The plenary session approves requesting the modification of PORN of Serra Gelada to be able to construct ponds for the storage of purified water

The plenary of Benidorm has approved today to request the Ministry of Agriculture, Environment, Climate Change and Rural Development to review the Plan of Natural Resources Management (PORN) of Serra Gelada and its coastal zone to allow the construction of ponds for agricultural use in all its extension. The councilman of the Water Cycle, José Ramón González de Zárate, explained that this proposal is based on "the requests of the Water Consortium of the Marina Baixa, the irrigators of the Canal Bajo del Algar and the municipal technicians" who demand the construction of ponds to store purified water and avoid that "in periods of maximum flow" those water resources that are not consumed in agriculture end up in the sea. De Zárate has indicated that these ponds would allow "to accumulate this water, to be used later in agriculture", even "in case of fire", so they would be "very positive for Benidorm and the rest of the municipalities of the region" since "they would improve the management of water resources ".

Also in terms of water, the plenary session has supported by a large majority the draft of the agreement between the City Council and the Generalitat to carry out the improvement works in the sanitation and treatment infrastructure announced by the Ministry in 2016, of which the administration local will have to assume 40% of its cost.

By a large majority, it has been agreed to set up a Joint Commission that will be in charge of resuming "the negotiation of resolution by mutual agreement of the concession contract of the bus station". The proposal raised to the plenary by the mayor, Toni Pérez, has "the conformity" of the Secretariat and Intervention areas. The proposal raised to the plenary by the mayor, Toni Pérez, has "the conformity" of the areas of Secretariat and Intervention, and it will be represented by the City Council - through the mayor - and the merchant responsible for the management of the terminal, Bus Station of Benidorm SL.

The deputy spokesperson of the local government, Lourdes Caselles, has stressed that from the corresponding departments "much work has been done to bring this agreement", and recalled that this joint Commission is "to resume a plenary agreement of 2014".

According to the agreement approved today, the members of the Commission will set the day of the week in which the meetings will be held and "the advisors who must attend" them "after carrying out the technical support and advisory work that is declared necessary "

By majority, a motion by the mayor, amended by the opposition groups, has been successful, to create a Special Commission for the investigation of the bus station file and documents of the same. The amendment -approved with the votes of PSOE, Citizens (Cs), Liberals of Benidorm (Libe) and Compromís-Los Verdes and warned by the municipal secretary-, includes that this Commission is chaired by the socialist spokesman, Rubén Martínez, and that the deputy spokesman Cs, Juan Balastegui, assumes the Vice Presidency, and that the rest of the groups have vowels with a weighted vote for their representation within the corporation, including the non-attached councilors. The commission will last for "at least two months, with the possibility of extension" and will meet "every Monday".

Also by majority has been given the green light to the five proposals raised to full by the Councilor for Urban Development, Lourdes Caselles. The first proposal is the approval of the detailed study of the block delimited by Tokyo and Taiwan streets and by action unit 3 in Serra Gelada, rejecting the allegations presented. Likewise, another detailed study has also been approved to increase a building for parking in the Colonia Madrid area.

The plenary session has also supported by a majority a new expropriation agreement by mutual agreement for the execution of the so-called Discotecas road, which will link the N-332 road and the Valencian Community avenue; and has accepted the unilateral and anticipated cession of 153.40 square meters of soil, subsoil and flight made by the Los Arcos hotel, which will allow the width of the sidewalk of the Philippines Avenue to be extended as it passes through the establishment. In addition, by majority, the program of Execution Unit 2 of the 'Tertiary Corridor' (the APR-3) awarded in 2003 has been resolved by mutual agreement, thus favoring the implementation of activities in the area.

Unanimously, the corporation has agreed to declare the Official Hymn of the Major Patron Festivities the pasodoble 'Fiesta en Benidorm', by the teacher Rafael Doménech Pardo, released 40 years ago, gathering "the sentiments shared by the Commission of Major Festivities, the Musical Union of Benidorm, the Musical Society l'Illa and the Musical Society La Nova ".

As stated in the proposal, the interpretation of this pasodoble "at the beginning of our Major Patronal Festivals thrills year after year, being also performed in popular celebrations of France, Portugal or Manizales (Colombia)", and "contagious feeling of joy for how the town of Benidorm is identified with it and with the start of our Fiestas ". "So much so," continues the proposal, "that it has become a highly esteemed and almost compulsory piece of music for musicians in Benidorm, due to its high sentimental value, but also because of the pride it represents to interpret it for each of the bands of our city: the Musical Union of Benidorm, the Musical Society l'Illa de Benidorm and the La Nova Musical Society, being traditionally directed by the teacher ".

The corporation has agreed by a large majority to transfer to the Ministry of Education the adequacy of the amounts of annuities marked at the time for the realization of a multi-purpose pavilion at Leonor Canalejas school within the framework of 'Edificant' program. The mayor, Toni Pérez, who manages the area of ​​Education, has reported that the City Council "is finalizing the specifications for bidding these works, valued at 3.7 million euros." Pérez has clarified that the Ministry has asked all municipalities to readjust the amounts that will be used in the works to be carried out by delegation, and that in the case of Benidorm will affect three budgetary years.

By a large majority has succeeded in appointing the councilors of Environment and Beaches as representatives of the City Council in the Monitoring Commission of Maritime Surveillance of the Natural Park of Serra Gelada.

The plenary session also made possible an extrajudicial relationship amounting to 91,577.17 euros, which corresponds to payments to the former merchant responsible for the transport of sports entities, expenses of lawyers and prosecutors of files initiated in previous years and now resolved, and invoices of the SGAE.

The proposal of institutional support to the legislative initiative called #Porunaleyjusta, which seeks to "reform the current legal framework to avoid the helplessness of cyclists and pedestrians in the face of imprudent motor vehicle drivers and accidents caused by these, has prospered" " The motion includes urging all parliamentary groups to process this legislative initiative.

In the same session, the decree declaring the resolution of the contract for the collection of urban waste and street cleaning has been ratified; and the accounting information corresponding to the second quarter of 2018 has been reported, and the Intervention report on the status of external audits on various files approved by the plenary in July 2017.

Motions of the opposition
By majority, a motion by the Compromís-Los Verdes group has been approved so that technicians can update the value of the compensation received by the City Council for not having built the Adult Public School (EPA) in the planned building; that the same be demanded and materialized "in less than two months" by the company that manages the parking of the market; that the possibility of claiming "patrimonial responsibilities" for that lack of compensation be studied; and that once that money is available, it is invested "in improvements and maintenance works and repair of the Municipal Market".