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Municipal technical teams develop a program proposal, which will also include performances of hydrological correction, to be executed by the agency under the Ministry of Environment, Rural and Marine Affairs, offered the assistance of the Consistory.
The three municipal groups Lorca City Council this morning unanimously approved a motion is agreed that the municipal technical teams prepare a proposal for public employment program related to hydrological correction and cleaning of gullies Guadalentín River Basin , which formally addressed to the President of the Segura basin requesting his execution.
The objective of this program will cover that enables an optimal state of our watershed, while contributing to minimize the unemployment figures that are recorded in our town.
As the motion reads "Spain is currently undergoing an economic crisis, financial, industrial, food and consumption, which has been gradually raising unemployment figures in our town. In fact, the structural crisis that had been suffering Traditional sectors of our local economy, such as tanning, agriculture and livestock, is now added the crisis in the construction sector, with its inevitable impact on the environment of our region, like the rest of Spain. "
This line states that "although, in these situations, the Government of Spain who is responsible, within its powers over economic policy, fiscal, industrial, social and financial, to take appropriate measures to address this serious scenario deep economic recession, our City Council can not ignore the tragedy they are experiencing many of our citizens, companies, cooperatives and social and economic entities, and we try to adopt measures to mitigate the effects of the crisis, within our limited scope of competence and budget. "
The productive sectors of services, construction and agriculture, are, in that order, the largest pockets of unemployment that occur in our area, with alarming rates of unemployment are amongst the Lorca located in the age group between 25 and 45 years .
While it is true that, according to the data of the Centre's Occupational Employment and Training Service of the Autonomous Region of Murcia, between March and June this year has seen a steady decline in the number of unemployed, no the fact remains that this is very moderate and the situation becomes unbearable for thousands of families working with a horizon Lorca little hope in a context of widespread crisis.
The motion provides that "in this reality, all public authorities, but very specifically the ones that most immediately receive complaints of citizens in this and other areas despite our small responsibility in this regard, we have an obligation to articulate many initiatives to contribute to solutions to the situation described. "
Currently, the SEF said ESF funds managed through two operating programs for the period 2007-2013.
That same service is running a Local Public Employment Program that allows municipalities in the region directly hire unemployed workers to carry out works of social interest and in the various municipalities.
As stated on the website of the agency, the Department's investment for this program exceeds 13.8 million euros, and will allow direct hiring of about 900 unemployed in the whole region, to carry out works that focus mainly in the execution of works and improvements to public spaces such as the settlement, rehabilitation or construction of facilities for public use, as well as services related to culture or leisure.
In that vein, with or without the assistance of the SEF said, we believe that a reality in our town to be tackled immediately in the summer, and autumn before a rain-laden assume: the maintenance, correction and hydrological restoration and cleanup of many watercourses that our extensive crazing municipality, an activity it is absolutely necessary for proper flood control and whose jurisdiction lies, as is known, the Segura basin (CHS).
With the mechanics and elements of the aforementioned Local Public Employment Program, or looking for any other instruments deemed necessary, is the subject of this motion to propose to that body of the Segura basin an initiative similar to the above, so that the largest municipality in the region, with a watershed like the Guadalentín, the largest of all the tributaries of the Segura, and has historically been responsible for important and disastrous floods, can be managed, through the Town Council, a program like cited.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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