The Consistory implements social clauses within the bases that regulate the open administrative concession process to provide both enclaves with a canteen service, widely demanded by its users.
The Councilor for Citizen Participation of the City of Lorca, Francisco Javier Pelegrín, has reported that the kiosks that serve users of Plaza de Curtidores and Parque de las Mujeres have begun their administrative concession procedure, a work that is part of the system which have already benefited more than a dozen civic centers located in different parts of our municipal area.
Francisco Javier Pelegrín has anticipated that all the people who are interested in attending this process will be able to present their offers in the Heritage Service, located in the Villaescusa Palace, starting next week, once it is published in the Official Gazette of the Region of Murcia the required announcement.
The Councilor for Citizen Participation, in this regard, recalled that during the process for the regulation and granting of this service priority has been given to citizens in situation of unemployment, as well as to people with family responsibilities, low income level or disabled .
Once again the City of Lorca is committed to helping citizens who present this type of personal and family situations.
It is an authorization that is granted after the conclusion of the established patrimonial process, which includes the corresponding contracting tables under the system of public concurrence.
Since the publication in the BORM of the Regulation of Private Authorization for the Occupancy of the Spaces Destined to the Service of Cantina or Cafeteria of the Municipal Social Premises in October of 2014, the cantinas have been regulated at the request of the Pensioners Clubs of the municipality of Lorca of the social centers of San Cristóbal, Paso a Nivel, San José, Torrecilla, Tiata, Campillo, Pulgara, Purias, Almendricos, Cazalla, La Campana and La Viña.
Pelegrín has explained that for the standardization of this service a regulation of privative use of the space of public domain destined to the service of canteens and cafeterias in the social premises was established.
This text was approved unanimously by all political groups with municipal representation in the ordinary plenary session of the City Council held on June 30, 2014 and published in the BORM on September 30 of the same year.
The Mayor of Citizen Participation, has also added that the awarding of this service is initiated at the request of associations of older people in the neighborhood or parish to which the municipal social premises are assigned, which are responsible for bringing this Concejalía the need for its normalization.
To this end, we proceed to justify the need to provide the canteen or cafeteria service in those centers where these spaces exist, in addition to relating the specific conditions of use of the center to be included in the bases for said authorization. "
Francisco Javier Pelegrín has indicated that "this concession is established for a period of 2 years, extendable to a maximum of 4. From the City Council we encourage interested persons to attend this selection process."
The Councilor for Citizen Participation has indicated that "the Local Administration expanded the presence of the neighborhood groups of each parish in the process of regulating the canteens located in the social premises." It is a further step to give voice and decision-making capacity to the neighbors themselves in the issues that are related to their place of residence, in this case with the canteen services.To date, the associations of older people already participated in this process, which now extends to the participation also of other groups users of social centers (youth, women, neighbors ...) ".
We must remember that the text that regulates this process is the regulation approved by the City Council Plenary in June 2014. It is a document that is now enriched to strengthen the neighborhood presence and whose articles have been updated to adapt it to legal developments and incorporate proposals from political groups.
In this way, the different associative entities assigned to the corresponding municipal social establishment will request, by prior agreement and through a written document, the need to provide the canteen or cafeteria service in their respective centers.
The content of this Regulation also incorporates new measures to safeguard the seriousness and due rigor of the development of the activity of those who are responsible for providing the aforementioned cafeteria service.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca