The mayors of Lorca, Francisco Jodar, of Puerto Lumbreras, Pedro Antonio Sánchez, and Totana, Isabel Maria Sanchez, met today in the city of Lorca in Murcia national deputies of the PP to discuss and evaluate the amendments tabled by the Popular Party the State Budget, which will finally allow allocate 73 million euros to undertake works in these three municipalities, heavily affected by past floods.
Specifically, national MPs who were present at the meeting were the Mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro, Housing spokesman in Congress, Teodoro Garcia Economy spokesman, Vicente Martínez-Pujalte, spokeswoman for Climate Change, Ascension Carreño María and María Dolores Bolarín, who have accompanied many councilors of the three municipalities involved.
Totana Mayor explained that one of the amendments to the general budget of the Members for Murcia is the exemption from various taxes they have paid the holders of the rights to water use in order to alleviate the effects of flooding.
While acknowledging the presence of national parliamentarians and mayors of the PP in the region, as well as the effort to submit these amendments to the PGE in 2013, Francisco Jodar has indicated that the 73 million "will be spent on building new reservoirs rolling on the boulevards of Nogalte, Lebor and Béjar and in different performances of correction and prevention of floods in the region of Guadalentín ".
Jódar recalled that "these gullies caused the worst damage in the floods, as in the case of Béjar and Nogalte caused the accumulation of large amounts of water in the area Saladar of Lorca, where he concentrated especially destruction of the flood ", so" the construction of these reservoirs contain water in case of heavy rain, significantly lowering its harmful effects. "
In this sense, Jódar expressed his "confidence" to expedite the construction process, and that "projects are made in a while, because the works were included in the Flood Plan, and not implemented because the former minister socialist Cristina carbonate, the removed without consulting anyone. now have projects and funding, only need to open the bidding. "
Also, the mayor of Lorca has underlined the establishment of a financing for farmers affected by floods in highly concessional loans through ICO.
For its part, the national deputy and mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro, stressed that the amendments tabled by parliamentarians Murcia in the Spanish Congress of Deputies will benefit those affected in different ways, among which highlighted "the possibility of go financing preferred position, through ICO loans, expansion of the aid application deadline, which will be open until the final law passed, and the exemption from payment of water for the current year. "
Also "allow municipalities have faced situations that make it unpostponable expenditure, and extends the coverage of the Royal Decree on aid for children who had died as a result of the flood, allowing the family who lost a child to receive a provision of 18,000 euros. "
This is the expansion of Royal Decree Law 25/2012 approved by Cabinet on September 7 for emergency aid to alleviate the effects of fire and other natural disasters, and includes practical help for people and property affected by flooding September 28.
"As you know, in the sad loss of life balance was a girl of seven years, and the goal is that parents are recipients of that award," said Barreiro.
Finally, the deputy mayor of Cartagena and explained that "the process followed has been a year of saving in processing procedure, which shortens time to tackle a situation requiring immediate response," adding that "these amendments are ready for submission to the Commission of Interior, and is expected to be approved definitively on 18 December. "
