The Local Government City of Cartagena, presided by the mayor, Jose Lopez, has given Monday, in his last meeting of the year, the nod to one of the most important issues contained in the agenda , Strategy Sustainable and Integrated Urban Development (EDUSI) Cartagena 2020, to be submitted to the European institutions before 12 January 2015. It also has the consensus of the other municipal groups and presented to the plenary on Wednesday to approve an institutional declaration to respect.
It is a document that is the result of months of technical work and meetings with groups, social organizations and direct contact with the Cartagena society, and that meets the guidelines and lines that the European Union and the City Council as priorities, in line smart sustainable and inclusive growth.
The EDUSI to Cartagena will be ready to join this path of European growth has been led and embodied by the manager of the municipal company Cartagena Old Town, SA.
and the director of the Agency of Local Development and Employment, and is structured around the following thematic objectives: OT9 social inclusion;
OT4 low carbon economy;
OT2 information technology and communications;
OT6 means ambienteEn the establishment of initiatives that the European funds will be chosen within the aforementioned objectives was crucial the public participation process with you, with you, the City Council, has enabled direct and decisive participation of citizens and groups which, either through the municipal website or by face surveys have been designated priority issues for the analysis of the situation in the historic center of town have also been diagnosed with the technicians.
The Cartagena 2020 implementation plan has been valued at 18,750,000 euros, of which 20% must be addressed and financed with municipal funds, 3,750,000 euros, according to the multiannual implementation schedule that includes from 2016 to 2022. So the municipality opts to 15 million euros in European funds, the maximum that can optarse.El Municipal goal is ambitious, since it is actions to the extent that the municipal economic situation permits will be tackled from 2016, and the amount of funds for the benefit of sustainable development policies and social inclusion are priorities in actualidad.Entre initiatives that have been set for Cartagena 2020, affecting the historic town , being a call for funds for urban development, aimed at highlighting the use of bicycles or related to smart cities or information technology, which have been working together with the UPCT;
amphitheater excavation and recovery of the shaft to the square of the Lake;
or social inclusion initiatives, both in the socio-cultural field, such as entrepreneurship, highlighting a housing recovery plan obsolete or accompanying people relocated. The Cartagena EDUSI 2020 has also been presented last week to all political groups, since it as indicated by the mayor, is not a political project, but a national project, which should serve to address the problems of the old town, but also to radiate sustainable development and social inclusion to the rest of the municipality, since neither the citizen participation strategy or end with this document, but we are at the beginning of the next decade Cartagena, a municipality for everyone to be proud of and participants.
Another initiative approved today by the Governing Board has been the agreement with Hidrogea to establish a social fund and s and exempted from paying water bills for those users that Social Services City think they should be exempt because of their special and delicate circumstances.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena