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The mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, has visited this Friday, October 25, the towns of the Mar Menor in which the municipal government will invest the 250,000 euros to which the City Council committed on September 25 at the constitutive meeting of the Municipal Commission of the Mar Menor, and has announced that it will forgive the receipt of water that includes the month of September to the residents affected by the DANA who so request and prove it.

The mayor, accompanied by the councilors of Vía Pública, Juan Pedro Torralba, and Decentralization, Diego Ortega, has held a meeting with the residents of Los Urrutias, Punta Brava, Estrella de Mar and Los Nietos, in which they have explained that They will have to submit a letter requesting the receipt free of charge and showing that they have had a high consumption increase or that they have suffered losses from DANA.

Residents who have already paid the bi-monthly receipt that includes September and who request it, will be returned in full, while residents who have not paid for it and submit the instance will not be charged.

“The instance can be downloaded through the municipal website and the concessionary company and we will make it public through our social networks so that all residents of the affected areas can request it.

It will be presented at the concessionary company and will be processed through the Department of Social Services, which will be the one that will analyze each of the applications, â€�said the mayor, Ana Belén Castejón.

On the other hand, it has informed the neighbors that the City Council has made the necessary steps so that there is free public transport on the afternoon of October 30 to facilitate the participation of residents in the demonstration convened in Cartagena in defense of the Mar Menor .

“The municipal government team will also attend because our commitment to the Mar Menor is absolute.

Therefore, we could not allow any neighbors who wanted to attend to be missing because they did not have a means of transportation, �he said.

During the meeting that was held this morning, it was also explained to the neighbors what works could be executed this year with the 250,000 euros included in the 2019 budget.

“In the Mar Menor Commission we assure the neighbors that they would be the ones who decided on what equipment and infrastructure they considered that we should invest that money and today we have fulfilled the first part of that promise.

We will collect their proposals so that municipal technicians can get ready to work on them as soon as possible and write the projects we need to carry them out, â€�said Castejón, after making it clear that these 250,000 are just the beginning.

“That amount has only been included because it corresponds to the works that would give us time to do from here at the end of the year.

The budget of 2020 will be greater, �he said.

Since last Wednesday the draft Budget for the fiscal year 2019 was approved at the Government Board, the intention of the municipal government is that the contributions of the neighbors can be assessed before their final approval at the next municipal Plenary, which is set for Thursday, October 31.

Consequences of DANA

In addition, and regardless of the departure of 250,000 for equipment and infrastructure works in the towns of the Mar Menor, the 2019 Budget entails the signing of a loan to undertake the works that are necessary to mitigate the effects of the cold drop that shook The area last September.

"We believe that, given the situation in which these people are, we cannot afford to wait for state aid or the Insurance Consortium so that the neighbors can begin to recover normalcy," recalled the mayor.

In this sense, the mayor, together with the councilor and president of the Agency for Local Development and Employment, Irene Ruiz, have taken the opportunity to check the progress of the work being done by students of the ADLE Neighborhood program, which is being developed in Los Urrutias and Los Nietos, also to help improve the image of both coastal locations after DANA.

The works that are being carried out in Los Urrutias consist of the arrangement of the outdoor terrace and garden of the Social Premises, painted by the library and the basketball court of said place, arrangement of the gardens of the Plaza de México, and the adaptations of both the Trovo garden and the Plaza del Navegante.

As for Los Nietos, students are making painting, bank repair and garden cleaning arrangements at Plaza del Ancla, Plaza del Pescador and Plaza de San Miguel, Nietos Viejos.

In addition to the arrangement of broken and raised slabs in some of the streets.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena