Algameca Chica is a unique enclave where a large number of families live, a habitual place of passage for hundreds of tourists who come to visit it for hiking or bathing in its waters, and it is urgent to protection".
Bills in drawers (approved)
Councilors of Citizens have also asked for explanations for the more than 600,000 euros that the City Council owes for jobs and services to companies and self-employed according to the latest data from the Ministry of Finance and Public Service.
Citizens have asked the government to make a report stating what has been committed that spending without the corresponding budget credit, who are the creditors and what are the reasons that motivated the work and services.
Another of the points of the motion, which has been approved thanks to the votes of the Popular Party, We Can and Citizens, and with the vote against MC and PSOE, is that the local Executive firmly commit to reducing bills in the drawers Which distort the financial health of public coffers.
Summer schedule of the Cartagena Naval Museum (approved)
The Government of Cartagena will try that the Naval Museum of Cartagena, which depends on the Spanish Navy, extend its summer time and open during the weekends.
It will do so thanks to a citizens' motion that has been unanimously approved.
"Cartagena is a tourist city with a vocation of excellence and both neighbors and visitors demand the opening of one of the most important museums of the municipality during the weekends to be able to know firsthand what our history is," said during his speech, The mayor Ana Rama.
Adhesion to the motions to protect the Lighthouse of Cabo de Palos
The Municipal Citizens Group in Cartagena today joined the motion whereby the Plenary of the City Council reiterates its rejection of any privatization project or private concession of the Cabo de Palos Lighthouse.
The plenary agreement includes that State Ports of the Ministry of Development be urged to assure the workers the maintenance of their current conditions of use as housing in the Faro.
The competent authorities are also urged to carry out the necessary procedures with the Ministry of Public Works for the creation of a National Center for the Interpretation of Marine Reserves of Spain in this port infrastructure and which can be made compatible with the current use As housing for workers and with the services they carry out in the field of maritime signaling, ensuring their utility and public use.
Finally, this agreement, which has been supported by all municipal groups, except for MC that has abstained, will be transferred to the Congress of Deputies and the Regional Assembly for its consideration, and also to the platform Salvemos el Faro de Cabo de Palos for its knowledge and dissemination.
Citizen spokesman in Cartagena, Manuel Padin, "we will do everything in our power to prevent privatization or speculation of the lighthouse, and that it remains the patrimony of all Cartagena."
On the other hand, the orange formation has also adhered to the motion of impulse to the procedure to declare the Lighthouse of Cabo de Palos in Well of Cultural Interest with category of monument to guarantee its protection.
Questions in plenary
The Municipal Group of Citizens in Cartagena today has demanded that the local government start the relevant procedures to obtain the energy efficiency rating of public buildings that lack it and that the corresponding labels are placed in a prominent place and Visible, following the precepts of the current legislation.
Councilor for Sustainable Development, José López, has responded that the municipal technicians have a limited timetable, but that the first inspections reveal that the results will be negative despite some actions of his department.
It has also informed that on March 24 they asked the Institute of Promotion of the Region of Murcia to join the IDAE plan to obtain aid for the energy rehabilitation of existing buildings.
Citizens also asked today that the women's nursery run at full capacity and has brought to the plenary a battery of questions in order to know what level of exploitation currently has in the nursery, what is the actual state of the facilities, how many Requests have received the Department of Equality to occupy the offices, and when they will be delivered to the selected entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs.
The Councilor for Equality, David Martinez, has committed to the comprehensive opening of the nursery "on the return of vacations after a few repairs so that everything is in optimal conditions."
Martínez has also reported that there are ten women who have requested to install their companies in this space.
In the plenary session of October 8, 2015, a Citizens' motion was approved to urge the local Government to initiate the corresponding procedures for the Cartagena City Council to adhere to the Spanish Network of Intelligent Cities.
The orange formation has asked in what state these procedures are found, and what deadlines the Government manages for the definitive inclusion.
Councilor for the Treasury and Interior, Francisco Aznar has said that Cartagena is already on the network, and are currently selecting municipal representatives.
After the last meeting with the Hidrogea board, on July 3, the mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, publicly stated that they would work to, as soon as possible "negotiate a solution and tell the Cartagena people that we are going to Lower the water ".
For this reason, the orange training has asked what new actions the local government has undertaken to ensure that the water bill will cost a little less all Cartagena and when a proposal to reduce the water rate will be sent to the Community.
The Citizens spokesman in Cartagena also wanted to clarify why no official channel of the calculations obtained by the Sustainable Development Area was reported in relation to the surplus of more than 13 million of the liquidation of the contract of supply of drinking water Corresponding to the period 2011-2016, and why this calculation was notified to the concessionaire without having previously passed by the Local Government Board, the Finance and Interior Committee or the Plenum of the City Council.
The Councilor for Sustainable Development, Jose López, has blamed a "dysfunction" for not publishing the information on the liquidation by any official channel of the City, but did not want to give further explanations.
As for the drop in the water bill, López has blamed the Hidrogea company for the delay due to its allegations to the proposal calculated by his department.
For his part, the Citizens' spokesman has once again asked when the water will be lowered, to which José López has replied that he can not give a date.
The mayor of Citizens Ana Rama, asked for the state in which the project for the conditioning of the tile of Trovero Marín is located, and if it is clear, in the event that it had to be relocated, the new site that Will be given to the mural.
The councilman of Patrimonio, Ricardo Segado, has indicated that it is not only a question of repairing the tiles, but that it is to condition the wall, to improve the gardening, that must obtain the authorization of the Community since it is in a Property of Interest Cultural and that soon the project will be taken to the hiring table.
In December 2016, the Government of Cartagena publicly announced a major master plan to enhance the Roman quarries, and to carry out an awareness-raising and outreach campaign to publicize its value.
In the light of the fact that none of these intentions have been heard again, Councilwoman Ana Rama has asked if the master plan has already been carried out, if the owners have been contacted to discuss the actions to be taken, and Carried out some campaign of disclosure on the Roman quarries.
The Councilor for Patrimony, Ricardo Segado, has responded that the Government has already fully designed the master plan, and that they plan to grant a budgetary appropriation in the municipal budgets of 2018. In terms of outreach campaigns, Segado has assured that it will be a Beginning of the academic year when some promotional actions are carried out both through the Federation of Neighbors of Cartagena, and in the schools Fernando Garrido and La Vaguada.
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena