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The Board of Management held on Tuesday on May 19 approved the budget of the Planning Department for 2009, which amount to € 10,011,511 in a new effort that aims to adjust, both revenue and expenditures, current reality of the sector.

According to Francisco Garcia, mayor of Town Planning of the City of Lorca "the crisis facing the housing sector and construction requires various budget redirect to the new circumstances, declining those items that depended on private initiative and putting the emphasis in those projects, from public initiative, come to help give a decisive boost to the sector is now more necessary than ever.

To this end, various budgetary items, there is this new direction in which the public work has an essential role as a concrete effort of the local administration and the government team to generate employment, carrying out, at the same time those flagship projects for the municipality of Lorca who engaged in local government action. "

Garcia stressed that "for the expected revenue is a key feature containing data resulting from the freezing of taxes and duties levied and remaining works on the same level of taxation in previous years, in compliance with election commitment not raise taxes.

However, while not increasing the tax rates themselves are kept in the budgetary effects of subsidies which are set out in ICIO for sheltered housing for the proceedings conducted in the field of PEPRI for construction that run industrial estates, and the 95% bonus for opening stores in the area of PEPRI, excluding bars with music. "

Alderman also wanted to point out that "the total budget of almost five million euros, representing slightly more than 49'8% of the total, is intended to real investments, while only slightly more than 16% 1,657,551 euros is spent on bound for current operations, including staff costs, which have fallen more than 9% over the previous year and only represent less than 9% of the total budget, a decrease that also has its corollary in substantial reduction in current expenditure, which has been an unprecedented effort in containing the current expenditure decreased by 18.5% compared to that budgeted in the previous year. "

In the chapter on real investment, which has a budget of € 4,957,389, referred to some of the flagship projects is seeking to enforce or implement during this exercise.

Of particular note for its importance:

■ South Central Round, with an initial budget of € 2,300,000 for the first phase and represents a firm commitment to the implementation of essential infrastructure for our city that will be not only a backbone of traffic town of Lorca, but this new road, which will channel up to 20,000 vehicles per day, contribute to urban traffic congestion and allow proper development of the city.

Furthermore, to ensure future continuity of this major infrastructure, budgets also provide for a game aimed at preparing the study and drafting information required for the coverage of the Rambla de Tiata.

■ Other upcoming flagship project and covers the budget execution is the execution of the refurbishment of the Plaza of Spain, and Belluga Cano, and contains a budget for this year of just over € 714,000.

The work represents the first phase of an ambitious project that proposes the refurbishment of all that part of historic Lorca, along with that of James Street, Poplar, Cava and others that will be addressed in phases.

Retrieve the Plaza of Spain, now badly damaged, is a major challenge.

If everything runs normally in mid-2010 these works will be completed and Lorca have recovered a complex of streets and squares that provide extraordinary value to the surrounding monumental.

â–  For the first time is reflected in the budget of the Urban Planning Department of Lorca a specific item intended for bike lanes.

With this we wanted to continue a political line that keeps the Popular Party since joining the government team and is nothing that promote and encourage alternative means of transport, promoting cycling and providing that Lorca is a most livable city, friendlier, more sustainable.

With its inclusion in the budget we take a step in the promotion of activities to promote urban mobility in our cities and try to normalize the traffic of bicycles on roads designed for that purpose, increasing the number of bicycle users in the city and promoting the use of this mode of transport for safe routes.

The commitments to reduce CO2 emissions to air and road traffic problems of a city like Lorca by design is not ready to absorb the high motor vehicle traffic are matters that are intended to temper by promoting the use of cycling and public transport.

â–  Another project which also appears for the first time with a budget itself is the implementation of the Territorial Information System (SIT) that once developed will have a powerful tool of information, analysis and management of each and every one of municipal infrastructure that effectively resolve queries not only citizens, but decisions in this area.

■ It provides a significant amount more than € 643,000, for the acquisition, through expropriation of certain lands mentioned in the General Plan as green areas, in order to be put in place, little by little, the city of these spaces The plan envisioned as the use and enjoyment of all citizens, expanding the opportunities for outdoor recreation available to the municipality.

â–  varying amounts are also included, slightly more than 240,000 €, which will complete the development works of the circle of The Peñones, ending a long process that has lasted too many years and finally it possible to solve the works of a polygon extraordinary importance to Lorca.

â–  Finally, it is also worth noting the allocation of various items, which are already reflected in previous years and continue to shape in the budget for the importance of actions to provide, and thus maintains the funds intended for the removal of architectural barriers to electrification of almonds, the underground lines and services and other investments.

In short this is a realistic budget, which pours its efforts on reviving the construction sector through the implementation of public works, with the development of flagship projects to Lorca and contribute to urban development around the county, with special emphasis on the districts, will promote the conservation of artistic heritage of our village, with performances that carry a value through the recovery and rehabilitation of streets and squares, with the removal of architectural barriers, or the development of new spaces the city.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca