The City Council has presented the Integrated Jumilla Strategic Plan which has been working for the last month and a half with a subsidy strategies Sustainable and Integrated Urban Development (DUSI) to be co-financed by the ERDF operational program is requested (European Regional Development Fund) for sustainable growth.
The Strategic Plan was approved in extraordinary plenary session with the favorable votes of PSOE and IU-LV and the abstention of the PP.
The total project budget is 6,250,000 euros, of which ERDF requested a total of 5,000,000 euros and predicts a municipal contribution of 1,250,000 euros for the period 2016-2022, which means that the subsidy would 80% of the total cost of the strategy.
The strategy is called 'Jumilla, history and wine' and includes a total of four thematic objectives are:
Improve the use and quality of information technology and communication and access to them.
To do this, it aims to implement a plan of intelligent city, as well as electronic processing platforms paths and land management.
-Promote The transition to a low-carbon economy in all sectors, improving energy efficiency and increasing renewable energy in urban areas.
Sustainable urban mobility through the expansion of cycle paths, the acquisition of a bus and various improvements to the road network is also encouraged.
-Keep And protecting the environment and promoting resource efficiency, promoting the protection, promotion and development of cultural and natural heritage in urban areas, particularly those of interest.
For example, the enhancement of the architectural heritage are sought, as well as the revitalization and promotion of the old town area of ​​the Plaza de Arriba.
In this same line you would create a Jumilla with a cityscape with its own identity, adapting existing green areas to the use of the population, preparing the Botanical Garden and creating biosaludables facilities.
-To Promote social inclusion and fighting poverty and all forms of discrimination, through the physical, economic and social regeneration of urban environment in deprived urban areas.
For this commitment to connecting the districts and the Santiago neighborhood with the rest of the city, improving the conditions of the urban environment and providing social, health infrastructure socio-educational, sports, and reconciliation and equality.
Murcia will receive ERDF funds totaling 27.35 million euros, of which Jumilla has requested as the maximum grant amount for municipalities with more than 20,000 inhabitants and less than 50,000 inhabitants, which is 5,000,000 euros .
The term has a maximum resolution dated May 17 and if the term of execution is granted from 2016-2022.
The mayor of Jumilla, Juan Guardiola, and the Councillor for Economy and Employment, Juan Gil, are optimistic about the future of this strategy, which qualify as "the road map to be followed by our town in the years regardless of who governs. "
Both have used to thank all groups and citizens who have been involved with ideas and emplaced at a press conference in the coming days will offer all counting retail strategy.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla