Some thirty Erasmus students meet in Redován to develop an environmental project

Redován is once again the meeting place for thirty young people from the Erasmus + program who will live in the municipality from today until June 7. During this period they will hold workshops in which they will work on a project on diversity and sustainable functionality with activities focused on the environment. The mayor of Redován, Emilio Fernández, accompanied by the councilor of Sports and Environment, Ramón López, and the mayor of Culture and Tourism, Clara Ezcurra, have welcomed students from Slovakia, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Poland and Spain and they have guided them on a small tour through different places in the municipality such as the Jaime de Sant Ángel Institute, the flea market, the Town Hall and the church, among others.

The base of the group will be in the municipal shelter and from there the different activities will be developed, among them “a pine plantation in the Sierra with copies that will be facilitated by the City Council and that will take place on Monday”, said the councilor of Medio Ambient. Also, they will have the opportunity to know the town, as well as other nearby cities “such as Orihuela, where they will enjoy the monumental heritage of the historic capital of the region; Elche and its palm grove, a World Heritage Site, as well as the gastronomy of the area and customs, “said the mayor.

López Escarabajal stressed that a selection of five students from the first year of the IES Jaime de San Ángel “who will accompany our visitors during the weekend and will help them, above all, with the language” has been made. Students will make a Sunday on the trails of the Sierra de Redován.

The mayor, Emilio Fernández, has encouraged all the people of the region “to show that we are a hospitable people, as we did last year, and to make this experience unforgettable for those who come to live with all their enthusiasm.” Fernandez explained that the activity that is going to be carried out in Redován is entitled ‘Sustainable Youth’ and that its motto is ‘A small investment, a great return’. At the same time he wanted to thank the association Young Ilicitanos for Europe that again have chosen the municipality as headquarters for the arrival of the Erasmus +. European programs that are being strengthened by the City Council, with the inclusion this year in the budget of scholarships for those who access this program to complete the established economic allocation.

Redován launches support for entrepreneurs who have started their business in the last year

The Governing Board of the Municipality of Redován has given its approval to a new call for financial aid intended, in this case, to generate jobs in the municipality through the promotion of self-employment, ie to entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs. These subsidies, which have a total amount of 3,000 euros entered in the budget are directed “to those who have launched their business between August 31, 2017 and August 31, 2018”, explained Councilor for Employment, Maite Martinez and pointed out that “this year we extended the deadlines for the creation of companies during all months of the year, since among the requirements is that the activity is kept a minimum of three months.”

The amount of the aid will be 300 euros for entrepreneurs; 400 euros for women entrepreneurs and 500 euros for entrepreneurs with some type of disability. What they cover are equipment expenses of companies such as the acquisition or lease of the real estate where the activity will be carried out, adaptation and reform, furniture, signs, office and computer equipment, machinery, light installations, water, gas, telephone, tools, etc. In no case will taxes or expenses derived from deposits, sureties or transfers be eligible.

Maite Martínez has commented that commercial companies, communities of goods, civil societies and cooperatives can apply for assistance “in which case it will be a single aid, regardless of the number of members”, as well as individual entrepreneurs who meet the requirements to create the company between August 31, 2017 and this year and that the activity remains a minimum of three months. Neither will be granted if they have already requested grants for the same concept and it is a prerequisite that the activity takes place in the municipality of Redován. The rest of requirements can be consulted in the bases that are already published in the bulletin board of the Electronic Headquarters of the web of the City council of Redován (https://redovan.sedelectronica.es/info.0), where the application also appears that must be completed, as well as the documentation that must be presented.

First call for the hiring of 16 agricultural workers

On the other hand, the Consistorio redovanense has also launched the first call SEPE-Corporaciones Locales 2018 for the hiring of 16 agricultural workers who will carry out their work from June 29 to September 28. Specifically, cleaning work on ravines, rural roads and recreational area of ​​La Ermita, and the subsidy requested to the SEPE has a budget of 62,143.20 euros. The mayor Maite Martinez explained that as in previous years, it is the SERVEF who preselects the personnel that meet the requirements to occupy these positions “and that once this pre-selection is done they will have to present the documentation that the Employment and Training Service in the Local Development Agency of the City Council “. The councilor added that with this pre-selection the candidates will be evaluated for the final selection, “a process of which the union representatives in the Town Hall are part”.

The City Council of Redován provides the Local Police with a state-of-the-art approved alcoholmeter

The Local Police of Redován will already be able to carry out alcohol tests with reliable results thanks to the incorporation of a breathalyzer that the City Council of Redova has acquired with an investment of 7,000 euros that was provided for in the municipal budget.

This device, of last generation, has been delivered to the police by the mayor, Emilio Fernandez, and the councilman of Public Safety, Ramon Lopez, who has pointed out that until now “it was counted on a breathalyzer that gave an orientative result, although now as we have a modern, and above all approved based on the requirements of the European Union, you can know the exact blood alcohol level presented by people who are submitted to the tests.

The breathalyzer (model Dräger Alcotest 7510ES) will be added to the equipment already available to the Local Police to carry out its maintenance work in Redován. At the beginning of this year two defibrillators were incorporated and installed in police vehicles to act in case of emergency, as López Escarabajal recalled.

With respect to the ethylometer, it will be used both in the routine controls that are carried out to verify, for example, that the vehicles circulate with the documentation in order or that those who drive them do not do it under the effects of drugs and alcohol, “as in specific blood alcohol controls that are put in place as of now since we already have the necessary equipment to be able to carry them out with all the guarantees, “the councilor concluded.

The City Council of Redován will approve a budget of 6,126,155.56 euros that does not raise taxes or rates

Redován 12/19/2017. The City Council of Redován will end the year with the work done to start 2018 with a budget that will allow the municipality to continue to grow and improve the services provided to the public. The mayor of Redován, Emilio Fernández, accompanied by the Councilor for Finance, Adrián Ballester and the councilor of social services, Nely Ruiz, presented this morning what is the most important management document for any public administration, and that in the case of Redován rises next year to a global of 6,126,155.56 euros, 9.43% more than budgeted in 2017. “Something that has been achieved without the need to raise taxes and fees paid by neighbors”, the first mayor of Redova has highlighted. In addition, for the first time a Participatory Budgeting process has been carried out whose winning proposals are included in the budget with a budget of more than 30,000 euros. It involves the start-up of computer courses for adults, the creation of scholarships for professional music studios and the renovation of tennis facilities.

Increase in investments

By chapters, current expenses in goods and services are reduced by 4.36%, financial expenses by 16.28% and financial liabilities suffer a reduction of 9.80%; while the largest increase will be in the chapter of investments that goes from the 136,600 euros budgeted in 2017 to the 644,800 euros that are expected to invest in the municipality for next year, representing an increase of 372%. Adrián Ballester has highlighted the push that will give to youth policies, doubling the endowment of training scholarships for unemployed young people created last year, “besides that we will create some municipal aid for Erasmus students and raise scholarships for university transport that will go from 6,000 to 7,000 euros “. In another area where the investment is reinforced, it is in Sports, where the rehabilitation of tennis facilities is contemplated, a football field 8 of artificial turf will be created next to the football field and the sports facilities will be equipped with defibrillators.

In Education, municipal officials have highlighted the extension of the subsidy to the Association of Mothers and Fathers (Ampa) of the school for the continuous day, and Redován will host the next year of the Vega Baja Science Contest; while in Public Safety the Local Police will be equipped with a breathalyzer with which to carry out controls in the municipality.

With regard to social policies, all municipal subsidies that benefit the people of the province of Cádiz are maintained and subsidies are extended to the municipal associations. “We are going to double the budget for municipal activities in the area of ​​social services, increasing the budget from 9,000 to 15,000 euros; the groups of women will receive 4,000 euros against the 2,000 of the previous budget and the activities against drug addiction will have budgeted from 1,000 to 2,000 euros, “said Emilio Fernandez.

The popular festivals will also have more money from the City Hall while in Culture different necessary arrangements will be made in the Casa de la Música and in the assembly hall of the Ricardo Ruiz Social Center. In Promotion and Employment the budget for training courses is doubled and support for local commerce is reinforced, which will have a fair, while also increasing the budget for Tourism, especially taking into account that it is foreseen that next year the Via Ferrata will be put into operation that will travel the Sierra. The councilor of the Treasury has also commented that transparency will hire a service to make video-minutes of the plenary sessions that can be consulted on the municipal website.

Joint work with other administrations

The most important investments to be made in Redován during 2018 will be accompanied by economic injections from the provincial and autonomous administrations. Thus, Environment will receive 200,000 euros from the Generalitat for the Municipal Area of ​​the Sierra, through a project prepared by the Provincial Council, while the mayor recalled that the budget of the Council includes new “the allocation for the new health center”. The works of the San Miguel Parish will be completed by the Provincial Council, for which next year the City Council will dedicate 10,000 euros while the remaining 45,000 will come from the coffers of the provincial institution, whose Works and Services Plan will be It will include another item for the second phase of the expansion of the Cultural Center for the Third Age. In this project the largest investment of this budget will be made, 450,000 euros. In the two floors that this extension entails, a 24-hour study room will be created as well as a permanent exhibition hall. Also of Provincial will arrive 50,000 euros for emergency works in the Menéndez Pelayo street.

Regarding the income chapter, the money that will come from the Cooperation Fund of the Generalitat in which the Provincial will also participate and that will be around 200,000 euros, nor the investments that arrive once the contract of the contract will be awarded, has not been taken into account. Water. In this sense, the government team has been conservative, since once the money is received, it will be decided what it is for. The mayor has highlighted the budget that the charges are not increased to the neighbors “although we give more and more services”, and has indicated that unlike other populations, “Redován is one of the municipalities that grows in inhabitants every year, what allows us to have more financing from the State “. With regard to public debt, the Municipality of Redován has made the accounts in such a way that the forecast is that by 2022 all current loans will be canceled. The Municipal Budget of 2018 will be raised to Plenary for approval next Friday, December 22.