The Director General of Local Administration, Diego Pardo, met this week with the Mayor of Totana, Juan José Cánovas, to take stock, among other matters, of the actions of the Plan for the Promotion of Municipal Works and Services 2016, as well as the application Of the funds that the Autonomous Community has allocated to the municipality.
Pardo highlighted in this regard "we have reviewed the works financed by the Regional Action Plan for the Dynamization of Works and Municipal Services 2016. These include the rehabilitation of the playground area of ​​the municipal park Marcos Ortiz, Whose recruitment file has just been initiated by the City Council, action to which the Community contributes € 74,500 of the 82,700 that the work imports.
Also financed by the regional government through PARDOS are the paving of streets Cánovas del Castillo and Cañada Zamora, for an amount of 88,200 euros, and the collection and evacuation of rainwater from the street Teniente Pérez Redondo to the ravine of Los Arcos, For something more than 17,300 euros.
"It is a total contribution of 180,000 euros, applicable to three very necessary actions, which will represent a substantial improvement for the residents of Totana, and which are an expression of the municipalist vocation of the regional government and the benefits that can be derived for citizenship Of the effective collaboration between the public administrations ".
It should also be remembered that the Community, through the Ministry of Presidency, also financed with almost 160,000 euros the paving works in Santomera Street and others in the town, from the funds of the Works and Services Plan 2015.
Diego Pardo said that "we have also discussed the works and services that can be addressed with the 2017 Plan which, as a novelty, has a 20 percent increase over the previous year, which means that six million euros will be allocated to Actions in the 41 municipalities of less than 50,000 inhabitants ".
The funds will be distributed among the projects that the consistories pose to the Community as eligible for funding, for which it set as maximum deadline today.
The distribution will be made according to the criteria defined by the Local Cooperation Council at its meeting last February.
The criteria to be followed at the time of the distribution of these six million euros are: population, which is the one that has the greatest weight in the distribution, with 55 percent;
Territorial dispersion, which takes into account the distance between the different population centers within the municipal term and the total area of ​​the same;
Deficits in infrastructures and equipment, which are deduced from the Infrastructure and Local Equipment Survey (EIEL);
Per capita income;
And have submitted the projects to a participatory process.
