This procedure is intended that the operation of these facilities does not involve any expense to the municipal coffers.
For the winners of the Infant School will be necessary to follow the price set by the Ministry of Education, while the Conciliation Centre assessed the tenders with the lowest prices, following the models used by other municipalities in the region.
The Spokesman of the Government Team of the City of Lorca, Lali Ibarra, has informed that the Local Government Committee today approved the specifications for the award of the management of the Centre for the Reconciliation of Family Life and Work of Industrial Estate La Hoya, in addition to a few days ago was approved for the Municipal Nursery School Sutullena.
Ibarra explained that "in the coming days will be published in the Official Gazette and the contractor profile of the municipal website for eligibility requirements to work in these city facilities."
In this sense, he said that "with this formula is intended to enable the operation of these facilities not only not cost a single euro to the City, but the contractor is charged a minimum fee to be determined by choosing the best that this . That itself is a high amount because the aim is to promote job creation and previous experience has shown that facilities are not very profitable. "
Moreover, those who manage these services should take out insurance guaranteeing the value of plant and equipment.
Specifically, the indirect management of these centers will be entrusted with a management contract to the person, natural or legal person who submitted the best proposal, as the proceeds received by the concessionaire will be the payment of services by users.
The awards will be for an initial term of five years, renewable for periods of five years to a maximum of 15 years.
During this period the City retain ownership of the service, subjecting it to constant monitoring and control.
As two different types of centers and dependent on various Department, the rates charged for the services of the Infant School, which will give a formal education, which will be adjusted to mark the Education for the whole region, while for Conciliation Center (for which there is no unifying table of prices and offer more comprehensive) will follow the model of other municipalities, such as San Pedro del Pinatar, so that the lowest quotation service will be one of the award criteria.
The Center for Reconciling Work and Family Life in the industrial area of ​​La Hoya has been built during this term on a piece of equipment that has a total area of ​​750 square meters, owned by Consistory Lorca.
The building has four units, and will take up to 50 children aged between four months and three years.
This center will support and contribute to the stability of family structure and the reconciliation of work, solving the problems caused by timetables support families caring for children.
This center, which represents an investment of 400,000 euros plus the cost of equipment, provide adequate service to the needs of families where both parents work.
It should be emphasized that in the industrial area of ​​La Hoya and its area of ​​influence is concentrated over a hundred companies, whose templates are built in a high percentage of women.
In addition, the Provincial Government of La Hoya are located almost all cooperative marketing of agricultural products of this region, whose workforce is made up almost 80% female staff.
This new infrastructure will join the Center for the Reconciliation of Work and Family Life Saprelorca Polygon and Public Center Child Care to be opened in the deputation of Cazares and the Point of Care for Children in La Paca.
The Ministry of Social Policy, Women and Immigration has already granted prior administrative approval for the activity of Center Child Care De La Hoya but for the implementation of the action, you must apply for authorization to operate.
For its part, the first child Municipal School Lorca, an investment of 527,622 euros and stands on a municipal plot of over 1,000 m2, together with the Mental Health Center, the new School of Music and Fine Arts, the Health Centre Lorca Sutullena and very close to what will be the Youth Space.
The Infant School has a playground area of ​​300 m2, with porch, open spaces and parks, and a building on the ground floor of 700 m2, which includes six classrooms, a multipurpose room, dining kitchen, two toilets for adults, four toilets-changer for the students, and office management, administration and faculty, among other services.
In these facilities, which are built and equipped by an agreement signed between the municipality and the Ministry of Education, 106 children under 3 years formal education may attend the First Cycle of Primary Education.
The City assessed in the selection of awardees that it is a social economy enterprise and the economic viability of the project and its educational project.
Finally, the city spokesman has used these ads to demand that the Central Government to assume the financing of these centers, as a vital social and educational services.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca