The municipal mayor, Joaquin Hernandez, stressed that are a "realistic, responsible, social and decreases in debt while continuing to provide any services' budgets.
Lorquí City Council approves the Budget for 2016, amounting to 7,017,998.60 euros, based on stability and the balance between revenue and expenditure, an increase of more than 540,000 euros compared to the previous year.
These focus on the maintenance of public services and social benefits, as fundamental elements of the policy of the government team, with the area of ​​employment, infrastructure and debt reduction.
Thus, the mayor of the municipality, Joaquin Hernandez, stresses that are a "real budgets balanced by the correspondence between revenue and expenditure; responsible to the current situation, social, because they focus on care for neighbors and maintenance utilities; and future, because they allow Lorquí grow and develop through the town needs infrastructure and support for the establishment of companies in the municipality to improve employment opportunities. "
Also, compliance with the financial support debt obligations acquired by the city and meet the wage responsibilities are met.
The City Council Budget 2016 helps ensure and consolidate the social service: making a major effort to increase the departure of home help and respite at 21,500 euros, maintaining social emergency items, collecting reemployment programs for drug addicts, Absenteeism and friendly cities for children.
Furthermore, it has created, for the first time, a special program of social field for unemployed people at risk of exclusion worth 20,000 euros and has established a housing aid for the acquisition of the first property in Lorquí for buying incentive in the city .
As for the provision of services all will remain including the Infant School, which serves full City Council;
classroom study, open all year;
the provision for Bonobus increases, in order to not let anyone else without bonus;
It is heading to summer school and the implementation of the second phase of free textbooks is increased.
Also, the budget contemplated aid municipal associations with a total of 142,903 euros, 10,000 euros more than in the previous legislature, and included 0.7% for humanitarian aid.
In the field of investment, taking into account both small investments, which are not less important and small catering to the demands of neighborhood groups in the town and villages, as well as works in school Dolores Escámez repair streets in the industrial Saladar I, the renovation and modernization of Queen Street, the construction of a skate park in order to meet the requests of young people;
and a batch of 40,000 euros to improve the accessibility of Cabezos.
Also, the mayor said that "it has become very important to clean up the town hall so we can deal with investment in infrastructure needed for the development and growth of our people effort" that include items to solve historical problems of the municipality as the construction of the municipal swimming pools, the cafeteria, the start of construction of the health center, with 312,000 euros and Promotion Center Cultual, with 150,000 euros.
Employment and training continues to promote training for the unemployed with the Employment and Training Workshop for Youth, which is already underway, involving the rehabilitation of terreras Lorquí.
Moreover, budget allocation for Tourism, Youth and Sports Activities that promote leisure and recreation of our youth with healthy activities will target.
"They is about Budgets responsible for which is declining debt it had acquired the Town Hall, in past legislatures, without stop providing any public service, nor stop paying any payroll, vendor or bank. They are realistic because they adapted to the situation of Lorquí, but also for the future because they allow our town continues to grow, "he stated the mayor.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorquí