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Digital transformation and the promotion of the Transparency Portal have been key to positioning Torrevieja as a benchmark in Open Government, Citizen Participation, and Accountability. The City Council will continue to promote new innovation initiatives with the aim of improving public services, strengthening citizen participation, and keeping Torrevieja at the forefront of municipal transparency.

The project “VIDA Floristería & Eventos”, an innovative space that combines floral art, sustainability and personalized experiences, has been awarded the first prize, endowed with 7,000 euros

The City Council is providing the space to the Local Development Agency (ADL) to ensure that the service continues to be provided normally during the renovation work.

The Mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, reports that the Torrevieja City Council, through the Department of NGOs and Volunteering, and once the bidding process has concluded, has provisionally awarded the contract to the company Francisco M. Juárez Pozuelo for the drafting of the basic and execution project, the health and safety plan and the waste management plan for the construction of the new Day Centre for people with Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases "Tomás Ballester Herrera".

The €32.67 million operation will allow for key projects such as the remodeling of the Eras de la Sal (Salt Mines), the paving of streets, the reorganization of the Port area, the renovation of the La Plasa building, and the Day Center for Alzheimer's patients.

Councillor Domingo Paredes denounces the Ministry of Finance's delay in updating the 2025 advance payments, a situation that directly harms the residents of Torrevieja.

The contract is based on the identification of strategic projects of the city, within the framework of its Urban Agenda, likely to attract funding from European, national, regional or provincial funds, analyzing the possible calls published. To guarantee the professionalization of the staff, it is required that a coordinator, two consultants of European grants with experience and a specialist in public space and urban innovation be assigned to the contract.

In this way, the center will be used as a family meeting point, a residence for people with functional diversity and a residence for functional diversity for children and adolescents.

In the Extraordinary Plenary Session held today, the modification of credits to the 2024 Budget of the Torrevieja City Council, which amounts to 13,970,791 euros, and of the “Joaquín Chapaprieta” Municipal Institute of Culture, for an amount of 330,000 euros, was initially approved. In total, a budget modification of 14,300,791 euros, which included votes in favor of the Municipal Group of the Popular Party and VOX and votes against the PSOE and Sueña Torrevieja.

The Councilor for Public Works, Employment and Local Development of the Torrevieja City Council, Domingo Paredes, reports that once the established deadline for admission of applications for a line of aid to SMEs, micro-SMEs and the self-employed has expired, in order to minimize the economic impact and social that this energy crisis is assuming for these groups, a total of 409 applications from Torrevieja companies have submitted the required documentation and meet the established requirements of the call carried out by the Provincial Council of Alicante.

"Participation structures are spaces for debate with a vocation for continuity that need two elements: on the one hand, channels or bodies capable of attracting citizens with the intention of contributing their proposals in favor of the improvement or implementation of projects On the other, the existence of structures or figures in the Administration that favor this participation. For this, it is also necessary to create points of intersection that allow connecting public organizations with citizen participation."

After the letter sent to the City Council of Torrevieja by the president of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP), Abel Caballero, in which an agreement was reached in the National Commission of Local Administration (CNAL) for the creation of a group of work to analyze how to compensate for the drop in income from the capital gains tax, the mayor, Eduardo Dolón, has formally requested their participation, since the municipality of Torrevieja has been one of the most affected by these jurisprudential and legislative fluctuations.