- The project, which has been provisionally awarded to a company for almost 52,000 euros and has a term of execution of 4 months, has the purpose of building a square in a parcel of municipal ownership in front of the Church of the Azohía is currently free of installations, furniture, and gardening, and has a pavement on the ground.
- Despite the award, the president of the Neighborhood Board, Maria Dolores Diaz, lamented that they have not been contacted either with her or with the neighborhood groups operating in the area, "since they had many proposals and suggestions for the adequacy project and have not been heard. "
Cartagena, Wednesday, October 11.
The contracting table has awarded today the works for the refurbishment of Plaza Juan Paredes de La Azohía.
This is one of the first complaints that the representative of Citizens, Maria Dolores Diaz, made to the City Council when she became the president of the Neighborhood Board of Isla Plana-La Azohia.
According to the President of the Board, "today we are closer to satisfying a historic demand of the neighbors of the Azohía, which before my stage as president was already vindicating, is something that certainly deserve because we need that public space of coexistence full of life and in conditions ".
Despite the award of the works, María Dolores Diaz, she regretted that they have not been in contact with her or with the neighborhood groups that operate in the area, "since they had many proposals and suggestions for the adequacy project and have not been heard. "
Among the suggestions, the President of Citizens has highlighted the reserve of a space for the stage that is installed for the holidays, and for children's games already acquired by the Neighborhood Board.
Diaz is committed to contact the director of the work to raise all these issues before the beginning of the work.
The project, which has been provisionally awarded to a company for almost 52,000 euros and has a term of execution of 4 months, has the purpose of building a square in a parcel of municipal ownership in front of the Church of the Azohía free of installations, furniture, and gardening, and has a pavement on the ground.
It is a space without definite use, lacking in infrastructures, which has usually been used as parking and other activities, but currently is delimited with mobile planters, preventing the passage of vehicles.
The project generally contemplates the partial demolition of adjoining sidewalks, pavement by means of paving stones with contributions of paving stones for the leveling of platforms, installation of lighting, electricity and irrigation, planters with trees and decorative shrubs on the perimeter of the square, and urban furniture.
The budget will not be borne by the economic reserves of the Neighborhood Board.
On the other hand, the Municipal Citizens' Group has recalled in a statement that these works were prompted by a motion presented at the Junta Plana de Isla Plana-La Azohía in early March 2017, which was approved thanks to the votes of Citizens and PP.
Meanwhile, the spokesperson for Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, has indicated that the beginning of the works will reaffirm, once again, the positive and conciliatory that is proving to be the neighborhood presidency of Citizens, "our president is leaving the skin with each of the projects that are planned for the area and is demonstrating a great capacity for dialogue with both the City Council, specifically the Department of Decentralization and all political groups that have representation on the Board.
Board activity and abandonment of green areas
On the other hand, the President of Citizens in Isla Plana and La Azohía has listed some of the achievements that have been achieved since the presidency, "it has been achieved, with a lot of struggle, all the administrative efforts that we have asked the neighbors, we have sent their proposals through the forms, and we have set up the work commissions that have requested us, and we have placed a children's playground in the Plaza del Mar, have painted the walkways on the Paseo de Isla Plana, and requested the buoys for the beaches ".
Díaz has reported that last April, Councilor for Decentralization Juan Pedro Torralba, asked for a list of 13 priority projects for the area, "we sent it but at the moment we have only got 23,000 euros for street lighting ".
On the other hand, the president of the orange formation has denounced the abandonment of green areas, "since we did not deal with the maintenance of Parks and Gardens and assumed the City Council is a disaster, it is all dry due to the lack of maintenance, and we have demanded that they send us workers to carry out this task, for the moment with no result. "
In addition, according to the representative of Cs, has not been realized by the City Council or the expected asphalting, patching, or road repair, so we have had to allocate part of our budget to solve the most urgent, as well as some arrangements at the premises of neighborhood associations in the area. "
"We are also pending the arrangement of the ship in the Plaza del Mar, and we are already very tired of waiting," concluded the president of Cs.
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena