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The City of Las Torres de Cotillas held on Tuesday, May 29 a day to explain how the project of participatory budgets has been developed in schools in the municipality.

"In this initiative we have counted on the collaboration of the Council of Transparency of the Region of Murcia (CTRM) and the University of Murcia", explains the mayor Isabel María Zapata, who chaired this act and noted that "a total of 587 participants students of Secondary, Baccalaureate and Formative Cycles ".

This meeting -which was also attended by the CTRM president José Molina- took place in the plenary hall of the local Consistory and those responsible for the project presented the evaluation of the process (available at https://goo.gl/e8Uz6z): its objectives , phases, participants, proposals presented, voting ... Among the data offered, it was highlighted that the young participants rated this measure with a remarkable high (an average grade of 8'06).

"In addition, the participating municipal technicians received a diploma for their collaboration in the process," reports the mayor.

Greater transparency and efficiency

This campaign of participatory budgets for 2018 and 2019, in which each annuity has a game of 15,000 euros, focused on schools in the municipality.

For this year the young people chose free summer film sessions in public spaces, the creation of free wifi zones in the Constitution Park and the municipal library, and a foam party with inflatable slide.

For the next year the chosen proposals -of the total of 46 that passed the technical filter- were a festival 'Holi Run' and a festival reggaeton and trap.

"The participatory budgets have to give greater transparency and efficiency even to our management of public resources," says the councilor of Finance, Angel Gonzalez, who notes that this follows the path established by the strategy 'The Towers 2025 Come and Stay' "This initiative collected ideas and proposals from citizens, concessionary companies, businessmen, merchants, cultural, political and social agents of the municipality for months," says González, who stresses that "it was a very enriching process".

Source: Ayuntamiento de Las Torres de Cotillas