The Federation of Municipalities of the Region of Murcia will form a special commission to study and propose to the government measures and to adopt concrete solutions to overcome the financial problems that support the municipalities in the region.
This has been one of the resolutions adopted by the Annual General Meeting held this morning, one of whose points of the agenda was precisely the debate the measures to be taken in relation to the crisis, unemployment and the financing local municipalities in Murcia.
The new commission, chaired by the Mayor, Miguel Ángel Cámara, and assisted by the Secretary General of the FMRM, Manuel Duran, be composed of the mayors of Jódar-Lorca, Francisco, Torre Pacheco, Daniel García-Marcos Sanchez-Manuel Archena - "Jesus Navarro-Calasparra and Bullas-Esteban Egea.
The mayors of the region have expressed awareness of the need and urgency of undertaking a thorough reform of local financing, as well as establishment of urgent measures to allow councils address the economic crisis without reducing public services that have paid.
For these reasons, have agreed to request the National Government increased the data for the participation of municipalities in state revenues for 2009, so as to maintain, at least at 2008 levels.
Also, Murcia mayors calling for the development of the constitutional mandate of local government participation in the income of the regions by developing appropriate legislative.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia