The municipal plenary of the City Council of Las Torres de Cotillas approved on Monday night December 12 the Integrated Sustainable Urban Development Strategy (EDUSI) "Las Torres Conecta", a decision that only had against the votes of Change Las Torres.
"This project will allow us, in addition to having an overview of the city, its problems and solutions in the coming years, to request from the Ministry of Finance and Public Administration aids of FEDER funds worth 5 million euros to use them in various Improvement projects in the municipality, "explains the mayor, Domingo Coronado, who remembers that a municipal contribution of 1,250,000 euros will be added to that amount.
A strategy that was born out of the participation of various associations and groups in the municipality, who for months have contributed their ideas and opinions to improve the locality and which will be based on four main axes: improving the use and quality of ICTs, favoring Moving to a low carbon economy, protecting the environment and promoting resource efficiency, and social inclusion and the fight against poverty.
Four growth lines
For the line of improvement of the use and quality of the ICT, a budget of 700,000 euros is foreseen and will be the improvement of the electronic administration, the development of actions to catalog the city as "Smart City" and of mobile applications and services that allow the Participation and interaction between citizens and the City Council.
For its part, the commitment to a low-carbon economy will count on a total of 1,800,000 euros and will focus on the development of sustainable urban mobility and connection with industrial areas, and promoting the use of renewable energy in buildings and municipal vehicles .
In order to protect the environment and promote resource efficiency, the budget is 2,150,000.
This section highlights the proposal to move the antenna of Radio Nacional de España (RNE) from its current location in the Emisora ​​Park to an area outside the town.
Finally, a budget of 1,600,000 euros will support the social inclusion and anti-poverty chapter, which highlights the project of creating a multi-purpose intergenerational social center, the implementation of a social integration plan of Families in vulnerable situations, regeneration of degraded areas and improved access to employment of disadvantaged groups.
"We are very pleased and proud of this strategy, which together has the value and common denominator of citizen participation," says Coronado, who emphasizes that this project "in addition to allowing this important subsidy or others in a Future serves to have a real and complete diagnosis of the municipality, a useful tool for many years that will allow to continue working on improving Las Torres de Cotillas. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Las Torres de Cotillas