The Joint Technical Commission of the General Urban Plan Municipal (PGOUM) of Totana, in the team editor, municipal and general directions of Planning, Evaluation and Environmental Control and Natural Heritage and Biodiversity of the Autonomous Region, met yesterday to continue working in coordination to address these shortcomings and deficiencies of the document and, above all, to finalize the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) before approval.
The mayor, José Martínez Andreo, and the Town Planning and Land Management, Bartholomew Pallares, reported technical details of the meeting held yesterday in Murcia.
This meeting was held after the meeting that municipal officials held just last Tuesday afternoon with the director himself in the industry, José Ballesta, and which discussed the recent innovations in processing it.
Municipal officials explained that the report is nearly completed, environmental quality, which apparently has no major weaknesses, while in the coming weeks will complete the natural medium, so that the DIA would commission before the end of 2009.
In this way, and on schedule, once given the green light to the DIA in the technical committee of the General Directorate of Environmental Control, the document is forwarded to the Planning Department in order that a maximum Three months after the approval of the EIS, the document would be adopted permanently.
On the other hand, questions from the media, Councillor of Finance also reported on the situation that is developing the municipal budget in 2010, and announced that it will be according to the current financial and economic situation and crisis general.
Pallares said several council members are developing their respective drafts, and added that this will increase from 36 million euros in 2009 to 30 or 32 that are envisaged for the year 2010, so as to reduce by 20%.
The mayor of Finance explained that this reduction will not affect the investment chapter in its entirety but current spending and said the main feature of the new municipal budget of 2010 is its commitment to social protection for those who are suffering the consequences of the economic crisis directly and supporting productive sectors and small and medium enterprises Totana.
