The administering councillors met last night, primarily to agree the budgets for this year, but also to discuss the management of the Town Hall and its employees. This obviously does not include the applications for bigger projects but the costs and ideas for 2016.
The meeting started at 7.0pm and went on until 1030pm!
We discussed each and every item in the budget to ensure we were getting the best value we could from all the arrangements. All the suggestions from the councillors were considered and decisions reached. We should be in a position to present it to Pleno next week. I was pleased that all my suggestions were listened to and included.
We also had a motivational talk from Luis about how we should endeavour to elevate the level of service we give to the community. He encouraged us all to seek out new ways of improving the efficiency of our own areas of responsibility and involving other politicians or Town Halls.
We also discussed how we could start to break down the barriers between the two villages. I think we all feel that there is too strong a divide between the villagers on Zurgena and La Alfoquia and we discussed ways in which we could start to make all feel that they are Zurgeneros. The new road layout, for the area to the front of the old Petrol Station, where a roundabout is to be installed, should be worked on in the early part of this year and this and all main routes into all the area should be signposted as Zurgena. This could be the first physical sign of integrating all the areas under the name of the municipality.
I am to assist with the establishment of a Junta de Seguridad. Basically this is a group made up of all the people responsible for security from the other villages of the valley including the Guardia Civil, Polizia Local, Civil Protection etc to agree policies and procedures for the safety and security of all the residents of the area. I will update the blog with progress on this initiative.
The meeting started at 7.0pm and went on until 1030pm!
We discussed each and every item in the budget to ensure we were getting the best value we could from all the arrangements. All the suggestions from the councillors were considered and decisions reached. We should be in a position to present it to Pleno next week. I was pleased that all my suggestions were listened to and included.
We also had a motivational talk from Luis about how we should endeavour to elevate the level of service we give to the community. He encouraged us all to seek out new ways of improving the efficiency of our own areas of responsibility and involving other politicians or Town Halls.
We also discussed how we could start to break down the barriers between the two villages. I think we all feel that there is too strong a divide between the villagers on Zurgena and La Alfoquia and we discussed ways in which we could start to make all feel that they are Zurgeneros. The new road layout, for the area to the front of the old Petrol Station, where a roundabout is to be installed, should be worked on in the early part of this year and this and all main routes into all the area should be signposted as Zurgena. This could be the first physical sign of integrating all the areas under the name of the municipality.
I am to assist with the establishment of a Junta de Seguridad. Basically this is a group made up of all the people responsible for security from the other villages of the valley including the Guardia Civil, Polizia Local, Civil Protection etc to agree policies and procedures for the safety and security of all the residents of the area. I will update the blog with progress on this initiative.
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