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The main objective of participatory budgets is to encourage participation and train more active citizens.
The residents of Puerto Lumbreras can propose and decide the destination of more than 140,000 euros of the municipal budgets for the year 2017.
The mayor of Puerto Lumbreras, Mª Ángeles Tunis, has proposed to present a joint motion to all municipal groups in the next plenary session for the implementation of participatory budgets in the municipality.
The Mayor has stressed that "participatory budgets are a good democratic tool to meet the demands of our neighbors. For this, it is necessary to open a participatory process of debate by holding meetings with neighbors to let them know what a participatory budget and to offer them The possibility of formulating proposals in the form of ideas or concrete projects to improve the municipality. "
The main objective of participatory budgets is to encourage participation and train more active citizens.
In the process of participatory budgets, it is the neighbors who will decide on what part of the municipal budget is spent.
The residents of Puerto Lumbreras will be able to propose and decide the destination of more than 140,000 euros of the municipal budgets for the year 2017. Specifically, 30,000 euros will be used in cultural activities and more than 110,000 euros in works so that the citizens are the ones who choose What projects or actions will be carried out in these matters in the municipality.
People older than 16 years registered in Puerto Lumbreras and neighborhood associations, and of any other kind, may submit proposals to the City Council, which after analyzing and ordering them by thematic groups, will decide which of them are priority in a plenary or assembly with the presence Of the citizens, after public information.
This year, and experimentally, the collection of proposals will be made through an online platform that the City Council will create specifically for this purpose.
Also through direct participation procedures proposed by associations and entities.
To facilitate the dissemination of the experience and participation of the lumbrerenses, everyone will be called to a public event.
Mª Ángeles Tunisia said that "we are facing a paradigm shift, a new way of understanding Puerto Lumbreras policy. In short, a direct participation in politics and a new way of channeling collective citizen demands beyond traditional ones. Offers us representative democracy. "
It should be noted that this initiative is part of the Plan for Transparency and Citizen Participation, launched by the City Council of Puerto Lumbreras.
Finally, the Mayor has concluded that "with this initiative we move towards a more participatory democracy model and improve the quality of municipal management."
Source: Ayuntamiento de Puerto Lumbreras
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