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Murcia change has denounced today at a press conference that the government team keeps blocked 60 percent of investments (more than 3 million euros) allocated to the districts of the municipality within the budgets of 2017, which prevents the municipal boards develop your projects normally.

This was announced today by Councilman Sergio Ramos in a press conference in which the members of the municipal training in San Ginés, Ginés Mirón;

El Palmar, Ana Serrano;

It was Alta, Juan Carlos Moreno;

and St. Pius X, John David Babyack.

The mayor explained that all districts are affected by this "blockade", the "umpteenth of the PP", although he has cited "some of the most bleeding examples" as is the case of El Palmar, whose budget planned for investment it is 348,100 euros but during the year the board has only had 119,000 available, that is, 65.84 percent less than those assigned.

In the case of La Alberca, the difference between what is recorded and what is available is 57.28 percent;

in Santo Ángel it is 68.75, and in Guadalupe and San Ginés, it also exceeds 60 percent.

For Cambiemos Murcia, this situation is "unsustainable" and requires that, from the local government, the necessary measures be adopted and debugging responsibilities so that the boards, as the administration closest to the citizenship, can meet their objectives.

"Once again, this government team, with its ineffective management and lack of political will, is violating the right of citizens to have their boards politically active and fulfill their promises," said Ramos, for whom the result is a situation "very serious" in the meetings because they had the entire investment budget that now can not run, and this "will be noted in very important issues such as the state of public schools."

The mayor has said that "the PP does not want to see that the municipal boards of change are making a policy with fewer resources but much more optimal than the City Council itself."

"Right now managing a municipal meeting is an odyssey, with projects that never come and a thousand and one impediments that condemn the boards to having to make very simple investments because the projects they can carry out are systematically blocked," he added.

He also referred to the fact that at the first plenary session of the Corporation all the groups approved a motion to modify the Regulations for Citizen Participation, which governs the management of municipal boards, expanding their competencies and introducing democratic instruments, and "more two years later, we have not even started with this process despite the need for a new competence framework ".

In addition to the City Council's own funds, investments dedicated to municipal boards are covered through loans granted by banks.

With regard to the latter, the Consistory "to date has not been able to negotiate with any entity," so that part of the funding is not available.

In this sense, Ramos has considered "curious" that the councilor of Finance "constantly say that the accounts of the City are healthy and that we are a model City Council and, however, it costs us so much to get a loan with a quantity that is not so high".

The mayor also recalled that his training already warned that budgets are "unreal", both those of the City Council, where investment rates are around 30 percent, as those of the boards themselves, something that "is being demonstrated in both administrations and that the PP and the groups that supported him already knew it ".

For its part, Ana Serrano, of El Palmar, has criticized that its district is the largest in the municipality, with 23,000 inhabitants who feel "abandoned" by the City.

"We lack money that we wanted to invest in equipment for schools, in adapting the classrooms for boys and girls, either with heating devices and air conditioning, this money, which will not arrive and which we believe has been stolen by the City of Murcia, is necessary for the proper functioning of our district. "

Serrano has also warned of the consequences of the "blockade" for subsidies to associations.

"Many of them are left without a budget, without economic feasibility to carry out activities during the course."

"The districts are not second class, there is concentrated most of the inhabitants of the municipality and we want a decent treatment," Serrano said, after regretting that the boards "are without competencies to manage our resources in our villages, because nobody better that the neighbors know the needs we have. "

In the words of the member, this situation could have been avoided if El Palmar had its own City Council, since we have the capacity to manage our resources, but the treatment we receive is "what is left over from Murcia" like the rest of the districts.

Ginés Mirón, from San Ginés, explained that although its district is smaller, the situation is "very similar".

"We are November 15 and we have barely been able to execute a small part of those budgets."

For example, "we have the educational community of the CEIP Sculptor Salzillo we settled a demand, the construction of a child pergola to provide shade.The board collected the request and executed it in April, but the company has not yet been able to charge."

"What is being transmitted from the City of Murcia is that the boards are incapable of responding to the demands and needs of the neighbors, who pass us to consider ineffective entities that are not worth having."

Mirón has defended the need for "the famous 8 percent is integrated into the municipal boards to be able to have means.We need a minimum planning so that it does not pass as this year and the previous year, reach the end of the year and not know how much money we have "

Source: Cambiemos Murcia