The Plenum of the Commonwealth of Social Services Northwest, which represented the towns of Caravaca, Cehegin, Moratalla Calasparra and agreed on a series of measures urgently needed to maintain programs and services that have paid up to date.
As a direct consequence of the current economic situation and the resulting drop in revenue in the government, the Autonomous Community has been forced to remove most of the grants that funded programs provided to citizens by the Commonwealth, for which he had been hired most of the workforce.
These circumstances have forced municipalities to make a major budgetary effort to maintain public benefits.
At present, local governments can not undertake such budget amounts, so there is an urgent search for alternatives and measures, to avoid other more drastic solutions.
In this sense, one of the measures agreed was the amendment of the ordinance regulating the prices for the provision of tele-assistance service.
With the changes, the amount payable by the user is as follows: Type A 12 per month, per month Type B 6 and C 3 euros per month.
For example, a user who used to pay 2.56 euros / hour for this service, now would to pay 4.60 euros.
It should be borne in mind that the grant has never covered 100% of the service.
Also in the House also agreed that with respect to Food Service, the 48 users to pay 5 euros, giving the Commonwealth the remaining $ 2.
Another point discussed was the temporary modification of records working conditions, with the ultimate goal of keeping both jobs and services.
We propose a realignment of staffing work, aimed at reducing the current day, moving to part-time roles.
If you run the least amount of staff for the adoption of the measure, the 2012 budget is reduced by 500,000 euros from the previous.
Meetings with workers to reach an agreement have already begun.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz