The government moves the 2018 budget project with a real investment of 8.4 million

Benidorm government has transferred to the corporation the draft budget for the year 2018, which includes real investments charged to the municipal coffers amounting to 8,414,784.65 euros, as reported by the mayor, Toni Pérez, thus fulfilling " the lines already announced last December. " Perez has stressed that this proposal "is balanced in income and expenses in 102,667,000 euros" -and with a ceiling of expenditure close to 80 million euros- and "has required an impressive effort of work and coordination of the Economic area and the mayor of the Treasury, Lourdes Caselles ". "The good economic management of the local government - with a debt amortization, anticipated and well above the most optimistic forecasts of the adjustment plan -" has allowed "to have more investment in public roads and services to citizens" . Thus, the accounts collect "important projects" such as the development of the industrial estate, a triennial investment endowed this year with 1.8 million euros and that will reach the 8 million committed in 2020. The government has reserved 2.8 million euros for the remodeling of the avenue of the Mediterranean, to begin after the summer and that will extend several years. The budget also includes "maintaining investment in improving accessibility", a "fundamental" item in the government agreement with Ciudadanos por Benidorm (CBM), which amounts to 400,000 euros. This same amount is what will be allocated through the Participatory Budget to the proposals made by the Neighborhood Council after its process of associative and assembly participation, "clearly exceeding 5% of the real investment established by the Regulations of this Participatory Budget" . In addition, a game of 236,000 euros has been included to improve the safety of public roads; while the planned investment in the El Tossal de La Cala deposit is 150,000 euros, the same as for the third remodeling phase of the former Hogar del Camarada. The proposal has taken into account "the obligated remnants of works that are ending those days and that we could not conclude in 2017", as well as "the commitments we adopted in the budgets of 2016 and 2017" and that "for different reasons, but never for lack of political will "could not be executed. It is, specifically, "projects resulting from the negotiations in relation to the year 2017 with the group Ciudadanos (Cs), which remains in the opposition but has a clear vision of working for the city and encouraging Benidorm budget and investments to solve neighborhood problems. " At this point the mayor referred to the business incubator -87,925 euros-, a Sports Facilities Plan -provided with 300,000 euros, double what was committed in 2017-, or the implementation of ecological buoys with 45,000 euros. Apart from the 100% municipal investments, the document also includes those projects that aspire to have funding from other administrations. This is the case of the 'Edificant' program and just over three and a half million euros for the construction of new spaces at the Leonor Canalejas school that also houses the Adult Training School (EPA); or the more than two million euros that is expected to be obtained from the Government of Spain under the Red.es program. To conclude, the mayor has assured that it is a "realistic" and "very powerful" budget, which "meets the needs of the public because it is tremendously social", but also gives "the necessary support for Benidorm to be better positioned in the field of tourism and especially so that the city becomes the first Smart Tourist Destination in the world. " The budget proposal is now "waiting for the proposals that opposition groups want to make" in order to improve the document and, with it, "the quality of life of citizens and the offer of Benidorm as a city and first level coexistence space ".