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Enjoy a few streets in good condition to walk the sidewalks or vehicles move with the asphalt in good condition and at the same time, with good lighting are essential infrastructure that allow to increase the quality of life for residents and suppress regional imbalances.
This will continue to grow in more and better services in both quality and quantity.
With this objective, the President of the Autonomous Community, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, and the Mayor of Murcia, Miguel Ángel Cámara, have signed an agreement this morning on funds to districts and suburbs that will enable the districts to receive an injection of 5, 9 million euros, financed by the Autonomous Community.
The investment will be shared among 55 works projects to be implemented between 2010 and 2011.
The signing of this agreement is in economic crisis, which is why the mayor considered "fair" to recognize the efforts made by the two governments to "maintain the vitality of economic activity as a means to support and further enhance employment and prosperity and quality of life of citizens. "
Has also stated that this is a test that verified that the Regional and Local Government "fulfill our commitments to Murcia."
The actions foreseen in the agreement, which will begin to develop in the coming months, responding mostly to paving sidewalks and driveways -40-projects, but also include improved lighting -14 - and the piping of the ditch Zambrana .
3 million plus VAT
This is not the only agreement signed by Valcárcel and House to improve living conditions of Murcia.
Just 3 months ago initialed an agreement amounting to a further 6 million more, in this case, intended to defray the expenses of the City Council.
The fact that this amount was transferred twice the previous year with the same objective highlights the involvement of the Regional Government to the municipalities in the region, spanning a choking situation aggravated by the severe fund crisis and cuts of grants awarded by the State.
In addition, the VAT hike approved by the National Government to come into effect next week will cost the municipality of Murcia about 3 million per year.
To this is added that municipalities will in 2010 with 24% less state funding, which translates into 17 million less for Murcia this year, a circumstance that adds to the cumulative position in 2009, the year in public accounts have shown the greatest deterioration in their history.
The economic outlook for local governments envision a bleak picture for the second half of this year.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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