The Director General of Local Administration, Diego Pardo, met today with the Mayor of Santomera, Inmaculada Sánchez, to take stock of, among other things, the actions of the 2016 Plan for Municipal Works and Services, as well as the application of the Funds that the Community has allocated to the municipality.
Pardo said that "we have reviewed the works financed by the Regional Action Plan for the promotion of 2016 municipal works and services, consisting of the elimination of urban barriers and the replacement of services on Victoria, Magdalena and Última streets, all In the urban area of ​​the town, representing a performance for an amount close to 170,000 euros, of which almost 114,000 are contributed by the Community and the rest the City Council.
"These are undoubtedly very necessary works for the residents of Abanilla, because they represent in terms of mobility and accessibility, which would otherwise be very expensive for the City Council to carry out by their means," added the director general.
The Community, through the Ministry of Presidency, also financed with almost 90,000 euros the works of paving and replacement of services in the streets of Santa Rosa, San Antonio and Avenida de la Libertad, charged to the funds of the Plan of works and Services 2015.
Diego Pardo explained that "we have also analyzed the works and services that can be addressed with the 2017 Plan which, as a novelty, has an increase of 20 percent over the previous year, which means that six million euros will be allocated to Actions in the 41 municipalities of less than 50,000 inhabitants ".
The funds will be distributed among the projects that are presented to the Community as eligible for funding, for which there is a deadline until next April 12, according to criteria defined by the Local Cooperation Council at its meeting last month February.
The criteria to be followed when allocating these six million euros are: Population, which is the one that has the greatest weight in the distribution, with 55 percent;
Territorial dispersion, which takes into account the distance between the different population centers within the municipal term and the total area of ​​the same;
Deficits in infrastructures and equipment, which are deduced from the Infrastructure and Local Equipment Survey (EIEL);
Per capita income, and have submitted the projects to a participatory process.
Source: CARM