Jan 30, 2019 | News
The project will cost 49,828 euros and involves the construction of a concrete wall that deflects the water and the dragging of stones to the ravines
Redován 01/30/2019. The City Council of Redován will be able to execute, subsidized to 95% by the Provincial Delegation of Alicante, a project realized by municipal technicians in the year 2017 and directed to canalize the collection of rain water in the Mountain range of Redován, in particular in the backs of Menéndez Pelayo street. The mayor of Redova, Emilio Fernandez, explained that the total expected cost of the work is 49,828.31 euros including VAT “and the council will help us by contributing 95% of the total, ie 47,336.89 euros that will go to allow to end a problem suffered by the neighbors of the area. ” The councilor has indicated that in case of torrential rains the houses adjoining the mountains have been flooded by water runoff, “affecting patios and houses and sometimes accompanied by dragging stones with the danger involved, something that will end once that the waters are channeled towards the natural ravines of the zone “.
In this way, the work that is going to be done consists in the construction of a reinforced concrete wall that channels the water and slows down the dragging, as well as the perimeter fencing of a path that is very used by people who walk through this area and by children. . It will proceed to the cleaning and clearing of the land, the construction of the wall and the fence with galvanized mesh that prevents the passage to the houses next to the slope. The term of execution of the works, once they are awarded, will be two months.
The Provincial Council announced at the end of the year the granting of the subsidy “and we have set in motion to be able to begin its execution immediately and put an end to this problem”, said Fernandez, who has specified that the City Council of Redova will only have to provide a budget own 2,491.42 euros that complete the work budget.
Jan 18, 2019 | News, Water
Redován 1/18/2019. Just fifteen days after its implementation, the City Council of Redován and the water and sewer service concessionaire, Hidraqua, officially inaugurated this management today with a visit to the public attention office in Calle Abajo. the past day 2, and with the start-up of the landscape restoration of the Redován mountain range in the Paraje La Ermita with a first day of reforestation that will continue in the coming months with an integral intervention of the area.
During the visit to the offices, the manager of Hidraqua, Juan José Alonso, explained some of the most relevant aspects of the client area, “like the agreement that is being negotiated with the Federation of Deaf People of the Valencian Community (FESORD) to facilitate face-to-face attention for people with hearing disabilities “. Alonso and the mayor, Emilio Fernández, have highlighted that the concessionaire will maintain “the social rates that have been applied until now in the municipality, in addition to that there will be a meeting with our Social Services to define the attention to the vulnerable groups”, has specified the first mayor.
Fraud control campaigns and processes to make periodic meter readings more efficient are also a priority in these first months, as well as the availability of a 24-hour checkpoint or network inspection campaigns in Redován. . Through this last one, a total of 40 faults have been detected and repaired since the service was started.
As for the work carried out, the cleaning of the sewage and rainwater network has been started in double shift, from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., to finish as soon as possible with the inconveniences to the neighbors and the control plan for the discharges with definition of sampling stations and analytical controls in some industries. With respect to the works to be executed soon, the Camino del Motor and the Rincón pumping station will be built in the town center, “while beneficial projects for our town are also being written, such as those related to the landscape performance in the Hermitage, the installation of remote reading in the meters and the sectorization and remote control of the network “, said the mayor.
After the visit to the offices, the first day of reforestation was carried out in the Paraje La Ermita, a prelude to the comprehensive action that will be carried out in the area in the coming months. For this campaign, plant species have been selected that will improve the environmental and landscape quality of the surroundings, such as cypress, black hawthorn, mastic, carob, ephedra, rosemary, palmito or bayón.
Jan 8, 2019 | News, Sports
Redován 8/1/2019. The City Council of Redován finished the year with another good news, the concession, on the part of the Provincial Delegation, of a grant of 113,351.02 euros with which will proceed to the total reform of the locker rooms and the service areas of the sports center Los Pasos.
The Councilor for Sports, Ramón López Escarabajal, emphasizes that this reform will allow the adaptation of the facility to people with reduced mobility, “something that we have taken into account from the City Council and that is being applied little by little in the different sports areas of our municipality so that they comply with the regulations and above all, to allow the use to all the people who wish it “.
The work will consist of the demolition of the entire interior of the current changing rooms, of which only the structure will be maintained. “From there it’s going to put all new toilets, showers, locker room, etc,” says the mayor, adding that the warehouse area will also be remodeled, the reception where the concierge and offices are installed, “with so that we can have modern and updated facilities available to our associations and groups. ” Ramón López hopes that the work can be undertaken during the first quarter of the year, since once the subsidy is received, it is the City Council that is in charge of the tender.
Redován submitted to the Provincial Council a budget of 109,664.80 euros for the work and 3,686.22 for the drafting of the project. The global is the amount that finally subsidizes the provincial institution 100% within the third call of the year 2018 of financially sustainable investments.
Jan 3, 2019 | News
Redován 3/1/2019. The Department of Education of the City Council of Redován has taken advantage of the Christmas holidays of the students in the Public School Sacred Hearts to carry out different works of improvement of the playground of the school. The work will culminate in the coming weeks with the installation of a children’s game “adapted to the regulations and the needs of the students of the center”, said the mayor Nely Ruiz, who added that it has acted according to “the needs that we the director of the school has sent to the City Council “.
These days the repair has been completed, started in mid-December, which has culminated with the repainting of the sports court, “which has been in perfect condition for when our children return from vacation,” said Ruiz.
In the coming weeks will proceed to the installation, in the lawn area of the playground, a children’s game “that will replace the one that was and that was obsolete, a game that has a slide, catwalk and other series of elements that will surely enchant the students “, explained the councilor. Nely Ruiz added that the budget for all the intervention in the school yard is around 13,000 euros that come entirely from a budget item of the Department of Education.
Dec 28, 2018 | Councils News, Finances, News
The City Council of Redován will take to plenary the next Monday the municipal budget of 2019, a vital document for the operation of any city council that in the case of Redovanense is being worked on since October by the Department of the Treasury. Its head, Adrián Ballester, has ensured that the budget, amounting to 5,050,153.65 euros, is “realistic, with the same forecast of expenses as income and with the intention that the year ends with a positive result as in the last seven years. ” Direct taxes and taxes such as IBI, IVTM, goodwill, Economic Activities Tax, garbage, water and sewage, schools and sports facilities are frozen and bonuses are maintained for social groups. Ballester has indicated that “we have increased the subsidies to all the associations and groups of the municipality”.
The councilor, who has presented the document together with the mayor, Emilio Fernandez, commented that the forecast of income is 17.56% lower than in 2018, a reduction motivated mainly by the entry into force, on January 1, of the service of potable water and sewerage that Hidraqua will manage and that supposed 800,000 euros a year to the municipal coffers. “In addition, we must add that in 2018 the income of 380,000 euros from the Works and Services Plan of the Provincial Council was budgeted, so both amounts add up to almost 1.2 million.” In any case, it is expected that the budget execution for 2019 will be similar to that of the year ending now, exceeding 6 million euros, “because credits such as the water contract fee and the execution of the projects inherent to the tender document will be incorporated. said contract, as well as the execution of the study room that is underway, “he recalled.
Income by chapter
By chapters, in the reference to income and taxes there is a decrease of 15.87% in taxes due to the fact that the taxes charged by the City Council are frozen, including the tax rate of the IBI. “The data is real, offered by Suma Gestión Tributaria”, said Adrián Ballester, who has indicated that indirect taxes will be up to 117,946.97 euros due to the forecast of the ICIO (Tax on Buildings, Installations and Works) , which amounts taking into account the evolution during 2018 and the activation of different projects that will be executed next year. With respect to the rates, the income forecast also decreases, 39.33% in this case leaving the figure at 1,017,723.78 euros, a collection that decreases because the drinking water rates will not be paid for the arrival of the new company.
Chapter IV of Current Transfers increases the State’s collection, Redován counts on its inclusion in the Municipal Cooperation Fund of the Generalitat Valenciana, and does not budget all the subsidies that are expected to be received during the year of the Provincial Council of Alicante in terms of firefighters, local development, garbage collection or culture, among others. Capital income (Chapter V) decreased by 21.47%, no income from disposals and investments is foreseen, while in capital transfers it is expected to value them based on the amounts allocated by the County Council to the municipality for the extension of the Via Ferrata. There is no expected income from financial assets or credit operations.
Expenses per chapter
Regarding expenses, the personnel costs rise by 48,430 euros for the salary increase foreseen for public employees “and also because it is preparing a list of jobs (RPT) that will lead to the creation of new positions and more spending on personnel “Ballester said.
In Chapter II of expenses in goods, services and current transfers, it decreases by 25.15% due to the indirect management of the drinking water and sewerage service. Ballester has stopped at this point to indicate that in 2010, this chapter amounted to 3.2 million Consistory, lowered in the following years to reach in 2019 to 2.1 million, a 47.28% of the total municipal budget . Financial expenses fall by 7,000 euros for 2018 and current transfers rise by 10.47% to 528,723.21 euros. “This is due to the increase in subsidies to all associations in the municipality, as well as the Commonwealth of Social Services La Vega,” said the council.
Redován will have a contingency fund of 50,000 euros for the fourth consecutive year to face unforeseen events and 184,209.84 euros will be allocated to real investments. The most important item in this chapter is 88,309.84 euros for the third floor of the Center for the Elderly, while 21,300 euros will also be invested in lighting installation on public roads and roads. “We remember that 40,000 euros correspond to the participatory budget, a process that we carried out again this year and won the Musical Union of Redován, which will allocate the money to the purchase of material and that is included in the expenses for capital operations”. Investments are added to other projects that were presented to this participatory budget, such as the closing of the Plaza de la Cruz.
These will be the investments charged to the municipal treasury, “an amount that is expected to expand to 2.5 million euros” through the Provincial Council, with 500,000 euros in investment not contemplated in budget but will be implemented in projects such as arrangements in the Camino del Rincón to solve the fall of stones in the Sierra, reform of the Los Pasos sports hall, the rain collector Pascual Martínez street at the intersection with Mulagar, another 125,000 euros to improve the sanitation of Pascual Martinez and the extension of Via Ferrata. Redován will also have a strong investment, 1.8 million euros in water and sewerage through the concessionaire of the water service, and 300.00 euros in the Study Room.
Finally in Chapter IX of financial liabilities, with 469,063.64 euros to amortize capital of the loan that the City Council has of the first Payment Plan to Suppliers, the same amount as the year that ends. “A balanced budget that has all the favorable technical reports and that complies with budget stability and spending rule,” Ballester said.
Water contract
For his part, the mayor of Redován, Emilio Fernández, reminded all residents that on January 1 the new water contract will come into force “with the main objective of improving the service that has been provided until now”. Hidraqua will be the company that will be in charge of providing the service and will have a customer service office in front of the Town Hall, “an office that will open from Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and on Thursday evenings in order to facilitate the managements, in addition to that there will be 24-hour telephone service and virtual office “. Emilio Fernandez has specified that during the first year of the service will be installed telelectura to users in addition to numerous renovations in the drinking water network in streets such as Jesus Jordá and December 6 to Pascual Martínez and La Paz street, “where the supply and improve water quality “, as well as the change of old connections of the urban area.
The concessionaire will review the network in search of leaks and a review of meters and connections will be made to avoid fraud, among other things, such as the cleaning of 100% of the sewerage network. Emilio Fernández highlighted the environmental commitment of the company with Redován, “since it will make available to the service two electric vehicles in addition to a series of actions in the Paraje de la Ermita in order to promote the conservation of the biodiversity of the recreational area, optimize their sustainability and improve facilities for recreational and social use, “the councilor concluded.
Dec 21, 2018 | Councils News, News
Redován will have a Justice of the Peace as of next January. This was announced by the mayor, Emilio Fernández, after the reception on 17 December of a letter sent to the Consistory by the General Director of Justice of the Generalitat Valenciana, Veronica Lopez Ramon, which is granted the staffing to this service that, according to the legislation, corresponds to localities of more than 5,000 inhabitants. A vindication made by the Redovanense City Council since 2015 and that, finally, has received a response.
The Redovanenses will be able to accede in January to the services of this Court of Peace in the municipal dependencies, that will have attention to the public from Monday to Friday. This Court, judicial body that exercises its jurisdiction in a municipality where there is no court of first instance, “allows to receive the instruction, prosecution, judgment and execution of certain minor cases and provision of judicial assistance,” said the mayor . Likewise, citizens may carry out procedures in the Civil Registry, such as the issuance of certificates and birth, marriage, death or life history records.
It will be from Tuesday, January 8, 2019, when the inauguration of these officials takes place, in the secretary and auxiliary judicial posts, from the Almoradí Court of Peace and the Court of First Instance nº2 of Cieza. Until now, these functions were performed by an administrative assistant of the City Council, “with which, thanks to the new additions, this person can return to his job, which will now be played by two professionals in the field of justice”, said the mayor. Emilio Fernandez has shown his satisfaction for the achievement achieved, since “it will not in any way be a detriment to the municipal coffers, since the Ministry of Justice is the one that economically supports the remuneration of these new workers”.
