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Now Murcia will defend a motion with these proposals in the plenary next Thursday

Alicia Morales states that "this will advance the achievement of a more democratic society and the generation of an autonomous citizenship and involved in the development and revitalization of their municipality"

NOW MURCIA demands that the municipal government promote the cession and use of local and municipal spaces among citizens, "to encourage the associative fabric and citizen participation."

The councilor Alicia Morales affirms that the City Council needs some "rules of cession and use of these public spaces, as well as the preparation of a catalog of municipal spaces susceptible of being ceded and used by associations, neighbors and citizen groups".

Now Murcia will defend a motion with these proposals in the plenary next Thursday.

Morales underlines "the central role of the City Councils in promoting the associative fabric and citizen participation" and notes that "it is their task and their decentralization bodies to promote spaces for encounter, debate and neighborhood involvement".

As the mayor says, "the availability of spaces and places where groups can carry out their activities and meetings is essential, and this is reflected in the current Regulation of Citizen Participation, which recognizes in its eighth article the right of associations and citizen organizations to use municipal public premises ".

In this sense, "access to municipal resources, public and therefore financed by all citizens, must be regulated and managed in accordance with the democratic principles of participation, transparency and equality."

Morales recalls that "at the beginning of the current Corporation, a Transparency and Citizen Participation Commission was created in which from now Murcia we warned about the need to elaborate rules of assignment and use of municipal spaces for citizen groups and associations, work that was postponed for a later moment and that finally has not been carried out ".

"Therefore, at present," he says, "and according to our information, the City does not have an ordinance, norm or regulation that regulates an issue that seems so important to us, unlike most of the city councils in this country and many of our Region, and as they do exist in our municipality, instead, rules of use and public prices for theaters, auditoriums and cultural centers ".

For the councilor of Now Murcia, "these rules on cession and use of local and municipal spaces must contemplate, at least, what is its scope of application (groups and associations, individuals and legal nonprofit), the types of assignment of use (punctual and temporary), the basic rules of use and operation, and the application procedures. "

In the same way, it states that "it is important to create a catalog of premises that can be transferred and used, as well as to determine which means of dissemination and information are effective to ensure that all citizens know what premises are available in the municipality and in what conditions can be used. "

"We have to work so that the neighbors and the citizen groups," he concludes, "are aware of their right to use the municipal premises, and are informed of the public resources that the City can put at their disposal and in the manner With this we will advance in the achievement of a more democratic society and in the generation of an autonomous citizenship and involved in the development and revitalization of your municipality. "

NOW MURCIA

Source: Ahora Murcia