The plenary session of the Cabanillas del Campo City Council has approved this Friday a municipal ordinance that will regulate the operation of the city’s new urban gardens, which Consistory has enabled on Jadrak Street, next to Cañada Galliana, and has already Very close. The municipal term of Marchmalo.
These new urban gardens have been created over the last two months, consisting of 30 plots of 25 square meters each, to be used and enjoyed by city residents who are gardening enthusiasts. The new ordinance comes to regulate different aspects, ranging from the procedure to be followed for the award of each plot, the time of concession to each beneficiary, the established public price for use, permitted and prohibited uses. etc.
The total surface area of these gardens is 1,500 m², and the renovation work has been carried out by the company “Grupo Raga”, which has been awarded the cleaning and maintenance of green areas in the municipality. Apart from the separating fence, the work also includes the installation of an irrigation network right up to the entrance of the plot. The municipal investment has been around 48,000 Euros.
This new regulatory ordinance has been approved after being on public display for more than a month, but now there is another period of one month before final approval for new charges or suggestions. Once this final approval is received, the process of awarding available plots will begin in the following weeks.
The text (which backtracked slightly after a brief transactional talk between the groups) eventually received a favorable vote of the plenary session, with the exception of the councilor for Citizens, who voted against it (as he with all points) of the session, indicating that this was not because he was against the sanctioned, but in protest considering that this session of an extraordinary nature ought to have been called in the normal way).
That of urban gardens is not the only new ordinance that has been put forward this session, as another text has also been approved to regulate the celebration of bullfighting events in cabanillas in summer festivals, in order to replace the traditional confinements. May also be allowed in between. To loosen something in open ground. In this case, as explained by the mayor, José García Salinas, it is a mere adaptation, taking into account the specific conditions of the municipality, of the rules of bullfighting that already exist at a regional level in Castile- Apply in La Mancha. This other ordinance also moved forward with a favorable vote from almost all councilors, with the exception of the spokesperson for Ciudadanos, for the reasons stated above.
It should be noted that non-attached councilor Almudena Sanz excused her presence for work reasons, and only 4 PP councilors attended, as the group has yet to hold a meeting following the resignation of one of its councilors in the previous session. The new councilor has not been included. ,
Astra Plan and Municipal Nursery School
Two other important issues discussed in the plenary session this Friday, 19 May (and which were the main reasons why it was convened in an extraordinary and urgent manner) are to approve the specifications, for which the management of the nursery school will submit a tender to the municipality. put out to give. “Tres Torres” for the next courses, given that the concession expires at the end of this year 2022-2023 with the current winning company.
In the new contract for the nursery school, as explained by the mayor, Cabanillas City Council has significantly increased the municipal contribution given to the company, in order to be able to cope with the significant increase in costs that has occurred in recent months, But without changing the public prices set for user households upwards, which will continue to be maintained at present. The point was approved with PSOE, PP and Unidas Podemos IU voting in favor, Vox councilor absent, and Ciudadanos mayor voting against.
Another matter of great urgency going forward in this plenary session is the approval of the agreement signed with the Development Department of the Junta de Comunidades, through which the intercity bus service between Cabanillas and Guadalajara operates within the framework of Astra. Plan. The new agreement will be valid till 2026.
This agreement with the Junta de Comunidades expired on the same day, and for this reason it was necessary to approve the new one without delay, so that there would be no interruption of service. According to the new agreement, the city council will contribute 1.2 million euros over the next three years (approximately 413,000 euros per year, meaning an increase of more than 53,000 euros compared to the current contribution), while the board increases its contribution to 55,000 per year. up to 122,000 euros. In this way, both administrations meet the “fare deficit” that users do not cover with the payment of their tickets.
This new agreement for the operation of Plan Astra’s intercity bus has gone ahead with the votes of PSOE and PP, Unidas Podemos-IU and votes against Vox and Ciudadanos.
7 million included in the budget
Another matter of importance approved by the Plenary is the inclusion in the current 2023 budget of 7 million Euros, coming from Treasury residuals (i.e., savings from previous years) to execute various planned investments in the second half of the year, And whose amount is more than the capacity of the Municipal Council to meet them, especially with the income coming from this financial year.
They are objects worth more than one million euros for the construction of the new Municipal Aquatic Center, whose project has already been completed and approved, and whose tender will be uploaded to the State Contracting Platform next Tuesday. There is also money for the purchase of vehicles and clothing for the new local police officers who will be inducted when the recently opened selection process is over; the introduction of new waste collection systems and new containers for organic matter; The increase in the cost of the Astra plan itself; and stepping up the pace of road repair works, renovation of footpaths and public lighting, among many other miscellaneous issues, in the second half of the year. “It is about leaving the new corporation that emerges from the May 28 elections, so that it can execute, or not, if it does not want, this or other investment, whoever governs,” the first mayor, Jose Garcia Salinas explained.
This credit amendment has proceeded with a favorable vote of the PSOE and councilors of Unidas Podemos-IU, a boycott of the PP and opposition from councilors of Vox and Ciudadanos.
Also in the economic sector, the plenary has approved the annual update of the fee paid by the golf course company for the use of the municipal property “La Dehesa”, whose concession has been in operation since 1994 with a 75-year contract. Applying CPI, Canon is set at 16,661.50 euros for this year 2023. The point proceeded with all favorable votes from all councilors, with the exception of a vote against the mayor of Ciudadanos.
Finally, the plenary has made an extraordinary identification of credits for paying late invoices for services actually rendered and which were pending payment.
