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"In recent months there has been a significant increase in acts of vandalism, with a high cost for local administration," says Antonio Meca.

Citizens will present a motion on civic awareness measures in the protection of street furniture and against vandalism at the next regular plenary session in January, a complex issue that depends to a large extent on education in values ​​and the social conscience of the citizens themselves. of the visitors that the municipality receives.

According to Antonio Meca in Lorca "we support acts such as the indiscriminate burning of urban waste containers, destruction in paper mills, banks, painted in public and private spaces, broken glass, lighting, children's games, plant theft, destruction of devices of irrigation and water sources in public parks "

The average cost of a paper basket is 165 euros, a container of urban waste 551 euros, a recycled paper container 1,000 euros, a street lamp 1,413 euros and clean a painted around 120 euros.

The City of Lorca valued in more than 110,000 euros the money that has had to invest in replacing street furniture and electrical wiring for acts of vandalism and robberies recorded last year.

Although the removal of cable in public parks and gardens has declined compared to other years, acts of vandalism in street furniture have increased by 50%.

The crystals of the balustrade in the Manterola gangway, destruction in the Pallarés Cachá pediatric park, theft of wiring and plants in Las Alamedas, destruction of public toilets and theft of toilets in the Health Park, breakage of litter bins and lampposts in San Antonio, stealing trees on Avenida Juan Carlos I, "everything belonging to the urban furniture that makes up a city and that can be destroyed have been vandalized in recent months, and it is not time to renew the urban furniture that it is destroyed "says Councilman.

Meca adds that what he proposes to the plenary will be "to urge the Government Team to launch civic awareness campaigns on conservation and maintenance of municipal property, to disseminate some campaign particularizing in the context of educational centers, and to label part of the furniture urban in zones of high concurrence of people, there where they are constructed or reformed public spaces, with legends of civic awareness that incorporate the cost of the good ".

Source: Ciudadanos Lorca