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The Councilor for Innovation, Ricardo Recuero, and the Councilor for Finance, Domingo Paredes, have presented the 2022 participatory budgets “You propose, your City Council does it”, where all people over 16 years of age who are registered in Torrevieja can participate, as well as well as entities, associations, foundations, professional associations, among others. The deadline for submission begins tomorrow, August 13, until next Friday, August 27, where interested parties may submit relevant proposals of general interest, city or district level, whose content is not illegal, defamatory or discriminatory.

The spokesperson of the Torrevieja Municipal Popular Group, Rosario Martínez Chazarra, has presented a motion to the Board of Spokespersons on August 13, so that, in agreement with the municipal groups that want to join, name the park's recreational area " Lo Albentosa ”as a recreational area“ José Eduardo Gil Rebollo ”.

The Mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, and the Councilor for Social Welfare, Tomás Ballester, have visited, together with the ASAFAN delegate in Torrevieja, Óscar Urtasun, this information point which offers all the information on the aid and benefits with the that have, in addition to managing and processing scholarships, FN degrees, etc. The hours of attention to the public are in August: Tuesday and Thursday in the morning, and Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from the month of September. Among the advantages for large families are discounts on the urban contribution, electricity and water bills, sports activities, all kinds of transport, museums, ..., as well as discounts on school fees and university fees, on the Social Security fee by home caregivers, etc. To contact ASAFAN Torrevieja you can call: 686 083 054 or 661 348 048. Also by email: torrevieja@asafan.org.

The Department of Festivities of the Torrevieja City Council has presented the bases with which the process for the election of the new Queen of Salt and her Ladies of Honor begins. It does so after having extended, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, for one year the current Queen and Samas 2019/2020, Raquel Tévar, María Cases and Cristy Guamán, respectively.

The Councilor for Culture, José Antonio Quesada, together with the director of the Festival, Tatiana Denisova Kaunova, the artistic director, Lev Gelbard, and the cellist, Lana Gruen, have presented this morning the second edition of the festival of classical music and opera "Sol Music Festival Torrevieja" to be held from August 12 to 15 in the chamber hall of the International Auditorium of Torrevieja.

The Department of Quality of urban services, led by the mayor Sandra Sánchez, has to provide the Los Locos beach promenade with a new redevelopment that significantly improves accessibility to the coastline, providing it with pedestrian routes and areas spacious rooms for the enjoyment of citizens and complying with applicable regulations on accessibility in urban areas.

The councilor secretary of the Local Government Board of the Torrevieja City Council, Federico Alarcón, has informed this morning of the approval of the file, specifications of technical prescriptions and administrative clauses for the contracting of the integral maintenance service, replacement, general repair and conservation of the irrigation systems of the green areas and public roads, including all the elements that are necessary for their correct operation, construction, management and viability of the municipality of Torrevieja. It should be noted that the works, extensions, modifications and any other circumstance that affects the contract will be the property of the City Council, once executed and certified. The duration of the contract will be three years, with an annual extension of two years. The maximum duration, if the corresponding extensions are agreed upon, will be 5 years. The estimated value of the contract amounts to 1,507,172.60 euros, with the base bid budget being 301,434 euros.

The mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, and the deputy mayor of the City Council, Rosario Martínez, have received and welcomed the 13 new workers who have taken office today and who have been hired through the EMCORP 2021 insertion program, subsidized by LABORA , to provide them with a work experience that improves their employability.

The city hosts the first edition of the Crazy Urban Festival to mobilize the population and facilitate regulated youth leisure on public roads with a sophisticated human and technological device and a program that transcends the purely musical The festival includes exhibitions of skating, skateboarding, motorcycles of water, live graffiti contest and organized water activities beginning Thursday, August 12

The mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, has issued a municipal statement in which he informs that on Saturday, August 21, the 8th stage of the Cycling Tour of Spain will take place, whose itinerary runs through the main streets and avenues of the Torrevieja municipal term. For all these reasons, the roads and streets indicated in this Side will be cut off between 12:15 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. and between 1:30 p.m. and 2:15 p.m., traffic and circulation being totally prohibited. parking on these streets and avenues in this period of time. The withdrawal of vehicles from the route will be carried out from 04:00 hours on August 21 and, given the importance that this sporting event has for Torrevieja, the maximum collaboration of all citizens is requested.

The Councilor for Employment and Training, Domingo Paredes, has announced that the ADL continues to bet on training the unemployed with programs where culture is positioned as a dynamic axis, continuing the objective of improving employability and facilitating the labor insertion of people participants, with special consideration to vulnerable people and groups who suffer greater difficulty or discrimination in access to employment.

The mayor of Fiestas has highlighted that "after the Torrevieja carnival has celebrated the recent declaration of a festival of Autonomous Tourist Interest of the Valencian Community, it is intended to offer a sample of our parties in summer for Torrevieja residents and for all visitors who are days they share their vacations in our city ”.

The Mixed Company Aguas del Arco Mediterráneo (AGAMED), has reported on the evolution of water consumption in the city of Torrevieja in the period between June and July 2021, compared to the consumption of 2020 and 2019.

The mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, accompanied by councilors from the Government team and the spokesperson for Citizens, has discovered this morning on the Paseo Marítimo de Juan Aparicio, one of the most emblematic places of the city, a monolith in homage to all the victims of Covid-19, which bears the inscription: "Torrevieja to the victims of Covid - 19. You left alone, but you will remain forever in our memory."

The mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, and the councilor for Quality of Urban Services, Sandra Sánchez, accompanied by the manager of AGAMED, Jorge Ballesta and the deputy manager, Gemma Cruz, have met this morning with the representatives of the residents of the Torreta Florida urbanization, to inform them of the upcoming start of the rainwater works that are going to be undertaken in this area.

These six new officials will work in various departments of the City Council for a period of one year, counting from their inauguration, or, where appropriate, until the definitive coverage is produced by the legally established procedure, or by reinstatement of its holder , and with a maximum limit of three years.

Among other activities, highlights the development of in-depth interviews with personalities from the public, cultural and social sphere of the town; the organization of group dynamics with representatives of the local associative fabric, as well as the holding of internal work tables with technical staff of the City Council

It will be next Sunday, August 1, and due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the organization has been forced to suppress the programming of all events that favored the largest concentration of the public, such as dances, gift raffles and the procession through the streets of the Plaza del Calvario area.