The Mayor of Totana, José Martínez Andreo, has presided over the establishment of the Special Committee on Economy and Employment to ensure the reduction of current expenditure and monitoring and creation of new measures to alleviate the effects of the crisis in the town of Totana , among other things.
The committee will work permanently with weekly meetings consists, besides the mayor, the alderman of Finance and Procurement, Bartholomew Pallares, Councilman Human Resources and Internal Affairs, Roque Molina, and Youth and Women councilors, Josefa María Sánchez and the Employment and Development, Trini Cayuela.
During the first day of work was analyzed and followed up the measures in place since the Consistory to mitigate the effects of the crisis in the municipality.
In addition, we studied the state of current expenditures of the City, as one of the objectives for next year is to further reduce the amount along with the line previously marked and has achieved a significant reduction.
In this regard, the mayor has indicated that the implementation of the shopping center has been successful in significantly lower current expenditure of the City Council.
To reduce the impact of the crisis on the economies of the residents of the municipality, the Consistory, through their municipal areas, is launching a series of actions that will help small and medium enterprises as well as local families .
In this sense, Martínez Andreo has indicated that it will soon launch an office in the municipality of Ucomur to advise employers and promote the cooperation among them.
Among other things, also will launch a permanent office to inform, support, train and encourage all projects and initiatives of young entrepreneurs through collaboration between the Council and the Association of Young Entrepreneurs Under Guadalentín (AJE)
The mayor at the meeting also discussed the implementation of Phase I of the Industrial Revitalization Plan which provides for the enhancement of the Business Incubator.
City Councilman said that the novelty of this project is the creation of the nursery itself, but its management is carried out, inter alia, by AJE.
In the Commission was also evident Consistory support young people and women of the town, were treated as proposals for job creation in these sectors which are most vulnerable.
Similarly, we studied other measures to promote employment and training contracts or grants to small and medium enterprises.
Another important issues were discussed during the meeting was the preparation of municipal budgets for 2009.
The mayor explained that the purpose of municipal government team is that the City spend what you enter to maintain investments, which means, according to Martínez Andreo, a major decline as incomes have fallen by 35 percent.
This realignment of budgets, according to the municipal councilor, will be an effort from all the departments, so that working hours are making to establish the lines of a budget agreed by all municipal departments.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana