Benidorm residents vote today proposals for Participatory Budgets

The Councilor for Citizen Participation, Ana Pellicer, has called today for participation in the assembly open to all citizens, convened by the Neighborhood Council, which will be held from 7 pm at Casa del Fester ‘Diego Cano Enguera’. The meeting will study the proposals that will configure the Participatory Budgets classified in five blocks: Urban Planning, Urban Scene and Mobility; Equality, Social Welfare, Health and Senior Citizens; Tourism, Beaches and Citizen Security; Education, Culture, Education and Sports; and Environment and Street Cleaning.

The Neighborhood Council has been reported that around fifty proposals will be discussed. The selected ones will be included by the Neighborhood Council in the Participatory Budgets that will have an allocation of 5% of the municipal investment budget, an amount that, in the previous edition, reached 534,000 euros.

A good part of the initiatives presented to the Participative Budgets have arisen as a result of the weekly meetings that the Department of Citizen Participation and Public Space, Road Cleaning and Works (directed by José Ramón González de Zárate), municipal technicians and representatives of the Concessionaires have maintained with neighborhood groups.

Ana Pellicer recalled that during the first hundred days of municipal government "we have visited almost all neighborhoods", there is only one visit left that "will take place next week". Meetings that have been “very positive” because “citizens and associations send us their requests that, little by little, are becoming a reality”.