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Jumilla City Council has received official notification of the denial of a grant request to the Autonomous Community to carry out the project of rehabilitation and environmental revitalization of the Church of El Salvador, as confirmed in a press conference the Mayor of Jumilla Francisco Abellán and Trade Councilman Ildefonso Jimenez.
Jumilla policy makers have shown their displeasure at this decision of the regional administration.
They explained that both the mayor and the council had the verbal commitment of the director general of Commerce who gathered to show the project and on which said it was very interesting and could be undertaken on two annuities, given the amount of which amounts to more than 700,000 euros.
Jiménez Abellán, and considered that the Autonomous Community does not support Jumillano trade "and so is demonstrated by the refusal of many grants that are requested to benefit from this industry."
The councilman of Commerce has explained that he applied for a grant based on an order of April 16, 2009 for 'Support for local authorities in the Region of Murcia for the commercial sector development and business planning. "
This order has a budget of 1,600,000 euros and aims to undertake measures activation of urban commerce.
"Based on this order present the project to adapt the environment of the Church of El Salvador, very interesting for trade in Jumilla and had the support of the business association," Jimenez said adding that "also met with Director General of Trade and Crafts to present it in person. "
In this regard, Francisco Abellán reported that "indeed the CEO is committed to help through an agreement of two annual installments at a rate of 300,000 euros each year."
After several months after the communication has been received from the general direction denying this grant "for not being within the scope of the order."
On this argument, Ildefonso Jimenez has reported that as stated in the order itself "in the section on the subject says it will be eligible investment projects covering one or more of these actions: improving urban infrastructure, pedestrian execution of works , slowing vehicular traffic, improvements to car parks, improving accessibility to the zone of disabled people, so yes many of these actions are reflected in our project. "
In this sense, Abellán recalled that six years ago, the autonomous granted assistance "business planning" with which the street was remodeled Canovas del Castillo, from Avenue of the Assumption to the garden of the Frogs, "and therefore not understand this decision, or the refusal of other aid, for example, the Market, in fact since that year, there has again received a single euro in that general direction, "the mayor said he regretted that there can undertake this exciting project "for which there was a competition of ideas and which sought to bring the whole environment of the church, from priest Navarro Street, across the street Canalejas to Rambleta and the lateral side of the church .
It was a way of regulating the pace and pedestrian access and there is important businesses and others could be added and allowed us to link the steps and street to street Canalejas Cánovas.
Francisco Abellán said, "is an ambitious project that we can not undertake own resources, but we will try to manage other administration or government of Spain."
Project Ideas Contest Winner
The municipality of Jumilla a competition of ideas to adapt this environment to win a project called 'Zarzillo' and, as explained by the author in his day, was two-pronged strategy, first, put the pavement in the area environment of the Church of the Savior and then generate a kind of milestones that will mark out a route around the church, these milestones are some of the items offered several possibilities as to the bank, at the level of city lights, or lights higher, also can withstand natural elements and also elements that are intended to provide changing facades because images can be projected on them, causing between day and night change the look. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla
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