Caravaca de la Cruz will not receive 5 million euros of European funds from the second call for the Integral Sustainable Urban Development Strategy (EDUSI) as the project was not selected and after ignoring the first call for these grants, which The City Council did not appear.
Popular councilwoman Monica Sánchez has lamented that the EDUSI presented, under the name of 'Caravaca 2024, patrimony of the future' has not been selected, "which saddens us deeply, since we have stopped receiving 5 million euros, which would have been Translated into substantial improvements for the citizens of our municipality. "
The selected EDUSI will be developed over several years, through co-financing of ERDF funds and municipal entities, within the European Sustainable Growth 2014-2020 plan.
"This battle was lost because of the events, since last April 2016, a motion of the Popular Party was approved in Plenary, urging the City Council of Caravaca to elaborate an EDUSI and to present it to the 2nd call. A local government apocryphal and striking this approach, "said the mayor, who added that" in October the local government decides that it is an external company and with an amount of 17,900 euros plus VAT that EDUSI develops to present it To the second call, which ended in mid-December. Two months is a very insufficient time to carry out this study, since this strategy must gather what will be the urban development of our locality in the future, taking into account social, economic and Environmental, "the mayor concluded.
Source: PP Caravaca de la Cruz