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He maintains that "we will continue to adopt measures of a social and economic nature that will support the way out of this health crisis."

The City Council of Lorca held this morning, for the first time in its history, a plenary session not in person, due to the state of alarm, caused by the health crisis and the confinement to which we are subjected by the coronavirus.

A plenary session, extraordinary and urgent, which was held electronically and in which, as explained by the Mayor of Lorca, Diego José Mateos, the first point was unanimously approved, with the support of all the municipal groups. corresponding to the urgency of the Plenary and the celebration online;

the second plenary session, that of the credit modification;

and the third item on the agenda that corresponds to the payment, by extrajudicial recognition, of outstanding invoices from previous years for a total value of 1.5 million euros �.

The mayor has detailed that "the approved money will go, mostly to small and medium-sized companies, to SMEs, but also to the self-employed, to small entrepreneurs who had provided their services and supplies to the Lorca City Council, and which were pending collection ".

Diego José Mateos has insisted that "the City Council and the municipal Corporation have taken another step to try to mitigate the effects of the health crisis on our economy, both for merchants, freelancers and entrepreneurs, but also for workers who they depend â€�.

The First mayor thanked all the municipal groups for "the support received" and maintains that "we will continue to adopt measures of a social and economic nature that will support the way out of this health crisis".

As for the sectors to which the pending invoices correspond, they are mainly services, such as electricity and water, as well as works, such as all those that had to be undertaken as a result of the episode of torrential rains last September, DANA, and the amount of which amounts to almost 250,000 euros.

From the City Council it has been pointed out that "the transfer orders for the payment of said invoices are from this morning at the bank, so that the providers could start receiving the money today."

Finally, after the approval of this extrajudicial recognition in the plenary session this morning, and thus today all the invoices that had been registered in the City Council corresponding to previous years are settled. "

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca