Mar 27, 2025 | News
The Town Council approves today the 2024 budget settlement, more than one million euros that allows the elimination of the Town Hall’s outstanding debt
Ruiz: “Every euro that used to go to debt repayment will now be used to improve services, infrastructure, and the well-being of all residents”
The Redován Town Council brings the balance to zero today with the approval in a Plenary Session of the positive Treasury surplus for 2024: €1,054,218.69, which allows the full settlement of the Town Hall’s outstanding debt. The Councillor for Finance, José Nájar, and the Mayor, Nely Ruiz, announced this “historic” milestone for the municipality at a press conference today, as it puts an end to over 6 million euros of debt that had been accumulating since 2011, when the Popular Party took office.
Nely Ruiz recalled that at that time, “the situation was critical, with unpaid invoices, unfulfilled commitments with associations, debts with consortiums and even with the Generalitat”. That is why, the mayor added, “we began implementing a rigorous, responsible management focused on cleaning up public accounts, which has led us to close the 2024 financial year with this positive Treasury surplus and the opportunity to cancel the debt — which, of course, we are going to do”.
The Councillor for Finance, José Nájar, explained that as of last December 31, the debt stood at €914,314.69, corresponding to pending payments to suppliers and a loan from the Economic Boost Fund requested in 2021, which was used to resolve another long-standing issue — a pending expropriation dating back to the 1980s. Nájar emphasized that this operation will be a relief for municipal finances, “but also a guarantee of strength and confidence to face future projects with greater freedom and ambition”.
“Today, Redován leaves behind a historic burden and looks to the future with economic stability,” the mayor stated, explaining that with no debt to pay off, the Town Council will be able to allocate “every euro that previously went to debt repayment to improving services, infrastructure, and the well-being of our residents”. As a result, Redován now enjoys sound finances, taking another step toward becoming a modern, balanced town designed for the people who live in it.
Feb 2, 2025 | News
The document balances revenue and expenditure, totaling €6,449,200.71, with a 5.5% increase compared to last year
The Redován Town Council brings the 2025 Municipal Budget to the Plenary Session today. The financial document was presented at a press conference by the Councillor for Finance, José Nájar. The budget balances revenue and expenditure and totals €6,449,200.71. This represents a 5.5% increase over the previous year, and the Council is planning investments in sports, healthcare, and the environment.
As for revenue, direct taxes remain steady at around €2,356,960.75, and indirect taxes at €160,000. Most of the revenue comes from other administrations, amounting to €2,485,096.33. Municipal fees bring in €1,339,143.63, and property income totals €108,000.
One of the most significant investments will be the construction of a covered sports pavilion. “This project has a cost of €1,050,000 and will begin in the coming weeks,” explained Nájar, who added that “there is also a budget allocation to replace the grass on the football field.”
The Town Council has also carried out works under the Edificant Plan, and is now allocating funds to create certified classrooms. “We will invest €44,000 to complete the renovation project and launch these classrooms,” Nájar confirmed. Additionally, the budget includes a €450,000 investment for the construction of a floodable park under the environmental section.
Other important budget items include improvements to the water supply and sewage network. “We are going to invest over €300,000 to improve the water network on Pascual Martínez Street and Camino de Fortuna,” said Nájar, who also noted that “€277,105 is allocated for the implementation of a remote control and sectorization system for the town’s potable water network, as part of a strong commitment to improve the infrastructure.” This project will begin in the coming weeks, according to the Councillor. Moreover, the Town Council has budgeted funds to complete the full paving of Camino de Fortuna.
In the area of healthcare, the Council continues moving forward with plans for a new medical center. “We have created a budget item for drafting the report and preliminary design of the future facility,” said Nájar, who also mentioned, “We will invest €43,927 to renovate the current medical center to improve primary care services, as required by the Regional Health Department. The renovation will begin in the coming weeks, as the contract has already been awarded.”
Regarding Social Services, the Council will increase its contribution to the La Vega Association. “We will go from €150,000 to €274,000 to improve the services that the entity provides to the entire population,” Nájar stated.
The Finance Councillor explained during the press conference that, with the entry into force of fiscal rules — that is, the expenditure rule and financial stability — the treasury surplus, once the 2024 budget is settled (estimated at over €450,000), will be allocated to debt repayment. This will free up nearly €70,000 in loan payments, which will instead be used for investment.
José Nájar affirmed that “Redován continues to make progress in services for its citizens, and our goal is to keep improving the quality of life of our residents.” In this regard, he emphasized that the 2025 budget “allows Redován to move forward and become a prosperous town for everyone.”
Jan 20, 2025 | News
The Town Council brings to this major tourism event the annual walk held during the May Crosses celebrations
The municipality of Redován will once again be present at the International Tourism Fair (FITUR) with a proposal aimed at promoting family and nature tourism in the area. On Thursday, January 23, in Madrid, the outdoor activity Paths of Light will be presented — an event that takes place during the May Crosses festivities and combines nature with sport. The initiative was introduced by the Councillor for Tourism and the Environment, Adrián Ballesta, who was accompanied by Mayor Nely Ruiz. Ballesta explained that “we are bringing this important tourism event to attract visitors of all ages to our municipality, where we have a mountain range that can be enjoyed by families as well as by athletes who prefer more challenging hiking routes or even adventure through our various climbing routes, including the now-famous via ferrata.”
Mayor Nely Ruiz highlighted that Redován’s natural and sporting wealth has positioned it as a leading destination for active and sustainable tourism in the Vega Baja region: “Redován is more than just a destination. It’s a place where nature, sport, and family come together. Paths of Light reflects how our activities blend sport, tourism, and unforgettable moments for everyone,” the mayor said.
Paths of Light was launched in 2016 as a joint effort by the departments of Sports, Festivities, and Culture. Mayor Nely Ruiz explained that “it began as part of the Cross festivities, held each May, featuring a walk illuminated by the hikers themselves. It starts at the church door and, after passing through the upper part of the town, follows the foothills of the Redován mountains.” The mayor emphasized that Paths of Light promotes sports, family tourism, and the traditions of the Cruz and Rincón neighborhoods, “with growing participation each year, making it a fun experience to join and also a beautiful sight to watch from afar — a snake of lights winding through the mountains.”
Redován’s tourism campaign is also expanding onto the Town Council’s social media platforms, where a series of promotional micro-videos will be released throughout the week. The campaign will culminate on Thursday with the premiere of a promotional spot, almost simultaneously with its official unveiling in Madrid. In one of the videos, Mayor Nely Ruiz states, “we want to showcase this hidden gem that represents a unique asset for our town,” referring to the Redován mountains. The other two feature a member of the Redován Mountain Club and a participant from the latest edition of Paths of Light.
Councillor Adrián Ballesta emphasized the town’s commitment to sustainable tourism development, stating that Paths of Light “is an activity for all ages, designed to combine sport, leisure, and contact with nature, with a focus on family-friendly tourism.” The presentation of this event at FITUR reinforces Redován’s strategy to position its mountain range as a key driver of tourism. This initiative joins others launched in recent years, such as the promotion of the via ferrata, one of the longest in the Valencian Community, which has made Redován a popular destination for adventure sports enthusiasts. With Paths of Light, Redován expands its tourism offering with an accessible, family-oriented experience that complements its appeal as an adventure destination.
Oct 16, 2024 | News, Traffic, Security and Emergencies
The mayor of Redován, Nely Ruiz Peral, and the councilor for Public Safety, Marisol Ibáñez Mazón, signed an agreement today with meteorologist and geographer Pedro Gómez Cascales, the author of the MeteOrihuela project, to include the municipality in the regional weather network he has launched. This will be done through the installation of a weather station on the roof of the Pasitos Nursery School.
This agreement includes a series of services that will benefit the municipality of Redován, which the mayor outlined: “for example, monitoring and, if necessary, early warning of adverse weather events that could affect our population.” Nely Ruiz added that the City Council “will also receive meteorological advice when necessary, especially for outdoor events such as the Patronal Festivals, Easter Week, Carnival, or other parades whose execution depends on good weather.” Meanwhile, the councilor for Public Safety, Marisol Ibáñez, emphasized that this is an “important service for Redován, as it will include the preparation of expert meteorological reports on specific events such as strong wind gusts, torrential rains, or hail that may cause damage to private property. Residents will be able to request the preparation of such documents from the City Council.”
The person in charge of the installation, Pedro Gómez, commented that anyone will be able to check real-time weather conditions in the municipality on the City Council’s website (https://www.redovan.es/). He also added that “these records will be included in the best regional, national, and international meteorological networks, placing Redován on the map of meteorological observations.” The author of the MeteOrihuela project also mentioned that these records will be useful for organizations such as the National Meteorological Agency or television weather segments.
The new weather station measures variables in real-time, such as temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind speed and direction, and precipitation intensity and accumulation. Based on this data, it also provides regional records of dew point, heat index, wind chill, and evapotranspiration.
Aug 9, 2024 | Festivities, News
Everything is ready in Redován to kick off the patron saint festivities in honour of the Virgen de la Salud and San Miguel. A month of festive, cultural and leisure events in the municipality which will get underway on Thursday 29 August and will last until 29 September, the feast of San Miguel Arcángel. The Mayoress and Councillor for Fiestas, Nely Ruiz Peral, has been in charge of presenting all the details of these celebrations, which are included in the book that the residents of Redován can pick up from today at the Town Hall and which has as its letter of introduction a cover that combines photography and illustration by Francisco Miguel Fuentes Medina and Sergio Hernández Gil.
“It is certainly a poster that leaves no one indifferent and that brings together the important role that women play in Redován and in its fiestas, through a photograph of the queens and representatives of the comparsas and barracas with their backs turned, hugging each other around the waist and witnessing a firework display”, described Ruiz, who thanked the authors for their work, as well as the publication’s director, Myriam Lledó Illán. “It is a magazine that brings together the whole town of Redován through its associations, services, businesses and neighbours, a publication that is more important and interesting every year,” said Nely Ruiz.
The mayoress took the opportunity to present this year’s festive charges, with María del Carmen Mas Almarcha as town crier; Pepi Ibáñez Salazar, from the Sultanas del Rey Ahmed troupe as Festera de Honor and, therefore, in charge of firing the traditional ‘chupinazo’ from the balcony of the Town Hall; as well as the adult and children’s courts of honour, whose queens will be known after the election gala to be held on the evening of Friday 30 August. They are Leyre Ruiz Fuentes, María Pérez Canales and Ylenia Martínez Trigueros as candidates for Child Queen, and Ainhoa Tejuelo Pérez, Nicole Emperatriz Estañ Pozuelo and Triana Contreras Lucas as candidates for Mayor Queen. The one who will not have to go through any election is the Queen of the Third Age, Encarna Hernández Rocamora, who will be crowned that same night on the stage of the Plaza de la Paz. Until then, Martín Cartagena Martínez and Chloe Cartagena Navarro, will be in charge of guarding the crowns of the queens as Pajes 2024.
“The fiestas programme, which can also be consulted on our social networks as well as on the website, has been designed, as usual, so that everyone who lives in Redován has the opportunity to enjoy it, with events of different types and for all audiences”, said Nely Ruiz, who pointed out that it includes the traditional parades, concerts, as well as events which have been incorporated into the programme over the years, such as the PhilanTrophic Sound, a festival which will return on Friday, Friday, May 27th, who pointed out that it includes the traditional parades, concerts, as well as events that have been added to the programme over the years, such as the PhilanTrophic Sound, a festival that will return on Friday 20 September to the Los Pasos Sports Centre after the success of its first edition last year.
The fiestas get underway on Thursday 29 August with the festive concert and the awarding of prizes to the corporals and ranks of the different sides in last year’s parades. The Election of Queens is brought forward to Friday, specifically to the evening of 30 August in the Plaza de la Paz, where the opening speech will also be read by Mari Carmen Mas Almarcha. On Saturday morning, August 31st, the children’s chupinazo and the foam party will take place in the Plaza de la Paz and in the evening at 20.00 hours the Ofrenda de Flores will start in the Plaza Miguel Hernández. At 21.00 the Chupinazo and the Retreta will take place from the Town Hall Square to the Los Pasos Sports Centre, where DJs Mel Rows and Víctor Alavés will perform in the covered area. On Sunday 1 September the Barraca La Gramaera will hold the traditional exhibition of grass and spinning in the school playground.
After this intense weekend comes an even more intense week, as far as fiestas are concerned, which will begin on Wednesday 4th with the opening of the barracas. On Thursday 5 September at midday there will be the charanga tapeo and on Saturday 7 the General Parade organised by the Junta Central Festera. On Sunday 8th, the festivity of the patron saint, the mass and the procession will be the focus of the festive agenda. One of the most popular events of the fiestas is the evening bullfighting in the bullring, on the 9th, 10th and 11th of September at 21.00 hours. On Thursday, 8 September, there will be an equestrian show ‘La doma en el aire’ (Dressage in the air). On Friday 13th the Redován Dance Association will bring its traditional dance gala to the Plaza de la Paz and on Saturday 14th the Fiesta Blanca will flood the Plaza Miguel Hernández, with performances by the group Ciudad Canalla and DJ Isidro. On Sunday morning the 15th it will be time for the little ones, with children’s games in the Plaza Miguel Hernández.
The PhilanTrophic Sound Festival, which once again this year will donate the funds raised to different groups in Redovan. A day later, the Gran Desfile Multicolor will display in the streets of Redován the great creativity of groups, barracas and comparsas when creating costumes, a day that will end with the Fiesta Remember Redován Baila 2.0 in the Polideportivo Los Pasos. The last weekend of fiestas will continue on Friday 27 September with a concert in honour of San Miguel by the Unión Musical de Redován and on Saturday 28 live music will return with La Hornet. On Sunday 29th, the feast of San Miguel, the fiestas conclude with religious acts in honour of the patron saint and a fireworks display.
“We hope that it will be a programme that everyone will like and, above all, that it will be enjoyed by everyone in a few days in which we take the opportunity to make our feeling of being a town even greater”, said the mayoress, who specified that any changes to the programme for reasons beyond the organisation’s control, as well as the instructions to follow to register for events such as the White Party or the Multicolour Parade will be announced on the Town Hall’s social profiles.
Nely Ruiz added that it will also be through social networks, specifically Facebook and Instagram, where the public will be able to vote for the first song to be played after the Chupinazo in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento. “We will do this through a survey that will be launched on 26 August and we encourage young people and those who attend this event to participate, and on Friday we will announce which song we will enjoy at the official start of the fiestas”.
Jul 12, 2024 | Finances, News
The spokesman for the Redován Town Council government team and councillor for Finance, José Nájar, appeared today to give an account of the report carried out by the Sindicatura de Cuentas (Audit Office) to the Consistory of Redován, which aims to improve the internal processes of municipal management. Nájar explained that every year the Audit Office randomly selects a series of municipalities to analyse them and highlight areas for improvement, making a series of recommendations which it subsequently verifies whether they are implemented. Nájar added that Redován has been the subject of this audit, as have other municipalities such as Torrent and Alzira, where the operation during 2022 of the Contracting area has been reviewed, as well as different aspects of economic and financial management of the general account for that year.
“The intention is to audit in order to improve, through this report, the internal processes of municipal management,” said the councillor, who stated that “at no time does the report, in its 81 pages, cite the word ‘irregular’ even once. In fact, the Sindicatura, in addition to proposing various improvements and recommendations on procurement, concludes, on page 7, that the contractual activity carried out by the Redován Town Council during the year 2022 is in accordance. The councillor for the Treasury has given an account “as a sign of commitment and transparency” of the recommendations made by the Audit Office, for example, that measures are taken to avoid submitting some processes after the deadline “knowing that there is no harm to the Town Hall itself or to the people of Redovan, and understanding the usual workload”. Thus, he rejected the use of this report to cast doubt on the work of transparency carried out by the municipal government “when in fact, the report itself, on page 42, indicates that the City Council has a Transparency Portal that has been found to be adequate to the obligations of article 20 of Law 1/2022 on Transparency and Good Governance”.
Likewise, the report recommends updating contracting formulas to improve the awarding process, without any irregularities in this regard, “so it is clear that the Redován Town Council complies with the Law of Transparency and Good Governance, while the contracting is in accordance with the Law”. To conclude, José Nájar, has been forceful and has assured “that there are no irregularities, lack of transparency or mismanagement or serious deficiencies in recruitment and therefore from the government team we are opposed to any information in this regard that calls into question the work of the staff of the Consistory itself”.
