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The City of Caravaca de la Cruz, through its Department of Transparency and Citizen Participation, launches a second experience of participatory budgets applied to the area of ​​Youth, involving the students of 3rd and 4th of ESO, Baccalaureate and Training cycles of all secondary schools in the municipality.

The mayor, José Moreno, and the councilor responsible for the areas of Transparency and Citizen Participation, Gloria Gómez, and Education and Youth, Ana Luisa Marcos, have participated, together with technicians from the University of Murcia, in an informative session, where The objectives and phases that make up the process have been exposed to the directors of the centers and to the spokespersons of municipal political groups.

"We are going to repeat the model that was already implemented last year, allocating a game of 15,000 euros, which will be invested in the proposals most demanded by young people, chosen through a voting process", as Gloria Gómez has advanced .

The goal of the Caravaqueño Consistory is to continue to know and prioritize the needs of young people to contribute to a more effective use of public resources for this group and increase the interest of students from Caravaca for active participation in decision-making.

The process for the implementation of participatory budgets in the area of ​​Youth will consist of different phases: information sessions (from January 14 to February 1, 2019), collection of proposals (February 6), technical filtering in function of viability criteria, municipal competence or legality (from February 11 to March 7), voting and public recount (March 13), accountability sessions with class delegates (March 20 to 22) and, finally, working day public accountability to expose results and evaluate the process (last week of March).

Nearly 800 young people participated last year in the first participatory budgeting pilot experience.

Proposals for free Wi-Fi zones were chosen for inclusion in the budgets;

a sewing, fashion and design workshop;

a festival with a variety of musical styles and a photography workshop.

The students made a total of 116 proposals that, after passing the technical filter, were put to a vote.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz