The current Municipal Decentralization model has proved totally inefficient and of little use for the neighbors.
The scarcity of these organs municipal budget due to the stage of crisis we are facing cuts and finished to give the lace to these municipal bodies were created by the PP rather than local government closer to the neighborhoods and towns of Cartagena, to establish a bureaucratic parapet between the neighbors and the city.
At present municipal decentralization scheme is divided into 7 districts, as the Rules for Participation in Article 27.
The paradox is that in the same district there territories and other Neighborhood Board without Board, ie neighbors who depend directly on the City Council and others going through the filter of the Neighborhood.
So Quarries of District 1, Santa Ana in the 2nd district, San Felix in the 3rd arrondissement, around the 4th district composed of San Antón and Casco, the hollow and St. Lucia in the 5th district and Rincon de San Ginés in the district 7 Neighborhood Councils are no territories.
A failure criterion is within the decentralization model adds as reflected in the current Rules of Participation, all organs of participation instead of being built by the residents are handpicked by the City Council and the Full Board is elected by the political parties represented in the city (there is a paradox that in at least 3 Neighborhood Councils 2nd party and 3rd party with the most votes is not represented, not able to obtain representation in the municipal council), the Chairman of each District is a councilor, the Coordination Commission Meeting is made up of vowels and presidents of Neighborhood and councilors, are ultimately participation bodies, where not involved in decision making and collective neighbors in the area.
Operating With this scheme the view of the neighbors in their individual and collective in each area only account in the decision-making Neighborhood Councils, since Article 34 of the Regulation states that may participate with voice but no vote in the plenary of the Boards.
If the territorial gibberish, join the lack of collective participation in decision-making, holding full exigua in different localities with Board (meet in the best every 4 months, and not always the case, as stipulated in Article 37 of the Regulation), the result is a dead body without any implication on the daily life of the residents of the towns and neighborhoods of Cartagena.
If you check the website of the City in 2013 so far as the records that are posted on this site have been entered into the following full:
Marfagones Molinos Los Dolores ........................ ................... 0 2
Perin Alums ....................................... 0 ........................... 0
Isla Plana Azohía La Palma .................... 0 ............................ 1
The Puebla Albujón ................................. 0 ........................... 0
The Aljorra .................................. 1 .................. 0 Llano del Beal
Well Straits Algar .............................. ............................ 0 2
Source: Web City of Cartagena.
Also if you check the minutes, the absences of members of both the PP and the PSOE to such full is a constant in decision making, which testifies to the low participation of neighbors and the ineffectiveness of these organs that are an extension town meeting artificial.
So far, the PP government team was made under the budget numbers to justify the presence of these bodies decentralization, the fact is that the PP government team has removed Chapter VI (Investment) of the budgets of the boards with thus suppressing the limited autonomy in decision-making, and that does not even do small works.
Also the fact is that in 2010 the budget was allocated to Boards of 2,317,306 euros for 11 neighborhood councils and 2,013 is about 50% with the aggravation of being now 12 instead 11 the Neighborhood Municipal, after commissioning Algar march.
In this situation of no investment, no participation and apathy showing the current system of municipal decentralization from SPCT propose eliminating the Neighborhood Municipal and implementation of Participatory District Assemblies which involve social groups, political parties and residents in general to proceed to a consensus decision making and participative to optimize the limited budget crisis and cuts are leaving the PP government to districts and county of Cartagena.
Source: Socialistas por Cartagena