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The Local Government Board, meeting this morning with extraordinary character, under the presidency of the mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, has given the green light to a budget modification amounting to 531,487 euros that will be used to unlock the execution of the works of projects of the participatory budgets of 2017.

Castejón has appeared after the meeting with the councilman of the area of ​​Public Service, Citizen Participation and Celebrations, Juan Pedro Torralba, to explain that this agreement has been adopted to avoid the paralysis of the projects, while a new budget is not approved and continue in vigor carried over from last year.

Specifically, thanks to this budget modification, the works of the artificial turf soccer fields of El Albujón and La Aljorra and the maintenance actions of the Monte de la Casilla in El Portús can be started.

BUDGET ERASER

The mayor has assured that there is already a draft budget for 2018, which hopes to start talking with the rest of the municipal groups over the next week.

In this sense, it has anticipated that there will be balanced and supportive budgets, whose fundamental objectives will be to achieve a more amble and clean, better-lighted municipality in which citizens' lives are made easier and with better communications.

He has also criticized the draft prepared by his previous government partner, who in addition to calling it "unsupportive" had an imbalance of 46 million euros.

AMPHITHEATER AND MILL OF THE STONES

Another outstanding agreement of the Local Government Board has been the incorporation into the municipal budget of grants granted by the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia amounting to 100,000 and 80,000 euros, for the master plan of the Roman Amphitheater and consolidation of the southeast ring of the old Plaza de Toros, which will be presented soon;

and for the execution of the protection and conservation project of Molino de las Piedras and an annexed site without use in Los Mateos, respectively.

Castejón has highlighted and thanked the consensus reached in these two projects with the General Directorate of Cultural Assets of the Autonomous Community.

CARNIVAL AND HOLY WEEK

The approval of the corresponding budgetary modifications that will allow the Carnival Federation and the Board of Brotherhoods of Holy Week to have their traditional municipal subsidies, which could have been affected by the limits of the budgets carried over, have also been the subject of this Governing Board.

The mayor has commented on the effort made by the City Council to improve the activities of the Carnival and with it the amount of the subsidy, to support the federation in the achievement of the Declaration of National Tourist Interest.

The subsidy for these celebrations will be 125 thousand euros, 8 thousand more than last year;

to which it is necessary to add the increase of the direct helps on the part of the councils Culture and of Equality in the organization of the Gala of Drag-Queen, as well as the one of Tourism that has collaborated in the edition of a magazine.

GLASS MUSEUM

Also the Museum of Glass of Santa Lucia will benefit from the agreements of the Governing Board with the approval of the update of the agreement of transfer of the facilities to the association of artisan glassmakers.

The mayor has informed of the new terms of the agreement by which the City Council, as requested by the association to prevent its closure, will assume the maintenance costs of the museum, as well as those derived from water, electricity and propane gas supplies.

This municipal support joins the recently made by the Department of Tourism that proceeded to the inventory of all its parts for cataloging and subsequent musealization project.

EXEMPTION FROM IBI TO UPCT

The Polytechnic University of Cartagena has also received a response to their demands today, as noted by the Castejón, when the City Council agreed to exempt the amounts claimed from the public university as property tax (IBI) for the years 2006, 2010 and 2011.

The mayor explained that this was a question that she has always defended, since it was logical that after exempting him from paying this tax since 2015, he would be exempted from the amounts claimed in previous years.

TALENT RETURN

Finally, among other matters, the councilor has given an account of the agreement to reactivate the Return of Talent program to Cartagena, promoted by the Youth Council.

As noted Castejón, this program had been suspended last year and the new council has decided to activate it again to encourage the return of young people who for certain circumstances had to leave Cartagena, to return.

For this, case by case will be studied and possible local companies will be analyzed where they could have room for their return.

A way to recover for the municipality the talent and experience accumulated abroad by these young people.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena